The girls grow

Here are some pictures of the girls. Isla is first on the left and Lilo under on the right.

I love seeing that for the 1st month the arms are up - but at 2 months they start moving.

At the hospital

1 month

2 months

2 months old already

What's new with Isla

• She's getting big - 11lbs 11oz at her 2 month appointment. A full pound heavier than Lilo was at that age.


• She’s cooing and laughing.


• She loves her play mat and mobile. She thinks the characters on her mobile as very funny and will lie there for 10-15 mins very happily while I get something done. She has longer happy awake times. She loves to smile.


• She has much more body and head control. So she can sit in your lap and isn’t so floppy.


• She rolled over to her side and loves to kick around.


• She's moving around in her crib - when I came in this morning her legs were between the bars of the crib.


• She starting to look more like herself. Isla and Lilo as a baby look so similar but now you can start seeing more differences. Isla has a rounder face and thinner lips and Rob's nose and very cute :)


• She is still a great baby. Sleeps a lot still but when she is awake she is happy.
  Evening fussy hour is getting better - most days.


• She has been sleeping better at night – only getting up once, which is nice (or last night it was twice). I’ve even gotten a 6 hour stretch once.


• She's chewing her fist all the time and just started taking the soother. I'm happy that she's taking the soother if she's going to an early teether like Lilo was.

Lilo chatter

As Lilo begins to talk more and more, some of the stuff that comes out of her mouth is really quite funny. She's communicating pretty well these days - unfortunately a lot of it is in a special "Lilo-ese" that, while we've gotten better at understanding, would cause most people to shake their heads.

Some of her favourite phrases:

“Watch, mama, watch” – before she does something neat – like jump off the 3rd step.
“Mommy, air var you?” (where are you?) – even if I’m in the room with her
“Mommy, whatchu doing?” – always wanting to know what you are doing
“Around and around” – when she looks at the ceiling fan, or twirls in her dresses.
“Up high” – means anything higher than she is right now – a plane in the sky, something on the book shelf, or even something upstairs like her blankets in her bedroom. She also uses this when she wants to be picked up.
“mmm, broccoli, nummy broccoli. Mmm, onions, nummy onions” – when she is looking at our garden, I guess all the vegetables are yummy. And no she doesn’t eat onions.
“Tip toe, tip toe” – as she tip toes down the hall when Isla is still sleeping. Of course her whisper of tip toe is pretty loud.
“Giggie” – is what she calls her blankies. She can say blanket but for some reason wants to call them giggies.
“I don know” (I don’t know) – and she puts her hands in the air.
“Soccer ball” – This doesn't refer just to the ball, but tha actual sport - just like how every other sport has a "-ball" at the end - basketball, baseball, football.
“I did it” she is very proud of herself.
"Suse me" - means excuse me - which she says after she burps.
“dank you” I’m proud to say we have a very polite little girl.

The last of our visitors

We had a great visit with Joe, Kathy and Hudson. Lilo and Hudson had a fun time playing together - very cute to see. Hudson was a little timid at first but came out of his shell by the end of the trip and was chasing Lilo around.
They got here on Wednesday afternoon so we spent it in the backyard.
On Thursday we went to the park in our neighborhood and big naps for all of us.
Then we went to the zoo on Friday which was a lot of fun. We saw a lot of neat animals and the kids loved it. Then we came home for naptime and Kathy and I ran out to do some shopping - Ikea and H&M since they don’t have these stores in Winnipeg. We got a few neat sand toys for the kids and a few things for their rooms at Ikea.
Then that evening other friends came over with their 2 year old and we had a BBQ. It was cute to see the 3 of them dancing and jumping in the back yard. On Saturday we went to the Distillery district to check out a festival they were having. It’s an old distillery that they have transformed into galleries, restaurants and shops in the original buildings. It’s really neat to walk along the old brick roads and look around. This weekend they also had a stage with bands and taste of Toronto food, where they had small dishes from some of Toronto’s best restaurants. So we stopped there for lunch and had a great sampling of food, a Bison burger, crab falafel, spicy chicken Panini and a few others – all very tasty.
Then we came home for a nap and then off to the park again. This time it was warmer so I let Lilo run through the fountain. She had a blast and got very wet. Hudson was so cute – wanting to run around but not wanting to get wet, so he ran on the sides and laughed at Lilo, saying, “Lilo all wet”
Since the afternoon naps were too short the evening was short for the kids too. The rest of us had a mellow night of pizza and tv since it was an early morning today for them.
And Isla was around too – she was sleeping a lot and very chill, such a good baby.
We had a great visit – it was lots of fun to see the 2 cousins playing together and we hope we can have them see each more often.

Batteries dying and other new things

Isla loves her swing and will sleep for hours in it which is why the batteries are dying. It's on high right now but barely moving and she's starting to fuss. I know I should be having her sleep in her crib but the swing works and it's down where I am.

Lilo is starting to ask questions all the time - her favorites are, "what you doing?" and " What's that, mama?" and these questions are repeated at least 3 times in a row before you even have a chance to answer.

Rob is having fun in the garden - as he said, "Never has a man spent so much time caring for a vegetable, sorry fruit, he hates" in reference to the tomatoes.

I'm just trying to clean the house for the next vistor. We've been a full house. Since Isla has been born we've had so many people come by - Lilo is starting to think someone else should be here all the time and is asking for the visitors who have left.
My parents stayed for awhile, then our friend Sarah from Halifax stayed for a few days. This weekend Gramma is coming and then next week Joe, Kathy and Hudson. It's been nice to have extra hands but it's sure making the time fly by. It's going to be July before you know it.