- reading
- building towers with blocks (Abby enjoys building, Emily enjoys destroying)
- singing and dancing
- pushing furniture around the house and rearranging the dining room
- playing hide and seek around corners
- climbing
- unloading and reloading things (baskets of laundry, toys, blocks, etc.)
- doing handstands and other gymnastics
- identifying body parts (they currently know head, hands, feet, legs, belly, eyes, ears, mouth, nose)
- making animal noises (they know cow = moo, dog = woof, lion = roar).
After Christmas the girls made a fort in the corner with a box. They enjoyed their hideout for days:
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The girls loved their first time playing in the snow:
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A new development in our house is that the girls do not like to know that I (Taryn) am home and not have me in sight. This is especially true for Emily. If I go upstairs and she doesn't, she camps at the gate, usually crying. It has gotten better over the past few days, but for a couple weeks it was nearly unbearable.
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The girls got a toy horse for Christmas that they love jumping on. When they are a little older we can connect it to the TV so they can play interactive games with it.
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Emily LOVES shoes, especially her snow boots.
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They also love to play in things. They have a large tupperware container that they love to sit in and drive around in. They think it's really fun to push each other around the house in it and make car noises.
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Wearing buckets and banging on each others' heads is another favorite activity
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That usually gets a little too violent after a few minutes, though:
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We recently went to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. The girls LOVED watching the show and going on the rides.
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But then Abby decided this ride was scary and she wanted to leave.
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A couple weeks ago the girls got a stomach virus that they shared with us. One morning Byron and I were too sick to prepare a real breakfast and we wanted to minimize the spreading of germs so we got Dunkin Donuts for the girls' breakfast. They had a muffin left over that I put in a bag on the table. We later fell asleep on the couches while the girls played. They discovered the bag on the table. They've realized that they can run chairs into the table from across the room to knock things down that they want. I woke up and thought it was too quiet in the house and found that they got the bag down they emptied it out and played with the muffin all over the floor.
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Though they get into lots of trouble, they are also very sweet. They love giving kisses and hugs. They are big snugglers and are happy to just sit in our laps and be with us. Even though I dislike cleaning their messes, I do have to admit that I enjoy taking pictures of all the things they get into. I will also enjoy sharing the pictures with their children someday and giving them ideas of how to torture Abby and Emily.
