tale of two monkeys

Hi friends,

It's been a late night for me so i'll have to post more details tomorrow, but everything is going well. One short story to show a difference between our twins is how they react to a monkey. We had lunch with aunt Mary at her place yesterday and she has a rather large stuffed animal monkey that makes monkey noises when he is moved around. We sat Easton and Layla in front of the monkey and shook him a bit to instigate the noises. Layla was amazed and immediately lunged forward grabbing a hand-full of stuffed monkey fur before we could pry her away from it. Easton sat there, stunned, and went from quivering bottom lip to full-on crying within just a couple of seconds. I hope we didn't give Easton a monkey-phobia... Here's Layla moments later after we moved the monkey on the other side of the rocking horse, she began to navigate her way through to play with the stuffed animal.

After things calmed down, they were watching their Baby Einstein movie so we could have a peaceful lunch with Mary. We have fun just watching them sit upright and get excited about the movie. You can see the kid on TV chewing the corn while Layla and Easton both chew on their toys.

We've discovered Layla and Easton have hazel eyes and that's probably how they will stay. I'm not sure what age eye color becomes more permanent, but I'm sure the answer is the same as every other baby question: "It depends on the baby".

Another entertaining scene was giving Easton and Layla an entire cracker (as opposed to little crumbly pieces) and watching them figure out how to eat it. They both knew to use their mouth to break the cracker, but as you can see in this picture below, Easton was baffled by the whole idea. We ended up with half of the cracker on the floor, as you might expect.

A few other stories come to mind, but i'll have to save them for tomorrow afternoon when i get a chance to blog again. :) have a great day!