Jumping and Dancing

Genevieve has recently decided Spencer's clothes are super comfy to wear, so she always brings various articles of clothing to me so I can help her put them on. She has really cute clothes of her own, but that doesn't stop her. She looks so, so, so much like Spencer when she's wearing his clothes, especially since they're not even very big on her, which is startling. 

She and Spencer both have taken to jumping off high surfaces onto pillows, the air mattress like in this video, or they even just run and jump and bounce off the couch. It's hilarious. It does leave Bill and I wondering what it'll be like once we build the loft bed though... Should be exciting. hahaha!

Also, in case you are wondering, this is what dancing means to Miss Genevieve. She's quite the entertaining little lady.

Talking

Based on my vast experience with two children (note the heavy irony of that statement), I've decided my kids talk early. Whether that is a true statement or not doesn't matter because really I just love watching them develop their vocabulary and I like that it starts so soon. Genevieve has started putting together some two-word phrases to go with her decently large one-word vocabulary. It's fantastic to see her picking up so many new concepts and verbalizing. She'll repeat anything we ask her to say. Lately she's been picking up new words from Spencer, which I particularly love to watch. She is quite a bit more interactive in her speech than Spencer was at this age, so that's fun too. He was very into labeling the world around him. He had a massive vocabulary of nouns and adjectives at a very young age and an incredible memory, so he picked up words lightning fast. Genevieve likes to talk to get her point across and generally to get something she wants. Her vocabulary is also jumping in leaps and bounds. It's definitely the age. She's 19 months old now, which is the same age Spencer was when she was born and I remember he was so much easier to talk to at that point because of the large vocabulary and understanding.

So here's a few things Genevieve has been saying lately that I like:

-back on - she has gotten super particular about choosing clothes and especially shoes. If we take something off, even to change her diaper, that she wants on, she very forcefully tells us to put it "back on!"

-Daddy sleep or Spencer sleep - I came home yesterday to find Bill asleep while Spencer watched a movie and Genevieve playe around him. She saw me, pointed at him, and said, "Daddy. sleep."

-out - this means pick me up and/or get me down from this chair, I'm done eating. Another word she uses very forcefully. :)

-cookie, candy, graham cracker, cracker, milk, juice, water, fish (goldfish), snacks (fruit snacks)... - The little lady enjoys her food. She eats like a champ and let's us know if she sees something she wants. She eats lots more things than these, but the snacks have way easier words than like spaghetti casserole or currey. :)

-shoes, boots - what 19 month-old has multiple words for shoes? lol. She loves her shoes, Spencer's, mine, Bill's. Doesn't matter, she wants to wear them all.

-car, tree, flower, dirt - she likes to label things when we go outside too.

-guys - refers to the duplo figures. She and Spencer fight over them like any good sibling would.

-Spencer, Genevieve, Daddy, Mommy - She has our names down great and she'll repeat names for other family members, though I haven't heard her say them on her own.

-Bless you - whenever we sneeze she's all over making sure we're polite. :)

-please, thank you, you're welcome. We didn't teach Spencer these niceties until he was a bit older. It's delightful to hear her itty bitty voice be so polite.

Those are all I can think of for the moment. I'm sure she has more, those are just what come to mind at the moment.

And in other news, she also has very questionable taste in clothing, though very definite opinions about what she wants to wear. :)

 And I can't end without a picture of Spence. We have a hard time getting good pictures of either kid since they never stop moving, but I caught this one last night when we were doing the bedtime routine.

Picture dump

I was thinking about what to write this week on my blog and realized that there isn't really anything particular going on to report or talk about, just typical life. I'm 23 weeks pregnant. I'm at that point where I feel pretty good but am already pretty big and if feels like the pregnancy is going to last forever. I appreciate being past the icky first trimester stuff and not to the terrible uncomfortableness of the end of my third trimester though, so I'll take it. Bill is in the middle of his semester. Nothing special is happening, but nothing bad is either, so that's good. Spring is slowly coming here and I love that. We've gotten outside a lot in the last week or two, which has been been wonderful. So really it is just one of those good life weeks. I'll take as many of those as I can!

Spencer rarely wears a full outfit while we're at home. I figure he can wear whatever he wants, and he goes to town. I do try to get him to wear at least a shirt most of the time. :)

Reading books in the hammock set up under the desk. The kids love it.

Genevieve just loves shoes. Hers, mine, daddy's, Spencer's. She's an equal opportunity shoe wearer.

Case in point. These are Spencer's.

She also loves her bath towel.

Another quality Spencer outfit and one of his favorite places to hole up, in the pile of pillows on my bed.

Pushing boundaries

Little Miss Genevieve is pushing major boundaries. 

This was her new trick today. She's trying her hardest to get out too, but hasn't succeeded that way yet. I'm sure it won't take long. I had a video but I can't get it to upload, so you'll just have to take my word. Good thing we have plans for their new bed situation once she's out of the crib. That might be sooner than I expected. 

Cute Kids

We had a lazy day today. I got all our baby clothes out of the storage garage and sorted them to make sure I still wanted the ones I had kept, plus pulled out all the tiny newborn and 3 month clothes. Oh my goodness, they are so small. I can't imagine having a new baby that will fit into that small of clothes. It was fun to look through all the adorable clothes we have. This kid is set for clothes for the next three years at least. There's a few seasonal mismatches because he and Spencer will be born six months apart, but I don't think it'll be an issue because seriously I have so many boy clothes. 

Spencer and Genevieve are getting to the point where aside from him having about 6 inches on her in height, they are nearly the same size. She only weighs about five pounds less than him. He's all legs, so when they sit next to each other, they're really similar in size. I just have no context anymore for a small baby. It makes me excited. This pregnancy has been business as usual, just going through the motions wanting it to hurry by, so it's fun to feel excited about something. The thought of having three kids 3 and under is still overwhelming, but hey, I always said I wanted an exciting life. 

We spent a good amount of time today laying on the floor in the kids' room reading books. Bill and I both took naps at some point on this pad. It's the foam topper from our old king bed and we have it rolled up in the corner of their room. It makes an amazing family storytime pillow.

Spencer spent most of the time cuddled up on his bed. He found one of his old pairs of pajama tops while I was sorting clothes and insisted on wearing it. It's like a little muscle shirt on him.

This was a favorite spot for Genevieve. She made sure to bounce on him for good measure.

And a bit of a smile! This girl is hard to catch smiling, but dang, she's got an amazing one. She also gets the best bedhead ever and I forget to comb her hair most of the time so she walks around with a crazy red halo most days. Even if I do comb it, it gets back to this pretty quickly, which is probably why I never think of it.

See the awesomeness of his outfit? This kid knows how to choose his clothes. :)

Oh, and you heard I'm pregnant and we had our ultrasound on Friday? Guess what? We've got another cute little boy on the way! We took the kids with us to the ultrasound, which was an adventure. Spencer was super blase about finding out the gender because duh, he's been telling us since we asked him that we're having a boy. He did want to have an ultrasound of his own and got up on the table and pulled his shirt up in preparation. Genevieve was enthralled with the computer and the cupboards and the curtain and everything else around to play with and Bill had his hands entirely full.

So the 3D photos look so strange to me, but seeing the video that this photo came from was really cool. There really is a baby in there and he's already fully formed. I know, this is the third time around, but it never ceases to amaze me to see them grow. I mean it's only been five months since he started out as a little clump of cells and look what he has become already.