Lovins

Little Lovins is 9 months old.  We are a family of nicknames so just because I've never blogged Aliza as Lovins, doesn't mean she isn't called that by me many times as well as a plethora of many other things that her cuteness inspires at that moment.  I supposed I should've waited till she had her apt next week to give you the percent stats but oh well.  She got her first two teeth finally!!  She took her sweet time like big sis and they are crooked pointing in just like Isabelle's too.  And yes we are still nursing and yes she bit me a couple times and has not since. mmm hmm.  She is sporadic with her not bothering me in the night to nurse, sometimes she will go 12 hrs, other 8.  So I pretty much consider it a bonus if I'm not up at 4 or 5 in the morning, thankfully it's for about 10 minutes and I put her back down and go back to sleep myself.  Aliza has started this laugh, like an actual, ha-ha-ha.  It's funny and cute of course.  She is a pro at precision pincher picking up to feed herself.  She started that at 7.5 months.  So in my book advanced in the fine motor skills ;)  In gross motor skilling, which who needs them anyway when they're gross???  She has yet to roll over from back to front, it's weird, yet convenient.  She sits and can bend over her legs in odd positions to get things and can move some, but no go getting crawling.  It's so funny when she is laying on her back, not realizing she could do something about it.  Still my good happy baby.
And those other kids...Christian has been sounding out and spelling words with the magnets on the fridge.  I hadn't even been working with him and he was sounding thing out so I showed home how putting different letters on the start of two other letters make different words,  he got Isabelle's sight words out and sounded out jump with no help, at all.  He does not yet know how e makes vowels say their own name etc or th and ch sounds.  He is becoming more boy spastic, loud, rough.  He has accidentally bonked his head into the baby's a couple times and is just broken hearted when it happens, you can tell he is deeply distraught over his baby sis hurting.  We had a talk one day about how it's not always safe to give the baby something just because she cries for it etc;  love is often not doing what will make someone " happy".  Like eating pennies or going out in the street. :)
Isabelle and I had PTConferences this week and she did a great job on her report card, right where she needs to be academically and above standard in her behavior and work habits.  I was very pleased to say the least, and so thankful for her putting forth her very best efforts!  She is my responsible first born little caretaker.  Christian was hacking up a lung this weekend so I came out in the morning and she had made him a bed on the floor with towels, water bottle, crackers and another bowel just in case he threw up from the coughing which he is notorious for.  That is it for now!!!