More Milk

After showing Jackson the sign for "milk" about 5-10 times, he learned how to do it on his own! Now he can say, "more milk" and he's so proud! You can see it in his eyes. As soon as he asks for more milk and I give him praise for asking properly (not screaming or yelling) his eyes were lit up and he started clapping for himself!! It's too cute.

Aiden has been doing very well with his manners. He's said "Thank You" about 3 times today without Jason or I needing to prompt him to say it! I think it helps that Jason and I are always trying to use our manners with one another in front of the kids. They see that we do it, that's it's just what's normal...and they follow what we do.

Mr. Jackson seems more social since we moved to San Marcos. Isn't that strange? He's waving and "talking" to strangers more and more these days. Today he was even flirting with a woman who was sitting near us while Aiden sat across from the table, completely unaware. It's amazing how much they change over the months.

The one thing that STILL hasn't changed is the weight difference. Jackson is clearly wearing 18 month old pants and you have to struggle to get him into 12 month old pants. It looks goofy on him. Aiden, on the other hand can hardly wear 12 month pants due to his little waist but they almost always look like capri's/high water's. Aiden NEEDS the length of 18 month old pants but the waist of 9-12 month old pants. Jackson has ALWAYS been bigger than Aiden. The closest they've ever been in weight was on June 9, 2007, the day they were born. Jackson was 5 lbs 1 oz and Aiden was 4 lbs 12 oz. That's really, really close for fraternal twins. Jackson seemed to just thrive outside of the womb, gaining weight and learning how to feed from a bottle right away while Aiden took some time...therefore Aiden was slow to gain weight. The weight difference became more pronounced as Aiden started eating less and less due to his acid reflux. Once they started eating table food, Aiden has seemed to keep up with Jackson's gain but he can't seem to catch up yet. Where at one people wouldn't believe that they were twins, the difference was so big...you can still tell that Jackson is bigger, but it seems more slight at this age.

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I'd better get going. Thank you all for tuning in.