Sweet September

Talanoa:
-Can say a mini prayer with our help.
-Smiles when we tell her to "Say cheese" for pictures.
-Can say short sentences and has quite the vocabulary for a one year old.
-Is constantly singing but you can't quite understand all the jibberish in her songs.  She makes the funniest facial expressions when singing too.
-Tells us when she needs a diaper change.  Doubt this will last but it's been  nice.
-Knows her body parts.

Elina:
-Knows that her first name is Siutiti.
-Really struggled with potty training after family camp but is back to normal with minimal accidents.
-Has quite the imagination.  She pretends to take things out of books and plays with them or pretends to jump into books to play with the characters and/or toys in them.  Ex:  "Mommy, I want to ride that bike."  So I tell her, "Sure, go ride it."  Maybe I shouldn't do this?  I really don't know.  Lol.  So she'll pretend to walk into the book, like literally put her feet on the book and wiggle around until she's content that she's "inside" the scene of that page pedaling away as if she was really on the bike.  
-Compliments our clothes, shoes, makeup, hair, etc. all the time especially if she's in trouble.  Lol.
-Makes sure to tell us if her sister did something wrong and needs to go to timeout.  Ex:  "Mommy, Talanoa touch your wallet.  Baby go time out?  Ok, baby go time out."  Quite the tattle tell.  Hahaha!
-Models new clothes for us in the most serious face.  Can't hell but crack up when she does it.
-Is fascinated with putting bandaids on for even the tiniest of  "ouwee's".
-Always asks to go to the doctor even for the most minor things.  It's crazy because she used to be deathly afraid of anyone in scrubs.
-Can count to 10 on her own.

Vili & I:
-Vili is back on his old shift at Provo Canyon working under Joe McCloud but working part time.  So glad he has a job that he enjoys and it's nice that he has a set schedule now.
-I've picked up the Wednesday night shifts for the front desk for the rest of the year.
-In the stage where we have to spell things out when our kids are around so they don't understand.  Most times it's the word candy or binky.
-I wasn't so patient with potty training this month and lost my cool a lot especially after family camp.  Sorry, Elina!  Major guilt for this one because I forget sometimes that she's only two years old.

We crashed Dom and Losi's pool about 5 times in a three day period.  Lol!

Talanoa kept doing this thing where she would dip her hair, or the little hair that she has anyway, in the water.      She thought it was pretty hilarious.

The stairs were Elina's little sanctuary.  She would only run around the pool and sit on the stairs but she loved every minute of it.  Except when we would try to take her off of them.  Lol.

I still think these two are twinners.  I'll have to post a baby pic of Willy but Talanoa loves him!

Scars from tripping by the pool.

 

Notice all the rubberbands in the background?  They have found the rubber band stash and raid it daily.  Maybe one day I'll move the stash but not today.  Lol.