Big Girls Make Big Messes

The girls are insisting on being big girl! Sometimes they'll refuse to eat any of their food unless we give them a fork or spoon. Apparently, last night Alex completely embraced the self-feeding thing and gave the girls each their own plate and spoon. They got to try their hands at yogurt, cottage cheese, and applesauce. You can see the results from the pictures! We had a similar experience this morning with their oatmeal. Gotta learn sometime right?!

The girls are cracking up us and driving us to new levels of crazy all at the same time! They are perfecting sibling rivalry and have learned how to push, pinch, and otherwise maul each other. They do not like being held at the same time or sharing one person's lap. This makes reading them a story quite a challenge since one is constantly trying to shove the other off mom's lap and when not doing that they are fighting over who gets to turn the pages!

They've both taken to having a book to read in the car. It is so cute to look back and see them both paging through their book "pretending to read" and looking at the pictures! They also LOVE to give the dogs their biscuits (which we do whenever we leave the house to reward the dogs for going in their kennels). I so thought that the girls would try and eat the biscuits, but they go right to the dogs and hold them out!

Addie loves to copy everything I do. Just this morning I was wiping off a spot on our new (craigslist new that is) furniture, and she was getting mad that I won't give her the dishtowel. I finally gave it to her, and she smiled and started wiping - apparently that was all she wanted!

The cutest moment was when I put dresses on them last weekend and Alex and I made a big deal out of how pretty they looked. They both got big smiles and swished around in their dresses laughing! Love it!