Development Update!

Our girls are growing and doing new things every day! They now spend most of their time awake during the day, which is awesome to spend the quality time together, but quite tiring when there is no break! They are now on four-hour cycles with the occasional five-hour stint either at night or when they have been in their car seats. They eat between four and five ounces each meal.

The twins make a whole new host of sounds. Long gone are the days of goat/predator/dolphin speak. They hold conversations of coos with us and each other. We will try to get some video since attempting to describe these sounds falls out of the realm of possibility to convey with words. Alina can go on for 30 minutes straight telling us about all her on-goings. She especially loves to tell her Ugly Dolls how much she loves them.

Avery enjoys showing her physical prowess by rolling over almost every opportunity we put her down for tummy time. As of yesterday, she is extremely close to turning over from her back to her belly. She will roll her head and shoulders to the side and lift up her leg, but she just needs a smidgen more oomph to do it. She very well may beat her sister by rolling over from both sides before Alina gets one down. But that is okay. Alina keeps trying her best and is really close!

They have so many facial expressions! Not only are they smiling more often, but they have more defined grumpy faces, several contemplatives looks, and even a few expressions of surprise. I love sitting and making different faces back and forth. You can really tell they are trying to figure out what I am doing.

They both clasp their hands in front of their chests. They have also discovered the joys of sucking on their tiny thumbs. We find this to be absolutely adorable even though we will pull their thumb out of their mouth to try and stymie the habit from fulling forming. Their batting at toys is becoming less flail like and more controlled. They still cannot hold toys by themselves, but their grasping is becoming stronger. I know this to be true since I apparently just got my hair cut to the perfect baby-pulling level.

We have started shopping for teething toys. The deluge of drool has begun. Ches loves to joke that it is very obvious they are my daughters since they will leave giant drool stains on their shirts. I can't help it if I have an overactive salivary gland that I may have passed along to the girls! I am told that the drooling will only continue to get worse as the teething develops. I envision ourselves being like the owners of Saint Bernards - always having a drool rag in hand.

Every day with the girls is a gift. We feel so blessed to be the parents of such wonderful babies. They are such happy little girls which pleases their mommy and daddy to no end. Wonder what they will develop tomorrow!