Lilah 3 months

Here she is! There's not much more to report from her last update. We had Lilah weighed when she was about 12 weeks and she was keeping steady on the 50th percentile for weight, 90th percentile for height, which is wonderful for me! She is still feeding 7 or 8 times a day, usually including a middle of the night feed. I'm a bit more relaxed with Lilah than I was with Eliana, but I thought that Lilah would be sleeping through the night by now.... turns out she is just a super hungry girl :)

The below photo of Lilah is pretty typical of her. She loves to grab hold of her clothes and put her hands in her mouth. She is a lovely baby. She still doesn't like going down for naps, which is opposite of what Eliana was at this age. Two sisters, and I can already tell they are so different!

If I had to guess, I would say that little Lilah is going to be our little feisty one :)

Eliana @ 22 months

Eliana is a little character these days. How she melts our hearts! (Do I say that for all of her updates?) Language seems to be falling in place for her these days. Each day she is saying new words or coming out with her own sentences. She mostly says 2-3 word sentences and sometimes 4. It started out with her copying or remembering things we say but now she is expressing her own observations like "nice day!" Nate said that after checking the mail on campus with Eliana the other day, he put her back in the pram/stroller and she said "go home to mama".

She loves pretend play a lot and I think if we had dress ups that would be one of her favorite activities. She loves to put on necklaces and walk around in my shoes and carry handbags around (whose daughter is she?!) and pretend to put on lip balm. She is getting imaginative too. Today she pretended that a pretzel she'd taken a bite of was a horse and jumped him around saying "Horse! boing, boing, boing, Neigh!"

Her hair has lightened up a lot and has a bit of curl in the ends. She pretty much feeds herself everything and can use a spoon and fork. Her favourite foods are weet-bix, porridge, rice with anything, pasta with anything, fruit and crackers. She doesn't really like sweet drinks. We tried to give her lots of sweet drinks (for the first time) while potty training her but she really just wanted water all of the time. She LOVES climbing up and down the stairs outside of our apartment. She is starting to express more independence. When we offer her help with something she will quickly say no. But when she does want help she has learnt to ask for it with "help please" or "read please".

Eliana is sweet and gentle towards Lilah and will cuddle her or pat her or rock her when she cries. She still loves wrestling both Nate and I. Nate has taught her some colours. She's pretty spot on with pink (since most of her clothes are that colour!) and mostly knows orange, blue and purple. Eliana's getting there with counting. She doesn't usually spontaneously count but likes to count along with us. Is that enough random facts for now? Man, I could go on. This is SUCH a fun age! Of course, she has her daily fits of anger or frustration when she doesn't get her own way or doesn't want to obey, and she tests us all the time (she is getting very sneaky and crafty too) but we are so thankful that God has entrusted her little life into our care. May He guide us in our efforts to guide her little heart towards Him!

For the Grandmas

Here are some clips so you can get a glimpse of our little girls growing :) We love and miss you all!

Lilah talking @ 11 weeks:

Eliana in Mama's shoes @ 22 months:

Eliana is officially potty trained!

Lilah cooing and laughing

Lilah coos a little bit each day, especially at her toys when she's in her baby gym. I tried to capture it and, of course, Lilah only performed for the camera a little :)

And wouldn't you know it, right after I turned the camera off daddy took Lilah to change her and she starts giggling at him! I only managed to get the tail end of some gorgeous giggles on tape. So below is part of Lilah's first laugh. She's 10 weeks old. Enjoy!