{kisses & counting!}

ian and daddy have a secret "handshake" that they have been doing for a couple months now-it's so cute! here is a video of justin and ian reading an airplane book (AND IAN COUNTING!!!!) then their "handshake"-or i don't know what to call it...... "handshake" consists of a high five {ian calls it 'hacha'}, knuckles {nucnuc}, kiss, rubbing noses, headbutt. i love this. they do it all the time and it's pretty much the best thing ever!

now on to ian COUNTING! we've been working with him for awhile. i've said before that this age is SO fun b/c he is learning so much! such the sponge! it's not mastered by any means, but hey-it's a start! (usually it's us saying "1,2,3" then he'll chime in "4, 5, 6, 4" hehe.) have i ever mentioned that i love him!?! b/c i DO!!!!

now onto little miss chunkalicious. last night when ian was giving his kisses before bed-he leaned in to give cecilia her kiss and {normally she moves her head and ian ends up kissing her forehead} she opened her mouth and leaned in! so then she did the same for justin. then for me (at this point we knew it wasn't a fluke!), so then justin, then me, justin, me, me, justin, me, ian, ian, justin (you get the picture). justin and i were in disbelief that our little baby is starting to REALLY figure things out. sigh. {in case you were wondering-she gave more kisses again today!} ....on the note of ceci getting smarter and bigger (she weighed 24 lbs today!)-we're starting to do some baby signs with her-working mainly on "more" and "all done"....i think she is starting to 'get' it. she mainly thinks it's funny when i do it, but when i say "more" and do the sign-she'll clap her hands (but more gently than normal!) why, oh, why must they grow so fast?!?!?!

oh, and YAY! we have halloween costumes! (yes i realize it's still august, but i found the CUTEST little owl costumes that i fell in love with and they were on back order-so had to take action now!)...{also, they will be matching-surprised? i didn't think so. justin says this is the last year we can do it. :( it's possible ian is getting too big to wear the type of costume we got, but it's going to be a-freakin-dorable!!!}....special shout out to nana and grampy for hooking up our little "hoots" ;) xoxo