Okay, another week is gone and I haven't blogged much. I am going to try to do better....it's just been something going on all week! I guess tis the season. I can't believe Christmas is almost here! I am excited about the twins' first birthday too!!!! I can't believe they are almost a year! They are so funny these days. We are working on new words and I can only manage to focus on one word with one baby at a time. It takes a little bit and then I move on to the next one. So far, Emilynn says Da-Da, ba-ba (bottle), and she will sometimes say mama but not much yet. She also is working on Bubba for her brother. It's a variation of ba-ba but oh so cute. She talks all the time! It is so funny because she gives us earfuls all the time but you have no idea what she is saying. She's very determined too, she repeats the same crazy stuff to us like "why aren't yall getting this?". Carson says da-da and ma-ma. He loves to say mama and says it all the time! Of course....I just eat that up!!! That's as far as we've gotten with words. Emmy did say 'Uh-oh' tonight after I said it but I couldn't get her to do it anymore. Carson is a man of few words and I'm not surprised. He will talk when he's ready.
Independence is a big thing right now too. Carson had gotten where he didn't want me feeding him his baby food anymore. Both babies would rather feed themselves finger foods than have me feed them. He was pushing away the spoon and throwing a fit. I decided to put his food on a spoon and give it to him and that was the end of our fighting at meals. He loved trying to do it himself. He of course missed his mouth mostly, but after that first time, I just give him an empty spoon and inbetween me feeding him, he just puts the spoon in his mouth to pretend to feed himself. It's cute and he hasn't balked me anymore with feedings. Emilynn is happy to have me feed her. I am glad because honestly, the world isn't ready for Emilynn with a spoon!
Carson also refuses to wear a bib anymore. He ribs it off every time. He is a fairly neat eater though, so it's not a big deal.
We also tried to get Christmas pictures this week. I don't know if we got any but I made a decision after we did pictures. I don't think we are putting up a big Christmas tree. I will probably do one or two small ones that can fit on the island or table. My children demolished Meme's Christmas tree in record time! Ornaments were flying and ornament hooks were flying and I was scared they were going to swallow something they shouldn't and I decided at that moment to save myself a lot of stress and not put up the big tree. It just isn't worth it if I am going to be stressed and worried about them the whole time. I had already planned to gate it off, but they can turn the gate over sometimes. I love the Christmas tree and leave it up for a while (past New Year's anyway and I am not superstitious about that at all) but maybe next year.......
In the meantime our calendar is full of Christmas activities! We are going to see Santa Claus tomorrow, we have the church cantata Sunday, Relay for Life Christmas dinner Sunday, Christmas Parade Friday, Christmas plays at several churches we might try to make....it's a fun time of year!!! We have also been riding to look at lights-one of my favorite things. We bundle the babies up in jammies and away we go.
Hope everyone is enjoying this magical time! :-) And remember Jesus is the reason for the season!!!
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