Actually, that's another thing. We were sick for an entire month.
Three times to a walk-in clinic with Liam and Morgan, three incorrect diagnoses! Frustrating and maddening. While the babies suffered, Janne and I got sicker, and finally both of us were so sick we missed work at our respective businesses - something I never do for illness. Janne also took a day off to get our kids to our family doctor, who gave us the correct diagnosis, and meds to get them better, and they're finally happy and healthy again. Two sick babies at once is one thing, but when all four of us are draggin' our butts, things are very tough for Mommy and Daddy.
"Twin things" that've happened in the last couple of months:
Well, Liam loves reciting the alphabet, and making the sound of each letter. He'll say, "What does the 'A' say? ...Ah!" in his cute little voice, and then continue through - without missing a letter or sound - to Z. Aside from being really cute, it's pretty darn smart for a 2-year-old, I think.
We also play a counting/tickling game - just something that came to me as an idea to get the twins to count a little further past 10. Liam loves to be tickled, and one day - while I had him on the change table - I coached him to count through to 20. Once we hit 20, I tickled him unmercifully, and he loved it. He now counts to 20 when he wants to be tickled - but we still have some work to do to get him to remember 13 on the way through. Funny to me that that's the number he sidesteps along the way.
Morgan, though, has a much different approach to the whole process. She usually waits for Liam to initiate the counting, but moments after I tickle Liam when we reach 20, she says, "No tickle me!" supposedly meaning, 'don't tickle me'...but, as I've found to be the case with many members of the female of the species - it might mean "Tickle Me!" ...but then again, it might not. So, I have to tickle her to see if she really means "No tickle me". If she really means 'no', however, I'm smart enough to stop.
Some recent pics now, since there hasn't been anything here in a while.
My favourite thing to do is play with them both, but Mommy and Morgan both sometimes feel like I favour the boy. Check out the series of pictures here for Morgan's facial expression when she feels she may not be getting all her deserved attention.
They're both very happy kids, however, which pleases both Janne and I to no end. Yes, they get whiny occasionally, and have 'issues' occasionally, but they snap out of those things very quickly. They prefer to be happy, which is all one can ask for. And they're clowns, too, as you can see with Morgan here, who placed her bib on her little head this way with the intention of being nutty -
One of the things that has been frustrating us here in our new hometown (aside from the ridiculously high property taxes) has been how terribly slow the city of Brantford has been at moving toward completion of the park across the road from our house. We moved in here of November of 2006, and recently were told that the earliest the park will be completed is probably spring of 2009! That's ridiculous! In the meantime, it looks like this -
Sad to us, because we bought this specific house because of its proximity to a park for the twins. We joke about it to keep from calling the city every day to complain - and call it the "Future Park", as the half-fallen down sign in the top picture indicates - but it's really getting annoying. Our house and cars are constantly covered with the dust from that huge pile of nothing but mud.
Janne and I continue to try to concentrate on how much of a treat it will eventually be for Liam and Morgan to just get up, get dressed, and cross the street to play in the park.
The 'Future Park'.
By the way - Hi!
It's nice to be back.
Can't imagine I'll be here all that often compared to before, but it feels good to just get back.
