22 Month Review

My twins are 23 months old TODAY!!! Which means in just one short month, they will be celebrating their 2nd birthdays!!! It also means that I will stop doing these monthly reviews and just stick with a summary from time to time, as their milestones call for it. I really don't have tons to report this month, mainly because I've been slack and haven't been writing things down as the twins have been doing them. A few things that I'd like to report is how they are learning so many new words. Berkley is doing especially well at enunciating syllables like the "ch" or "th" sound, which really impresses me. Meredith surprised me recently by saying "God" and "Jesus" when I asked her who she was praying to. They both say the word "name" really well and laugh when they enunciate the "mmm" sound. Meredith can say "Mary Charles," which is my mom's name, but neither one of them will say Grandma yet. I think they're going to end up calling my mom "eh-who" because that's a little game they play with each other; Grandma calls "eh-who" and they call back with another "eh-who" or in Berkley's case sometimes it's "who-he." Meredith will also say "Joe B," which is my dad's name. One name they've both learned this month is "Sissy," which is my sweet niece, McKinley's, nickname! Meredith and Berkley talk about Sissy and Hutch all the time and we're looking forward to going to some of Hutch's baseball games in the near future! Meredith sings a lot on her own now. I have no clue what she's singing or even what words she's using, but boy is she loving singing it. Berkley has started initiating holding hands and hugging, whereas before only Meredith would go to hold his hand and he didn't really reciprocate it. One sweet thing that Berkley did this month was when visiting my mom's house, we had some company from Piney Grove Church stop by. My mom asked Berkley to show the company where Grandaddy was, so he walked them to my dad's door and pointed at my dad lying in his bed. How sweet is that?! I love that Berkley knows who his Grandaddy is:) Meredith and Berkley are both getting taller and have grown into 24 month shirts, but their little waists are still too small for the pants. Berkley had a really bad case of diaper rash this month for which we had to take him to the peds night clinic at ECU. It looked like it hurt so bad and still isn't completely healed, but it's on the mend. It's nice to have a doctor in the house to keep an eye on it with me. Well, I guess that's all the updates for now. Here's a sweet picture of Meredith and Berkley sitting together watching a soccer game at my mom's house.


And here they are reading a Farm Bureau Magazine that my mom brought them. My mom wants me to submit it to the magazine to see if they'll publish it and I might just try it. You can't blame a girl for trying.