Say Hey Bloggtrotters,

It was a wonderful break in December. We had a great time in San Antonio. The girls' vocabulary is exploding! They can still say the old favorites (ball, flower and bird), but now they can really say cheese, shoes (sounds like ssssssshhuze), owl and socks. They are understanding so much more too. They can execute simple commands like "Go get the book" and often they will do it. Tilly was able to "Go get the remote" which is one of the Parents Of The Year qualifiers. They can also communicate with their sign language so much more than just a week ago. Tilly will tell you constantly that it is both time to eat and time to sleep. (except we no longer refer to nap time as "nap time." A more accurate term is "crib time.")
All ladies in the house are sick or at least trying to get over it. I also am sick, but I won't elaborate what I'm sick of since this is a family blog. We're extremely thankful because if they had gotten this RSV last year, then would have been back in the NICU at the hospital. This year it just means we've had a really bad week. Last year at this time they were still premies, but now their just little ladies.
Congrats to my parents for getting a new car! Take that 1993! We hope you feel better Nana.
PICS: Ellie is on the right for the first two and on the left for the last three (coming second she is the sinister twin for all you latin lovers)
That is Ellie with the granola bars. She's been playing with these for the past 3 days. As you can see in the video she puts them in different baskets and carts them around, takes them out, organizes them, puts them in the cabinet drawer, takes them out and moves them to another location. The good news is we no longer have to do the expensive DNA tests to see if she inherited the "crazy" gene. The odds were very likely since both Abby and I are carriers.
Video: turn the sound up on the last one so you can hear Abby asking them the questions. Tilly knows all the things as well, but only Ellie was participating.