What the Smallest Darling Likes

There are a couple things that I really enjoy right now!  I REALLY enjoy my big sister's pillow.  I love for her to bring it into the living room, put it on the floor and let me crawl (yes, real crawling on all fours because I've been doing that for 3 days now) right beside it.  Then I throw myself onto the pillow and lay there for a bit.  Next, I start the process all over and do it again!  It is one of my favorite past times right now!
I also REALLY enjoy standing up!  I pull up on everything!!  This morning I stood at the door and looked out the window while daddy took Lynley to school.  I stood there until he got back home!!  My legs are getting so very strong!

In the Blink of an Eye

Mommy is feeling a bit nostalgic tonight.  She says it hit her after this very busy week/weekend that in a blink of an eye her girls are growing up.  Take, for instance, the fact that I started my first swimming lessons this week.  Mommy didn't have to get in the water with me.  In fact, she sat in a different room and watched through the glass window as I jumped into the pool, stuck my head under the water and showed how I can float on my back.  The instructors were so impressed with me and they told mommy they couldn't believe how well I do in the water for a 4 year old!
I also had my first Upward game Saturday morning.  Mommy watched as I made new friends, practiced my dance and did all my cheers out on the gym floor.  She saw me go pull people out of their seats for the chicken dance.  She watched me shouting chants into my megaphone.  She saw me try to comfort another cheerleader who was scared to be on the floor without her mommy.
Then today mommy watched me at my first real kids birthday party.  I went to the bowling ally, played with the other kids and did a really great job (not needing my mommy to help me with the little stuff she used to help me with).  When the kids passed around a bowling pin to sign our names on for the birthday boy, mommy watched as I wrote my name all by myself and didn't even have to pause to think about it.
Tonight was the last straw.  On the way home from Kidz Zone I told daddy about what we'd learned.  I said, "We learned a verse, too."  Mommy just looked over at daddy because she knew that the verse had been a very long one and we only spent a couple of minutes on it tonight and a couple of minutes last week.  She thought I might remember a word or two, but she didn't expect me to remember much past that.  But, in true Lynley-shocking-my-mommy-form, I told daddy the verse.  "This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us.  And if we know that He hears us- whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of Him.  1 John 5:14-15."  Sometimes mommy doesn't really think that I am paying attention and once in a blue moon she wonders if I am really ready for Kidz Zone.  But, I think after this evening, she has no doubt in her mind that I am growing up so very quickly...and in the blink of an eye I am becoming a truly big girl.
And we can't leave Myla out of this post.  She has gone from no teeth to four teeth.  She has gone from the army crawl to standing straight up and only holding on to something with one hand.  She is growing up, too.  Soon she'll have a sippy cup figured out and she'll be walking all around!
We're growing up!!  While mommy is excited to see what happens next, tonight she is wondering how to slow the process down just a bit!

Darling Update

Both Douglas darlings are feeling a bit under the weather right now.  I have some medicine to help me feel better and I think Myla will be going to the doctor soon because she is not feeling well, either.  She is not sleeping very well and so that means long nights for momma.  She has had a rough week.  It started with her top teeth taking forever to pop through and so she was miserable with her gums hurting.  THEN those teeth finally came all the way through and she got this horrible cough!  We are all ready for her to feel better!
I am back in full swing at school.  It is going well and I'm working on the letter M (which is what Myla starts with)!!  Cheerleading is going great, too!  I really like it and I am excited for games to start in a couple of weeks!  I am remembering all my cheers and have already started learning a pom routine!!
Oh, and Myla can now sit up from laying down all by herself!!!  It is so great and she is getting so big.  I am pretty excited because she can stand up "all by herself" as long as she is holding on to something.  We'll be running around the house together before you know it!
All is well in the Douglas place!  Always busy and always an adventure...but I like it that way!

Making a Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  We're a few days into 2012 and life is going pretty well.  Myla turned 8 months old yesterday.  She has 2 new teeth (the top ones) that are popping through now and she is pulling up on everything!  She can even get up 2 steps at Grandma Donna's house!  She is constantly moving and talking and getting into everything!!
I started cheerleading this week for Upward!  My first official practice was last night and it was a busy hour!!  I learned several cheers, I practiced jumps and we started learning a dance!!!  And it was the FIRST night!  I can already tell that I am going to really have to pay attention and practice!  And I will tell you what, after a bike ride yesterday (yes, it was that warm in Indiana) and cheerleading last night I slept like a baby!!!
Daddy just has a couple more days off before it is back to work, so he and mommy made a list of all the things that need to get done (because we procrastinated) today and tomorrow before work starts on Sunday!!!  We will be busy!  We also got a new camera this week and so we'll have to start taking some pictures and get them on here for you!  I will add that to our list!
We hope everyone has had a Happy New Year!