Sisters = Best Friends

 I know this post will not apply for many.  But for those of you with sisters, is there anything better than having a sister?  My sister is 8 years younger than me.  To be honest, I felt like more of a mom than a sister to her.  I would carry her, change her, feed her- basically, I helped raise her.  Now she's about ready to graduate from college and maybe within the next few years get married and have kids of her own.  We are best friends and I love my sister.  We may not get to talk everyday and we couldn't be more different, but we will always have each other.  

I am so thankful that our girls have each other.  It warms my heart to see them play together, "talk" to each other and watch out for each other.  Malia is turning out to be such a sweet big sister to little Keely.  And Malia happens to be Keely's favorite person in the world.  

 Getting a handle on the concept of sharing;)

Just a summer evening at Salt Creek with the family 

These girls make me happy.  Sorry that they are all I ever post about anymore.  But I'm a mom and I really do love them a whole bunch:)

Malia's First Haircut!

Look who's sporting a new bob hairstyle!  This girl had actually been begging me to get her a haircut for weeks and I finally agreed to:)  So, at 25 months old, we took her to this cute little place in the mall and does babies 1st haircuts.  While you can't tell from her face, she loved it.  She was stone cold and wouldn't move a muscle, but she was just in heaven watching the lady cut, then style her hair.  They even blow dried it, did this cute flippy thing in the front and put on some flowers.

Oh yeah, and that's another new thing this month that she's learned.  Picking her nose.  It's hilarious and gross all at the same time.  She views this nose picking as a chore I suppose because when I ask her what she's doing she says so matter of factly, "mom, I'm getting the boogers out of my nose." We shall see how long this new habit lasts.

6 Month Old Keely Yukiko

 Before I state the obvious, look at my baby.

Okay, now I will say it- have you ever seen anything more squishy and yummy and perfect in your entire life???  I am obsessed with my baby Keely.  I'm dead serious when I say I would be a heck of a lot more productive if she were skinny.  I spend hours kissing and loving on her.  How can I not??  And realizing how quickly they grow (has it really already been 6 months??) I am not going to feel bad about that one bit!

So at 6 months our Keely girl is learning to sit up!  Above you will see how great she is doing:) I am pretty sure she fell over right after I took this picture, but she's getting there!

 Here's our happy 6 month old at the doctor's on her hapa birthday!  She is all smiles this girl!  As you can see, at 6 months she weighs 20.1 lbs which puts off the scale for babies her age.  Her height is also off the scale at 28 inches!  She has grown nearly 10 inches since she was born!  Is that crazy or what?!  She is nice and healthy the doctor said and we loaded her up with another round of shots where she cried briefly then coo-ed and "talked" afterwards on the ride home.

Other things about this month:
-Keely had a brief week or 2 where she was waking up in the middle of the night and wanted to eat or play.  I think it was a wonder week when she was learning to roll over and move around a bunch.  She is now back to sleeping through the night (bed around 10, up around 8am)
-She typically naps 3 times a day.  Once in the morning, once in the early afternoon and a catnap in the evening.  I am actually really surprised at how well she does without a strict schedule.  Often times we are not able to be home for her naps and so she makes the most of them.  Her awake times are also super long sometimes!  For example, yesterday, between the beach, a baptism and going to my parents, she was up for 6 hours without a nap! I am shocked that she is not super grumpy with the lack of sleep she gets.
-She is almost always happy:)  She wakes up singing and smiling, and will love up on just about anyone.  Her personality is so different than Malia's was.  Malia has always been more reserved, cautious and not quick to smile while her sister is totally opposite.  It'll be interesting to see if her personality changes as she gets older. 

-She has started food and LOVES it!  She has now gone through rice cereal, peas, sweet potato, bananas, apples, beans, pears and mixes of these.  She loves to eat:)
-She easily rolls and has been doing lot of push-ups lately.  No crawling yet though, we are probably far away from that too.
-She can turn her body around 360 degrees
- She loves to put EVERYTHING in her mouth and suck on just about anything also.  She also gets mad when someone (aka Malia) takes her toys away from her.

I love these girls of mine.  They are best friends and I am so excited that they have each other.  Maybe we'll get 2 boys next so they can have the bond that these 2 girls have.  Who knows;)