So Different

I think these little babies look the most similar in sleep. During the day when they are wide awake and really only visible as small blurs running around, they are markedly different. The different hair and eyes are hard for people to get past when I tell them they are twins. The surprised looks on the asker's face are usually there for an extended period of time before they resignedly give up trying to figure it out. If Gabriella happens to be with us someone will often comment how lucky she is to be a big sister. She is such a proud big sister and loves to play with her littles. I do think some of the novelty of having twins sisters is starting to wear off. The littles are drawn to her room like bees to honey. The sound of her door opening is like a sirens song to their tiny ears. Once inside they go straight for whatever is most precious to her at the moment or what will make the biggest mess. They love the doll house, which is fine, she grudgingly allow them to play with the furniture. What is less fine is all the art supplies and scissors that seem to be within arms reach on every surface. While we do our best to keep Gabriella's room as off limits sometimes they are too fast, too quiet and by the time we realize they've been in there the damage is done.

There other favorite toys are the DVD's. They constantly take them down and tote them around the house. The newest development is that they now have the fine motor skills to open the DVD boxes. So now instead of just finding random DVD boxes spread around the house I'm actually finding CD's shoved into the pantry or under the couch cushions. It makes cleaning up a bit more like a treasure hunt. One of the worst tricks they've learned is turning off the TV. Picture this: Greg watching the final moments of an important tennis match, his fingers crossed that the DVR player has recorded enough for him to see the end of the match, when a tiny mini version of him saunters over to the box and presses the button turning off the whole shebang. There is usually some sort of muttering and then politely but firmly moving of the offensive child. Where as the child comes back and does it again, possibly another fifteen times, before a snack is given to distract them. This is fine if you've actually recorded the program it's much more upsetting when you've just paused a regular show.

On the up side the girls are also starting to work together and play with each other. They have been snatching toys away from each other for the past few months, but now they are playing peek a boo with each other or running after each other playing their version of tag. It's very cute, but my concern for their safety prevents me from taking a video of them.