Sticks and Stones...

I went to the Urologist today, and it seems that I have several kidney stones. And I have an oddly shaped kidney. And I have to go for further testing to discover why I have had blood in my urine. At least I am close to meeting my max out of pocket expenses for insurance, so it won't be a pain in my pocket as well as a pain in my back!

Finley was given a hand-me-down play kitchen from her cousin Parker, and she is having so much fun! She "pours" us a drink and pretends to sip her own. She has a little apron that she wears, and cooks us stuff on her stove. I love this age!

How to Speak "Finnish"

Finn is talking so much now, but it's pretty hard to understand what she's saying. So, here is a mom's guide to toddler speak:
"Bow-buff": pacifier
"Booose": juice
"Bee-bees": pee pee
"Bea-pees": air planes
"Ma-mum": mommy
"Na-Nan": Nana
"By-pa": diaper
"I-ite": night - night
"Boooooon": moon
"Fly-flaff": flower (and then, she *sniff* sniff*... "Ahhh")

I'm sure it's funny to an outsider to hear Finn talk, because it sounds like you have pee pees in the sky and a moose in your cup. And she must sniff every flower on every wall, in every pot, and in every picture. It's precious the first twenty times a day she does it. After that, not so much.

Hadley's Growing, too...

I feel like I always have stories about Finn, and that may be because she is growing up so fast and I constanly see her personality coming out. But, Hadley is growing fast, too, so I figured I needed to fill you guys in on everything she is doing!

Hadley is such a happy girl. She smiles all the time, and wakes up with a grin on her face. She sleeps all night long, and she LOVES her big sister. She likes to watch Finn play and run around, and she will laugh so hard when Finn entertains her. Haddie also loves to be on her belly. Once I lay her down, she immediately rolls to her belly. She sleeps on her belly, and plays on her belly. She gets to sleep in the bed with us for a couple of hours in the wee morning when she wakes up to nurse, and she usually plays for a while before she will go back to sleep! This morning, Haddie woke up to nurse at about 5:45 and Shaun brought her in the bedroom. She nursed, then rolled over and started singing to her Daddy. It was so precious! Finally, she rolled to her belly and went back to sleep.

Hadley is a little peanut of a girl. She just now is starting to fill out her 3 to 6 months size clothes, and she is over 5 months old! She can still wear some of her 0 to 3 months clothes, especially her pj's. She weighs 14 pounds, which is around 30th percentile for her age, and is 23inches long, which is in the 18th percentile. So, maybe she will be my petite one, since Finn is over 70th percentile for weight and height!

Both girls are quite different from each other, and as they grow, I see more and more of those differences. I am so excited to see their personalities develop!

The Passi Snatcher Part Deux...

Sometimes it amazes me how Finn can be so smart and sneaky at only twenty two months.
Hadley was playing on the floor the other day, and her passi had fallen out of her mouth. It was underneath her, and when she rolled to her side, Finn spotted it.

You could see the wheels turning. She formed a plan in that little head of hers.

Finn grabbed a small "lovie", a little blanket with a bear head attached. She pretended to be playing with Haddie, and tickled her with it for just a minute. Then she slowly reached toward the passi with the lovie in hand. She grabbed the passi, covered it up with the lovie and slowly backed away, disguising the gesture with another tickle on the way out.

She thought she had pulled it off, and started walking away with a pleased grin on her face.

She looked like the cat that had caught the canary.

Shaun almost didn't have the heart to ask her what she had in her hand. When he did, she turned around, pulled back the lovie and knew she had been caught.

The look on her face was one of extreme disappointment. She hung her head, and gave the passi back to Haddie.

I'm sure she is already plotting her next plan.

The Passi Snatcher

Finn has thoroughly enjoyed her passi since birth, and since she will be two in a couple of months, we are trying to phase the passi out. She only gets it at naptime and bedtime, and she's usually good with that. However, now Hadley has decided that she also enjoys a passi, so she is allowed to have hers whenever she wants it. And Finn isn't too fond of that. She tries to steal it all the time, and she will pretend to be hugging Hadley when she is actually feeling beside her to find a passi.
When I get Haddie from her bouncy seat, Finn checks to see if I have left a passi behind.
In the car, Finn will pull the passi off of Hadley's clip.
She climbs in Hadley's crib to get the passi.
She is obssessed.
Any tips on how I can make Finley understand that hadley gets a passi because she is a baby and Finley doesn't because she's a big girl?
Help. Please.