What We Did For Valentine's Day

We decided to have a two day Valentine's Day celebration. On Friday we went to the library for story hour. We dressed up in our new Valentine's Day outfits and went over to visit our friends. It was definitely an improvement over last time. We sat still in Mom's lap for two and a half books!





When we came home we found Rosie had an accident.





We got Valentine's Day tattoos from Miss Kathy. Elise decided she wants to look like a sailor.





On Saturday we woke up and brushed our teeth. Linnaea has an Elmo toothbrush, while Elise's features Cookie Monster.





After we brushed, we got a piece of Valentine's Day cake Mommy made. Elise was scared of the icing. They both ate about half a piece after a LOT of coaxing.





Then we colored!






Then we got to take a bath, our all time favorite activity. Linnaea is sporting Mommy's old swim cap from the Tri For The Cure she did two and a half years ago. Linnaea kept the cap on during the whole bath.

There's Nothing Better Than Sisters

Elise as "The Coat Monster"



All of a sudden, Linnaea has started to love giving hugs to Elise. She actually cried last night when Elise wouldn't come over and give her a hug! Elise was into it the night before last but lost interest since.

It's the Little Things that Count

Elise and Linnaea reached 20 months old on January 29th and are two little joys (most of the time). I just love watching them play together and by themselves. Sometimes I still wonder what I have gotten myself into, but every challenge is worth it when I look at their little smiles and hear their little giggles and words. They have picked up over a dozen words in the past two weeks: Mommy and Daddy (instead of Mama and Dada), rice, box, backpack, rock, sleep, water, wet, cookie, night, apple, red, blue, brown, etc.

Linnaea has even combined words, which is a big and exciting milestone. She can say "night night Taffy (or Daddy or Mommy)" and yesterday she said "Daddy apple" about the apple Daddy was taking for lunch.

Elise LOVES to sing and dance. Her favorite song to sing is Patty Cake, which sounds like "Pa kee, pa kee. Rooooo. Paaaa. BEE!" Interpretation: Patty cake, patty cake. Roll it. Pat it. Mark it with a B. And she does it over and over without any prompting. Elise also likes to pretend sneeze. I think she got it from one of her favorite books, The Mitten, when a mouse sits on a bear's nose and tickles it with his whiskers, making sneeze "AAAAA Choo!" So she walks around going AAAAA choooo. It is absolutely darling.

They are still crazy about Sesame Street and anything Elmo. They have also started watching The Jungle Book movie and LOVE it. They get so mad when I turn it off.

Lots more is still to come!