Okay, so I am sorry it's been so long since my last update. I have tons of pictures and videos to put up here and I will start loading them. Things have been crazy around here. First we took off to Canada for two weeks (the girls were angels on the 12:30 hour flight there, which was, thankfully, an overnight flight. We had bulkhead seats across the isle from each other, a spare seat next to Shawn and two really sweet helpful women next to me. The second flight was a short hour and a half jump from Toronto to NY, and the last was a 10:30 hour daytime flight back home, which was far less pleasant) then we had two weeks of madness as I came down sick and Shawn crammed for exams, and now he's back in school full-time and I'm adding days at work and the girls, well, the girls...
So Eli has her two bottom center teeth, Bracha has one but the other is working it's way out. Bracha full blown crawls while Eliana is very happy to continue doing the military crawl. Eliana sits on her own while Bracha isn't quite there yet, though Bracha has been pulling herself up to standing using the couch, her crib, laundry baskets, whatever is available, and Eli just started doing that last night. So now both of their cribs have been lowered to the lowest setting so they can stand up in there without being able to get out (yet).
Speaking of their cribs, bed time hasn't been easy with all these milestones so we decided to introduce transitional objects. Oh my what a blessing! They each have a "blankey" now (Bracha has a green head scarf and Eli has a small knitted blanket we got from the hospital) and when they're put in bed, assuming they're not dirty or hungry or very wide awake, they just snuggle their faces into their blankeys and go to sleep! Bracha has even, wonder of wonders, started being able to soothe herself with her blankey!!
They're both so amazing. They play together a ton (earlier tonight while Shawn and I were lowering Eliana's crib they were crawling around in the hallway and Eli was blabbering and that made Bracha laugh like crazy. It was incredible!!). Every morning after they've both woken up and been changed, dressed, and fed, I close all the doors in the house except for their bedroom door and let them loose. The kitchen, their bedroom, and the living room are baby proofed so they have free reign of the place. If needed we have two huge suitcases we use to blockade off the living room to keep them in there (pshaw, who needs baby gates) but mostly we let them run wild.
Eliana loved glasses and cell phones (thanks, Doda Esther, thanks a lot. Eli sucked on mine one day and now it will only work with the ear piece attached. And yes, I blame you) so I found old ones of mine of each and now they have them as toys (battery removed, of course).
Bracha finally fits into 3 month old clothing. Eliana fits, but just barely, into 9 month stuff. We can use some 12 month winter stuff for anyone who is looking to buy us gifts, hint hint. And we don't have much of anything at all beyond 12 month, though I have no idea how quickly kids grow at that age since the next size of anything is 18 months.
Let's see, what else. Both girls are just terrific. They have real personalities. They know each other, and Shawn and I, and get very attached at times. They also sometimes have clear preference for one parent or the other. Eating is still a work in progress though we have the most luck with handing them stuff to gum like pita, bread sticks, or baby biscuits. We've tried other soft things for them to gum like boiled carrot sticks but since those don't disintegrate they don't work as well. We have little to no luck with pureed food, they're just not interested in being spoon fed (nor very good at spoon feeding themselves, unless they're trying to feed each other's ears). I think I'm going to try and bake them some sort of veggie bar or just give them something soft like kugel and see how they do with that.
That's about it for now. I'm home all day Monday so assuming they give me a chance I will update with pictures.
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