Puffers' Progress

This is officially the first of many Puffers' Progress Posts to come. These posts will consist of quick updates on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth and achievements of my sister and I. These posts are most certainly not to brag, but instead so that you can keep up with us and mostly so that I can record our progress for our mom, so she doesn't have to keep a baby book. ;) She likes to keep record of when we learn to do what so she can go back in years to come and reminisce. She's so sentimental that way. So here's our latest stats:

JOHN

AGE: 2 1/2 years

FAVORITE COLOR: ORANGE!

PHYSICAL STATS: tall and strong. just over 3 feet tall!

FAVORITE FOOD/SNACK: baby carrots dipped in ketsup and anything chocolate

FAVORITE TOY: My new train table and trains

THINGS I SAY and DO: "I wanna go home" (I say this when I've been in the car all day) Pretty much anything I say I just repeat myself over and over and over again until someone acknowledges me. I love to take pictures with mommy's camera. I am very protective over my sister. I like to teach my sister how to do things. I like to make her laugh.

SONGS I CAN SING MOST THE WORDS TO: "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Barney Theme Song", "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes", "ABC's", "The Ants go Marching", and lots more. My sis and I like singing to country music in the car.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: I now sleep in a big boy toddler bed. (as of a couple months a go) No more baby crib! I learned how to ride my tricycle.

Faylen

AGE: 1 1/2 yrs

PHYSICAL STATS: 95th percentile for height, lots of teeth--13! (2 molars)

FAVORITE FOOD/SNACK: Anything. she still eats twice as much as her brother. She usually polishes off his plate when he's done. :)

FAVORITE TOY: new baby doll and baby stroller. she pushes her baby in the stroller through the house for hours. She loves her baby and takes very good care of it and holds it perfectly like a natural mom. It's so fun to see her nurturing motherly instincts. She also loves to read books to herself.

THINGS I SAY: "mine", "I want this", "I love you", "apple juice", "I want my baby", "I don't know!". She can repeat almost anything you ask her to, she just has to be in the talking mood. She really has almost skipped the stage of saying single words and pointing out things to speaking in complete sentences. Almost everything she says is in a sentence. Her verbal skills are really amazing recently.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: No more binkie!!!!! Mom finally gave up looking for them a couple months ago. It drove her nuts climbing behind the crib in the middle of the night to find the missing binkie so she cut Faylen off cold turkey!

MY NEWEST TALENT: climbing and dancing. You tell me to shake my booty and I'll do exactly that!

THINGS I LEARNED: how to put puzzles together. Point to my eyes, nose, ears, and mouth when asked to.

FUNNY THINGS I DO: I ride my little tikes car in the back yard and say, "I go work".