Still sick

2 weeks ago, Leeza was sick and threw up on me about 9 times.  Surprisingly, I turned around and got sick.  I wonder why!  Then Leeza got a bad cough and fever.  She then shared it with Sasha.  So they both had it.  Leeza finally is feeling better, but Sasha keeps running a fever.  It comes and goes.  When it comes however, she gets really hot really fast.  Now I have the cold.  So me and Sasha are using all the kleenex up in the house. 

Leeza drew a picture of me today.  I guess I must look really bad!  She was very proud of it though.  She just went from scribbling to actually trying to draw something.  So this is a big step for her.  Most things she draws look sort of like this, but it is so much better than random lines.

Independence

I am trying to let the girls be more independent.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes, Leeza uses Sasha's face as the marker board instead of the new easel they have.

 It was dry erase markers so it cleans off easily.

 If I do leave them alone, they still come and find me and check in every 5 or so minutes.  When they don't, then I know they are up to something.  Leeza always gives it away when she is up to no good as she smiles when I ask her if she is being good!

 About 30 minutes before this picture was taken, the play room had been clean and picked up.

 All the little pieces were in their containers.  You notice that all the containers are now empty!

When you ask Leeza to pick things up, she will pick up one thing and then start playing with the second and forget the whole picking up part.

Sick

Leeza was sick last weekend. She spent all day Sunday vomiting.  The first few times right on me.  She did learn how to puke into the garbage can and to tell mama she was sick before she threw up.  I guess we had enough practice Sunday to learn this.  Sorry no new pictures, but I got sick on Monday so I am behind in everything. 

The End of the Holidays

 Christmas pictures this year were so much easier than last year.  Last year, it was me, Niki and Debbie, 3 cameras and a bag of gum drops and we still didn't get a good picture.  I like this picture of Leeza.  She is sitting in a chair that was my mom's when she was little and mine when I was little.  I think she looks like Debbie so much in this picture.  Plus she looks like such a big girl.

 Here is Sasha pretending to be an angel.  She is my little angel, but she does have a streak of the devil in her too.

Such a difference a year makes.   I hope everyone had a good holiday season and a great 2010.   I wonder what 2011 will bring us.

Happy New Year

2010 was a good year for us. Leeza grew over 6 inches and gained 8 lbs.  Sasha grew almost 6 inches and gained 10 lbs.  They both have caught up in growth and are now where they should be for their age.  A year ago, we could barely communicate and the girls were sick almost every week.  So far this winter, we have had a few illnesses, but they aren't as bad or as long lasting as the girls now have the stregth and immunity built up in their systems to fight it.  Leeza's ear tubes are still looking good so no more ear infections.
Sasha's speech is now ahead of her age level.  Leeza is still a little behind, but has made a lot of progress especially the last few months.  Both girls can count to 20 and sometimes a little higher.  They both know their colors now.  So much for Leeza being color blind like I thought she might be.  She still has a very hard time telling blue and green apart, but that will come.  We are starting to work on recognizing and naming letters.  They know S,L, J and H.  They know their "big names"- Elizabeth and Alexandra now. 

More toys

 I ran out of energy yesterday putting toys together so we had some new toys to play with today.  We started with the moon dough which is suppose to be like play dough, but doesn't dry out.  It molds much better than play dough, but when you crush it, it breaks into lots of little pieces and is very messy!  After that, Leeza wanted to play with her train.  We got the track set up and Thomas went around and around.

 No this isn't an alien worm invasion, it is the tunnel from the play tent and tunnel set.

 The girls thought it would be much more fun to drag each other around in it than to just crawl through it.

 It was also pretty fun to just hang out in.

I just had to include this photo. Sasha is such a natural gymnast.  SHe figured out how to do this all by herself.  She was flipping around the handrail on the trampoline like she had been doing it forever.

White Christmas

It started snowing on Christmas Eve.  It snowed most of the day and part of the night.  We probably got 4-5 inches of snow.  It was nice to have a white Christmas and since we were not traveling , the snow didn't bother us.

 It was about 30 degrees out, but we were dressed for it. 

 They had a good time running around the back yard in the snow.

 Leeza just likes to run.

 Sasha tried to get the snow off the swings, but we ended up in a snowball fight instead.

Leeza got pretty good at snowballs and got me with one.  Their pants got pretty wet so we went back in, but they had a good time playing.  The snow didn't pack well enough to make a snowman so we will do that next time.