Little More Conversation

Lots to report over the last month. The little beans are beginning to repeat words very frequently. So far, we have the following being attempted…I’ll include the English translation as well. Silas is a little bit ahead of Grace in regards to speaking, but she is never more than a day or two behind.

Dyeba - Diaper

Mimi – Mickey

Muh – Milk

Baf – Bath

DugDug  - Dog

Cacka – Cracker

Boon – Spoon

Tus – Toes

Dew – Shoe

Noh – Nose

Tos – Toast (sounds very similar to Tus..luckily those are entirely different things)

Kkkkkkk – Kitty

Bo – Bowl

WuBu – Waterbug (one of the bath toys)

Mote - Remote (yes, this is Silas' favorite thing to carry around...it doesn't work but I think he feels like Dada when he holds it)

They both are officially running and don’t fall much at all anymore. They also are playing more with one another each day. There have even been a couple of moments where they will go to the other side of the room and sit together to “read” a book.

The twins two favorite things to do currently are; sit in our laps while we read a book, and stacking wooden blocks... although the big box Papa brought up last week has provided hours of fun as well.

They also discovered that Fat Sam (kitty) loves to chase ribbon. This apparently is the funniest thing they have ever seen, and they erupt into laughter when Sam chases them as they run with the ribbon. When Fat Sam becomes tired (which is common, I mean, he is fat) Grace will take the ribbon and shake it on his head, trying to tempt him to get it. It is neat to see them quickly putting two and two together.

On one of the last nice days toward the end of November we took the little ones to Celery Flats to play in the big leaf piles. They had a ball!

Finally, last weekend we took them downtown to Santa. What a nice setup Kalamazoo has; Santa has a village, a house, and a little craft room…this is definitely where we will go each year instead of facing the mall Santa. When we first approached the Big Man, Silas smiled and tried to touch his beard…and I felt Grace’s fingers grip my shoulder tighter and tighter. We took a couple of practice shots with Cory and I in the frame, then quickly moved for the one golden picture…see below.