A Day in Our Life: 19 + 20 Month Old Twins

I’ve got some catching up to do. Months 19 + 20 flew by. We’re in the thick of it now. Theo’s speech therapy is going well. He’s adding new sounds and sort-of words. I love hearing his sweet sing song voice. Arty is getting pretty chatty too! We drop Arty off to play with my parents while Theo and I go to speech. Arty has said papa (for my dad, Poppy) and glasses - also with my dad. I remember reading on my favorite blog that once her children started talking, the world cracked open. I feel that. Children are so mysterious and the newborn phase felt like an alien world to me. What are they thinking, feeling!? Do they understand this? I love that, soon, they will be able to tell us.

I don’t know if I say this each month, but it’s been rough. Things are intense at work right now. Lots of design projects in progress and it’s a struggle to keep up with it all. Not a lot of room or mental space for drawing and creating. Graphic design feels very much like organizing for me. A great feeling, to be sure, but after the main assets are created, there’s not a lot of room for free flow.

I have been feeling pent up and have resolved to start getting out for a run in the evenings when Dusty gets home. I feel a new flush of pandemic bitterness - the sting of dashed expectations. But after a couple days in my new afternoon run ritual, I’m already feeling better.

Highlights of these months include:

• wagon rides in the sunshine

• lots of coloring and drawing outside with chalk

• watching the inauguration together (!)

• bi weekly ish trips to the library have resumed thanks to Auntie JoJo, she comes along so the boys can roam while I grab some new reading material for us, hats off to our fabulous librarians at the Woodstock Public Library, you always seem happy to see our rather loud and exuberant group approach

• playground meet up with my mom friends, so fun, so needed, a bit complicated with two, but we made it work

• so much playing outside with our surprisingly wonderful weather

• first haircut for Arty (I cried, but also it’s so cute)

xoxo,
Mads

P.S. New stickers in the shop, an awesome recipe shared to me by Tante Willie, and the cutest lil plant pins you ever did see!

A Day in Our Life: 18 Month Old Twins

18 months feels like a huge milestone, but then no milestone has really felt small. New month, new challenges, new delights. Highlights of this month include:

• Doing Christmas crafts and pretty much hating ever minute of it, I loved it though

• A family photoshoot with the cousins, (Thanks Auntie JoJo for this lovely photo!)

• Celebrating our second Christmas with the babes, new toys, new books, new lewks

• They are getting so good at puzzles

• Reading a million books (or the same books a million times), we’re working the library back into our routine

• Arthur began kinda sleeping through the night, sometimes, I can’t tell you what the added sleep has done for us, it’s incredible

• A trip to the botanical gardens with Auntie JoJo, begun fighting the stroller (noooooo!), but very well behaved in the giftshop (yayyy!)

• I can see them working out their independence already, and they have such a desire to help us with daily life tasks, Arthur is a PRO as helping me close the fridge and Theo is just about the only one who can help me get that dishwasher closed

• As I see their personalities emerge, I fall more and more in love, they are such great kids, we’re so lucky

xoxo,
Mads

A Day in Our Life: 17 Month Old Twins

New challenges this month. Sleep regression and teething again. Tantrums. But walking so fast and far! Theo walks like a kid now, and luckily Arty still has his toddler toddle. Arty is attempting some words: dog, car, Mimi, (ba)nana. His sweet voice… there is nothing like it. Sometime Theo wakes up and it’s like he’s learned something in his sleep. He’ll break out a new expression we’ve never seen or start saying “ah-oh” or “ah-done.”

We play outside as much as possible and we are wearing shoes now! Comfy leather soft shoes have really done the trick, though I’m sure we’ll move to something more sturdy now that the weather is getting colder.

We’re looking at a local school for them to go to a couple mornings a week. It feels both like the best idea ever and also like something I can’t fathom. I have fears about both doing it and also not doing it. We’ll see how it goes.

Hugs,
Mads