19 Months Old Already?!?!

Another month has passed and this one went by especially quick since we have been so busy!! We had weddings, and birthday parties, and visits to grandma and grandpa's that kept us on the go.

The girls are both doing exceptionally well. Every single day they continue to amaze me with their brilliance, sense of humor and abilities!

They have started using several prepositions and verbs, and are starting to form more coherent sentences. "Up", "down", "on", "off", "open", "close" and "more" are the most frequent ones. I made a list of all of their words that they use, on their own and in context and it is now over 100!! Wow! They are picking up approximately 5-10 words a day. It is phenomenal how much they understand and how quickly they are able to use and remember the words they learn.

We have still been reading A LOT. It is most definitely one of their favorite pastimes. They are getting more into books that have stories over picture books. They both seem to prefer Dr. Seuss books, and I can't blame them. They are timeless classics.

They are both working really hard at learning how to dress themselves, and spend quite a bit of time practicing with different articles of clothing. They love to work with zippers, buttons, and snaps.

Lately we have been doing a lot of puzzles, shape sorters and alphabet flash cards. Sometimes they get a bit frustrated trying to get the piece perfectly in the slot, but without fail they always know where the piece goes and eventually get it in correctly.

We have also been working on Colors and counting. They both know the color yellow really well for some reason, but we are still working on the other one's. We have these really cool color boxes that have things with the corresponding color inside of them, and the girls have to sort them appropriately. They are both very good at completing this task. As far as counting goes, they can count to 3. Sometimes they try to count higher than that and it goes something like this, "One, Two, Three, two, three, two, three etc...". We have to work on getting them past 3! We count everything though, including the stairs when we walk up and down, our gold fish on our trays, the blocks....you name it, we count it!

I am so glad that I decided to get them an easel! It works out great for the two of them, and they love to color. They have made us some beautiful art work. I am thinking that they are both going to be right handed as they both prefer to use that hand. Time will tell for sure though.

They are also getting more efficient at using a fork properly. We still need a little work with spoons, but we will get there. We have also been letting them learn to drink out of a regular cup, and they are pretty good with it. As the girls are getting older, they are getting a tad more picky with what they will and will not eat. Thankfully, its not too bad...yet. Neither one of them really seems to like peanut butter, so maybe they will be like their mom in that aspect.

The girls shows that they were on debuted over the last couple of weeks. It was so weird to see them on TV! Since it was recorded months ago, they were both so small! I think my favorite was the "According to Jim" show where they played boys! Their hair really looked Red! It has become a lot more blond since then. In both of the shows, they both got a chance to be on and I thought that was cool. On "24" Kylee was on first, and then Kaylyn was in the second part. On "According to Jim", Kaylyn was in the first scene, and Kylee was in the second scene where she won the race. There are 2 more episodes to air in May if you didn't get a chance to see them this time around.

Keith and I are celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary today. Time is really flying by! I am so thankful to be married to my best friend, who also just so happens to be the most amazing man in the world! On Monday night we stayed downtown at the Ivy and had a wonderful time. My brother Ryan and his girlfriend Brookelyn watched the girls for us. It was so nice to get away for the night.