3 already!

  I am filled with such emotion today. My babies are 3! I am overwhelmed with love for them. They complete my family in every way. They make me smile, laugh and lately cry because I love them so much and just can't get enough of them!
  They are learning so much now. The are pretty much potty trained. Sophie took to it much faster than Emma. Emma just likes to get a potty treat so now she is doing pretty well. They know how to play on the computer by themselves. They love to dance! ( I am so excited to see if they will want to do dance!!) They play so well with Ethan. I have loved watching them play together lately. Such good friends. They still fight with each other but you can tell they love each other so much!
   Some of my favorite things about Emma include tucking her in at night. She always wants me to do "burrito baby". When we do kisses I always say "Lets do hugs....but not TOO big", then she hugs me so tight. We do that with kisses too. She LOVES cars and trucks. She has been playing with them constantly lately. One of my favorite things to say to her lately is "No way Jose" then she says " OH YES Jose" It is soooo cute! She also sometimes comes up to me with her hair all staticy and says "My hair CRAZY" With her hands on her head in despair. It is so cute!
  Sophie is my little princess. She loves to have her hair braided and sparkles on her toes. They got a little vanity for their birthday with a fake hair drier and she loves to pretend to dry her hair. She has gotten into my mascara more than once and come to me with black all over her eyes. She is so independent and such a fast learner. When I am acting funny she always says "Silly MOMMY"! So cute! She also says "Oh my GOODNESS! Don't make a mess Emma."

  I am truly lucky to have these little blessings in my life!

Emma's speech

In April of this year we started to have a speech therapist come to work with Emma to improve her speech. We noticed that Sophie was saying a lot more words than Emma was. In fact Emma wasn't really saying anything. She mainly just giggled and made grunting noises. We thought that it might be that the girls are twins and Sophie was doing the talking for both of them but thought it wouldn't hurt to have someone test her.
They came over and asked a lot of questions and used special toys to test her speech and other things like motor skills, language, and social skills. She passed with flying colors in everything but receptive language and expressive language. She was testing about 6 months behind where she should be.
The therapist comes twice a month and has lots of fun toys and things that help her speech along. Emma's therapist's name is Becky. All the kids LOVE her. They are always waiting at the window when she comes over. Sometimes I think that the kids all swarm her a little too much when she is here and hope that Emma is getting all the time that she needs. I try to hold Ethan and Sophie back as much as I can. LOL.
I have noticed that she says a ton more words and is even putting together 3 word sentence's.  I am so proud of her and just love her so much. I am happy that we decided to do some therapy with her. She loves to have Becky come over and I can tell it is helping her so much.
In September the did some standardized testing she passed in all of the areas!! We are so proud of her and sad to know that Becky is not going to be coming to visit us anymore. I am thankful for her and all that she has done for Emma. In the end I think she may have just not been ready to start chatting just yet.
WE love our little Emma bean so much and are so blessed to have her in our live.

LOVE you Emma

Chicken POX??!!

Well about two weeks ago we took the girls in for their 12 month appointment and they got their immunizations. I think one of them was chicken pox because now Emma is breaking out in little red dots on her belly and back. Poor little thing! They both started having a fever and flu like symptoms on Sunday and now they are both just really fussy. The doc also said that Emma has an ear infection on top of it! Sophie has a few tiny red dots like when I first started to see Emma's so we will see. I guess it is better to get them out of the way now if they are going to get them.

 

  

They get much redder in the tub.

BUT ..... at least they are happy in the tub. For the most part they are unhappy when they are out.

I just have to keep reminding myself we will get through this!

UPDATE : They do not have the chicken pox. I called the doc and she said that the girls did not get the vaccine when they came in.....it was probably from the MMR shot. 1 in 10 kids get rash like bumps mainly on their torso. But Emma does have an ear infection and that is probably what is making her so fussy.

POOR GIRLS~!