Ch-ch-ch-changes

We’ve been putting in a lot of work on the house.  Matt & I took two days off last week to clean and get some work done. I think we got rid of half the stuff in the basement, most of the stuff in the upstairs “den” (I’ve never been sure what to call that [...]

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Messie Jessie

Jessie lives life to the fullest, consequences be damned.  Everything is a big laugh to her (getting into the car after daycare involves a chase around the building, getting into bed involves multiple laps around and under her bed.) She eats with gusto. She’s probably more coordinated with hand/spoon/fork action than I am, but she [...]

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Making Progress

Matt had the morning off today and I had the whole day off. We spent our time cleaning out the house – packing up stuff, sorting through to see what could go to daycare for sale at one of their monthly sales, figuring out what could go to Goodwill (a LOT!), and generally seeing how [...]

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Ta-Da!!

Big breakthrough tonight.  Both kids put clothes on All By Themselves tonight.
It started with Sammie and socks.  The kids take their shoes off after supper if they’re sitting on the couch.  For some reason they have it in their head that if their shoes come off then their sock must also come off.  No amount [...]

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About the Kids…

Man, are they growing up fast.  We used to see big changes every 4-6 weeks, when they’re reach a new stage. Now it seems like they can do something new every week.
Like tonight.  Sammy was playing with a thermometer, sticking it under her arm and pretending to take her temperature (daycare sent her home early [...]

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Size doesnt matter

Jessie’s shoes and Sam’s sandals. Sizes 7 & 4, respectively.
We haven’t told Jessie yet that she has hobbit feet.

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Miss Manners

Last night’s supper was apple and toast with hummus.  Sam was only eating the apple, not the toast. At one point when she asked for more apple, we told her she had to eat some toast first. She said no.  We said yes. She got that defiant little look she gets when she just doesn’t [...]

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Ants!

So, the other night after we picked the kids up at daycare, we took them to the “park.”
There’s a school we go past just about anytime we go somewhere that has three different big playground thingies.  Swings, slides, and climbers galore. We’ve taken them there three times.
Thursday night after work we had to pick up [...]

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What’s New?

Just a couple of quick pictures so y’all don’t think we’ve vanished over here.
The kids are getting big.  They’re starting to talk more.  The big word lately is “helicopter.” One flew right over us the other night when we picked them up from daycare.  It sounds more like “keliloper” when they say it, but at [...]

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Boo-boos

In addition to having completely opposite personalities, the kids have opposite reactions to boo-boos.  Jessie can go bouncing down a flight of stairs without any significant trauma, but Sam gets a scratch and it’s a major crisis.
Sam tends to blame Jessie for every little thing, regardless of whether Jessie is even near her or not.  [...]

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Time Out

I should start this by emphasizing that the girls are really little sweeties.  They are very well behaved.  However, they’re toddlers and trying to find out where the boundaries are.
They did some good testing this weekend.
Food-throwing is always a good one.  Biting is another.  We’ve gotten a couple of bite reports from daycare – that [...]

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Chutes and Ladders

Now that the weather is nice, we’ve been spending a lot of time outside trying to tire the kids out. We take a lot of walks.  Those are “fun.” (Sometimes like a root canal)  The kids are distracted by every little thing.  We take a wagon along and sometimes they’ll ride in it. They like [...]

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Stop the Addictions!

It’s tough to be small. You’ve got no control over anything.  Your parents start you on these little addictions and then stop you and you can’t do anything about it.
Pacifiers.  Again.
We’re doing pretty good with those. They don’t use them at all at daycare. It’s home that’s the problem.  By the time they get home, [...]

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Kidlette Update

The kids are growing like weeds.  It seems like all of a sudden they hit a new milestone and you’ve got a whole new set of kids.
They’ve got way more words than they did a week or two ago.  They’re now able to listen to explanations about why they have to do something instead of [...]

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

After supper tonight the weather was still somewhat nice outside, so we decided to go for a walk.
A walk is a very complicated thing with two toddlers.  Someone gave us a bus toy.  The kids fought over it whenever we’d go outside. Nothing else compared.  It had all kinds of buttons you could push and [...]

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