The ups and downs of a second baby.

Okay, so in reality, there are no real downers to having a second child. But it definitely changes some things.
My daughters knows what she can and can't touch around the house. But since baby boy is learning those rules, she thinks it means she gets to learn them as well. Or, maybe she is trying to get baby boy in trouble intentionally. Either way, I have to watch her just as closely as him these days.
The potty training is going nowhere. I suspect it's because she wants to be able to wear diapers like the baby. So I am not having an ounce of luck with that.
But seeing her up and walking and talking, makes him want to get up and around. He started crawling fairly quickly, and he's already trying to walk, at eight months old.
Now if I can just keep them both out of the plants, off the tables, and make sure she doesn't sneak him anything he can't eat quite yet, things would be a piece of cake.

Got that out of the way...

Now that I've gotten the sad stuff out the way...
My son is almost crawling. It is very exciting. He's not even seven months old yet, and he's about to take off as I speak.
My daughter's talking more and more each day, which is to be expected of course, but it still amazes me when she says some things that I never imagined she could say.

Life would be perfect, if only people I loved stopped dying every few months.

Hello. In three different languages.

My daughter, who's two, officially knows how to say "Hello", in three different languages. Thanks to Dora the Explorer, and Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, she knows how to say hello in spanish and chinese, as well as english. I would prefer her to be able to speak english a little better before she starts learning other languages, but hey, the girl loves to learn.