Toddler Flying Lessons

From Videos 2010

Girls Having Fun

My girls playing together. 

They have tons of fun together when they are not intentionally aggravating each other!

 Noellie Bellie Now:
- Says "La La!" when calling her sister. Lily's first reaction was "I'm not LaLa! I'm LILY!" Me: "You're LaLa to Noelle, because she can't say "Lily" yet!"
- Is non-stop movement. Enjoys walking away from her mother and into streets with cars.
- Yells. Everything.
- Loves "Icks", "Ooshes", and "Bo bo" (Stickers, Shoes, and her pacifier)
- Loves her big sister. When opening a princess outfit from Geeda that matches her sister's, she started looking for Lily, yelling "La La!"
- Does chores and loves getting her stickers and putting them on her own chart like her sister's.
- Prefers to have a constant audience.
- Opens doors, drawers, and generally everything within reach, especially loving to dump stuff out, drool into watercolors to make drool-colors.
- Paints, colors (still preferring sometimes to eat the medium), and enjoys journal time during "school" with Lily.

Lily 'Nerva Now:
- Does "homework," and has preschool at home sort of regularly.
- Did not like her 6 weeks of soccer.

- Loves ballet and princess outfits, shoes, and jewelry.
- Prefers not to have an audience, but to have time outs in her bed with soft things and a thumb.
- Yells when provoked, most commonly phrases like "NO NOELLE!"
- Is going to take her friend Elia and Aunt Melissa with us when we move.
- Actually dresses her babies in a variety of outfits, diapers, blankets, etc.
- Makes sure her sister is towing the line, and if not, will remove disobedient sister forcibly from any given situation. Quite comical to watch.

Both girls like doing Chores, now:
Wipe windows (Lily sprays h2o/vinegar and Noelle wipes it off, sorta), brush teeth (Noelle'd do this 10 times a day if allowed), empty the bottom half of the dishwasher (silverware and plates/bowls), play clean-up at the end of the day.

Why Mothers Need Their Sleep

Thank you, Jim Breuer, for this bit of comic relief!