Musical

Here's a little video of T playing the drums. She loves music, as she'll tell you on the video, and is always playing on the piano and drumming on anything she can get her hands on. As usual, please ignore the laundry waiting to be folded in the background :).

Sessa music from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

And, in case that one wasn't long enough...

Sessa music 2 from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

Solid

We fed Nora her first 'solid' foods this week. Just some brown rice cereal. Marc did the honors, since he missed out on Teresa's first food experience. And, of course, T had to help as well.

What's that? You wish you could have seen it all go down?

Well. It's your lucky day, because we just happened to take some videos of it.

Here they are.

Very first bite:

Nora's first eats from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

And a little later on in her meal:

Nora eats some more from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

And some pictures, of course:

All the classic 'first food' faces that are so cute. She seemed to like it well enough. At least, she kept accepting more 'bites'. I'm not sure how much of it she actually swallowed, but it was good practice, right?

Teresa kept wanting to try it, but then when I offered her some she covered her face and said "I can't do it!"

In other Nora news, she can roll both ways now. She is super chatty and smiley, and still loves T so, so much. She always zeroes in on Teresa and has tons of smiles for her. She is wanting to be sitting up or standing a bunch now, and typically sleeps from 7:30-3:30 or 4, and then from 4 or 4:30-7:00ish. So, much better in the sleeping department than Teresa :)

There was a little girl

There was a little girl

Who had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

And when she was good

She was very, very good.

And when she was bad

She

was

horrid

It's a good thing we love her so much...

Things she says: 3

- "Not like dat!" or "I no like dat Mommy" - She says this one whenever we do something she doesn't like or approve of, so we've been hearing it a lot. We've been swimming a lot lately, and I hear it at the pool all the time. T is pretty bold in the water, she'll just keep walking in until it hits her bottom lip, but if I take her in the deep end, no matter how tightly I'm holding her, she just repeats this over and over.

-She's started complimenting me whenever I wear a skirt or a dress. Cute little compliments like "Oh, I love that dress Mama".

- "Sessa do dat too" and "Sessa helper" - Of course she loves 'helping' us with any and everything we do. She is actually starting to be pretty helpful with stuff. Which is nice, cause, you know, that's pretty much why we had children...

- "Yee Haw!" - I have no idea where she learned this one, but she says it all the time. Especially at the park, or when she's jumping off the stairs.

- "Bummer" - she says this a lot, like when it's time to go home from the park or the pool. We were at a friends house last week, sharing a piece of cake, and every time I took a bite instead of giving T one she would say "bummer!". That same night she spilled a little boys drink, and was totally embarrassed about it. I went looking for her to make her apologize and she had her head buried in the couch and kept saying "I can't talk, I can't talk". :)

Life stuff

Look, I've been taking a TON of pictures lately, and I need to do something with them. We've just been doing normal life stuff lately, nothing out of the ordinary, but it seems like almost every day T does something that has me running for the camera.

Sooooo, this is a big long blog post, mostly for journaling reasons, so read on at your own risk ;)

T has a definite fashion sense of her own. She picks her own clothes most days, and accessorizes a ton. She loves shoes, when we're looking at shoes in a store she'll get all quiet and awestruck almost, and just keep repeating "so pitty, so pitty" (pretty). It's pretty cute. She makes some interesting choices:

And a close up:

On Saturday she chose to wear one leg warmer on her arm:

She loves her hats, and tea parties now:

We're dipping our toes in to the potty training pool:

Uncle Zac stopped by to visit. We were super excited to get to hang out with him for a few hours, and can't wait to see the rest of his family next month. T wanted him to lay on the floor with her and he was a great sport about it - she made him use her tea pot as a pillow:

Nora has been being cute and growing bigger and more interested in the world every day. These first three pictures are from about a month ago:

These ones just make me smile:

Teresa loves horses right now. I'm pretty excited about it, cause I was a total horse nerd when I was a kid. She needed to ride both of her horses at the same time:

Nora fell asleep when I was finishing T's room. Isn't she cute?

Speaking of T's room, I finally got it all put back together and organized after switching out her crib for a toddler bed.

(can you find Nora in this picture....?)

This is the cleanest it's ever been, and that's only because T was down helping Daddy get the Durango cleaned out and washed and ready to sell. We bought a new car, and this one gets way more than 13 miles per gallon. The car payment and gas for this car combined will still be less than what we were paying just in gas for the Durango each month, so we're pretty excited about that. It's just your standard Toyota Camry, like pretty much everyone else has:

Marc and I ran our second 5k this past Saturday. It still took me forever, but I did shave 4 and half minutes off my time, so I'm calling it a success.

The girls did quit crying eventually...

And one last picture of the Teresa, for the road:

Sisters, Princesses, and Babies (Oh my!)

I'm so excited for T and Nora to be best friends. Nora adores T, she just grins and grins at her whenever she is in sight. And T feels the same way about her. Teresa got a toddler bed this week and Nora moved in to the crib, and T just so badly wanted Nora to sleep in her new bed with her, it was so sweet. She cried and cried when we took Nora out.


Don't they look so much alike in this picture? This pic is the first time I've really thought they looked a ton like each other.

Love that cheesy grin :)



I wanted to get some cute pictures of the girls before church on Sunday, but this is what T was giving us:



Nora was more cooperative:



Teresa has started to show some interest in princesses lately. Not so much the Disney ones yet, but just in general. The other day she came in with a blanket on her head saying "Sessa pincess", so I told her she was a very beautiful princess, and then she kept walking around with the blanket repeating "bootiful pincess".



I found this Snow White dress for super cheap at Ross a few months ago, and T has just now been wanting to wear it. This is her doing a princess dance.



One drawback to having a super tall two year old is that she can reach way too much stuff on the counter! She filched the juicer and a juiced lemon and kept bringing me 'yemen juice'.



T keeps coming up with the most creative way to wear her babies. Today it was her apron, and she wore her baby most of the day: