Thank you to everyone that helped make our girls 2nd birthday a very happy and special event. Thank you for all of the great gifts, the girls are in heaven.
The girls are typical two year olds, and they love to do it themselves. It is so adorable when they come marching up with all the laundry I just folded spilling out of their arms (and coming completely unfolded) so they can help Mommy put it away. I keep reminding myself not to get upset with them because now I have to refold it all, but to just appreciate how excited they are to help. I am not sure who has more to learn at this stage of their lives, me or them! I am constantly trying to remind myself that my memories will never be filled with folded laundry, washed floors, or how clean my house was, but rather with those learning moments with my girls. It gives me new meaning to "re-evaluating what is truly important".
The girls are quite funny, and are constantly doing new things to make us laugh, especially if it involves selling the other one out! The other day I was filling water cups for them, and had placed the lids on the counter. The girls know they are not really supposed to take things off the counter without permission, but out of the corner of my eye I see Lexi on her tippy toes, reaching as far as she can to get one of the lids. She is successful and when she brings it down in front of her, she sees it is the pink lid (Izzy's), so she walks over to Izzy and hands her the lid. And then she realizes I am watching. Without skipping a beat she turns around and starts waving her pointer finger back and forth and says "No, No, No". I couldn't help but laugh!
A week or so later, Doug was at home with the girls and had gone into the basement to put something away and when he came back up stairs he forgot to put the child lock back on the basement door. So he is going about his day and doing things around the house and it occurs to him that he hasn't heard much coming from the girls recently. So he goes into see what they are up to, and notices the basement door open. He creeps down stairs and busts them playing in the basement. When he snuck up on them Isabel was empty handed but Alexa was holding two of the Jack-o-lantern trick or treat buckets, and so without blinking Izzy starts waving her finger at Lexa saying "No, No, No". Well you know what they say about payback!!
They are quick to sell eachother out, except when it comes to timeout; this is when they decide to work together and team up against Mommy! I recently have tried to institute time outs when the girls are hitting or biting. I have chosen a "naughty" spot in our foyer where there are no toys and it's isolated from the other commonly played in areas of our house. So I am sure most of you know the drill, they get a warning the first time they do it, and if they repeat the offense (hitting or biting), they go into time out for 1 minute (now 2 since their birthday was last week). They quickly figured out that if I am placing one child on the naughty spot, the other will do something "bad" to get my attention, and then while I am addressing that, the child on the naughty spot will get up and run away. So then I will chase down that child to place them back on the naughty spot, only to see the other one doing something again to make me run after them. It is mean, just plain mean; but I can't seem to beat it yet...
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