If you are looking for an official day of infamy, as was the case with Ben, then you're outta luck. I'll give A&B one thing - they are truly individuals. By that I mean, they are staying the course in the "we do very little, if anything alike" category. Quite opposites if you ask me.
So it was with little fanfare and a bunch of fits and starts over the span of a year that Audrey's potty training finally clicked in her brain.
In previous posts I mentioned my will to get her out of diapers by her 3 1/2 year mark. That of course was foolish on my account. Where Ben molds easily, Audrey goes her own path. If she was to let go of her precious panties it would be on her schedule, thank you very much. I acknowledged our inability to "force" her to go in the porcelain god rather than her princess panties early on and probably ended up saving a few years of my life as a result.
So we waited patiently. Constantly encouraging her on her success stories, quietly crying when she digressed. For a while there I had visions of begging her to go on the potty two years from now as we brought her to kindergarten. ;(
It was a change of venue that finally helped her click - that and I think a maturity that seemed to emerge over the summer. So starting in August, on our summer vacation, she independently went to the powder room all on her own. Not only was she going to do it on her own schedule, but she didn't need any of our antiquated help either! And that was fine - I didn't care how she did it - as long as she did it! And she continued, despite my skepticism and doubt that it would last. It's been one month now and no set backs! Nicely done Audrey!
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In addition to being the summer season, the last few months have brought a big change in the twins.
They are truly a joy to watch. And as they begin to interact and play better with other kids, I am forever grateful that they have each other to entertain and enjoy. It really is priceless watching them play, wrestle, converse and laugh endlessly together. They both have sprouted upward in height as well as expanded in their verbal communication. It's easy to have conversations with them now.
Ben can negotiate with the best of them. Whether it's how much more of his dinner he has to eat, how much TV he can watch, or how late he can stay up, he is constantly negotiating the terms. Lucky for him he's pretty cute and has a fairly good sense of humor, otherwise I think his days would be numbered.
Audrey's imagination has exploded. She is constantly coming up with new names and scenarios and discussing them like they were always a part of our lives. Recently we discovered that she has a sister Kayma who has the same birthday as Audrey, although is a year older. Kayma has pink hair and two dogs - (both pink) Carabesco (love that name - no idea how she thought of it!), who is big and has 5 pink puppies with red tails, and Alyna who is small. (Audrey made a point of telling me they are ALL girls by the way. Also that Kayma was with a "K" and Carabesco was with a "C".)
She goes into pretty elaborate stories about where Kayma lives and what she is doing: "At night Kayma sleeps in Ben's bed - that is why Ben ends up coming to Mom & Dad's room to sleep..."
They will be 4 years young in less than a month. I was told that though the two's and three's can be "terrible," that 4 is the "magic" year. We've had quite a bit of magic this past year, so I'm really looking forward to the next amazing feats that the Wonderwins astound us with!
