So, my last post was over two months ago and I was talking about all the cold and snow we have have had this winter....and look at it outside this morning. Low and behold, it's still snowing! Well, we have had a break in the weather over the last few weeks and spring is starting to emerge, but really??? Come one! Ok, rant over :) Ummm, yes I was going to post this two months ago...oops. Anyway, I'll post it anyways, and then I'll give another update next week on more recent topics! This is a post from April:
Onto what's been going on in our lives lately. I'll start with my favorite topic - L&L. They have been really growing up lately! Actually I can tell their legs are longer (finally getting to those 2T pants, haha) and developing their skills as well. Here are a few things they are doing at almost 2 1/2 years old:
- Talking up a storm! Finally they broke through the speech barrier and have been really jabbering up a storm. Logan will just jabber all the time now and Luke is a little more reserved, but definitely has been trying out copying many words that we say. They will make an effort to repeat most words I ask them to, occassionally giving up if it's too hard and making the sound of the object (their favorite is trucks and animals) rather than saying the word. Here are some of their favorite words and phrases:
- truck, dump truck, tractors, backhoe, bike, plane, etc etc
- kitty, dog, duck, pig, cow, hop hop,
- more please, help, no (sounds like note), yes (sounds like yesh), mine, thank you,
- blue, red, orange, yellow, pink, purple, black, brown, green
- kitties in the barn, bad bad bad,
- Activity...umm they are non-stop, go-go-go! Definitely high energy little guys that are constantly moving around and wanting to be busy doing something. Now that the weather has gotten a little bit better, we have been outside a lot, and they love checking out the kitties we have outside in our barn (see favorite phrases), and really like to see all kinds of animals. They are kind of afraid of dogs right now, they like to look at them, but get scared if they get too close. Of course they are not afraid of our dog, Eddie, and they continue to terrorize him, poor little guy. They also love to ride their bikes, and recently they have spent hours pulling around a few two-wheeled carts that we have outside. Apparently it's very fun and entertaining!
- Stuff we've been working on and favorite things to do: I am always trying to think of new things to keep the boys entertained and busy since we have spent so much time indoors and since they are little sponges, absorbing everything they see and hear. So here are some fun things we have been doing and working on:
- holding hands with mom and dad when we walk places (to avoid cars, injuries, etc)
- learning what words associate with certain letters - favorites are P=paw-paw, M=Mom, D=Dad, K=kitty, S=snake, E=Eddie, B=ball, H=house, L=Luke&Logan
- playing with play dough. I have made some home-made playdough and they are really enjoying using a roller and cookie cutters to play with it at the table...trying not to mix the colors can be a chore though!
- Chores
- hanging up their coats and putting their shoes away when they get home..this meet success about 50% of the time :)
- helping to clean up - again not super successful but working on it!
- throwing away trash
- Playing pretend - recently we acquired a LARGE box from Tim's place or work and turned it into a big house. now they love to play house and use that as well as blankets overtop of tables and couch cushions. They also play pretend with food and the kitchen
- playing with water and soap in the kitchen sink - can entetain for a long time if needed!
- A few other milestones and bumps in the road we have hit lately:
- POTTY TRAINED! I would say we are 95% potty-trained with only a few accidents here or there and diapers at night. It feels so nice to actually have acheieve this, I wasn't sure we were ever going to get to this point! (See original potty training post...)
- Teeth- well not a ton of progress here, but they have all but their two-year molars. They have always been late getting teeth, so I'm ok with finally having their eye-teeth in and waiting a bit for the molars
- Fussy eating - I would not say picky, becuause they are usually willing to try most things, but really lately they have just been not wanting to eat anything. They must not be growing right now, but it's driving me crazy, especially because Luke is really small! He has not even hit hte 25 pound mark yet, while Logan is almost 28 pounds
- Communication with each other - one of my favorite things about having twins is watching them communicate with each other. I LOVE to see them talking and jabbering to each other, sometimes I can understand it, but most of the time, I have no idea what they are saying. It is one of the cutest things and really tugs at my heart-strings.
- Watching movies/TV - the boys have never been super interested in tv, but have enjoyed Baby Einstein videos. Lately, they have begun to like Elmo and their absolute favorite is watching "Ice" (Disney movie Frozen). They don't ever watch the whole thing through, and that's true for pretty much all their shows, but they do like certain parts and even have begun mimicking certain parts of the video.
- Electronics - They also enjoy their electronics, especially the iPad. Lots of fighting goes on and usually it ends up with it being put away and lots of tears. The really love to watch Youtube videos of trucks and buses on the ipad. Which I have found we need to monitor because occassionally they click through and end up watching non-kid videos, so starts the moinitoring of what our kiddos can do!
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