Happy Birthday Vienna!

On September 14th, Vienna turned 2 years old! It's been a wonderful 2 years with our Veena Bug. She keeps us laughing and anticipating what she's going to try to do next. She is a happy child. She is the world's best at charades. A few of my favorites are: She moves one arm in a clockwise vertical circle while saying "eh? eh? eh?" It means she's asking if she can go outside and see the moon. Another one is when she puts both arms up by her arm pits and rotates her torso back and forth- it means she wants to run. Here's the thing- most of her actions can be figured out by anyone, not just her parents. She's so fun. She can say about 20 words, but is fluent in body language and facial expressions.

If she can do it on her own, most of the time she doesn't ask if she can, she just does it. Cambry is constantly wanting to do whatever Vienna is doing, because she makes everything look so exciting and fascinating. Often she completes something and throws her hands in the air and says "Dahdah!" (Tadah). She is very much an extrovert and is friendly to most people. She likes her baby dolls, snuggles and tickles, attention, pushing her limits, playing with Cambry and "helping" with Myla. She shushes us when Myla is sleeping... which is all the time. Vienna is the official binky police, and whenever she sees a binky out of Myla's mouth, V tries to put it in her mouth. She brings me fresh diapers and throws away used ones. The other day we were making a craft, and I turn around and Vienna was trying to help Myla swallow the scissors. Oh dear. Thank heaven for our angels watching over us! We love you Vienna

Stats:

height: 50%, 34"

weight: 50%, 27 pounds

head: 63%

She loves bundling up and taking her baby for a walk in the stroller. It takes us about an hour to walk one block because she needs to pick up every rock, examine each stick, and wave to every pedestrian and car, search for every cat, and take breaks in the curb piling dirt and pebbles on her legs. Good clean fun.

Here are the girls taking a break on the curb, feet full of gravel and happy as can be.

I seem to always have several of these pics on my phone. She loves taking selfies. I frequently catch her making this face and saying "tsee" (cheese) into my phone. Notice she's making the same face in the previous pic.

I was reading a book to Cambry, and Vienna waddles up the stairs in this tube and when she finally is able to stand up she just casually says "Hey." I laughed to tears. Love her. Look how staticy her hair is!

She's just loving the giant swing! Hello!