Zach Plays The Blues

First Snow Play

Jailhouse Pipeline

Cereal Dispenser

Circumventing

Follow the Leader

Sharing a good story

Watching Snow Play

Heading Down

Bleacher Fun

Name That One

Favorite Time of Day

Hey That's Me

Making Kindermusic

Happy Birthday Cousin Christine

Christmas Too

Reading to Granddad

One Eats Right, One Eats Left

Measuring Post

Card Players

Blog Number 800

Trey The Builder

All By My Shelf

Happy Birthday Grandma

Winter Training

First Cold of the Year

Birthday Benchmark Photo – 2 Years 1 Month

Working on the Railroad

Full Contact Eating

Feeding toddlers can be a most challenging enterprise, and our hands are full with twins. While Benji will try new foods and eat most things, his brother will not. Trey Davey is such a finicky eater and pushes away most dishes without even a taste, but not spaghetti. Next to fruit, spaghetti is easily Trey Davey’s favorite food. In fact, his enthusiasm for the Italian dish surpasses his skills with a fork, which he will abandon in favor of hand feeding. The result is a pasta explosion with spaghetti and sauce going everywhere in a matter of seconds. Certainly it’s good to see him eat, but we’ll need to work with him on technique.

Up and Running

Benji and Trey Davey are happy, healthy little boys. They woke this morning bursting with nervous energy. It was too cold to go outside and the church gym was busy, so we decided to burn some calories at home by racing through the house. I thought that after a couple of laps up and back across their room that they would tire and quit, but no. Dressed in polar bear pajamas and with early morning bed-head hair flying, they ran back and forth, back and forth for 45 minutes. The workout did successfully take the edge off their energy level and completely exhaust their Daddy.

Setting Lofty Goals for 2010

Our twins’ developmental goals for 2009 were to dance to music, help around the house, kick a soccer ball, rearrange furniture, run fast, say 50 words, spoon feed themselves, undress themselves and control their bladders better. While these targets seemed unreachable twelve months ago, both boys have unquestionably met and exceeded these goals. In this next year, their development will not be as rapid but just as dramatic. Our new goals for 2010 seem just as unattainable and will require dedication and hard work to achieve. By age three we want to walk like adults, throw and catch large balls, ride tricycles, assemble simple puzzles, understand most conversations, speak clearly, use five word sentences, ask for help, understand cause and effect relationships and follow simple directions. It should be an interesting year.