The Scream!

In the past two weeks Amira has been testing out her vocal range. She lets out this loud scream that will make your ear drums rattle. Sometimes she screams because she wants something and other times it's just to scream. Needless to say we are now working on teaching Amira that she needs to use her indoor voice. So far I'm not sure if it's really working......

Amira got Lego Blok's for Christmas and lately has really been loving playing with them. The set came with a whole bunch of animals to stack on the legos so she has been building towers and placing the animals around the tower. It's so fun to watch her figure out to do new things.

A new thing she figured out how to do which I wish she didn't was to climb on the table. We have a pub style table so it took her a little longer to figure out how to get our our table versus my grandparent's table. The other day Ryan was eating something and went downstairs for a second without pushing his chair in. When he came back up stairs Amira was on the table eating his food. After that we became very good at pushing in our chairs, but now she has become strong enough to scoot the chairs out on her own. Lovely....

Here she is standing on the coffee table. Notice the Bieber hair. She does not have Bieber fever, we are just attempting to grow her hair out.

We have also been working on teaching Amira her colors. She has mastered counting to 12 and recognizing all of her letters (lowercase and capital). Colors however are not coming so easy. Everything is pink! Amira's new thing to say to us is, "Wake up!" Not sure where this came from but she will tell us to wake up when we are driving in the car or sitting on the couch. We really don't sleep that much but I guess she thinks we are always asleep. Amira really enjoys Ari's swing too. Luckily it will hold up to 25lbs and she is 23lbs.

As for Ari, her little eardrums are also ringing from Amira's scream. She is doing really well. She turned six weeks last Monday and is almost sleeping through the night, she wakes up around 3:45am. I'm hoping that she is sleeping through the night when I go back to work in 4 weeks (sad!). 

Ryan and Ari have been spending some quality time together. Here they are watching the game together. Ryan is out numbered with all of us girls so he has to watch the games with us. He is such a good dad to Amira and Ari.