51 weeks

I think I said this in an earlier post but it's either just being with them 24/7 for the last week or they really have jumped into the next developmental leap because we are really noticing some advancement with the girls.

Someone asked how old the girls were and while we were responding, both put their little pointer fingers up for "1." Josie was standing up and playing with a toy at the airport. Alex was also holding herself up without support on Christmas Eve. They are both responding to, and doing most of the moves to, itsy bitsy spider, twinkle twinkle, and happy and you know it. And both are copying us when we speak or do an action like stick out our tongues.

Josie is saying short words (I.e. dog) and pointing at what she is saying. They are both waving and saying hi. And are very proud of themselves for doing so. Alex waved and said hi to everyone around us on the plane.  

When we first had kids I pictured 1 year olds as being practically self sufficient- walking and talking and eating on their own. Ok I know now that's not quite reality but in this past week or two in seeing some huge jumps towards that. 

This week of travel has been pretty successful. Only a few times were the girls not really going along with the plan. Once resulted in some crabbiness at a restaurant but seriously that's all we had to deal with so we were pretty lucky. They were also a bit crazier at bedtime with being more active and more stimulated than usual.

I was pretty impressed with us though - doing the day to day with the girls is exhausting on its own yet here we were doing it AND being on the go with plans every day and visiting new places and having to figure out where and how to make bottles or feed solids or change diapers. But we did it!!! Without any real melt downs or disasters!

Time to plan our next trip! This time in thinking somewhere tropical :) and next time we won't have to deal with formula as we will be weaning to real milk over the next month or so :)

And speaking of awesome little girls - we feared that with the naps on the plane and the time change that they would be up and ready for the day at 4 a.m. - nope! Slept in until 6:45 and are just talking to each other in their cribs now at 7:15. Thank you ladies!! How thoughtful to let mom and dad sleep!