Almost Two!

The kids are just a few months away from turning two years old, and they've been making leaps and bounds verbally and physically.  Anybody that's spent time with them can attest to the fact that they talk all day long.  A friend said tonight about our sweet boy that he narrates life.  And that's probably a good way to put it.  I feel like I have a running commentary on everything that happens all day long.  And his sister is not far behind him.  They both talk primarily in short phrases, really pretty close to sentences.  We've got two talkers on our hands, that's for sure.  These kiddos are full of personality!

They're doing such big kids things lately.  I really think having each other spurs them on.  Our little 20 and 21 month olds can walk down the stairs holding on to just the rail.  Not mommy's hand.  Hard to believe, isn't it?  Here's some evidence:

I need to get the video camera out more often.  Sweet miss is doing it too.  And they regularly go down the whole staircase that way.  They surprise me every day. 

We went to the grocery store a couple of weeks ago and they didn't have any double shopping carts at the front.  We only needed a couple of things, so I took a chance on one of the little mini-shopping carts for kids to push.  My two littles LOVE to be helpers.  So I encouraged them to help me push the cart.  And they pushed it all through the store.  Now this is not just a small grocery store.  It's a big one -- so big that sometimes I pick another one just so I don't have to walk the length of it.  And we needed things from both ends of the store.  But these little troopers stood side by side and pushed their cart from the time we walked in the door to the time we hit the checkout lane.  I was so pleased (and a little surprised, to be honest).  God has been so good to give us these precious two!