Thankyouwelcome

First, my apologies, I've been a delinquent blogger lately. I have no excuse, I just took a break.

On to the post. I've been meaning to write this post for a while. Now that the girls are chattering up a storm, they say very funny things and I want to start recording those more on the blog.

One of the unique twin things that the girls have been saying for quite some time, almost as long as they have been talking, is "Thankyouwelcome". That's all one word. And what it means is "Stop whatever you are playing with and trade it with what I am playing with, right now." Hailey is usually the one that says it first. I'll give you an example. If they are each playing with a puzzle, a few minutes in (sometimes just seconds) Hailey will say, "Thankyouwelcome" and Riley will instantly stop and switch puzzles with Hailey. They have been saying it so long and so often that they are conditioned to do it and there is not usually any protesting or fighting. They came up with it on their own, but I think we have just always encouraged their politeness, and for a long time they were confused about who exactly should say "thank you" and "you're welcome" and when.

Here are some pictures from last weekend, when we were having a visit from Grandpa Tom, Grandma Susan, Susan's sister Karen and niece Abby. The girls were in prime show off / entertain everyone mood. They got dressed up and put on a show! I have some great video from that day too but it's not edited yet. I'll get it up soon.