26 Months!

The girls turned 26 months today! Although technically once kids turn 2, I think most stop counting months, but I think I will keep it up because it reminds me to let everyone know more about who they are, what they like, dislike and how they are driving us nuts :-)

Aven: Aven continues to find ways to push our buttons. I feel a little bad because at some point, she will read this and she will know that she was such a little diva. But hey, we all need some honest feedback once and a while :-) Plus Aven's always been a little ahead of her sisters as it relates to gross motor skills, so perhaps she's just entered her terrible 2's sooner than the other two. What I will say is that she is our most cleaver of the bunch... She has now figured out that she can use one of the play table chairs to get into drawers in the kitchen. And she ALWAYS wants to do it...

• Nicknames: Avie, Ave
• Favorite thing to do: Cooking with me in the kitchen, reading books, coloring and sliding down the slide. 
• Favorite food: My lasagna and any type of breakfast food (i.e. waffles, hash browns)
• Favorite toy: Minnie Mouse figures and stuffed animals
• Favorite TV show: Yo Gabba Gabba, Mickey Mouse Club House and the Fresh Beat Band (she likes TV the most)
• What she doesn't like: She doesn't like when people tell her no and her diaper changed
• Morning or Night: Night - she's usually the last one to go to bed and her and Stevie often mess around for a good 30-60 minutes while in their cribs. She's always been the most restless of the girls and not much has changed. Although she's like her brother and Dad in the morning or when waking up from naps and tends to be a bit crabby...
• Things she likes to say: Her favorite word and sign continues to be "more" - I'd say, she's the least chatty of the three of them. She says a lot and has full fledged triplet talk but we don't understand a lot of it.
• Funniest thing she does: When you ask her to do something and she doesn't want to, she has this cute little shake of her head. She does it a lot because of course she doesn't like doing anything that you ask her to do, but it's still pretty funny.
• Therapies: Aven is currently getting DI (development intervention) once a week. If you are unfamiliar with DI, it basically focuses on a few different skills including cognition, lanugage and communication, social behavior and fine motor skills... Our therapist focuses on the communication peices the most.   

Bria: Bria continues to be our happy little girl. She loves to give hugs and kisses and she's just got a lovable personality... She loves holding hands with her sisters and chasing them and dancing with them. They don't always like to do it in return, but Bria is always game!

• Nicknames: Bri, Bri Bri, B-B, B
• Favorite thing to do: Climb and dance
• Favorite food: She pretty much likes everything, even bananas now... I haven't found something she hasn't liked yet...
• Favorite toy: Puzzles, shape buckets/toys and Minnie Mouse toys
• Favorite TV show: Yo Gabba Gabba (but she's always been the least interested in TV)
• What she doesn't like: Her diaper changed
• Morning or Night: Neither - she's always the first to go to bed and the last to wake up.
• Things she likes to say: Mama, Dada, Declan (new), Papa, more, done, up, bye, hi, thank you ("tay ooh") (new) and several other things that make sense to her and her sisters but we don't understand.
• Funniest thing she does: She likes to laugh at herself... She thinks she's pretty funny, which makes it funny.
• Therapies: Bria gets DI with Aven, once a week.  

Stevie: Stevie is starting to be more and more like Aven - and she wants to be! She has started throwing temper tantrums and she can be very clingy some days. Because she isn't able to tell us what she wants she tends to get frustrated really fast. She still is a little lover who LOVES giving hugs and kisses (and she LOVES her brother!)

• Nicknames: Sweet Pea (that's what Andy calls her a lot)
• Favorite thing to do: Dance, talk jiberish
• Favorite food: Bananas (still)
• Favorite toy: Minnie mouse toys, magnets and magnadoodle
• Favorite TV show: Yo Gabba Gabba
• What she doesn't like: Wearing clothes and her diaper changed
• Morning or Night: Both, but is happy in the morning (mostly) - she will trade off with Aven on who wakes up first. 
• Things she likes to say: Hi, but talks the most (you just can't understand what she's saying)
• Funniest thing she does: She always greets you at the door with a hug and a "hi" and when we are just standing around in the kitchen or somewhere, she will go back and forth between Andy and I and hug our legs (she knows she is cute)
• Therapies: Stevie still gets PT, but it's now twice a month instead of weekly. She also recently started Speech Therapy, which she also get's twice a month. So instead of DI, her focus is just on the speech element. Don't get me started as to why the girls were recommended for different therapies regarding communication...

L to R: Stevie, Aven & Bria