Dang, I don't even want to go back and look how long it's been since I made a post. I know it was well before Christmas. If only there had recently (ha!) been a holiday that, via tradition, would have encouraged me to resolve to do better at posting regularly. Oh well.

Despite the lack of documentation, we do continue to thrive here. Girls are continually getting bigger and smarter. Potty training is *this* close. Kayla considers herself trained it seems; though of course there are still accidents, she will mostly go when we prompt and occasionally on her own as needed. Megan is tailing a bit in this area, but it hopefully won't be long now. In fact Mommy and Kayla are out and about right now, having a day of shopping at "special" stores, which of course will coincidentally be wherever Jenn wants or needs to go. Megan had to settle for Best Buy with Daddy.

Our biggest challenge as of late is dealing with little girls who still need to learn a few rules about how it's acceptable to act. We're not taking the word "No" very well lately, resulting in some spontaneous crying fits, or more humorously, Megan crossing her arms in a huff, wrapped around her torso about as far as possible, looking very much like the worlds cutest gansta rapper. I imagine it's poor discipline theory for me to laugh at it, but sometimes these things cannot be helped.

But overall they're both slowly becoming fully functional humans. Letters and numbers are recognized; Megan could tell we were in Lane 5 at Best Buy today. We want to read books as often as possible, do puzzles quite a bit. One of the more popular games is "Mommy", where one girl will pretend to be a baby (human, puppy, kitty, cow, whatever), and the other will care for her.

One thing lately that has been interesting to me: You can see the bond between the twins..."deteriorating" is not the right word, perhaps "getting some slack". There was a time when one girls going to daycare without the other (because of sickness) was a very distressing event. Tears from the girl that had to stay home, confusion for the girl going on the car ride over ("Where's Megan/Kayla?"), and reports of the girl at daycare "not being herself" when we picked her up. Kayla stayed home with both me and Jenn a couple days last week though with a cold/sinus infection, while Megan was sniffling but well enough to go to Miss Kelli's, and it wasn't nearly the problem it once was. Again today, Mommy took Kayla out to celebrate her being a "big girls", and while there were some tears from Megan initially, they were because she didn't get to do something special too, not because Kayla would be away. We went out to Best Buy real quick, came home and ate some lunch, watched Team Umizoomi, read some books and laid down for a nap, no big deal. Only a couple of mentions of Mommy and Kayla being home soon.

Expected of course, but still fascinating to watch. They continue to develop their own personalities. Kayla will often want to change clothes as soon as she gets home from daycare, because Mommy and Daddy will typically ditch their work shirt and put on some shorts or sweats in the evenings; most of the time Megan couldn't care less. Megan though seems to have much more patience with using the iPad, figuring out how to get it to do something, etc.

Rock Chalk Jayhawks - A Shout Out to Granny and Grandpa

Both girls were battling colds at the time of this video.
(Taken on an iPod Touch, so please excuse the quality and shakiness.)