Rory- 22 Months

Oh Rory Jane. Here we go again

- Your newest cute phrase is "Thank you much", its pretty much the most adorable thing.

- You have a growing love for kitties, you point them out everywhere and will "meow" for forever after you see one.

- You are very independent and you love to play by yourself and read by yourself. You are very direct and will tell someone no or mine or to move if they are too close to you or want to play with what you are playing with. You will also read out-loud to yourself like you know just how the story goes and what every word is, you even use the same inflections at times.

- You are a screamer that we are trying to tame, wooooo it's loud at times

- You are starting to speak in full sentences and have full thoughts and carry on conversations. We can ask you more complicated questions and you answer with more than yes and no.

- I love that you say "hold you" when you want me to carry you down the stairs

Rory- 21 Months

Life with you has been SILLY lately. We had a pretty eventful month and you have just sort of rolled with whatever we were doing.

- You still love your "sassies" (paci)

- We switched your crib to a toddler bed this week. Not sure if we are crazy or if this will help us with traveling. Hoping the latter. So far you have done pretty well with it. We tried giving you a pillow but you weren't sleeping well with it so I took it out of your bed and you have been sleeping great, like before the transition. we will see.

- Your sister had a week of camp this month and you definitely noticed she was gone, and asked for her when you would wake up from your naps. I wonder how you will do when she is gone for a whole week next week.

- You copy EVERYTHING Caroline does. I was laughing just watching you follow all the things she was doing at the Splashpad. Now, if she gives us a kiss, you give us a kiss, if she throws something, so will you, if she has a toy you want it (not in a selfish way just in a want to play way) etc.

-You discovered the big kid swings at cousin camp. You just wanted to sit and swing all of the time. You are growing up way too fast.

- "Camp" was fun for you, you really liked going to see and feed the chickens, you even got to pet one. I think you will be pretty disappointed next time we go to Grandmas and her chickens won't stop long enough for you to get close. You were also the smart one of the group. You went and gathered all of your new favorite toys and just found a quiet spot to sit and play and be away from the rest of the crazies. I think you could have stayed there several more days and been perfectly content to just sit and watch everyone.

- You will say "Lexa" (alexa) when you want to hear music and when we ask you what song you will say "bus" (wheels on the bus) or "Me" (me by taylor swift) or "hop" (rockin' robin) or "La La Lu" for your lullaby.

- You are starting to really like dress up which is fun, and you tend to gravitate toward the Minnie Mouse costume or this rainbow tutu that is part of a Princess Poppy costume. It's fun to watch you really try and decide what to wear. You also prefer the blue Cinderella dress up shoes to any of the other pairs.

-We took you to your first Astros game this month. I was skeptical as to how you would do but you were great! You loved to clap and cheer for the home runs and you liked walking around the concourse. You were a trooper after too while we waited for Caroline to run the bases.

- You ask for us to put your hair in pigtails now, it is definitely your signature style.

Rory- 20 Months

Another Month has come and gone and I am finding it harder to think of things to write so quickly. I cannot believe we only have one week left of June, we have been busy. Here are somethings that I want to remember from this month with Rory.

- You were starting to climb out of your crib so we took the metal mattress support out of you bed so now your mattress is on the floor with your crib surrounding it. It seems to be working so far and we hope it will for a few more months...or maybe years ;-). You are taking a long nap in the afternoon now so I don't want to mess your schedule up just yet, trying to move you into a toddler bed like you sister did at this age. It was an easy transition with her but now that we are in a two story I am not ready for you to wander the house and try and navigate the stairs in the middle of the night yet.

- This last month was a lot of end of the school year things for your sister. You now have playmate for the whole day every day ha, we will see which one of you calls Mercy first.

- We took your second trip to the Frio River this month and a good time was had by all. You especially enjoyed this year's trip and I cannot wait to take you back next year! We figured we would be chasing you all up and down and around the place and made sure you had a life jacket on because we figured you would just take off. But Concan worked it's magic on you and you were so happy, content and relaxed. You loved to just hang out on the shore and watch everyone do there thing. You liked taking little float runs with Mommy and even just hang out floating around in a tube where we were all sitting. Daddy would take you out into the water to float and you loved just standing facing up river feeling the current around you. River Girl after my own heart!

- You are talking and singing so much now, you will say anything we say. New words that have changed...I am now Mommy and Daddy is now Daddy (most of the time) I was really hoping the mamas and dadas would last longer.  You used to call your paci a paci but now its "sassy"
You also love to sing and dance, you will follow directions like if the song says to clap or twist etc.

- You like the song Apples and Bananas right now and think its funny.

-You have started saying prayers with us and trying to make the sign of the cross. You will babble throughout our prayers like you are trying to say them to and you always end with an "Amen" and clap your hands together.

-If it's ever just me and you in the car you will have conversations with yourself that you have had with Caroline before, complete with giggling in the right spots. You are really noticing when she is not around now, and you ask about her.