Teamwork

If the twins could talk (they are starting to talk, B"H, but they're not up to real conversation yet) I can just imagine what Yehuda Leib would have been saying...

"Okay, Hillel, I'm going to climb up the chair and open the door handle.  You grab the door and keep it open, and then I'll climb down and we'll make the great escape together.  But move fast, we don't want Mommy to catch us, or all the fun will be over!"

Brother's Keeper

(No, this post isn't about the IDF operation launched after the tragic kidnapping of Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali.  I hope its not callous to use this title, but it seemed so befitting...)

B"H Yehuda Leib is starting to talk, and one of his first words is....."Hila" (translation: Hillel).   He is always looking for Hillel and calling his name - he probably did this before he started talking too but its so much more noticeable when it has verbal accompaniment. It is so cute to see how much he looks out for his brother - something so unique and special about being a twin!  Uusually babies at this age are so egocentric...but I guess when you were born with a "partner" your "ego" includes him too!
Some examples:

• Once I gave Yehuda Leib a piece of Chalva- before he even took a bite, right away he ran to find Hillel, calling "Hila" - and pulled him to the kitchen so he can get a piece too (as opposed to some of his siblings, who go run to their siblings so that they can tease them...ahem!)


• I put some supper onto Yehuda Leib's high chair tray (he wasn't yet seated inside) - as soon as he saw, he brought me Hillel's tray which had been laying on the floor...then he ran to the couch where Hillel (who refused to take a nap all afternoon!) had finally plotzed, and starting pulling on him "Hila, Hila, Come!"


• One morning as I was washing dishes, I hear Yehuda Leib calling Hillel's name.  He was going from room to room, looking for his brother.  Then I noticed the front door was slightly open...and Hillel was trying to make a grand escape!  Good thing his brother noticed his absence before anything bad happened to him!

May Hashem help that they should always have such a close bond, and that they should continue to always look out for each other and want only the best for each other!

Double Trouble

Hi everyone!

Ever since after our cousin, Saadya, posted on his Mommy's blog about some of the trouble he makes, we've been CHALISHING to share some our great trouble tips...only our Mommy seems to be too busy to ever blog about us (do you think maybe if we'd tone down the trouble-making a bit, she'd blog more?!)  Well, FINALLY one morning, we took a good long nap, hoping we'd give her some time to blog about us...we're so excited to be in the limelight!

Here's some of the mischief we've been up to lately...we recommend our other little cousins to try some of these things out, although it may not be as fun if you're on your own...we love each other's company- it makes trouble making even MORE exciting!

• Make a beeline for the pantry whenever Mommy forgets to close the child-lock.  This is especially fun right after she's gone shopping and put away all the groceries!  And if you work together, you can empty the shelves out at record speed!

• If Mommy DID remember to close the child-lock on the pantry, check around the other fun spots in the kitchen- she's bound to have forgotten something!  One day we had a really fun time emptying out the cabinet with all the foil pans- we made a whole concert, baking them and crinkling them- but Mommy must've not liked our taste in music, since she didn't seem too pleased!

• This one was REALLY fun.  We got our hands on the basket full of baking supplies one morning whlie Mommy was busy cooking, and we emptied it out (of course).  Then we found these really small bottles of paint (Mommy called it food coloring) and we had so much fun painting each other!  What was really funny is that when Mommy tried washing us off, there was just tons of yellow water, filling up the whole bathtub!  Eventually, though, it did go away :(

 

There's tons more that we do, but Mommy hasn't been so good about taking pictures lately, so that's all we can show you for now.  But we'll do our best to keep making more trouble, and maybe if our Mommy is better about pulling out the camera, we'll have more to share with you soon!

Love,

Lelly and Duda

Yungers in Action: Hillels' Piggy-back Ride!

These little twins of ours have lots of fun together - I've got tons of adorable videos of the two of them to share with you- some recent, and others quite old. This one is from a few days ago; I've been trying to catch this on camera for some time, and finally got it!

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This was NOT staged!

Actual date: 9/22/2013

Bentzi called me one night from the babies' room, "Yael, this is so cute- you have to come take a picture!"  Now Bentzi's a great father and all, but he's not really the cutesy-putesy-take-a-picture kinda guy.  So when he said this to me, I knew I had a perfect blog post in the making....

I grabbed the camera and came to see what was so cute.  Well, I sure wasn't dissappointed!

We have since moved the babies into separate cribs; 
although we did have the occasional cuddle moment like this, 
too often we found Yehuda Leib crawling all over Hillel, 
which Hillel was NOT too happy about!

Having a good time!

I took this picture when we went on our Chol Hamoed Sukkos trip- I'll be posting more about it soon- but I think this picture deserves a post all its own. Don't those guys look like they're having a good time!? B"H we all did! Stay tuned for more details, coming soon....

 

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"

Now that the twins are getting older and more social, its really cute to see them interact.  They love to lay on their bellies, looking at each other, and I often find them holding hands when I leave them laying near each other.  On more than one occasion, I've even found one of them sucking the other ones' thumb!  Its so cute!

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun!

These are the words I found myself singing (from an old  commercial for Wrigley's Doublemint Gum) when I was driving home from the exciting ultrasound where I found out I was carrying two babies.

B"H raising twins really is "Double your pleasure, Double your fun" (not to mention double the spit-up, double the diapers, etc!) but we are really trying to focus on the positive and to appreciate this double-bracha that Hashem has Blessed us with!  

With my hands doubly (sevenfold?) full, I haven't had time to snap many pictures, but here's a sampling -the twins don't really have much matching clothing, but I try to snap a picture when they do wear outfits that match!  (And even on the occasion that I do dress them matching, its rare that they both stay clean long enough to enjoy it!) 

Aren't they absolutely precious?  But since they don't look anything alike, I don't think they'd make it onto a Wrigley's commercial.  Oh well!  Maybe we'll have better luck next time!