Playing and learning

Last night, we had a fun learning and exercise game with the boys. Joy and I did things like jump, put our hands in the air, and stand on one foot and tried to get the boys to copy us.

Jacob loved it, Jasper was a little reluctant at first but then had really got in it. Jacob loved when we started spinning. As soon as he stopped spinning, I would go over to make sure he didn't fall into anything.

Jasper stated really getting into when we were standing on one foot. He had a little trouble balancing so he went over the wall and used his hand to lean. So cute!

Joy thought they could learn their animals by running to the animals that were on their wall. We would say "run to the lion" and then run and tap the lion, and then the giraffe. He did this for awhile.

We had a lot of fun playing yesterday!

Joy got a bunch of a activity books from the library today. It should be very helpful and a great learning experience.

Today, we had a snow storm. I'm hoping that it warms up a little bit to where we can take them outside to play.



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Baby time

Wednesday we took the boys to Baby Time at the Northwest library. We thought this would be a good opportunity for the boys to interact with other kids their age and also a chance for us meet some parents.

I signed up a month prior to ensure that we would get in incase it fills. When I signed up, we were the first to sign up.

When we arrived we were the only ones there. We waited around to see if more people would show up but no. It was just us and the librarian.

The boys had a really great time though! The librarian sang rhymes/songs to them, read them a story, played with puppets, marched around the room, and gave the boys shakers. The boys loved the shakers.

I can't remember if it was a story or song but one of the things the librarian did was point to her nose and other parts of the her body. We pointed either with our their hands or our hands on the boys on their bodies.

So the next day, Joy was working on getting the boys to point to their nose and say "nose." Joy said Jasper did it and said something similar to nose. Jacob did really good at pointing to his nose at dinner and when I took them for a walk at the park.

I'd say that even though we didn't get the inactions that we hoped, baby time was a success. It was really nice to get the boys into the library and to interact with the librarian. The boys had a great time and we learned a thing or two. Joy brought home the sheet with the rhymes on them to read to read to the boys.


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Walk to us, you can do it!

Joy and I have been trying harder to get the boys to start walking. Joy read about clapping and making them want to come to you while they are standing.

Jacob is getting really close. He works his right foot really well. He is able to make a step with it. However, his left foot is keeping him back. He uses his left to lean on but when he tries to move it, he falls on his butt. He gets really excited if you take both his hand and hold them so he can walk. He talk giant steps filled with laughter.

Jasper surprised us when we weren't looking by doing same thing one day by Jacob's crib. When we try to get him to walk to us by clapping or showing him something he wants, he'll just get down on the ground and crawl over to us.

Both boys will look for anything they can to hold on to walk to us. If you're holding your hand out, they'll try to grab on.

I really think they'll be walking in no time. I would imagine in the next few weeks if not sooner.