Updates

I feel like I want to start every single post off with "Sorry about they long delay since my last post, but things have been so crazy!".  But it's totally TRUE!

SOOOO.. here is what is new! 

ATTITUDE
Have mercy, these kids have attitude! Their favorite word is "NO!!" (said while slapping their hand at whomever dares to instruct them to do anything, whether they want to do it or not)!

INDEPENDENCE
When you see your child struggling to snap his buttons, or dress her baby dolls, you want to help them right?  Not do it for them, just give them a little nudge in the right direction!  Nate has been putting on his shoes by himself perfectly fine for a while now but lately he always puts them on the wrong foot.  Not that I don't enjoy a little giggle while watching him run around the living room like that, but he hates when I finally try to fix it for him!  When Lilly sets her mind to do something, she freaks out if you even begin to offer her any help at all.  You have to wait for her to accept defeat and say "I need help you, I need help you!!". 

REALLY GETTING IT
We were all sitting in the living room Saturday morning and I said "Geez Nate, we really need to cut those fingernails".  So he takes off into our bedroom but we just continued what we were doing thinking he went to go grab a toy or something.  He comes back about a minute later with the fingernail clippers and hands them to me!  WHAA?  I didn't even know he knew where we kept them.  Ok, so they are way more observant than we realized (yikes!!).
After getting out of the bath tub the other night, Lilly lies down so I can put her diaper on and says "I need lotion!"  It was too cute. They definitely know the routine.

REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT
Lilly is doing this more than Nate, but they are repeating everything!!  Entire sentences!  It cracks me up.  This has been going on for a while but I always forget to write about it.  When we say "I love you" they say "I ya you".  They are speaking more in sentences too.  "More milk, please" is one we hear a lot.  Some other favorite "Sit down right here" (while patting their hands on the seat next to them),  "I'll get it", "She/he did it", "No, I say, No!!" 

Of course I can't have a post without pictures of these sweet babies so here are some from the last few days..