Zola has discovered the laundry shoot door. Dennis loved that when he was little. She hasn't quite figured out how to put stuff down it yet. Thank goodness.
Waiting for his ride to school...
I love my crazy kids...
...and luckily, they love each other too.
Zola's kisses can be quite wet. I don't know if she learned that from the dogs or what! haha
Zola follows her brother around everywhere and wants to play with everything that he is playing with.
Zola got this cute hat and boots from Nonnie for Christmas. Ryan's cousin crocheted them. I was lucky to get these pictures of it. She ripped them off almost as fast as I could get them on her.
Poor girl LOVES to climb onto Dennis' bed. She gets so excited to be up there... bouncing around and laughing. The only tough part is falling off. Here is a picture right after taking all of her weight on her nose.
...that is why she has a scab on her nose in many of these pictures.
Dennis loves to exercise. He always joins in when he can.
Miss Zola got stuck under the chair.... big booty alert.
Dennis was super excited to play a trick on daddy. Which hand is it in?
...guess again!
Eating can be a little messy.
Here is a picture of a bird (in pink) and a roller coaster (in blue) with people inside. Super cute. Dennis is getting better and better at drawing.
Once again, these two are loving each other... and unprompted!
We are learning some baby signs. It makes communicating so much better. Here is her first time actually using it!
Zola wanted to sit up on the couch by her brother so badly. She kept going up on her tip toes saying, "uh, uh". Finally, I came over and helped her up. She leaned back on Dennis and wanted to cuddle. So cute.
Zola went through a really rough stage where she wouldn't sleep without
me. Probably a combination of being sick for a long time and on
vacation. she would nurse to sleep at night and wake up immediately when
put down. Then she would wake up every 2-3 hours wanting to nurse. I
was dying. Then she would fall asleep nursing on my bed for naps but
when i tried to transfer her to the pack n play she would wake up. The
only way to get her to take a nap was if we were driving somewhere. We
were all getting very tired. I tried letting her cry it out comforting
her every 20 min in the night but she cried for 2 hours. and it didn't
change any bad habit. Then one night i had a spiritual experience after
praying for help. I had the impression to just listen to her...instead
of telling her what to do. So I rocked her and let her sit right
up...she burped. Then she layed down on my chest and did it again and
again until she just stayed laying down. Then to get her to sleep
through the night...when she woke up i moved Dennis to my bed and layed
in Dennis' bed with my hand in her lap while she cried. She finally went
to sleep and has been sleeping through the night ever since. She us
such a sensitive girl that i think just comforting her and leaving was
augmenting the problem. She loves to play in water. She loves the toilet water and the dog bowl water.
Dennis says some of the greatest things. The other day he was
telling us about this song that we were going to sing when the dinosaurs
come back. With some probing he told us the dinosaurs are coming back
to eat us all up. But it's ok because we will then turn into angels.
In
the night he well call me into his room to tell me something. Last
night he told me that tomorrow is going to be a really busy day because
dad is going to screw something on his bed so that zola doesn't fall
off. We have been selling stuff on craigslist and Dennis loves to help
guide us out. He waves his hand and says, "you got it." Over and over.
He is the best cheerleader. He has quite the imagination these days. He
is always running around talking to imaginary people and fighting them.
His
prayers have been really sweet. One night while i was rocking zola to
sleep, he said a prayer just for himself. He said, "dear heavenly
father, please help me not to have bad dreams, just good ones." And last
night in our family prayer- "please make sure no bad guys get us in our
house."
he started gymnastics and loves it! His favorite part was jumping off the spring board up onto the high tower.
