April was busy!

These little busy boddies are in full motion now. While they are not in a full on run just yet there little legs can power walk with the best of them. Not really sure how tall the girls really are right now but we do know that when they visit childwatch at the YMCA they stand as tall as 2.5 to 3 year olds. Not bad for these skinny winnies!

While the art of speaking still eludes them they hare starting to master a few words. Where ever they see the yellow bird with the orange bill in a book they say "Daaahh - khheee". The sounds of barking sets them saying "Daaaaawww-gee". Some times they sound very much the same but the long drawn our vowels are usually the give away.

The girls have mastered finding their body parts - head, ears, eyes, nose, mounth, chin, belly button, feet and hands. We are still working on shoulders, knees, fingers and toes. Sometimes they will understand face and cheek but they really depends on their mood and or how tired they are. They understand that their feet go into socks and shoes. Sometimes they will go into a tizzy if you say shoes as they then want them on their feet or what the ones on their feet changed out for another pair.

Meal time has become more of an adventure. Now we are living the warnings that the doctor told us with termpramental eaters. Whether it is texture, taste or both one of the girls is always finicky... usually it is Alexandra on texture. Oddly enough Alexandra really dislikes the texture of regular bread, so much so that the only way we get her to eat it is by toasting it a little bit. Annellice could care less about the texture but take away her independence of holding her spoon/fork and feeding herself and you might have WWIII on your hands. Sometimes we feel that we are feeding them the same foods every single day - when actually it is probably every other or every 3rd day. We are praying that they start to become better at chewing things down soon so we can given them smaller meals of what we eat currently.... easier said than done when you have a sensory specific child though.

The easter bunny came and went - the girls had a blast finding the eggs that Kevin dispersed in the yard! They had their first dose of easter at the beginning of April at a RAMOM picnic. There they played with other twins at the playground and then hunted for eggs in the soccer field. Having never been exposed to the "hunt" before they picked up on it quickly... so quickly that they had full on fits of anger when we made them wait until it was their turn to go (those few moments felt like an eternity in front of all the other parents with well behaved kids).

We are glad that May is here now and that the cold weather bursts are behind us. Now if only we could keep the shorts from falling off their tiny behinds!

Pictures of PB&J time!