Nicie's new words

Snack - I call the veggie straws that the kids like snacks and Nicie
started saying snacks. Mind you that when I say he is "saying" the
words is an overstatement. He is making the general sounds associated
with the word but no one other than me could possibly figure out what
he is saying.
Jac - I told him that his brother's name is Jac and he said it.
Cheese - He tried for that one also!

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Nic's first words

So before Nicie starts using a lot more words I thought I should write
down what his first set of words was.

Wa Wa - water or any fluid
Da Da - Daddy or Mommy
Num Num - food

Dow - Down - as in I want to get down from your arms or out of my seat

All used all of the time and repeated until provided!

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Words from Nicie!

Nicie is starting to make more word sounds! Still no Mama! Everything is Dadadadada! He tried to say "snack" today which is what I call the Veggie Straws that they like! He has also tried to say a few other words but I can't remember what they were! It is hard being the second! Mommy has no space in her brain! I will do better Nicie!

SpeakEasy Recording: Jac - Merry Christmas

Check out this cool recording I made using SpeakEasy!



Recording Location

Merry Christmas

"Hold the money"

Jac used the word "the" for the first time when he told me to "hold the money"!

Jac loves to carry money and he calls coins coins and dollars dollars! He wants money for the bus and for the train and sometimes for candy!

I was very excited yesterday when he told me "hold the money", normally it would be "hold money"! Go Jac! That is the first time he has ever used "the"!

"What's that?"

Last week Jac started asking, "What's that?" - All the time! He asks what everything is! This past weekend we took a road trip to San Francisco and the "What's that" questions were very helpful in keeping him busy in the car when he was awake as he could ask what all of the cars and trucks and bridges etc. were! It was great! I am sure the "What's that?" questions will get tiring quickly but right now I love it! His whole word has opened up with that question! His language has taken off to such an extent that he can really understand the answer to a lot of his questions now - and I feel like I can see the neurons in his brain connecting!

Along with the "what's that" came, "No, no, no, no" - and "Too big", and "Wrong side". When he doesn't want to wear something now he tells us it is "too big". When he doesn't want to sit in his car seat he says it is "too big" or that he is in the "wrong side" of the car! When he doesn't like something he says "no, no" over and over again.

Photo shoot

We did a photo shoot with Jennifer O - the daughter of my Mom's friend (the shoot was Dec. 6). It was a lot of fun and she is a great photographer and got some great shots of the boys. I decided that this year we would just focus on taking photos of the boys and if Joseph and I were in the mix that was fine but it was too much to try to do the whole family like we did last year!

I have put up some of the best pictures up on flickr!

29 months (back dated - written 12/23/09)

Jac turned 29 months - 13 days ago and I have not written his 29 month blog post! Bad Momma! Jacie - when you read this when you are older please forgive me - I am trying to keep up but you and brother are a bit of a challenge and Mommy really only writes blog posts at 3 am and when we have been sick for 2 weeks (or longer!) I am not up at 3 am to write very often! So! Here we go!

Walking, talking, jumping!, running!

The jumping is a new one! Jac is just starting to jump! Mostly on the bed, or on or off of it, but occasionally at the park!

Running - faster and faster! Nic is trying to run also just from watching Jac run all of the time.

Social - laughing and smiling and making friends when we are out. Jac is now doing double handed waving when we ask him to say hi or bye! He will walk up to people to say hi. He has always done this but for a while he did it a little less and it seems with his new language he is getting more social again.

He is very sweetly worried about his brother. He makes sure that Nic is coming with us, if he strays he will go and get him. Tonight (12/23) he wanted to go into a little children's store in One Colorado to play with the train (we have been in many times). As soon as he realized where we were he started telling Nicie to turn (and signalling him with his hand) and saying "play train". Nicie kept on walking! and Jac kept on telling him to turn! I had to go and get Nic and bring him in before Jac would go in to play with the train.

When we are at the doctor's office if he doesn't want something done to him (which is all the time) he asks that it be done to everyone else first. Usually he requests that it be done to Nicie first, and then Momma and Dadda if he is there. He is not a big fan of anything at the doctor's office, including being weighed or measured. The doctors assure me this gets better around three. Here's hoping!

"Candy Nathan"

While we were playing after lunch I was changing Jac's diaper. While I was changing him he started talking about candy. After he mentioned candy he said "Nathan." He remembered that two and a half weeks ago we went to Nathan's birthday party where he got a lot of candy! Amazing!

My son

I was putting away the boys' toys so that they could run the balls over with their fire engines! (Don't ask!) and while I was doing it I had to put away their trains. I put all of the trains (that go in two different boxes) in one box. Jac went into the box and got out the trains that didn't belong in the box and moved them into the other box!

"Two boys"

I frequently use the phrase "two boys" when I am doing something with the boys. I commonly say it when I am carrying both of them, like "I am carrying two boys." Jac picked this up and started saying "two boys" also. Now, when I am carrying both of them or doing something else with both of them he tells me "two boys." It is absolutely adorable!

14 months and growing up fast!

Nicie is 14 months old today! Another month! Time is flying and my boys are growing up so quickly! I just printed some pictures from when we brought Nic home from the hospital and I truly cannot really even understand that he was that small 14 months ago!

Nic is walking and talking and climbing and holding my hand and running and smiling and waving and making friends and hitting and pushing and playing and throwing!

Walking - it is amazing how well he can walk already - he can walk backwards down a ramp and take small steps up and down while holding my hand (which he just started doing!)

Talking - Nicie is making more and more sounds. He is saying "Dadda" all the time - for everything - I haven't gotten a Momma yet! Steps, down! He loves to say down, as in, "put me down" so I can wander around and get into things!

Climbing - Nic likes to climb on and off things and he is pretty good at doing it. The other night we were out in Little Tokyo and he was climbing up and down large stone blocks in a plaza. He loves to climb on play equipment at the playground.

Holding my hand - I just wrote about that the other day! I love it - when he holds that little hand up so I can help him up or down a step!

Running - he is nearly running - he looks like he is going to fall of the time he is leaned so far forward when he is walking/running - he looks like he is skiing downhill! Somehow he doesn't fall and manages to move quickly enough I really have to work to keep up!

Smiling and waving and making friends - Nicie is very social! He loves to wave at people! Everywhere we go he waves - he waves while I carry him, while he is walking around. He waves at people and expects them to notice him - if they don't notice him at first he will keep on looking at them and waving and wait for them to notice him! His wave is the cutest twisting of the wrist and pointing of the thumb. I call it his royal wave and people love it!

Hitting and pushing - Nis still really likes to hit and push (mostly hit) and he can and does turn anything into a weapon. A phone, a toy, a spoon, anything! Just in the last day we seem to have finally gotten the idea of gentle through to him. I can now say gentle touches to him and he will touch me gently (this works when he has been hitting me) or I can ask him to do gentle touches with his brother and he will switch from hitting him to giving him a hug!

Playing and throwing - Man can Nicie throw! He can aim right at you and hit you with a ball - he can throw straight - big balls, small balls, anything! He loves to walk and clim and carry toys around and knock anything you are making down, and push toy cars around, and drive the toy fire engine (like brother) and get into anything brother is playing with!

My little boy is growing up - pretty soon I am not going to have any babies! Just toddlers!

"Steps" and hand

Nic is doing so many amazing things! It is so fun to watch his physical and verbal abilities develop! He has started asking for my hand when he wants to step up or down stairs. He knows that he can up or down them by crawling and he will do that if I am not right there or he just wants to go quickly, but if I am there, and he wants to walk he holds his arm up and waits for me to take his hand so I can help him go up and down.

He is also now saying "Step" when he goes up and down the steps!

He is also walking backwards, everywhere! I think he is just showing off sometimes!