A little late…I started this post last week and am just now finding the time to finish it. 

 This week has been oozing firsts.

  Of course the biggest first was the babies first birthday! The second first was Heaten’s first tooth. Then we had Shenzie’s first crawl. Next came the first time in over a year that I was alone in the house…Jeff took the babies for a walk..I didn’t quite know what to do..run around naked? Take a 15 minute nap? Shower AND shave? Nope…I vacuumed. I’m such a rebel! We had the first time Heaten and Shenzie did the sign for duck. Today (October 10) for the first time Shenzie said Ut Oh.

 Fast foward one week and Shenzie now says Bye Bye, Red, and Blue*. Today while out to lunch with Daddy she waved for the first time. Heaten isn’t saying any words just yet, but still signs duck and milk and can yell really loud.

  Last week we stole the highchair water table idea from Eva. It was a great, big, messy, cold hit! The first thing Shenzie did was spash the water everywhere getting her clothes completely soaked. Then she tried to scoop the water in a spoon and drink it. I had to refill her water 3 times in 15 minutes. Heaten was a little less messy. He still ended up soaked, but wasn’t the crazy water throwing baby that Shenzie was. They had fun and the highchairs got a good cleaning in the process!

*Edited to add: Shenzie does not recognize the colors red and blue..she just repeats the words back to me.