Thursday, November 5, 2015

3 months





















































To my darling Estella...at three months.

Your eyes are STILL blue. We're amazed by them, you inquisitive little babe, you.

You do a 360 degree turn when laying under your activity gym. You want to examine every little plush creature. That monkey still makes you smile big.

You are beginning to reach out and grab things.

You keep finding your thumb and sucking on it.

You take your paci out of your mouth and sometimes you can even put it back in.

You have dimples and I could just eat them up.

You laughed for the first time, you happy little baby, you.

You love to watch your big sister and when she starts talking to you, you get so excited and smile and "talk" right back to her.

You went on a swing for the first time at Aunt Erin's.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

2.3



















































To my shuga',

You love to play "baseball". You will pick up any ball you find and throw it at us and say, "catch!" You have a pretty good arm, there, my dear.

You love to help. Whenever I am doing anything...cooking, laundry, sweeping, you always ask, "I help you, mama?" I typically try to find something you can do...like handing me the clean dishes from the dishwasher.

You have been telling us what you are going to do followed by a very adamant "o-tay?"

You have no real interest in using the potty. You use it as a step stool to reach things and you sit on it and stare at us while we use the potty.

You love to play doctor and "check" us. You introduce yourself as Dr. Teta and ask us our name. You say, "say, ah!" and will use just about any toy to examine us.


You will walk up to just about any child at the park and say, "Here. Hold my hand." and proceed to drag them to wherever you were headed (i.e. the slide). Some kids oblige and some not so much. 

Anytime I need you to do ANYTHING, you cover your eyes and hide. It was cute for about a minute.

You love to read again! Hooray! For a long time, you would not let us read to you...you now request that we read to you. Your favorites are anything "ABC" and "The Little Engine That Could".

We had to bribe you with a lollipop in order to get you to wear any kind of Halloween costume...you took it all off as soon as I took a few photos of you.

You have been saying, "Tastes like shuga'" lately. I have no idea where this came from.