A Typical Monday Night

 Includes chaos, giggles, frustration, contentment, joy, exhaustion, and fun:)  Here is Svea wearing her underwear over her jammies, which she wore all night until bath time.

 She all of the sudden has a fear of taking a bath, more specifically water getting in her eyes.  We take things nice and slow and get her through it.  Her latest thing is throwing anything and everything into the tub. Woops, there goes my new baby doll. She needed a bath she says.  Last night it was a mini book, the gorilla from her zoo, Kieran's rings, and some blocks.  I was bathing Kieran at the time so all of these "things" did end up in the tub:)

After naps and in the morning Svea has started saying, "Mommy come in"! in a sing song voice.  When Dan went in to get her this morning she made "O" face and then got excited because it was Dad.

She has been talking non-stop about Grandma D and Gaga.  We were in the grocery store the other day and the loudspeaker came on.  She made the "O" face and said, "Grandma D making noise".  When it's time to pick up all of her toys at night she says, "Daddy pick up, Mommy pick up, Bay-ya pick up, Gaga pick up TOO"! She loves her Grandmas!  

Another thing that has been fun is she remembers who gave her presents.  She was playing with her cleaning toys the other day and she said, "Papa gives this to me". She'll go through other toys like this too from the tiniest little person to her big red car.  She even does it with books.  Of course not all of them, but it amazes me.  She is loving her recordable books right now and recognizes the Grandma's voices too.

I know I've been saying for a few weeks now that Kieran is close to rolling over.  Here's a video of what we see on a daily basis.  He is a scooter.  He pushes his legs and pushes himself to the head of the crib.  We started him in his room a few nights ago as well as we were waking him up.  We are "getting there" and he's handling being on his own pretty well. Most nights to go to sleep I lay him in his crib and keep a lamp on while I put things away or sit in his chair.  He doesn't want to be held or rocked.  He'll lay there and thrash his head back and forth before quietly drifting off.  See people....all signs of a future excellent sleeper!