14 Months

A few updates on what the babies have been up to. Cooper is now also walking!  He gets extremely excited about it and just laughs like a mad man as he walks around.  This probably slowed down his progress a little because he's also a huge show-off and wants to make sure everybody is watching him walk and then he laughs so much and then he gets distracted and would fall down!

 

The nanny has been working on sign language with them for months but nothing was registering with them until a couple weeks ago. Now they are picking up signs very quickly.  They sign eat, more, all done, and hat.  Brinley really has picked it up.  Just out of the blue a couple weeks ago, about breakfast time she went to her highchair and frantically starting signing "eat". It was so cute! 

 

It just is amazing how fast they are learning things now and how observant they are.  It just seems like the light bulb has really gone on for them lately. They know which button turns on and off the tv on the remote and they aim the remote towards the tv, how to turn on the baby swing, how to turn on their crib mobiles and the sound machine, how to turn on the screens on our phone and swipe with their thumbs on our phones.  Things that we haven't shown them, they just watch I guess and mimic.  They can mimic pretty much any sound you make with your mouth and are trying really hard to mimic words we say to them.  They also can do simple commands like handing us stuff when we tell them and playing with certain toys we tell them to (especially balls).  They both know what sound the sheep makes when you ask (baaaaaa).  Cooper is really into putting stuff in baskets and taking them all out again (like my basket of lotions I keep in our room, anytime you can't find Cooper you know he's in our room emptying the basket of stuff). 

 

They ALWAYS want to be outside and we spend a lot of time on our screened in porch.  We're having a little bit of an issue with biting. Like they bite each other. Oh, and they like to give us kisses and then bite our lips.  No bleeding yet so I guess we're managing it! 

 

They are still great eaters, though sometimes Cooper gets an entire meal of just fruit because he won't eat anything else.  I've never seen someone love fruit as much as him.  We can hand both of them a whole small piece of fruit (like an apricot) and they will eat it whole. We just watch til they get close to the pit and take it out for them.  They both have their four top teeth and two bottom teeth.  They're drinking almond milk now instead of whole milk as Brinley was having some digestive issues. We're hoping to get back to 2% cows milk soon though (cows milk alternatives are soo expensive!).  We tried giving Cooper whole milk and just Brin the almond milk to save some money on it but she loves milk so much that she always finishes her cup and then finishes the left overs of his and they also swap cups back and forth a lot, so they both have to be on the same milk then. 

 

Some pictures.

 

 

 

Aunt Kala painted Brinley's toenails :)

She has the sleepiest eyes/face when she first wakes up. It takes her awhile to get going in the morning.  Cooper lays in his bed for up to an hour sometimes during the work week while I get ready just talking to himself, laughing, jumping on the bed and she'll wake up to see what he's doing then go back to sleep.  But as soon as I go in to get him, she pops up and wants to get up too.

Trying to stand in the stroller is now an issue.

 

 The next pictures are from a play time the nanny took them to. She said they do really well with the other kids and don't always just play with each other.