So the girls are catching up on the growth curve now. We spent a few hours on Sunday bagging up clothing that is now too short for them. Bye-bye to the cute 6-9 month ruffle pants and 9-12 month jeans and overalls... some of which were taken out of rotation over a month ago. They are now firmly in the 18 month sector provided the waist is small enough. Just this morning Annellice was sporting a peek-a-boo diaper look that was priceless given her penchant for kicking pants off these days.
Gone are the black eyes of last month. This months theme has been molars! Not just one or two of them either. Annellice has all four of hers cresting - in about a 7 day span. Alexandra's teeth are always a longer battle, but her top two molars are out and sharp - the bottom two have been giving her great pain though. At this rate Alexandra may have hers all out by next week which will be approx a 2 week span that is mighty quick for her! Until them she gets several doses a day of Baby Oragel and pain relif meds.
They are still not quite ready to talk but you can see their brains processing the words we say to them more. They understand simple things like "take your diaper to the trash can" (kevin taught them that one), "time to get your shoes", "find your baby-doll", etc. Alexandra likes mimicing sounds (IE: us calling for Titan to come she will yell "Ahh-Ahhhhhh" repeatedly until Titan is close by) sometimes it is backwards though (when I say "uh-oh" for something that falls she the inflection in her voice is opposite with the sound being "oh-oh"). We take what we can get at this point.
The girls love to play outside more and more each day. We have taken them to the park several times and now that they have better balance they love to take longer walk abouts. I have been slowly training them on how to get to and from the car and the doors of the YMCA. They get the part of going to the Y with great ease - it is heading back to the car after our visit that they tend to want to stray a bit. Here is a picture of Alexandra demonstrating the awesome kicking the rocks routine that Annellice showed her moments before:
Here are some fun pics from post-naptime bliss... I am sure they will hate me later for it!
Alexandra:
Annellice:
