The last 6 months have been filled with lots of adventure. The girls have started to go to playgrounds and play with kangaroos! It is such a joy to watch them get excited over something like a puppy dog or even a train set. I think my favourite moments have been them learning to talk. I was thrilled to hear their first word (other than mum, dad, nanna) which was "bird". This was around 13 months. They say about 50 words now. They have started to talk to wach other as well. Their first word to each other was "boo" as in peekaboo then "share" quickly followed by "no" and "hello". They also hug and kiss each other...awwww. I am yet to capture this on camera though.I must admit not everything has been smooth sailing. They still got sick once a month and there was a trip to the emergency room with dehydration. They still don't sleep through the night either. They have been able to self settle for over a year. Unfortunately they still aren't very good at staying asleep. They go to sleep fine at 7pm but will wake once or twice in the night and will be up for 1-3hours. I think our problem is that when they are sick we help them to go back to sleep (rocking, cosleeping, milk feed) and then they get used to this and demand it all the time. We have tried over and over to sleep train them (cut back the milk and cosleeping) and eventually they will get a bit better but by the time we've done that they are sick again and we are back at square one. There is just no way they will fall asleep by themselves when they are sick. They can't suck their thumb with a blocked nose which is the main issue....they really like their thumb! They are sick every month which drives us nuts but we've been told there's nothing we can do about that.
