Life With Twins – Week 47

Almost every time the babies wake up, whether its in the morning or after a nap, Bryan has started saying “every time they wake up, they are different”.

There is a lot of truth to this. Miles is pulling up to standing on his own (using a toy or the baby gate) and has started cruising a little along the ballapalooza. It’s Abby’s turn now to get up on her knees, though she hasn’t made any more standing attempts since the straddle split incident of last week. Since she seems to be the social one I’m trying to teach her to say “mama” but she keeps responding with “dadadadadadada” or “hi”. She now has two teeth with a third pushing through on the top and has started doing this super cute smile where she scrunches up her nose.

Miles has been a bit of a mama’s boy this week – he just wants me to hold him or sit him on my lap. He’s started to respond to his name by making this funny grunting noise that sounds an awful lot like “huh?”and they’ve both started doing this thing where they are trying to squeal on an inhale. It’s difficult to explain and I haven’t been able to get it on video yet. Miles appears to be pretty proud of his ability to stand because he’ll often scream in victory afterwards. I think that Abby understands “come here” since she followed me out of the bathroom yesterday, but that could also be because she just didn’t want to be in the bathroom alone with the lights off. Hard to say.

We are starting to get to a point where they will both sit and listen to me read a short book. They still love to give me and the entire bathroom a free shower while they take a bath.

This week sucked sleep wise but for that I blame yet another round of viruses that somehow goes from baby to baby to me and skips Bryan. We also took our first trip to the Flowertown Festival where, we were naturally the center of a lot of attention until we were one upped by a set of triplets. (Blasphemy!)

Of course, they still LOVE food.

Now, onto everyones (at least mine anyway) favorite part:

• Abby makes the most of a stuck situation

Chillin in a W

• Miles stands up for himself

I demand to be let out of this joint!

 

• He finds some creative ways to sleep

Zzzzz

Sleepin in style with an elephant pillow

• He gets cold feet

Hobo Toe

• Abby plays some hide and seek

Where is the baby?

• And swears if I take the pacifiers, she’ll survive somehow

Paci?

• For those who just INSIST they can’t tell my BOY/GIRL twins apart, I’ll let you in on a little secret

This is how we know who they are in the bathtub

• Finally, Miles gives me his mommy grade for the day

Man, tough crowd