September 22, 2008
Hansel und Gretel (aka Ian und Elanor)
Ian and Elanor (hand in hand): Let's go eat the goodies, the goodies, the goodies, let's go eat the goodies, la-ta-ta-ta-ta!
Ian: Ist good ja!
Elanor: Ja! Ja! Ist good!
Ian: Und yummy!
Elanor: Ooh ja! Und yummy ja!
Tim: So the twins are ten months old now. Their main preoccupation these days seems to be food. As far as Ian goes, Joanna refers to him as a "social eater." Anytime we have food near us, there he is waiting for a bite. In the last few weeks he has been going to Joanna, pulling himself up on her legs and begging until he gets some, but more recently he's been accosting me with his cute puppy look as if he's saying "Look how cute and little I am. Why don't you give me a little bite of that."
Elanor can't quite pull herself up yet so when she sees we have food, she frantically crawls towards us and implores us with her "starvation wail." If the "starvation wail" doesn't cut it, she lays her head down in her hands in an attitude of despair. Unfortunately, her chubby little thighs belie her protestations of ravenous hunger.
Their favorite things to eat these days are corn puffs, rice puffs and Cheerios. To keep Ian occupied, we line up a row of these finger foods on the couch and he works his way from one end to the other. We do this with Elanor too but we put the Cheerio trail on the floor to encourage her to crawl more.
We should start calling them "Hansel und Gretel" and write a parody of the Grimm fairy tale. Even better we could write a parody of "Bewitched Bunny," a parody of the Grimm fairy tale. A parody within a parody. And we'll leave you with this...
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August 9, 2008
Double trouble!
The other day I put the kids in their swings for their morning naps. I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard a shriek. Startled, I listened again, and realized it was not a shriek of pain but of hysterical laughter.
I crept down the stairs to see what was going on. I didn't want them to see me, so I hid behind the couch to videotape it. It was totally their moment, a brother-sister moment that had nothing to do with me.
Ian had crawled completely out of his straps (still don't know how he did this--it must have taken a lot of skill and at least five different moves to get out). He was making monkey faces at Elanor, and periodically grabbing her swing to swing along with her. She responded by giggling incessantly.
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July 8, 2008
Mouth Strumming
This has been a source of endless amusement lately--for us and them. Enjoy!
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June 27, 2008
Babies laugh
In case the sound of laughter might brighten up someone's day...
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The Pacifier Swap
Remember this?
The pacifier games get more elaborate as time goes on. Sometimes we can't even keep track of whose is whose.
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