We've been constantly on the go with the girls over the last month. They are always buzzing around the house and love to be out and about. It's incredibly funny watching them interact with each other instead of playing beside each other. They love to run around and chase each other. They love to play tag with each other, but of course it usually ends in a fight. It'll transition from giggling and playing tag to a fun slap fight and then someone will usually fall down and then starts the kicking. They think stomping on each others' heads is HILARIOUS. Of course kicking results in time out. Surprisingly they accept time out pretty well. We sit them facing the corner for 2 minutes. Usually Emily will fold over and cry. But they do stay until we hug them and tell them that they need to be good listeners and that we love them.
For the most part Emily starts the trouble and Abby is generally pretty laid back (though she does have her days. Abby is usually content hanging out as you can imagine from the picture of her looking out the window at passing cars.
Could you believe that this little face causes trouble?
A few days ago they were trying to get into the bathroom and I thought they just wanted to play with toilet water so I ignored them. It turned out that they had to poop. When done they both laid down in the hall trying to change their own diapers. Oops. I guess I shouldn't have ignored them.
Another favorite activity is ring around the rosie. They hold each others hands and walk around in a circle and crack up with it gets to "all falls down". They love to sing "asses asses all fall down"
One of Abby's favorite activities is looking through catalogs. She'll sit very patiently reading about the things that she's gong to buy someday.
The good part about twins (well, there are many good parts, but the best part) is that they love to be with each other. Here's Emily either trying to kiss or bite Abby's back.
If you could imagine what my daughters would be like, what would you expect? Well, I'd expect them to be tomboys who liked sports and dressing in boy-like clothes. I would have guessed wrong. Our girls are definitely GIRLS. They love to have their nails painted and to wear jewelry and pink. It's ok, because I think it's absolutely adorable and I love to play along with them. Here are their first painted toenails. They thought this was the greatest thing ever.
As usual, Emily is a danger-seeking missile. Here she goes after the hot grill while wearing her new hat.
Have I mentioned that while she is trouble, she is awfully cute?
Her favorite pose.
Abby watching Byron mow.
Another one of Abby's hobbies is watching planes fly above. She catches all of them and points out every single one.
When Abby got her new hat she refused to go to bed without it.
Abby is about 85 years ahead of her time. Looking at this picture I can imagine her sitting by the window in a nursing home.
Emily having an important chat with Byron over breakfast.
Here I am showing the girls some sick moves
Their first time on a big kid swing. Abby got it right away. She even knew how to pump!
They love swimming. Especially Emily. Emily is a crazy swimmer/daredevil. Abby is a lounger. A few days ago we brought them to the lake and Emily walked in the water to Byron and just kept walking...even when it was above her head. We love taking them to the water as much as possible.
Crazy Emily.
On this day we were at a friend's apartment complex and Emily got out of the pool to go see Byron. She didn't see the in ground hot tub in front of her and ran right in. It looked like she was going to crack her face on the edge and it was terrifying. We pulled her out and she didn't skip a beat. She just kept on going with her life. She is nuts.
I got home from work today and my mom called me outside. A duck was in the yard! We think it belonged to our neighbors as it was definitely not wild.
At first Abby loved it.
Then it wanted to play with her and she was terrified.
Not Emily. She chased it all around. Sometimes it would stop to play but sometimes it wanted to waddle away from her.
Hopefully I'll have some time to post some more updates soon, but I think that all these pictures should hold everyone over for a bit!
