Our Little Monkey

Spice has been a climber since before she could walk so why was I surprised to see her climb up the ladder of her bunk bed. She sleeps on the bottom bunk but I have found that she likes to hide things up on the top bunk. Spice gets so excited when her KiKi spends the night now because she sleeps in her room. I don't know how fun this is for Kaitlyn but she is a good sport. I even find KiKi sleeping in the bottom bunk with Spice some mornings.

We have removed all of the baby furniture out of Spices room and have chosen to donate it to a family in need. I was explaining all this to Spice when I had a bright idea of my own. I explained that we where helping out a Mommy who could not buy things for her own little baby and asked if she would like to give the baby her paci. She let me know that she was sad for the baby who had nothing and wanted to help. I made sure to explain exactly what this meant to give her paci's away. I told her this meant no more paci's at night night when she went to bed. She seem to understand which surprised me. I told her to gather up all her paci's and put them in a baggy for the new baby and she did. She even crawled under her bed to get the ones that had fallen over time. I was so proud of her. It really brought a tear to my eye. I was so worried that bedtime for her was going to be a big struggle since she wouldn't have her paci but she did wonderfully. She never even asked for it. She is such a big girl.

Spice reading

Little Miss Spice loves her books. I can tell her to go read her book and she will pretend to read aloud. It really is the cutest thing. She will even read to her little sister at times. We have tried to teach her to enjoy reading but sometimes she takes the enjoyment a little to far. I end up finding pieces of books around the house. She had this really great Peek a Boo Book that she really liked but you could say she loved it a bit to much. I found the parts of the book that the babies would hide behind all over the house. You could say she isn't ready for normal paper pages yet. I try to stay with the cardboard books for now.

Rub a Dub Dub two Girls in a Tub

Sugar has so much fun in the bath with big sister. She gets so excited and splashes the water with her little hands. Spice isn't always into letting her play with all the toys. Spice will gather all the toys on her side and maybe give Sugar one toy. She often tries to take that one toy away and I have to remind her to share. As you can see they are still taking baths in our big bathtub in our room. It is just easier to all get ready at the same time. Some day we will move them into there own bathroom and they will have to settle for a much smaller tub.

Spice primps

Our little Miss Spice loves to crawl up onto my vanity chair and pretend to be getting ready. She will pull my mirror up close to her and try and pull the flat iron threw her hair like she is fixing it. She asks me to turn on the small fan I have on the vanity and lets the wind blow her hair around. She likes to get my powder brushes out and rub them on her face like she is putting on makeup. It is all very cute but at the same time it reminds me that it really won't be long before she is doing all of these things for real.

Sugar Jumps

Sugar is getting older but is still very petite. She is now 11 months and just grew out of her 3 to 6 month cloths. She fits just fine in 6 to 9 month cloths. She is soooo cute. Sugar is sitting up very well on her own and low crawling on her belly. She stands if she is leaning against something and you prop her there. She loves her big sister and laughs at all the funny things she does. Sugar really likes Luci our dog. She gets such a kick out of just watching her.

Sugar has really started to enjoy her jumper that we hang in our bathroom door. We plop her there when we are trying to get ready. She has just started to realize she can jump in it. Spice thinks it is most fun to see how fast she can get sugar spinning in it. Sugar enjoys this to a certain point and then lets us know she is done with spinning.