One hundred point no

So, Addy is sick. It doesn't appear to be anything serious, but she's had a low-grade fever all day long. She's not ever had more than a cold, so enter the introduction of the thermometer. We have a pretty snazzy under-the-arm one; it takes 30 seconds and beeps when it's finished. The first time I used it today, Addy was interested in the process and didn't fight it at all. However, after her nap she decided that she didn't want to have her temperature taken. So I decided to take Kennedy's temperature in front of Addy - thinking that might make the whole process interesting again. Anything the baby does is pretty cool, you know. I took Kennedy's temp and then turned to take Addy's. Addy pointed to Kennedy and said "No. Baby do it." Very clearly she understood. I wanted the thermometer warmed and Kennedy was the gal for the job.

AND

Again tonight before bed, I wanted to take Addy's temperature. After a little coaxing, I got the thermometer under her arm. After about 3 seconds, she said "beep".

She didn't fool me.

Sleep is good!

We've been remembering how good sleep is at our house this week! Addy is sleeping very regularly in her bed now and may just be learning to like sleep. Her naps are starting to lengthen and her night-time sleep seems to be much more restful the past couple days. She's, of course, learning more and more too. This week, she's been working on learning the names of all of the shapes and she's discovered that her blocks fit in the square hole (and the star hole too... ha!) of her shape sorter. She also has been counting cars on many of our ventures out. "I love you" has become a regular phrase in her vocabulary and her hugs are frequent and easily given as well. Wow - almost two. Where did the time go?

Kennedy has been sleeping much better as well (thank goodness). Though she slept through the night right after we moved her into her crib, her nights were getting to be rather painful, as she would wake up three, four, five, six times a night crying. But no longer! Giving her just a couple minutes before going into her has fixed this problem! And Mom is so much happier! =) She's also almost rolling over from back to front as well, though she's still working on getting that arm out from under her. She's growing quickly as well. Kids sure speed up your life! =)

They grow so fast...

Addy is very interested in labeling everything right now. "Dad's water" "Mom's shirt" Addison's socks" "Baby's diaper". It's really cute. And her vocabulary is starting to amaze us. She's now saying words that we haven't actually 'taught' her. Another of her favorite sayings is "Ohmygosh". Yep - she got that from me. Thank goodness I wasn't saying something bad! Ha!

Kennedy had her 4 month check up last week. All looks great - she's over 18lbs and 27 inches long. (Yes, I said 4 month check up). She rolled over for the first time on Friday and has started eating cereal (in the hopes that having something in her tummy will allow her to sleep more than 3 hours at a time - like when she used to sleep 10 hours a night a few weeks ago!). =) So many firsts!!

Continually growing

Addy's favorite phrase right now is "take a bath". She says it more like "takeabath" though. We went swimming last week and she told most people afterwards that she had been to "takeabath". It's really cute - and sometimes she'll say it just out of the blue. She does love the water though, so maybe she's hopeful that if she says it, she'll be able to dive right in.

Kennedy has always been quite the smiler, but lately she's starting to smile with her whole face (if not her whole body). Her smiles now quite often include completely closed eyes and a wide open mouth and sometimes even raised shoulders. It's fun to see and you can't help but try to make the same face right back to her.

Our smart little girls

The other day while I was talking to Adam on the phone, I handed the receiver to Addy to say 'hi'. She was sitting in the middle of the floor, surrounded by books with an open one on her lap (this is a very common occurence). I heard her say "Reading a book" (or at least something very close to that). After she handed me (read: I pried) back the phone, Adam told me that he had, indeed, asked her what she was doing. She's a little smarty-pants. I guess algebra is next. =)

In Kennedy news, we're still seeing great big, full face smiles and we're also starting to see more emotions as well; she's a very expressive little kiddo. She is also starting to reach for things as she sees them now. It's so much fun to watch her make connections as she learns how to control those motions that simply used to be flails.