Amir and Ace at Two
TWIN'S DAY-OUT AT 2
Two insistent voices, making demands
Twice as much crying, when things go wrong
Twice as many garments, blowing on the line
Two cherubs in the sink , soaking up sunshine
Work I do for twins, naturally comes double
But four arms to hug me, repay all my trouble.
There's two to wash, two to dry;
There's two who argue, two who cry....
There's two to kiss, two to hug; And best of all, there's two to love
This is the beginning where I could see much closer the "Developmental Milestone" of my twins: During their first year, I did everything for them; changing diaper, preparing and giving up their milk and burped them after meals. But as they getting older, they learn to do more things from themselves. Watching them grow increasingly their independence is a "bittersweet" experience as a mother. Now, I'm a little bit afraid trying them to go on the outside world because most of the times they actually experience accidents and worse- I loose track when they on the road. That is why every time we go out, I'm a little bit scared and always pray not nothing gets wrong. I always pin them button containing information about them like their name, our address, and tel. number in case they might lost ( I pray this will not happen). But i know that teaching them to take care of themselves is an important part of our child's personal and social development.
• Separate from me fairly easily, saying good-bye without too much fuss
• Take direction - They know already if is time to eat they simply jump to chairs and need them to take a bath they will go directly to C.R.
• Express emotions verbally to adults and other children ("If amir would cry he just start to change his reaction and slowly cry out loud. Its a little bit much harder for ace kasi hes trying to move forcefully that tend to hurt him self. nakatakot!")
• Show independence and stand up for himself - They like to do tooth brushing their own teeth I just had to do it first so that I'll make sure that it is already done, use only a pea size of tooth gel (I usually buy SUNFLO cause it is safe for them to swallow) on their toothbrush bec. I know too much fluoride can be danger to their health, getting their own food w/ fingers.
• They loved watching Brainy baby. Because of this they already recognized the different letter in the alphabet. specially Ace even if you try to rearrange the letter he would know the difference. Amir only knows if it is in order.
AMIR THINKS TOOTHBRUSHING IS FUN!
Ace, tooth brushing
Ace, is fun reading colorful books w/ different animal pictures.
Amir, is much interested in reading books w/ different carsMore of ABC and 123
My children love to watch television, specially fun, musical commercials like "bulilit of camella homes" wowowee. they simple stop on what they are doing when this commercials shown in the television. But whats striking me most is they love to watch ABC's DVD. they will simple point out the DVD and say "ABC 123" I know what does it mean, we have to watch the DVD. Until midnight, even if i already lying in bed w/ them they simple try to make time out and go over your face and ask the meaning of A-B-C where all of their saliva's is coming out straight to my face. Even with the use of strings they can shape the different letter like C, O, V, T, L, W, x,y and I.
What you will hear?
An endless ABC is what my kids is trying to learn more about, now they already and recognized A to Z, Ace start to count from 1-10. But amir know only the beg. and ending of the numbers (eg. 1,2-8,9,10) but if you will start from 21 they will answer you alternately the number. But what excite me most is they start to learn the meaning of each letters, by this time amir and ace know the meaning of A- G ( A- APPLE, B- BABY, C- CAT, D-DOG, E-ELEPHANT, F- FLOWER, G- GOAT, I- ICE CREAM , K- KISS, O- OCEAN, W- WATER, Z- ZEBRA) iT hard to them to pronounce the elephant, ice cream and flowers, for elephant they would say "ephat or ephal" for ice cream " Ik crim" flower "payow" ist it cute. They know already to say "dede" if they are hungry, "taas" and "baba" and different two words languages. But what I like to here most is their singing of "ABC", "Wowowee" and "your sexy"( you sessy) while playing the xylophone and drums. Sound like "digidigidah"
I DONT KNOW WHY? THEY KNOW
ALREADY HOW TO WALK AND RUN.
Double - Trouble ?!
My twin sons have been squabbling since around 6 months of age, when one of them began stealing others pacifier and toys, but you could hardly see them fighting each other until they reach into this age. Most peole say whenever I buy something, it should always comes in pair, But nevertheless as a mother I want them to learn the act of "sharing" that's why there are some instances specially if the things I would like to have it pretty much expensive, I only buy one. When they around 1year old, they had a visitor cousin, while they are playing, their cousin try to pull the other one not to let them play with one of their toys and say some bad words like " uy, gago". after a while one of my son actually learn to say this words. On the next day what new is Amir khow how to turn his hand to move his borther away from him marching while saying "gago" several times. Today, more of Ace has been seen pulling hair of his brother if the other one try to get his toys.
What mommy did?
When I noticed that most of the fighting reasons of my twins starts from jealousy. When I am lying on my bed the other one lay beside be, after a meanwhile the other one also insisted to be on my side" if one feels that the other received some sort of special privilege or recognition, that's the trouble begins," To reduce the commotion, I stood up and just play along w/them while they are laying on the bed sing the ABC song and play peekaboo. When they are fighting w/ toys I realize that It may be helpful to have some duplicate toys, especially Amir and Ace are still young and have less developed sharing skills.
