Our Identical Bubbas!: June 2012

This last month has been very exciting in terms of the girls development. Kylie is now crawling properly and is SO fast! Caelyn can also crawl correctly, but sometimes still leopard crawls. She's getting faster by the day! Both of my girls just LOVE being on their feet and walking along the edges of things. Kylie's been able to pull herself up for a few weeks and can now even bend down from a stand to pick up things off the floor, but we always had to help Caelyn get up until today! She just pulled herself up for the first time about an hour ago. I'm so excited for her because she was getting frustrated that she couldn't do all that her sister could. This week has been one of new freedom's for Caelyn as she also learned how to go from a crawl to a sit this week as well as to clap her hands! Both girls are loving spitting (sometimes with food in their mouths) and shaking their heads no at the moment! They think they are really funny :) They also love to play peak a boo and to imitate you. Of course, the sillier you are the better. It's embarrassing to admit the ridiculous things I'll do to make the girls laugh! We're going into winter now and even though we've been lucky with weather so far... it's starting to change. I've been struggling with ways of keeping them occupied on the days like today where it's pouring rain outside so if anyone has any ideas please please do share!! I've attached some pics I've taken since they turned 10 months below. You'll notice there's one with another set of identical twins. There was another set of identical twin boys that were born on the same day, same hospital, same Dr. etc. We tease and call them the girls' boyfriends :) It was all of their first time enjoying a french fry. We had to give them fries to keep them still enough to take a photo!! Their Mom, Ilse, and I have become friends since meeting at the hospital. It's been so great to have her to chat to because we seem to go through the same things at exactly the same time! I'm s grateful for all of my friends and family who've had kids before me or who has had them around the same time because all of the advice has been SO helpful!! Other good news... we've booked our tickets to Seattle. Yes, we're braving the long flight with the girls this coming Dec. and will be home for the holidays! Yay! I'm so excited and can't wait!! We'll also be going to Sun Valley and it's going to be so fun to see the girls explore the snow! More later, but please know that I really miss you all and hope to hear from you soon. Lots of love!!!