I have been promising a blog all about the girls for awhile now, so here it is. =)
Raid and Pait are getting so big. Everyday I think "When did they learn that?". They are talking and mocking more everyday. I will do something then a couple of days later I will see the girls remembering and doing it too. Raid last night was trying to put her shampoo in her bubble blowing bath toy, like I do for them sometimes during bath time. Pait always stands with her back against their growth board in their room. When I got it hung up I had put RJ next to it but forgot to measure PJ, so now I guess she wants to make sure I don't forget again. Just little stuff like that gets me because its just silly things that we aren't trying to teach them, that they just pick up. Their vocab is expanding. Pait has been perfecting Ali. Now she says "Aaaa-yeee" or "Aaal-yee". It's really funny to watch her because she has to make her mouth huge to say it. She walked up to Bobby the other night and said "Obby". I asked them if they wanted to go to the store the other day and she started looking out the door saying "tore. tore.". PJ says no but it sounds like she's begging you or asking you "nooo?". Raid is so serious when she talks. She is always getting on to PJ. Pait was tearing a page out of a magazine the other day and Raid went over and was shaking her head saying "No. No. No." then took it away from her to look at it. Then she proceeded to start shredding it herself. She also gets onto the dogs. If they are in front of something she wants she tells them "down". She must have got that from Bobby, because the dogs tackle him when he comes home from work so he tells them down. If you are talking to her and you stop she'll say "Oooohhhh." or "Uhhhmmm." like she knows exactly what you just said, or is collecting her thoughts. Raid tries to say "sister" it sounds like "sees-er". Both start asking for their bath before they are even down from the dinner table...Or we are pretty sure they are. They say "baaaaaa", but can't get the "th" yet. It took us a couple days to figure out what exactly what it meant. But as soon as you get them from the dinner table they run to their bathroom and stand by the tub. Both have been saying "bye" but now it has this southern draw to it. They love pretend play. They will walk around and pretend to be mixing stuff, eating, or drinking coffee. They got a shopping cart, kitchen, food, and talking twin dolls for Christmas and have been playing with them all together. They will put all their food and dishes in the cart. Or sometimes they will have their dolls and stuffed animals in there and push the around. Then they will stack everything on their kitchen. Their kitchen has a timer sound on it. They stand there and turn it on over and over dancing to it. They love to dance and music-still. Bobby has taught them to spin in circles while they dance. They also stomp their feet really fast to music or shrug their shoulders to it. They like to put their own lotion on, brush their own hair, trying to dress themselves, and putting on their shoes. Raid will put the tops of her boots on her feet and clap for herself. They go through cycles of sharing and fighting. Part of the day they will share everything. They will get both cell phones, cars, stuffed animals, sippy cups, whatever and will keep one for their selves and make sister take the other-even if she doesn't want it. Raid's new thing when she is done eating she will start to put her food on Pait's plate one piece at a time. Of course, she claps for herself because she thinks you always get praise for sharing. They love being by each other. They will lay on the floor by each other facing different directions playing with different things, but if one of them moves the other one will follow. Or they will carry their chairs to where sister has moved hers. We keep their wagon in the living room because they will climb in and sit in it and play together. They love it. But now they have figured out if they can push it by the fireplace ledge that they can climb from the wagon up to the ledge. The ledge is where I put toys that they can't share when they get taken away. So they will climb up throw throw them down and then get in the floor to play with them again. Okay, that's all I have time for now, but I promise I will get pictures up here soon. Hope everyone has a great week!
