Zachary has begun employing the force when he wants something. Like a little Padawan, he thrusts his arm forward, opens his hands, and wills the object in question into his tiny grasp. Add a facial contortion and some grunting and you have a scene out of Star Wars. For example, last night he wanted some …
Taming Twins: A Great Day
Ok so I take it back, I won't give away my twins. Some days are tough and others are fantastic. It's like living on a roller coaster. Today was one of the really exceptional days. The boys woke up at 6:30 and I got up with them and let Sally sleep in for once. We …
Taming Twins: O Holy Night
Tonight was a good one. Adam wasn't feeling his best today and he was pretty much done with the world when we picked him up from daycare. He fell asleep in the car so we let him stay there for a bit after we got home while Zach ate dinner. Eventually we brought him in …
An Adorable Ancedote
Adam was in a melancholy mood this afternoon. We'd been out for much of the afternoon and he hadn't had a nap for several hours. He was getting tired. When he gets tired he tends to get cuddly and clingy. After clinging to Sally for a bit on the couch, he noticed me in the …
Books, Hats, and Waking Up
On good days Zachary has a wake-up routine. He begins by chattering to himself quietly as he rolls around pushing his legs out and running his feet between the rungs of the crib. After a few minutes of this rolling, he moves towards the end of the crib where his noise maker and dresser are …
Taming Twins : 13 Month Check In
It's amazing how fast or slow time goes by depending on how you look at it. On one hand if I think about the past 13 months of my life, they have gone by in a flash. I think the boys keep us so busy that when we look at life day-to-day it seems to …
Twins on a Plane: To and Fro
It's been three weeks since I posted about our trip to visit my father in Lubbock Texas and the anxieties that came with dragging two one year olds across the country, namely how they would react to the pressure changes, how we would keep them entertained, who we would sit with, and whether we would …
Taming Twins: To Those (Things) We've Lost
The boys are a year old now and it's amazing to look back. Not at the way they've grown or the things they've learned, but at all the stuff that we had and the things that the boys did that we no longer have to deal with. Here's the list of all of the things …
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Twins on a Plane: Packing Pandemonium
Today was quite a day in the Taylor household. It was supposed to go relatively smoothly; we had done most of our packing earlier this week so we were just going to go to work, chill out until the end of the day, pick up the boys, finish up some minor things this evening, and …
Twins on A Plane Part I: Are We Nuts?
Recently we've been preparing to visit my father in Texas. We've made a list, we're checking it twice, and we're just not sure who will be naughty or nice. We leave Wednesday morning and have about eight hours of travel ahead of us. We are bringing our two one year old boys through an airport …
Relatively Ambitious 