catching up with Apple and Blueberry

Now on to you babies. Although you both have been growing so much, I think I can fit both of you in to the same post, since you have just about the same milestones.

1) You both talk A LOT! Apple, you do more cooing and seem to make sentences with your voice inflections. Blueberry, you make more babbling sounds, working on the mechanics of the sounds more. Both working on the same thing, in different ways, which is totally how you work!

2) While grandma was watching you girls one day, Blueberry kept giggling and keeping Punkin from taking a nap. The next day, Apple giggled and kept Punkin up! You both laugh a lot and smile almost constantly. Every stranger that walks by, it seems, remarks on how smiley you babies are.

3) When we were in Farmington for my uncle's funeral, great grandma loved playing with both of you. You'd both smile and laugh at her. She even taught Apple how to bang on the table, which she does all of the time now, not only with her hands, but with anything her hands are holding.

4) You are both rolling around on the floor all the time. You can roll from one side to the other. I thought you'd both crawl quickly because I put you on the floor so much. However, I'm beginning to think that you'll both be like your older sister and your cousins and learn how to crawl the week before you start walking. Rolling seems to work well for you girls.

5) You both eat a lot, too. We go through half a gallon of goat's milk a day, plus I try to feed you two baby food meals. You're eating apples, carrots, winter squash, bananas, rice cereal and oatmeal.

6) I bought high chairs for you and you love to sit in them scooted up next to each other. The first day I bought them, I looked up just in time to see Apple look over at Blueberry's hand, reach over and grab it with both hands, stick it in her mouth, and bite it! Since then, I've witnessed the same scenario many times over.

7) Another thing that you girls do is steal things from each other. A favorite is to take the pacifier out of your sister's mouth and put it in yours. It's super cute, but annoying to the other. Taking toys away from each other, or having a tug of war with toys, especially in the high chair, is another common occurrence.

8) We've gotten in a new routine- Blueberry (usually) wakes up around 5 am and crawls in mommy's bed. Apple sneaks in about half an hour later. Punkin is third, and usually wakes us all up. Then we all cuddle and giggle. It's a routine that I'm going to try to keep going for a long, long time!

You are both growing up so quickly! Blueberry, just seven months ago, you were the same length as Uncle Ben's arm, from his wrist to his elbow. Now, you're the length of my torso! You're both very happy babies. Even now, you both have a cold, yet you're not whiny. I couldn't have asked for happier babies!

catching up with Punkin

A lot has been going on. However, I've finished nursing school (hooray!), so it seems to be letting up a bit.
I'll start with Punkin. So much to say! Every day you come up with something new! I'll just list as many as I can think of.

1) "Dad, I want to tell you about bird poops." Totally out of nowhere as we were driving one day.
2) I don't normally post pics (maybe I'll have to change that), but how could I not post THIS?!?!?!

 Don't worry, tho. You cleaned it all up- WITH GRANDMA'S TOOTHBRUSH!!!! (I'm still cracking up!)

3) We went to Farmington for my uncle's funeral a few weeks ago. While at Grandma's, you said, "Great Grandma, where is Great Grandpa?" She said, "He went to be with Jesus." You said, "Oh. He's not dying anymore?" Oh, the wisdom of a child! No, my dear, he's not dying any more. He's doing sooooo much better!

4) Also while at great grandma's house, you decided to feed peanut butter to your twin babies that grandma gave you for Christmas. You then neatly washed their faces- and the rest of their little cloth bodies. I do, by the way, allow you to help me feed your baby sisters. You're really good at it!

5) For about a week, you had a thing about getting up in the middle of the night to do crafts, of course while everyone else was far off in the land of Nod. The first time, you decided to glue all- and I do mean ALL- of the mail together. The second time, you painted lots of things red with nail polish, including the refrigerator, my ceramic fire holder vase thing, several baby toys, bumbo seat tray, etc. The third time, you just used the markers to color a few things, although I don't remember what.

6) Last night, you said, "Daddy, want to watch me dance?" You were standing on the coffee table and looking at yourself in the dining room mirror. Of course, he said okay. You danced, then asked him the same question at least ten more times! I'll have to get a video of that!

I'm sure that I could put ten things on here every day. You're getting so big and so helpful.