Happy Chanukah!
It’s past-due for a few updates that have been happening at our house….
We’ve been getting ready for the holidays and celebrated with Lilly over the weekend. We also went to part of her gymnastics event. You can see videos on the Rotach Blog and here are a few from Aunt B:
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
It was great to see all of the Lilly’s moves! The littlest ones were adorable and the older/more experienced gymnasts were really cool to watch in person. Of course we liked Lilly’s routines best and gave her 10s!
Junebug got a shopping basket/cart with food from Lilly and Aunt Holly and Uncle John gave her a sweet tricycle and helmet. She LOVES it. She also has now learned (in less than 24 hours) to pull herself on it and get down, complete with a proud smile and look around once she gets up!
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| My 6AM cruise around the house! |
We have been getting ready for the holidays and are excited to have Santa for the first time and hopefully getting our New Years card together soon. I have more pictures to upload from Juney being pulled in her sleigh in the snow – which she loved. I even face-planted her within the first few minutes and she wasn’t phased at all….more to come.
Juney Update
Dear Juney,
At 14 months, you continue to make us laugh and learn new tricks. You have been battling the cycle of sickness. It started with a fever for 5+ days just after Thanksgiving, followed by pink eye (a wonderful gift you also gave to Papa and Mama). You were feeling good for about a week, then got hand-foot-and-mouth disease, which kept you home with us for about 5 days. You have been back at school for the past week, as we keep our fingers crossed. As the infectious diseases clinicians I work with say, “kids are little Petri dishes.” You have been holding up your end of the dish for sure.
You are a thrill to watch grow and your personality is very sweet. Right now you…
- have an ever-expanding vocabulary and you are always excited to point out all animals, which are “kitty”
- point to your nose and eyes, and really like to point them out on mama and papa
- love to softly pet our faces and say “gentle”
- have some wonderful expressions, and show us more and more all the time
- meow at Jaguar and cluck at the chickens
- say “hi” and “bye” to everyone we pass and really let it fly to everybody as we leave school
- really enjoy giving kisses and hold your lips out as we go by to stop for a smooch
- love to read books (thanks Aunt Kat!) and always pick out more and more for us to read to you – your favorites right now are Peek-a-Who?, Petting Zoo, Wheels on the Bus, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Denver, and two Lift-the-Flap books
- kiss your reflection in the mirror and the baby at the end of the books
- know all of the motions to Itsy Bitsy Spider and bust them out when we’re singing to just about any song on the radio in the car
- are getting your molars and have had some pain, but 3 of the 4 have finally broken through
- have certainly picked up he pace walking and love to do the “Tuney 500” – laps around the house
- are a very cautious and confident climber and you are very exciting to watch
- are obsessed with your shoes (I can’t blame you), and love to have them on and even carry your spares around with you
- weigh about 27 pounds and seem like you are getting taller all the time
- enjoy bath time and play with your toys and love it when mama squirts you with the bath squirters from Aunt E.
- continue to make mama smile everyday and sometimes I don’t know how I go without squeezing you.
I can’t believe that you have been in school/daycare for almost a year. I remember the torture it was leaving you, Juney, and some days mama still feels it. I hope you know that I miss you all the time when you aren’t with me, and some days it’s harder than others. I have a few pictures up in my office to smile at and think of you all the time.
I love you Junebug,
Mama
June and Mabel 