If you did not see the blog last week, the Boy is attempting to walk now. He took five steps this evening and his face lights up when you praise him like he had just won a marathon. That statement is nothing more than a simile because let's face it, Fat Boy will not be running too many marathons. Based on the amount of times he hits his head, he won't be winning any spelling B's either. Do you remember the movie Tommy Boy........classic Chris Farley movie? At one point in the movie, Chris Farley's character gets hit with a 2x4 upside the face and he keeps complaining that it hurts. "Not so much here, but here", he says as he points to a huge mark on his face. Well Lawson Boy took yet another tumble down the stairs this evening, and after some time I noticed a big long mark on his face. I started laughing because I could just picture my 1 year old son looking at me asking me, "are you sure I don't have a mark on my face, not so much here but right her." Makes me laugh again writing about it, the kid cracks me up!
All this walking seems to have intensified his already large appetite. You would think at some point, the child could not keep eating the way he does. I can't go into the pantry and get a snack without him following me like my shadow. The boy could be at the complete opposite end of the house and if you even think about getting up to get a snack, he can sense it and he'll come flying at you with his little food grunt noise that he makes.
Lily is growing up so fast and turning into quite the young lady. She cracks me up with her stories from school and her explanation of her social interactions. She tells us how her feelings get hurt a little when a certain boy and girl are playing and she thinks they are leaving her out. She is only in kindergarten, I can only imagine the drama factor increasing exponentially as she gets older. Hopefully she will continue to be open with us and tell us about, but I know that will all change at some point.
You hear about phenomenons that happen between twins and stories about one feeling another's pain, and it is somewhat interesting to think about. We certainly do not look for these type of things to happen with Abby and Chloe and frankly I don't put a whole lot of stock into the stories you hear. I do believe that there is very special bond between identical twins and a closeness that other siblings and friends will never experience. Maybe it's because they will spend very few days apart for the first 18 years of their lives. If you spend that much time together, it makes sense you could finish somebody elses sentence.
Chloe has a sore on her thumb that looks a little infected so we have been putting antibiotics on it and this evening I put a band aid on it so she wouldn't rub it while she slept. I put them down for the night and after about 5 minutes, I heard one start crying and then the other start screaming. When I went up there to see what was going on, I found Abby literally scared and yelling, "Chloe lost her band aid, Chloe lost her band aid." Chloe was crying but not nearly as hard as Abby. I went to console Abby at first and she just kept crying about Chloe's band aid. As soon as I picked up Chloe to see if her thumb was okay and put a new band aid on her, Abby immediately calmed down and laid back down to go to sleep. In no way do I think that Abby felt the physical pain that Chloe felt, but she felt emotion and empathy for another person like I have never seen. It was really pretty cool to see!
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe and the weeble wobble
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