It feels like it's been a while since I've updated my blog...so here we go.
I suppose nothing really too eventful has been going on, other than the girls just being cute. Here's on of the few pictures that I have of them both smiling...
I took this picture with Gran in mind - the girls are wearing their official Whiting shirts that were made up last year for everyone when we burried Pops. Cailyn was still in the making at that point, but now she's finally grown into her onesie. Rylee was very excited about wearing jammies that matched Cailyn's!
Cailyn is really starting to get a sense of what's going on around her, and it's fun to watch.
She loves to arch backwards to grab things...
...and she has discovered food. I think the last time that I wrote about her on her, I had just started giving her rice cereal. Shortly after that, I was eating a popsicle after dinner at Grandma Clawson's house. Cailyn grabbed it and got it in her mouth and wouldn't let go!
I'm thinking that letting her eat sugar as her second food is probably not the best thing, but oh well...
since then she has made it obvious that she knows when we're eating, and she likes to try to get tastes of anything we will let her - apples, bananas, watermelon, etc.
I just love her pretty smile!
A is for Alligator
Rylee really likes glue...she says "squeeze" over and over while she's using it.
Showing me where her eye is after gluing on the Alligator's googly eyes.
I took this picture with Gran in mind - the girls are wearing their official Whiting shirts that were made up last year for everyone when we burried Pops. Cailyn was still in the making at that point, but now she's finally grown into her onesie. Rylee was very excited about wearing jammies that matched Cailyn's!
Cailyn is really starting to get a sense of what's going on around her, and it's fun to watch.
She loves to arch backwards to grab things...
...and she has discovered food. I think the last time that I wrote about her on her, I had just started giving her rice cereal. Shortly after that, I was eating a popsicle after dinner at Grandma Clawson's house. Cailyn grabbed it and got it in her mouth and wouldn't let go!
I'm thinking that letting her eat sugar as her second food is probably not the best thing, but oh well...
since then she has made it obvious that she knows when we're eating, and she likes to try to get tastes of anything we will let her - apples, bananas, watermelon, etc.I just love her pretty smile!
Rylee is as busy as ever and I finally feel like I am making some headway in my efforts to come up with activities for her to stay busy. I've decided that for me, the transition from baby to toddler is harder than from no kids to baby; with a baby you just take care of them, but with a toddler you need to plan things to do with them. Anyway, one thing that I've started doing is making letters of the week. I got this idea from my cousin, Megan, and it's been great! Rylee loves letters and numbers - she's constantly telling me about all of the ones she sees - so it's fun for her, and pretty simple. So here are pictures from the first two weeks:
A is for Alligator
Rylee really likes glue...she says "squeeze" over and over while she's using it.
Showing me where her eye is after gluing on the Alligator's googly eyes.
B is for Bumble Bee
This was Rylee's first time using real water colors (my mom got her some kind of pre-water color thing that was more like markers that up dipped in little jars back around Christmas time). She really liked the process of "water, color, paper..."
And here she is in her red bath...I think she dumped about half the bottle of her Elmo bubble bath/paint into this one (like the glue, she loved to "squeeze" it.)
She really likes going on walks in our neighborhood and finding all the horses.
She is also getting to that stage where she wants to do everything herself. Here are some examples:
This was Rylee's first time using real water colors (my mom got her some kind of pre-water color thing that was more like markers that up dipped in little jars back around Christmas time). She really liked the process of "water, color, paper..."
And here she is in her red bath...I think she dumped about half the bottle of her Elmo bubble bath/paint into this one (like the glue, she loved to "squeeze" it.)
She really likes going on walks in our neighborhood and finding all the horses.
She is also getting to that stage where she wants to do everything herself. Here are some examples:We picked Charlotte up from BYU music camp on Saturday and Rylee wanted to push Cailyn in the stroller (even though it's a double stroller and my intention was for ME to push BOTH girls...)
She also wanted to carry Charlotte's suitcase by herself, even though it was about as tall as she is and I'm sure heavier. She fell over a few times, but kept trying. I also had to laugh when we got in the car and told me "Mommy, stop it!" when I tried to sing along with the music, but then said "Charlotte sing!" (By the way, we were listening to Fergie at Rylee's request...she likes "Big girls don't cry" and "The letter song" - a.k.a. "Glamorous")
And here she is today walking into the post office to mail Anne a package. It cracked me up because she totally looked like a little adult with her glasses and my keys (as we got out of the car she grabbed them and said "push beep!" so I let her lock the door...)
She wanted to open the door by herself (she pretty much always does these days)
And here she is reading all the numbers she saw on the PO Boxes.
So that's that. And here are a couple videos...I tried to put them up at different places in this post, but for some reason don't seem to be able to drag pictures or videos on this computer. The first one is Cailyn cracking up while Rylee hits her in the face with a balloon (she did the funniest laughing before I got the camera). The second one is Rylee telling me her name - "I Rylee Skye McNamara" - and her sister's name - "She Cailyn Del."
She also wanted to carry Charlotte's suitcase by herself, even though it was about as tall as she is and I'm sure heavier. She fell over a few times, but kept trying. I also had to laugh when we got in the car and told me "Mommy, stop it!" when I tried to sing along with the music, but then said "Charlotte sing!" (By the way, we were listening to Fergie at Rylee's request...she likes "Big girls don't cry" and "The letter song" - a.k.a. "Glamorous")
And here she is today walking into the post office to mail Anne a package. It cracked me up because she totally looked like a little adult with her glasses and my keys (as we got out of the car she grabbed them and said "push beep!" so I let her lock the door...)
She wanted to open the door by herself (she pretty much always does these days)
And here she is reading all the numbers she saw on the PO Boxes.
So that's that. And here are a couple videos...I tried to put them up at different places in this post, but for some reason don't seem to be able to drag pictures or videos on this computer. The first one is Cailyn cracking up while Rylee hits her in the face with a balloon (she did the funniest laughing before I got the camera). The second one is Rylee telling me her name - "I Rylee Skye McNamara" - and her sister's name - "She Cailyn Del."
I love the updates you write. It is so fun seeing your girls and your family grow. I want to go eat a Popsicle at Grandma CLawsons house.
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