Update

I don't know where the time goes. Can you believe it is September next week. Tomorrow Alexa will be six months old. Her well visit is on Friday. Also, Jon is having his esophagogastroduodenoscopy the same day. He is not allowed to drive himself, so I am going to go drop him off 20 minutes early for his 8 am appointment in St. Louis Park and then drive to Maple Grove for Alexa's 8:20 appointment and then drive back to pick him up. When he scheduled his appointment a few weeks ago I thought about rescheduling her appointment, but he said it would be fine. So hopefully everything will go smoothly.

Alexa has been sitting up on her own for a couple weeks. As she can do more things, Talia cannot seem to leave her alone. Ever. Lexa likes to spend most of her time on the floor. Before she could sit she liked her Exersaucer, but now she likes to play sitting up. She can't crawl yet, but she can scoot pretty much anywhere she wants. She likes toys a lot more than Natalia did. Especially balls and babies. Her favorite baby is the one Talia got for her birthday. Of course that is also Talia's favorite baby. Lexa will see it on the floor and scoots over and looks at her face and sucks her feet. Then Talia will spot her and will take the baby away.

Talia is getting to be a big girl. She often refers to herself in the third person: "I love you Talia", "Talia's ball, shirt, pants, ect." She thinks that she is the mommy around Lexa. She thinks she gets to decide what things the baby can have. Lexa used to just take it, but now she gets very upset when something gets taken away from her. Talia's favorite things are her trike, her blanket from her great-grandma, her baby (the one Lexa loves too), and her many pairs of shoes. These are all things that Lexa is very interested in. Talia leaves her stuff all over the place so Lexa has easy access to them, but if she touches one of them Natalia will snatch it away. Talia cannot seem to leave Alexa alone. She likes to "hold" her. This actually consists of her sitting behind Lexa when she is sitting and pulling her backwards until she is laying in her lap. Then she doesn't like having Lexa in her lap so she just pushes her over out of her lap. OR If Lexa is lying on her stomach Natalia will come and sit on her.

Talia loves the park. We have been going to one down the road, not the one near our house. It is a lot bigger than the one near us and has a little kids playground and then one for 5-12 year-olds. Talia loves the big one. She has no fear. She climbs all the way up three levels and then goes down one of the big slides. She doesn't like the other kids. She will run around them quickly, or not go where she wants just to avoid them. Most of them are several years older than her though. These pictures are from about a month ago when we were there. The top pictures is the top third level, and the second picture is of the first level.

We are working on sharing and being gentle with the baby. I am looking forward to when Lexa is big enough to push back or at least get away from her sister. Her first few months are definitely very different than Talia's were.