Our Kids

Howdy!

Sorry about the lack of entries lately… we’re just having so much fun with these babies it’s hard to tear ourselves away. That and an increase in mobility (of the girls, not us!) limits us a bit!

On to the update… Lela took her time but is definitely sitting like a pro these days… it’s a lot of fun sitting the girls in front of each other with a couple toys and seeing them interact. We still have the inevitable toppling over every now and then, but overall the girls are pretty stable on their butts.

Our flickr site is a great way of seeing the progress of the girls… the latest pictures show their latest trick: laughing and smiling a lot. The other day after work I just sat down with the girls and without tickling or even touching them I could get them both to laugh at me. Hmmm… now that I write it, maybe I shouldn’t be so happy (or surprised?) that the girls laugh at me so easily! Anyways… it was just adorable. Both of the girls were having a good ol’ time just sitting and laughing.

On Sunday while at the store with Mystique, Piper raised the bar again… this time by stringing together consonants and vowels! Good stuff here… she’s been saying, and this is purely coincidental and doesn’t count as her first word, “dadadadadadadadada”. Usually it happens if you’re not really paying too much attention to her (not ignoring here like a bad parent, just not… oh you know). Anyhow, it’s really cute… sometimes she even mouths “dadadada” without making a sound. It’s like she forgot the part about making a noise but she’s still practicing.

With all this progress the girls have decided that they’d like to see us more often at night so recently we’ve been getting up twice to feed them or put them back to sleep. While I can appreciate the desire to hang out with Mystique more, I’ve tried explaining to them that they have the rest of their lives ahead of them and not to overdose on us like this. Their response? A big ol’ gummy smile and “dadadadadadada”. At 3am.

Over the weekend we… get ready… had a garage sale! Holy cow, that’s quite a change for us. We’re much better at collecting junk than getting rid of it. Winter’s coming, though, and we weren’t really looking forward to getting the girls in and out of the car in the snow, so we had to get the garage cleared out for parking. The sale went pretty well… we priced things to sell so a lot of our baby stuff went out the door. I think sitting Piper and Lela at the end of a driveway with a “College Fund” mug in front of them might have helped.

That’s it for me… rumour has it that the girls might be going out on a hike today. The fun part about this hike, though, is that they’ll be in backpacks and not the double-jogger stroller they’re accustomed to. The times are a-changing!

jason