They’ve got some peculiarities.
If you give Jessie a wet wipe, she’ll wipe her hands, her nose, and……her tongue. I don’t know why, but every time we give her a napkin or a little soapy wet wipe, she’ll wipe her tongue off as part of cleaning up.
Sam freaks out whenever we give Jessie a time out. Not that she gets a lot of time outs, but she does on occassion. Sam will often get almost more upset about it than Jessie does. The whole time her sister is gone, she’ll just say, “Jessie? Jessie? Jessie? Jessie?” and point in the direction she last saw Jessie.
Sam also insists on throwing out her diapers. It’s bad enough she has to try to participate actively in changing them, she also gets very disturbed if you don’t let her put it in the diaper pail.
Lately they like to run around the house with a pair of knit baby pants on their heads like a hat. Whoever doesn’t get the pants wears a furry animal face hat that came with one of their winter coats.
Sam calls Matt “Mommy” and me “Daddy” about 50% of the time.
Jessie loves to pretend she’s still sleeping. If you try to get her up in the morning, she’ll sit and chat with you from her crib right until you’re ready to lift her out. Then she says, “Bye,” waves at you, lies down with her hands tucked under her like she’s asleep, squeezes her eyes closed and pretends to be asleep. The only way to get her out of the crib is to leave the room, close the door, and then wait outside long enough that she worries you won’t come back.
