Our library rocks

Friday morning we went to the toddler story hour at our library. It rocked! At first we were the only ones there. The librarian read Lunch! to the girls--a very cute story about a mouse who eats a lot of fruit. And, each girls got a copy of the book! The librarian is a nice young guy, and I was very interested to see the girls' reaction to someone else reading to them. Then a few other kids showed up. They were older and pointing and talking about the book, so the girls started pointing too, especially Nico. After the stories, there were puzzles and crayons. Get this: The girls understand not to eat crayons when they're in front of other people! Not a single bite! I'd tried to replicate the experience at home. Nope; crayon teeth.

This weekend was warm and wonderful. Saturday we went to Auntie Beth's baby shower. The girls were stars. We got so many compliments about them--beautiful and well-behaved. Lena'd slept about 20 minutes in the car and Nico didn't nap until 3, on the way home. We broke our diet with cheese and cucumber, but they didn't reach for any of the other food. (I have to say I feel a little creepy that people think they're so well-behaved, as if I'm disciplining them to be "good." I don't really correct them, you know? They're just good babies.) On Sunday there was lots of playing outside with the twins around the corner and another boy visiting his grandma. Tonight it's cold and rainy again.

New stuff:

• Last week we cut all 20 fingernails in a five minute span of time. I've never even gotten all day in one day before!
  
• We went to the zoo by ourselves Friday, sans stroller. Good workout.
• Lena is really mimicking everything we say. I think she said tractor. As the diet's gotten stricter, she seems to be talking more. It's so cool.
  
• Nico is such an explorer. People call her a mama's girl (my little sweetie), but she wants to go into everyone's backyard, even without me. And she loved "riding" the toy horse at the baby shower. Beth said she's a natural. (I don't really know about riding, but they seemed like they seriously thought she'd be a good rider.)
  
• The girls are addicted to books. And airplanes. And dogs and cats and birds and other twins.

(Above, with the doggie at the shower in Kittery, Maine.)