It’s been a long time I know, since we posted anything on this blog. This past weekend, we spent some of our most beautiful summer days thus far in Sweet Home with the Sharps, enjoying their world-renowned hospitality, kids’ pool, and flower gardening extraordinaire. A lot has changed with our ladies since I last wrote. Both babies are close to walking. Samia is especially excited to get going upright. At the moment it seems to be less about capability and more about courage. Samia has taken a few steps and is more eager to cross small gaps unassisted every time she tries it. She squeals with delight along with the rest of us when she’s accomplished her goal of getting to the hands of one of her parents.
Piper likes to walk behind the wheeled toys more than anything, and if we hold her hands, she would prefer to bounce instead of walk. We have no doubt she will do this on her own schedule eventually.
Their personalities are more divergent and strengthening, neither of the twins being particularly surprising. Samia is a little bull, charging with her head down, very confident, quick to befriend strangers, has a tiger’s growl ready when we growl, laughs easily and often, cuddles on occasion, and rarely complains these days. She eats enormous amounts of food, preferring fruits and veggies, before she promptly and loudly insists on getting down, or more recently, climbing to a stand in her high chair.
Piper is sensitive, naughty in a subtle smiley sort of way, very communicative, more so with her hands (we probably encouraged her more often, because she showed some early promise with signing), can be cuddly, enjoying being held as much as a 1+ year old can I guess, extremely fast at crawling and exploiting any doors or gates not being closed properly. She eats slower, rocks violently in her high chair, and prefers grains, meats and cheeses.
Both girls have recently shown some very quick uptake on vocabulary. Piper shakes her head, when you say the words yes or no. I picked up a doll and twisted its head from side to side (no), and both girls shook their heads, apparently now understanding that the doll is a model of themselves. I thought that was an exciting milestone–not only are they interested in more complex objects, but they are drawing some correlations there. If I say ball, they look at the ball. They squeal when I say we’re going to read a book, and gather ’round when I prepare to read to them. They attempt to meow (sort of a high pitched sigh) when I meow.
