Decorating Our Tree

We "decorated" our tree last week.  I put quotation marks up because, as it turns out, we're able to cover it in lights but ornaments have to remain only at the TOP two feet of the tree.  Landon just can't refrain from touching them and they drop and break every time.......again, gentle just isn't his thing.

Here are a few pictures......

 Jillian was in AWE of the lights.  She stood there pointing for a few minutes and kept saying "oooooooo!!!!!!"

 We let Landon hang a few ornaments and Jillian was quite intrigued with what he was doing.

 In the picture above he's pointing the broken ornament he hung.  

Below is a close up of it.

He dropped it before getting it on the tree but didn't let that get in the way of his final mission -- hanging it on the tree.

Eavesdropping on my "Sweet" Boy

Landon was playing on my bed while I was brushing my hair in my bathroom.

As he was playing with a teddy bear and his "Bear Lovie" I overheard the following.....

I love you, you love me.......I love you, you love me......  A kiss for you - kiss kiss kiss, a kiss for you -- kiss kiss kiss, (at this point I'm thinking "awwwww, so stinkin' sweet and cute")  a hug for you -- hug hug hug, a hug for you -- hug hug hug, a choke for you -- choke choke choke.........

*sigh*

That's my boy.............sweetness and aggression, all wrapped into one.

Poor Jillian

When I took Jillian to the Pediatrician for her 9 month check-up the doctor asked, "So, is she saying 'MaMa' or 'DaDa' ?"  And I sighed and said, "No, she's really not trying to copy our speech," knowing that she should be making some attempt to say words and to mimic our speech, but is not.  At that moment Landon  handed Jillian a hot wheels car.  Jillian instantly said, "OOOoooooooo!!!" as she turned it over in her hands, inspecting it.  She then promptly started making "eeerrrrrrrrrr, eeeerrrrrr" sounds --- the same sounds that Landon makes when he's playing with cars.  I then comment to the doctor, "But apparently she can make car noises!  Oh, and she mimics Landon's yelling.  Do those attempts count for copying our speech?"  

Poor Jillian.  Being the second child means she hasn't been "drilled" with copying our speech or prodded to say, "MaMa" nearly as much as she would have being a first child.  Being the second child, with an older brother, means she mimics yelling and car noises more than other noises.  Poor Jillian.

I was given (and am still given) outrageous amounts of hand-me-downs for Landon.  I happen to know a lot of boys just a little older than him, so truly have outrageous amounts of clothes in all sizes for him.  However, we don't know that many girls that much older than Jillian that we can get hand-me-downs from, so her wardrobe is lacking in comparison to Landon's.  So, I spend money on her daily-wear clothes.  Things people will see her in.  I don't really spend money on pajamas.....because I have a ton of those, in all sizes, even if they are boy pajamas.  No one sees her in them but us.  And we know she's a girl, so it's okay for her to wear blue, and truck-decorated clothing around the house!!!  But, Poor Jillian, being the second child, with an older brother, means she wears boy clothes on occasion, even though she's a girl, and that she's wearing boy clothes in a lot of pictures taken around the house.

And finally.........Poor Jillian.  She has Landon, of all brothers in the world, to have as her model for behavior.  He is and will be a GREAT big brother.  He's quite protective of her already and watches out for her; BUT he's quite wild and aggressive and that's all she watches all day ---- him being wild, loud, and aggressive.  

Here is a video, that really shows what I mean......

I'll soon be posting about the specific prayers I have for each child........but this post makes me think I should add, "Please Lord, help make her a lady" to the prayer I have for Jillian!!