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For the last month Eileen has been standing up without holding on to something. Then last week on June 5 she took 3-4 independent steps. She has done it a handful of times since then. She will also walk along side you only holding onto one hand.
No pictures- we are too caught up in the moments to grab our camera phones.
But I have these pictures to share
13 months! This month both Eileen and Ewan started clapping their hands (Eileen started first!). And Eileen will give you a high five and Ewan waves.
Ewan is really into putting stuff in baskets and dropping stuff behind his head.
Eileen loves to turn the pages of books, Ewan still mostly likes to shut books.
They have been enjoying the swing set at the local park and playing outside.
Our nanny, Tiannah, is great with the twins, which definitely makes being at work easier.
Life is good!
Ewan dances all the time! He puts his hands in the air and moves his head around. He can’t walk, but he can dance!! I will sing to him while changing his diaper and he moves his arms around dancing and scrunches his face. So adorable.
Ewan is crawling up and over things and started lowering himself on to a bent knee instead of doing the splits. He is W sitting a little bit less these days.
He is pulling himself up using the wall and walking along it. Once he pulled himself up grabbing ahold of Luna’s fur, to which Luna did not mind. Out of all the animals Mika has surprisingly been the least trustworthy with the babies. She growls and shows her teeth if they come too close.
Ewan loves petting Polly’s soft fur (with supervision of course!). He is a very good eater, he works on each pile of food one at a time. He pretty much likes all food.
He’s been sticking his tongue out and moving it around lately while making noise…. also adorable!
He is my sweet little gentleman, cuddly and full of expression!
Today was my first day back to work, and when I came home this is how the babies greeted me. We stayed cuddling like this for 20 minutes, it was magical.
Eileen pulled herself up into a standing position on May 4. She was working on achieving this for the 2 weeks prior. Now she pulls herself up on everything! She’s very happy.
The twins hung out on the grass today after our walk. Ewan was on the verge of crying and stayed perfectly still. Eileen was so happy, she crawled everywhere exploring the grass, cement and trees. She really does love nature!
Auntie Di and Jer 3D printed the twins rattles for their first birthday and the twins love them!! They had them in the stroller on our walk today and all I could hear was rattle rattle rattle.
I feel like I missed a bunch of stuff about Eileen in my previous post, so here’s a post just for our sweet baby girl!
She is very ticklish! She is ticklish on her belly, armpit, behind the knees and her chin!! She laughs loudly and uncontrollably.
She likes to mess up all the food on her tray, unless there is something she doesn’t like, she will keep those items in a pile and push them to the edge of her tray. Right now she doesn’t like mangos, tomatoes, carrots, oranges and sweet potatoes- all orange/red things.
She is obsessed with zippers, buttons, snaps, and any shinny hardware (buckles, screws and nails). She needs to thoroughly investigate these things with her pointer finger.
She likes to point at all the faces in the story books we read, especially the eyeballs.
She lifts the letters out of the foam floor mats, and when I put the letters back she gives me a disapproving look and lifts them up again.
She is such a good sleeper and a serious chatter box! If I don’t pick her up from her crib right away she rolls over and goes back to sleep. Ga Ga is her new favourite consonant sound to make. A couple times she has mimicked what we are saying.
Diaper changes have become very hard because she doesn’t like to lie on her back anymore, so she rolls over and sits up.
When she gets really excited she thrashes her limbs and body around. In bed she will face plant into the mattress and start laughing.
She’s such a sweetheart. She is really calm and patient but full of life and energy at the same time
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Wow, one year! I am trying to remember all the good times but it’s so hard. Everything was such a blur in the beginning. This has been the best year of my life. I am just so grateful, words cannot express.
Ewan started making kissing noises to Kyle and I, especially when we are kissing his head. He is so sweet and full of expression. He loves to climb and smack objects together, make noise, zoom around the house and cuddle. Ewan joined Sara and I in laughter during our conversation a couple of weeks ago, it was really cute.
Eileen is crawling from room to room and taking her time exploring every detail along the way. The first thing she did when she was in the kitchen was open a cabinet drawer. Ewan has been crawling for months and only once came close to discovering that the drawers open. Eileen was very sick this month with a high fever lasting 4 days. Thanks to Grandpa Maclean for all the medical advice and talking us through it. The highest her fever got was 39.6, which was scary. Eileen handled it like a champ though.
Ewan crawls circles around Eileen. They are like the tortoise and the hare. Eileen is a lot happier now that she is mobile. She laughs out loud while crawling forward.
Sara lent us a walking toy that helps kids learn to walk. Immediately Ewan pulled himself up and started walking with the toy. He picks up new skills extremely easily. He learned how to drink from a straw and eat from a snack pack in a day. Eileen isn’t as quick to learn, it takes her time to figure things out.
They are sleeping through the night about half the time. Hopefully this increases as I am preparing to return to work. Eileen was having troubles falling asleep this past week, she isn’t crying, in fact she is laughing and rolling around her crib. She has been laughing a lot lately. Just expression of pure joy! She’s been laughing in her crib while Ewan is crying in his crib. Ewan has three more teeth along his top gums.
A couple times this month Ewan crawled over to Eileen and pushed her chest knocking her over. It seemed very deliberate. Eileen continues to poke Ewan in the eye with her pointer finger, especially when breastfeeding. It’s so cute to watch her raise her hand with her finger already pointing out towards his eye. Ewan often breastfeeds with his hand over his eye for protection, so now Eileen is poking him in the ear.
Diana and I flew to Courtenay with Eileen and Ewan to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa Shivas’ belated 40 wedding anniversary. It was a very quick 46 hour trip, but worth it! During the trip Eileen and Ewan picked up a head cold and then shared it with Kyle and I. We also met Heather’s new baby boy, Bryce, and Gina’s twins George and Madelyn.
On Sunday we celebrated Eileen and Ewan’s 1st birthday. Kyle made a banana cake with yogurt and peanut butter icing, and they opened gifts. All the grandparents, auntie Diana and Jeremy attended the party.
Yesterday Eileen took her first forward crawling steps. She has been so close all week, which had led to a lot of face plants. Over the last three weeks Eileen has been very quick to cry and hard to console. I think she’s been really frustrated seeing Ewan crawling everywhere and not being able to join him.
This morning Kyle said “Hi Eileen” and she clearly said “Hi” back. Could we get her to do it again? Maybe not right away, but this was definitely her first word!! Big weekend for Eileen.
Video after the break
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