Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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1) is Nia Grace
2) is the definition of "something else"
3) is a fighter
4) was born 4 lbs 3oz and at 18 months weighed 22 lbs
6) used to prefer "Mommy" but now is a total "Daddy's Girl"
7) at any given moment is either very quiet or very loud and chatty
8) is quite the dancer and singer, currently loving to groove to anything Barney
9) is doing so well in potty training, primarily only wetting at night.
10) reminds me so much of my sister Charmaine in looks, ways, and mannerism, it's a bit scary
11) is a picky eater but will drink just about anything.
12) looks a lot like my sister, Charmaine, uncle Tim, and Grandma Thadia Mae, but a lot of people also see  
      her big sister, MacKie in her too
13) is constantly looking out for her twin Nala but loves to antagonize her as well
14) retires for the night at 7:00 p.m. and  is the first to rise in the mornings
15) has wonderful manners - quick to "thank you" for anything you give.
16) loves to help pickup and for that has stolen her daddy's heart!
17) sucks her two middle fingers ALL the time...a habit we'd love broken and released.
18) wears clothing size 18 - 24 mos and has a size 5 foot
19) finally has enough hair for little pony tails
20) is pretty fearless
21) answers to her rightful name, "Nia" but when asked, answers her sisters, "Nala" and is nicknamed "Ni-
      Ni", "Little Bit" and affectionally just called "eee-ah" by Nala
22) is nearing "2" much faster than I care to accept
23) was delivered naturally and painfree 16 minutes before her twin, Nala. 
24) is often complimented on her eyebrows
25) is destined to a purposeful life

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Singing Makes Her Happy

Nala loves music time.  It makes her happy.  You get lots of giggles and lots of "cheese".   



Sunday, December 5, 2010

20 Months Old

December 3 marked my girls 20 month birthday.  That sounds so "grown up" and close to "2".  Over the last month, I noticed that the girls are working harder on their communication.  FINALLY FINALLY, Nala is saying Nia's name.  But guess what? Now Nia isn't...or not very much anyway.  Nala repeats over and over "Nawla, EEa" (Nala, Nia).  The girls spend just about as much time getting along as they do pushing, shoving, sitting on one another (Nala), and biting (Nia)...all in love though :)  I think that even if they weren't mine and I didn't know them, I'd know that they were sisters, only sisters  fight like that and then love on eachother as bestfriends all in the same breath. 

I'm excited about Christmas for them.  I think it will be fun, though they still won't fully understand.  I don't plan to get them very much, but I know they'll enjoy ripping the paper apart.  I'm a little sad that we can't put up the tree as my big girl loves that part of the holiday, but in truth, I don't trust these girls to not knock it over and/or rip into the goodies.  They get into EVERYTHING.  NOTHING is safe.

Still no good shots of them together this month...which is too bad, I'd love to have had one for a Christmas card.  But doesn't seem like it's going to happen this year...I could probably convince my oldest to model for me...would that be bad to just have her??  Decisions decisions when you have multiple children...



Nala has now made her bed blanket her lovey...as if we need another habit...I actually bought minature matching lovies that are sized as lovies...no they don't do the job...only this full size blanket will do.  GREAT!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Teach Me How to Dougie

So yesterday, I blogged and stated that it was my nephew in the post below that first showed me the "Dougie".  I got an email asking what in the world  the "Dougie" dance was.

Well it is a catchy dance that you will NEVER ever see me do...but check out the video below to see a couple Glee cast members Teach Me How To Dougie.  Yes, I'm a huge fan of Glee!