laughing matters

Our kids are now 15 months old! I look at my cousin's twins who were born in July and I just can't believe how quickly they grow! I love this stage right now. The boys are like little sponges, they just soak up every thing around them. We are teaching the kids some baby signs and they are so adorable! They flap their arms whenever they see birds, pant with their tongue out for dog, and their favorite right now is to "trumpet" like an elephant. Tyler is especially notorious for spying elephants. He'll start blowing and I'll look around all over and low & behold there is a tiny elephant on the page. In the last couple of days both of them finally realized what the sign "more" was for and they have using it constantly at meal times. We gave them some icecream last night and they'd take a bite and enthusiastically sign "more!" Bryce & Tyler are starting to interact more and more with each other all the time. It's so cute to just sit and watch them play. Bryce is the more dominant baby when it comes to toys and he kind of runs the show. He has the most amazing attention span for his age and will just sit with a toy for 20 minutes at a time.Tyler will go from toy to toy, come check in with mommy, go back to see what Bryce is doing and will eventually go get his blanky out of his crib and carry it around. This will usually result in Bryce getting his blanky and both will roll around on the ground with them laughing. I love when they laugh! Marc can get them to laugh hysterically over the silliest things. One night we were getting the boys ready for bed and Tyler fell down so Marc yells out "Boom!" Both boys started giggling so he said it again and they just went nuts. Both would stand up and sit down just to get him to say it again. We were all rolling on the ground laughing. It's moments like that which make parenting so worthwhile. It's the pure joy of those single moments that get you through all the tough ones. These babies are the best thing to ever happen to us. Here's to a thousand more "boom" moments!