My Sweet Girls

Another good day...hooray!! Lydia and I went to massage class this morning. She loved it, of course! She gets everyone's attention there because she coos and squeals the whole time...it's easy to fall in love with her! Today we turned the babies over to massage their backs...I had her on a pillow across my lap...as soon as I turned her over, she picked up her head and upper body like it was old hat to her. I yelled at Susan to look at her because I couldn't believe it. She was excited too. She didn't do it again while I had her there, but I was sooo proud to see it even once!

A sweet story:
This morning, Lydia woke up at 7:30 (Yeah! She's been doing this often lately!) and I gave her her Levoxyl. She has to wait 30 minutes to eat after that, so I went back to lie down in my bed (with the rest of the crew that was there....Audrey and Elise found their way into our bed at 5 this morning...) At 8:00, I got up to go fix Lydia's bottle and she started to cry while I was still in the kitchen. What I saw when I got to her room almost brought me to tears...I went to get Martin out of bed to see: Audrey was standing in front of Lydia's bed playing her guitar and singing to her...Lydia had stopped crying and was just watching her. It was so beautiful! Audrey got a little embarassed when she saw us standing there watching...we sounded excited, and she thought we were laughing at her. We explained that we just thought it was very sweet...we weren't laughing at all. A little while later, I was changing Lydia's diaper, and I told Audrey again how wonderful I thought it was that she was singing to Lydia to make her feel better. She said to me, "I was singing the gospel song...and I was thinking in my head that Maw D was watching me." I was speechless. For those of you who may not know, Maw D was my grandmother...she died the day that we found out we were pregnant with Audrey. Her name was Betty Lou, and so we named Audrey- "Audrey Betty." We talk about MawD some, but not nearly as much as I should. It always amazes me the way that Audrey talks about her like she knew her. I always forget that they never met. I have no doubt that Maw D was watching her today and feeling just as proud as I did.

My sweet Elise and her growing language also brings me so much pride. She is connecting words more and more to communicate...it is so exciting! Even Martin commented today that it is fun to see her communicating using words...we realize that she sounds more like a 15-month old than a 2 1/2 yr old, but we are so very proud of how far she has come!! We were playing outside today, and she was trying to get her bike out of the shed...she came to me and said, "bike...help...stuck" (in a way that few of us could understand, probably...but I don't mind being a translator for people who don't understand her) I said, "You want me to help you get your bike?" Her face lit up when she knew I understood her....she said, "Yes, mam." I never get enough of hearing her say that...it is sooo cute!!