Hello everyone!
Summer is here and the fun has already started! Julia enjoyed her first swimming pool experience during Memorial Weekend and she LOVED IT! She is certainly not afraid of the water as you will be able to see with the pics and videos below and enjoys seeing her sister splash around her. Julia is doing great and continues to be a healthy happy little girl. She had her third tooth out this month and is starting to test her balance while standing. Joana is using more and more words everyday and sometimes she even puts short sentences together. She likes to show Julia how to move her tongue from side to side while making funny sounds and, as you can see by the pic on the left, they entertain each other quite often and for a good period of time like that.
Joana is also enjoying the summer and showed us that she is still loves the pool and likes to swim with her floaties on all by herself. I think the girls are ready for some beach action. And they will get it at the end of August when we take our cruise.
Funny things about Julia this month:
- she likes to close doors and then knock on them. She particularly enjoys our bedroom door because it has a mirror behind it so she gets to see herself making funny faces.
- she sneaks to the laundry room where Ozzy's food and water are, and splashes her hands in his water bowl and attempts to put dog food in her mouth....yuck, I know.
- she waves to everyone who passes by her and says "Hi Baby"...she loooooves the attention.
- she doesn't like baby food very much but she is very interested in adult food. It's a shame she only has three teeth, though, and I think that is what frustrates her the most. We did find out that, just like Joana, Julia loves corn. Check it out:
- she is not afraid of much, in fact, she was the first to ride the battery powered car that Joana got for her birthday. Once John showed Julia where the button was, she was on her way giggling and wiggling her legs.
Funny things about Joana this month:
- Her newest thing is "titiqueta" which is "tag" or "etiqueta" in Portuguese. She will find the tag in the shirt she is wearing and hold on to it while she is watching TV or playing. She asks to see our "titiqueta" to compare the sizes too. Yesterday, she couldn't find one in the shirt she was wearing, so she took off the shorts and held on to the shorts tag, hugging it, until she could fall asleep. Fascinating, huh? lol
- She counts to 12 in both languages and likes to show off how well she knows the numbers when we go to the store. She also likes to show that she knows the names of many fruits and vegetables and will point them out quite loudly sometimes. The one thing we need to make sure is that she will not run from us and play hide and seek at the store.
- Speaking of hide and seek, Joana likes to play that game at the house and when we realized she is being very quiet and start looking for her, she is usually hiding. Her favorite hiding place is under a rug (VERY inconspicuous see video below), behind a curtain (we always spot the legs that she forgets to hide...lol) or under the table.
- Bones....yes, our little toddler loves to gnaw on bones. Uncle Jorge would be really proud of her because she can clean a bone almost as well as he does.
