Nellie-ism

When Nellie's hand or foot falls asleep, she says it's "dizzy." It took me awhile to figure out what she meant by that!

Talking, talking, talking

Here are some of the question's Nellie has asked in the last few days.

• Is God there? In that chair?
  
• Where does God live? Where is heaven?
  
• What's his name? [Who's name?] Dave and Laurel's baby. [Note: To my knowledge, there is no such baby.]
• When are Uncle Dave and Aunt Laurel going to have a baby?
• When I grow up, will you still be my mommy?
• When will I be a grownup?
• When can I ride on an airplane?
• How does a toilet work?
• What's science?
• What's a week?

Annie is also saying more words than ever. Her favorite is probably "no," the answer to every question. It's also a great word to scream when you're having a temper tantrum because no one understands you. A few new words from today were "oatmeal," "strong," "crown," and "church." Annie also loves to sing songs, and knows quite a few--Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jesus Loves Me, ABCs, I've Got the Joy Joy Joy Joy... She also counts, although the only recognizable numbers are 2 and 9.

Nellie spells

her name, mainly. But she can write it! Aren't you impressed? Of course you are. :)

Bunk beds!

Nellie and Annie share a smallish room, so we kind of knew bunk beds were inevitable. Things were getting crowded and their sleep wasn't great anyway, so we decided to ditch the twin and crib for twin-over-full bunk beds at Christmas.

It's actually going pretty well! Nellie calls the two beds "the tree house and the cave." Mostly she plays on the top bunk, and both girls sleep in the full bed. They are very cute cuddled in there together! We were a little nervous about the mattress when it was delivered--it came rolled up in a package about my size. But it puffed right up and it's really comfortable!

The girls have slept in the beds every night since we put them together, and there's not too much silliness at bed time. I actually think bed time is going better than ever. We finally bought new sheets today, and Kevin and Nellie are upstairs right now putting together the under-bed storage. So I'll post pictures of the finished product. In the meantime, here are some from the big reveal on Christmas Eve. None of Annie--she wouldn't come in the room for a while. Poor thing, I think she was a little young to have her crib disappear. She seems to have adjusted, though!


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