Better late than never....

So it's been a while, but here is the latest update on the little lasses:

Evangeline and Mikayla are 22 months old this week. They talk a lot which is often pretty funny.

Mikayla calls herself 'Kippy' (originally named thus by Evangeline) and Evangeline is 'Ebie'.

Sunglasses are known as 'coodoos' (cool dudes), the moon (which they are obsessed with, goodness knows why) is 'moo-ky' (moon sky) and their great-grandparents are big grandpa and big grandma (they came up with these explanations themselves. Granny and Grandpa are certainly not big in size, however!).

They like to have cuggles (cuddles) with each other, although these often end in fights if one child is not so keen on being cuggled at the time.

Mikayla is very attached to her teddy and increasingly also to her blanket. Both must be present for sleep. Evangeline doesn't get as attached to cuddly toys, but has phases where certain books are toted around all day. At the moment, she likes a very small book with nursery rhymes. Both are very keen on anything when Elmo, Humpty or the moon, cousin Ella, friend Elliot (ET) or Grandparents are involved.

They are developing a lovely little relationship with each other, and although they have some nasty fights (like most siblings, and more so being exactly the same age), they are playing together and enjoying each other's company more and more. Anytime they are without each other, they talk about their sister constantly.

Discipline is challenging with both, (double tantrums are particularly difficult to soothe) but has its funny moments, like a few nights ago when we heard uncharacteristic silence at bedtime, then a giggle. Both were dancing around buck naked in their cot, and we had to leave the room several times for laughing.

Life continues to be a musical for poor John, as like their mother the girls understand that there is a song for any object, situation, time or person's name. Both show signs of creativity: Evangeline's sculpting imagination with playdough is unsurpassed, and Mikayla's colouring in is very creative, as well as showing her mother's somewhat artistic temperament when upset. They love running and moving and climbing and pretty much any sport, like their father. Hopefully this will last past adolescence.

Both love to read the Bible and talk to God with us, and we pray that most of all it is this that lasts and develops into a love for Him.