Week 132 and Week 45.5 - En route to Italy

This will be a brief and early update as we are leaving to go to Italy in mere hours.  Hours!
Sophia is coming with us but Charlotte is not.  I hope Char will be ok with this (and I also hope I will be ok with this too).  We are going on a cruise out of Venice through Greece, Croatia, and Turkey for a week and a half for Matt's work.

Sophia learned how to shake her head NO this week (with intense vigor I must say) and started walking in a walker AND spoke her first word, Mama (ok really maybe it isn't mama.  She has kind of been babbling of late and says mama, dada, and yaya.  But she said mama with intention today.  Looking squarely at me!).  I ask her who is yaya and daddy and Bucky and Charlotte and she will look at the right person/dog.  So clever!

Sophia is 8.83 kg and 69 cm and is around 50% for weight and 25% for height at ten months.

Charlotte's hand is better (though she was complaining a week later about pain).  Monday she came into our room in the morning and asked where daddy was.  I told her he was at work and then she asked 'is he in Macau?'  She must know that he usually goes away after she spends all day with him on Sundays.

Charlotte asked for a high five this morning and then an elbow bump.  O the things she learns in school!

Cute Sophia:

Slide coordination:

Monkey Char:

Extreme Sophia close up:

Sisters discover each other:

Walker:

Park friends:

Swing queue dislike!

Walker like!

And the videos:

Sophia shakes her head no!

And walks in a walker (and gets better the more she does it):

Week 131 and Week 44.5 - Emergency Room

I just would like a week were nothing happens and we watch the paint dry.  This is not one of those weeks.

Charlotte got her hand stuck in an elevator (where the door meets the side - not where the door closes).  This was in the Suntec elevator after swim practice (I was not there).  We were in the ER Saturday night.  Char had x-rays taken, her hand was fine, and I had this weird revelation that my body (via pregnancy) made her x-rayed bones.  Her hand is fine and being 2, she has totally forgotten about it and is onto other pressing matters, like her Play Doh.

We had the Stampers over on Sunday which was great.  We have been so slow to have people over (as Matt has been traveling a lot).  It was nice to have a relaxed gathering among friends!

Charlotte has been climbing well in the park these days.  She also calls this tween guy who visits the park and sings Lady Gaga a "silly guy."  Recently she is saying ""Omigosh!" a lot, thanks to her yaya.

Sophia is 8.83kg and 69cm tall, which puts her at 50% and 25% respectively among ten month old girls.

Sophia's diarrhea has passed but now Charlotte has that dreaded night cough that never goes away.

Char and Daddy at his birthday dinner at Outback a couple of weeks ago:

And waiting at the doctor's the next day for Sophia's visit:

Charlotte now naps in our bed sometimes:

Sophia is getting used to her car:

Lovely Cameron:

Char in braids:

And Princess Leia hair:

And pigtails:

Lovely Ella:

Those 2 teeth!  Lovely!

Marie poses:

Charlotte's signature smile:

Playing with Alexandra's necklace:

Miles walks with his momma:

Charlotte's mad climbing skills:

Sophia's slide fun:

Sisters have fun on the slide together:

And now for some videos I forgot I had on my phone...

 Char and Sophia slide together:

Sophia swings:

Sophia tries Chris's car (and goes only backwards):

Sophia walks at Outback:

Sophia is swing by Yaya and laughs:

Week 130 and Week 43.5 - TT's party and more!

Lots to cover this week.  First I want to mention things I keep forgetting to mention here.

1. A week ago I was super concerned as Sophia went to sleep with a clammy head (and a temperature of 36C - not sure what that is in F).  I was super nervous, checking that ridiculous Babycenter, and calling my sister (and her husband told me to put a hat on her head - brilliant).  Matt and I were concerned because she kept on shivering during dinner.  The next morning she is fine temperaturewise.  We mention the shivering to Imee.  She tells us that is how Sophia pees!
2. Sophia is now 10 months old.  I have been breastfeeding for 10 months!  How did this happen? 
3. Charlotte is now swinging in the big girl swing.  Of course she wants to go higher and higher and can go for 40 minutes at a time.  She even knows where to stand to queue for the next available swing.  This is a nice relaxing activity for Char and I (ok, mostly for me).
4. As mentioned in the video last week Sophia is clapping.  Sort of a golf clap where there is some hand contact but no noise.  It is surprisingly elegant for an infant/toddler.
5. Char is singing!  She now sings along to the rainbow song and sings this song from her school "Good afternoon, good afternoon to you.  I am thankful for my parents and my teachers."  There is also a Chinese song that of course we have no reference for.
6. The other day Charlotte says that she sleeps for two hours - eerie since she actually did sleep for two hours.  Then this morning she also volunteers that she sleeps for two hours (when really she slept for ten).  I was almost amazed at her ability to measure elapsed time.
7. Charlotte is also saying "Actually Bucky is lying down already."  Unprompted and without Bucky around.
8. Charlotte got to go to a fish farm and had a pirate day at school this past week for Children's Day (and was scared of the pirate mask I got).  She was scared of the big fish and the teacher dressed like a monster.  The monster made her very fast for musical chairs!
9. Charlotte did not get bitten this past week!  Sigh, the small successes. 
10. Sophia has a bit of diarrhea this week.  Ten times she went on Saturday.  Nightmare images flashed past my mind of Charlotte's rotavirus.  Luckily this seems to be a smaller bug as she has gone 4-5 times a day since Sunday (and maybe 3 times on Monday).  I really loathe diarrhea.
11. Sophia inadvertently ate a half a teaspoon diaper cream this week.  I was really nervous about it and took her to the pediatrician who was the voice of reason and said it would pass through.  Sophia has been a champ - smiling through diarrhea and diaper cream ingestion.  I however have been a nervous wreck this week.  No reason why really.
12. Matt is traveling again - he is gone the whole week to Macau.
13. Finally - we helped to celebrate TT's birthday at Mana Mana on the beach on Saturday!  Char's BFF is now 4!  Happy birthday TT!

Sophia is fancy at the beach with Tita Monica!

And Yaya!

Serious birthday boy:

Midwest Matts share their own symbol(?):

Sleepy Mai:

Organized activities:

Char was not into this hat!

Neither was Sophia:

An engineered volcano cake to make DH proud!

Lava!

 

Various candids:

Like father like son!

Matt and Susie bump bellies!


Nice shot!

 

Prom shot:

Money TT shot!

Sophia sleeps:

And hates hats!

Ok better now:

Sisters hug:

Sophia talking to Ella:

Virginie and son:

Sophia's jealous that Imee is holding Ella!

Toe walking:

Bouncing:

So many teeth!