Our first conversation

The girls love to discuss literature, it turns out--just like mama. We were reading Spring is Here by Taro Gomi, and Nico kept hitting her head on one page. There was a picture of a boy lying in the grass wearing a blue cap. She was saying hat, even though the text just reads, "The grass grows." (She also likes the hat in the Dr. Seuss ABC book--my childhood fave for the rhythm.) So then Lena got excited about the hat. Then Nico signed that he was sleeping, and Lena agreed. So I asked them if they would like to sleep in a field one day, and Nico very seriously nodded yes. So I said we would. It was our first conversation about art!

Actually, that's not true. We often talk about the painting of me and mom when I was a baby that hangs over our bed. I wonder what they think of it, since it's a mama with just one baby. I wonder if each girl might imagine she's the only one. I hardly ever spend one on one time with them yet. I can't stand to leave the other alone. But sometimes one will be awake and we have some special time, like the time I filled the tv(free) room with bubbles just for Lena. And once I took Nico to the grocery alone. No one stopped to talk to us because we were solo.

New this week:

• They both said 'nana today for banana. For some reason I think that is so cool.
• They love playing with my old silk scarves. I have never worn silk scarves, but I seriously collected them so one day my future girlbabies could play with them.
  
• The girls are eating more and seem to like sitting at the table again. I made a chicken soup with finely diced zucchini and onion instaed of rice (with carrots and celery), and they loved it! Yay!
• The girls can get into our old nursing chair alone. Turned around and there's a babe smiling.
• I bought them whistles. They were blowing them in TJ's Tuesday. Fun fun fun.
• Last Friday I left them with someone other than Chris for the first time since they were two months old (when I left them with Beth to go to the store). It was just 20 minutes so I could pick up my car. I was nervous the whole time. How did it go, Mom?
• They love birds! The way they do the sign is so cute: They stick a finger in their mouths and blow. (You can find how to do it the "right" way here.)
  
• I know there's more, but....