Updates on Aviela!

Avi has been a much more independent child the last few months.  She started getting fussy at about 15 months and at times, has continued to be so.  She is at the age that she knows what she wants but doesn't have the words for it, so it leads to frustration.

Her current favorite thing is to go and sit on the potty.  She has yet to actually go on the potty, but it isn't for lack of us going.  We sit on it like 8 times a day.  She will grab my hand and say "go potty!" and walk me to the bathroom and pull her pants down.  We sit there, she "wipes" and then likes to flush the toilet.  Now if we could just actually go potty on the potty.

She is still very skinny.  At her 18 month appointment she weighed 20lbs 3oz. and was in the 16% for weight.  Her height was 32.5 inches tall and was in the 73% for height.  However her BMI was in the 2nd percentile, which worried them.  So they did blood work and it all came back fine.  They told me to try to feed her fatty foods and I laughed because I told them I can make and give her all the fatty foods you want, but she doesn't eat anything sometimes!

She now has 6 teeth on the top and 6 teeth on the bottom.  Oddly, she has the four front on top and bottom and then two back molars on each side.  Those big teeth look like they hurt coming in!

Avi loves to do and have whatever Zuri has or is doing.  She also likes to watch her video player and will tell us she wants to watch "woof woof" which is Clifford.  But she also has liked most anything that Zuri is watching.

Avi loves music and likes to dance.  She dances with one foot down and goes around in a circle.

Avi does not like sitting in the car seat now.  I have to bring a lot of different things from snacks to videos to try to keep her from crying the whole time.

Avi is also our kid that will randomly come up and give us hugs or kisses.  And when she is crying a good few kisses seems to make her stop.  Her blanket also helps that.

Avi is a bit shy. But it seems to be getting better.  There are times we bring her places and she literally will not move once I put her down and leave.  But the last two weeks she seems to be more social.

She likes to play with the play kitchen, toys that make noise like a police car, stuffed animals, dolls and pretty much anything you can push around toys.

I will post some pictures soon!

Updates on Zuri!

I kept sitting down to do a post on the kids and then something would come up!  They are both such busy little kids.

Zuri has been going to school.  She LOVES her montessori school.  It is actually a school that goes from pk3 all the way till 12th grade.  I like that she will have the same teachers for 3 years and so they will know her and what she needs to work on.  Right now she loves just doing "work" in class.  Work, meaning she likes to water the plants, juice oranges, polish silverware and wood.  She has also been enjoying coloring.  She knows how to trace the letters of her name, but still cannot write them on her own.  She also can tell you how to spell Z-U-R-I.  And definitely can recognize all of the letters and sounds.  The classroom is extremely organized because the kids have to put away each thing before they can take out a new thing.  

Zuri will not nap at school and so she is extremely tired from the minute I pick her up from school until she goes to bed.  Which is a lot of fun for me (not really!).  She likes to pick out her own clothes to wear and will frequently come out in something different each morning and tell me how it matches.  She also likes to make her own breakfast.  For instance she likes to make toast or even pour her own milk into her oatmeal.  She is very proud of herself.

She is also quite difficult some days.  She likes to yell at Avi and grab things from Avi, which then leads to Avi crying. Since she is so opinionated it can be hard to deal with her and convince her of something.  Just an example of her opinionatedness is that I will tell her I love the color blue and red. You would think that most kids would say they like it too, because their parents do.  But not Zuri, she says I don't like those, I like pink and purple.  

Her favorite animal is a Zebra because it starts with a Z.  She wants to wear her hair down, or possibly with a braid.  She wants her clothes to match and wants there to be "something" on her shirt. Something means a flower one day or an animal the next, but I never know what "something" it is that she is adamant about having.  So, now she just takes her chair and goes to her closet and grabs the shirt she wants, since apparently I am no help at all.

Zuri loves to eat pepperoni's.  Her favorite breakfast is cold oatmeal.  Her favorite lunch for school is dumpling soup with cheese, tomatoes, fruit and pepperoni's.  Her favorite take out meal is buffalo wild wings and she loves to eat this as leftovers the next morning.  

Zuri took a sports of all sorts class and loved doing lots of sports.  She has also been in swimming lessons, which I think are not very good, but she likes going.  She also has loved going down the waterslide with us.  

The last week we have taken Zuri to her first movie at the theater, The Good Dinosaur and she was very good and sat there the whole time.  We also took her to go see Disney Frozen on Ice.  Which really confused her that the people were actually alive and right there! 

 Sometimes her maturity surprises me but then the meltdowns remind me that she is 3 years old (almost 4!).

Aviela 14/15 Months!

July was so busy that I didn't have time to post, but she definitely made some strides in the walking category.  The last few days she has really taken off and walks more and more!  It is still not steady walking, but it is walking.  I would say the last two days or so it has been about 50-50, walking and walking on her knees.


Avi has been a bit more crabby.  I really think it is because she has been wanting to walk and hasn't been able to do it well enough.

She is a skinny thing.  We went to the doctor and she was about 32 inches tall and only 19lbs 3oz.

Avi loved going on the airplanes.  She would clap when we started to go fast and take off.  We had one melt down on the flight to San Diego where she cried for about 15 minutes.  It all started when she decided to hit Zuri and I told her no.  Avi likes to hit people and will hit when she gets mad or doesn't get her way.  She will also hit and then just laugh.

Another thing Avi loves to do is feed the dogs food from her high chair.  She thinks it is so hilarious and laughs every time she gives the dog a treat.

My 15 month post update is that she started walking full time at about 15 months and 2 weeks.  She fell a few times and landed on her face and has already had more fat lips than I can imagine!  But she seems to recover rather quickly!