The Miksovskys

Wow - I am way behind. I am going to have to catch up through a series of small entries, as that is about all these babies will let me do! So, for starters here is Max and Emma's 12 month stats!

Emma weighs 20lbs 1.6oz (50%) and is 31 inches tall (95%)

Max weighed in at 19lbs 1.6oz (below the 10%) and 31.5 inches tall (90%) poor thing is so tall and skinny! Both had a head circ of 45.5 which is above the 95th % - big headed babies!

So... what have you guys been up to this past month???

-Emma, you have a whopping 12 teeth now! And you love to use them, much to my dismay :( You seem to enjoy biting mommy and daddy's toes, as well as my shoulder - not cool!
-Max, you have 4 teeth officially but are working on at least two more.
-Emma is a walking machine - almost running really! It's amazing how quickly you went from taking a few steps to independently walking everywhere! You also have figured out how to get into the standing position all by yourself! You are getting to be such a big girl! SLOW DOWN!
-Max, you too are walking! Only about 2 weeks after your sister - I guess you didn't want her to have all the fun and attention :) You still fall down sometimes because your core strength isn't that strong yet, but we're working on it - Miss Sarah, your physical therapist does such a good job with you!
-For Halloween this year, Emma you were a beautiful bumble bee (mommy even made your costume) and you looked soooo cute! Max, you were one awesome looking skeleton! We ventured out to Boo at the Zoo at the Dallas Zoo, but it was rather disappointing :( I'm sure it would have been more fun if you both were older - oh well, we did get to see some penguins and flamingos, oh and some snakes and crocs too.
-Your first bday party was so much fun! I'll make a seperate post all about that next!
-Emma, we've been working on it for a while, and you are finally waving! It is so stinkin cute! However, you are stubborn and won't always do it when asked, instead you wait until we are already to the car or the moment has passed and then you wave - boy do we have our hands full with you!
-In other news... Daddy had not one but 2 kidney stone surgeries! Poor daddy! But he is such a trooper - he actually braved the crowds and the heat and stood with mommy at the Texas/OU game not even 12 hours after his first surgery!
-I am so excited! We just ordered our very first photo Christmas card!

Here are some pics from the past month: warning! photo bomb!

Having fun with our playgroup at the Dallas Arboretum

A trip to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch - they were less than thrilled about it...

Petting Zoo

HALLOWEEN!!

Dallas Buddy Walk

Emma, rockin her jeggings :)

I am finding that the more mobile you kiddos are, the harder is it to find the time to update this blog! But, I have been keeping notes, so here it is, I know it's not pretty, but it's all I've got:

10 month notes
-Emma pulling up on everything and walking along the furniture and walls
-she hit her face on the coffee table twice :( time for a new coffee table!
-max only has a few more weeks left in the helmet! (3 weeks tops as of 9/11)
-Emma says "hello" but only associates it with her activity table that says "hello" "bye bye" but she says it none the less. She can also say dada and mama - I don't know if she knows what dada is but I am pretty sure she knows who mama is :)
-max babbles alot but still only says dada - but I don't think there is any association
-Emma knows what milk means and when you tell her to go get a book
-Emma's new fav thing to do is shake her head no - she doesn't know that it means no, just that it's funny :)
-max finally got into the sitting position all by himself on 8/22 several times! Not the way we've been trying to teach him but whatever!
-Emma got sick for the first time :( she had a fever on the day she turned 10 months 8/20, it got up to like 103.3! She was very cranky and fussy and miserable until it finally broke Monday morning 8/22, nurse said it was likely a viral infection since there were no other signs of being sick, luckily Max has not gotten whatever she had... Yet!
-Memi came to stay with us for the weekend!
-went to goodbye dinner for uncle Tim, he came back from peru but had to leave today (8/22) to go back to tech
-we now have baby jail in the living room
-operation wallpaper removal is underway but proving to be a major pain in the but! Next up will be operation backyard clean up, then we will tackle the kitchen - they sure loved their wall paper in the 60s and 70s!
-guest bath remodel is almost complete, I really wish we would have taken before and after pics! All that's left now is to install the new cabinet hardware then I will post a pic :)
-photo shoot scheduled for oct 2nd! Beckie is making an outfit for Emma and Max's newsboy cap has been ordered! Can't wait!
-bday party planing is underway, invites have been selected (cousin Charlotte is making them!) it's going to be an owl and pumpkin theme! (post pic board of ideas)
-Emma's sleep sack has become her lovey and she loves to pull it up over her nose when she's sleepy
-max is finally starting to bring food to his mouth! And he has started to grab for the spoon so he can feed himself
-Max has now mastered getting into the sitting position, getting on his knees/kneeling, and we are working on pulling to stand and crawling. I have a feeling that as soon as that helmet cones off he'll be crawling like crazy.
-they both seem to be drinking less milk, so we have changed their bottle routine, now they get 8oz in the morning at 7a, eat a yummy bfast around 8, nap for 2 hours around 8:30/9, 6oz at 11a, eat a yummy lunch around 11:30/12, nap for 2 hours around 1, 3ish drink 6oz, eat a yummy snack around 3:30, play until 6:30, then bath, bottle (8oz), books, and bed around 7-7:15. This seems to be working, but they do start to get a little fussy that last hour - so I guess at 10 months we have what is referred to as the witching hour, but it's not that bad. It just stinks that Max's PT is at 5:45 on weds, so miss Sarah never sees him in a good mood :( I'm going to try to change his time to something earlier.
-Emma loves to snuggle with her (or her brothers) sleepsack - she loves to hold it (or even clothes in general) over her nose and smell it, what a weirdo!
-max got pink eye on 9/2 :(
-both, especially Emma is starting to understand the concept of putting objects into things, like pulling a ball in a basket or a smaller object into a larger one
-Emma is also becoming quite the imitator - trying to copy what you do
-Emma is starting to share - not her toys but rather her paci, she always wants to put it in my mouth, she also always wants me to snuggle and smell her sleep sack too, and she loves to share her food with the dog! I hope the phase of throwing your food on the floor so you can watch the dog eat it passes quickly
-meanwhile, max prefers the windshield wiper maneuver to get his food off his plate - awesome.
-Emma and Max both say "uh-oh" although Emma's is much more clear than Max's. And they actually know what it means, well sort of. They will often throw things on the ground or out of the tub and say "uh-oh" even though I tell them that if they throw it, it's not an uh-oh - but it's still really cute for now :)
-Max took his first crawling "steps" on Sunday 9/11!!! It won't be long now!

Here are some pics and videos (including Max crawling!):