This twin-fighting scene was happened before we leave the house to attend a party, that time my brother try to clean our desktop, one of them gets the brush and the other one try also to see it, then the fight begin:
Disciplining Children- What could a first timer mom like me would be able to do? Literary every time I talk to my kids I always think that they are already 5 yrs old kids, I know they are not capable of understand things I would like to say. Aside from talking w/ them, one strategy I ended up is “ignoring them” even they are crying out loud, I don’t even look at them just to show them that I don’t like what they did and I am seriously mad. After a meanwhile, after long crying moments, i know they would also get tired so what I did while ignoring them is to prepare their feeding bottle and place it where they can easily be reach, I observed that after a few moments, they get it and lay down on my side. There are things that I can tolerate and I cannot, hurting other people because. of their bad actions is one of the things I’m up to. I always said to them, you can throw thing they would like to thrown as long as that is their own stuff and most important is no body gets hurt. I don’t want to make my kids follow me because they are afraid, what I want them is to follow me, my orders because it is necessary for them. As my recollected past: I don’t remember my younger days being hit or hurt as punishment by my parents, but I already experience it once after I lost my whole bag because of my negligence, I know the feeling and I don’t want it to happen again that why I being much careful on my actions. This is also the same learning’s I would like my kids learn too.
Animal Lover- one time Amir asked me to get his Fita biscuits, after giving him several times, I saw him under our wooden sofa trying to get something. I looked up and guess what I saw.... our cat under our sofa trying to be fed by Amir with his Fita.
Getting some commonsense - Past 3 in the morning Ace softly cry for the reason that I very much know, He wants to drink milk, unfortunately there still a feeding bottle on his side, gentle he get it even he's eyes closed and directly put it into his mount. But unfortunately the nipples bump inside cause him hard to feed. while lying I'm just carefully observed him and waiting he will cry again, that the time i probably stand and help him to take out the nipple, but what he did is he pull the nipple on the original placement and close his eyes -till he sleeps.
Learning to write and draw - Amir and Ace writing and they think its fun specially if they will write it on our wall. Since housekeeping for me gives me a feeling of loosing my precious time spending w/ my kids. I often give them chalk for me not having much difficult cleaning the house, but I notice chalk produce dust that could trigger their asthma so i change it by giving them pencil. But, that scared me more because while writing they are also playing and running, I am afraid that one of them get hurts while holding the pencil so I'd buy their very first drawing book and jumbo crayon this time for them to use, it is much safier and easy to clean unlike ballpen and dangerous pencil. Amazingly both of them know already and identify the crayon and enjoying of using it hoping that aside from its name they could also identify the different colors on it in the future.
Knowing the Feeling of gets hurt - My twins loves running around and around, but one time they bump to each other, of course both of them cry but theres one thing I"ve notice to them; they can actually say the word "sakit" and hold the parts of their body that gets hurt. They are really getting bigger, quite fascinating that it is alot better now to know the reasons why they are crying. One time Amir said "sakit" again so I reply "why?, where is it?" He replied "Ebon!" and point it into his front diaper, when I check out, it has an awful smell, guest what is it?!
I did it-He do it - trying to imitate, this is what this two little boyz lately doing crazy all this time, I accidentally fell off something and i almost say the bad words "Puta...." then lately while walking I here these words being said several times my Amir.. another unforgettle situation is when I change Ace's diaper while talking to my sister, I spit another bad words again like "gago" then Ace turn to me and said the said word while smiling... isn't funny?! My fathers gets mad after hearing this, promise.
Tita Ellen w/ Amir imitating each other...
Training cup - This is the beginning where I think it is better for them to change their feeding lifestyle. It is really hard since they actually like to drink their milk while lying in bed or sofa, I could imagine washed 12 pairs of sando in one day because I could control their movements all the times.
The power of words ! -Speech development is very exciting for parents as they watch their children become social beings that can interact with others. But I wasn't be able to recognized at all until I observe how they react to the word No, when they actually wants something and it is not yet proper time for them to have, they start to make face and cry. They already know to asked thing they want like water they would say " water please". They also know how to make request if they want something like "open" a pack of biscuits. The word play is very much used if they would like to go to their room, you would probably here to them the the word "up". Its good to hear they actually knew some English terms but we are not giving them a hard time to speak a lot in english at all times.
From 2 years and 5 months of age,
Ace can counts up to three objects
Amir climbs up steps alone, one step at a time holding the stair rail
They love to jumps off the floor with both feet.
Amir know how to opens doorknobs.
Ace love to kicks and throw the ball Amir loves to shoot and dribble.
Both of them climbs on furniture.
Looking for some playmates: One of my friend introduced me to a pay-playground at the mall where you could leave your kids to play w/ other kids in a clean, fun and colorful playhouse. At first it was really exciting. My kids loved and enjoyed it, I hardly take them home after an hour of playing.
Playroom at M.O.A.
Ace at Play Box at Robinson's Ermita
Ace at Active Station, Tutuban/Robinson
Active Station in Landmark
Abella Twins at Kids Republic - M.O.A.
Ace at Playroom, S.M.
From 2 years and 6 months of age
Abc's in different tunes- During their nap (sleeping time) I always the "play music for babies" cd, all of them are instrumental music, but I was really surprised that Ace actually sing the Abc song to the tune of Mozart music and other instrumental music.
Undressed them selves- during summer day they actually worn simple sando and no diapers during the day just to avoid rashes and to exercise our potty training. After taking a normal bath at 12 noon, the only rituals are putting some oil at their back and lotion all over the body, but unfortunately, after a few minutes you would actually see them naked and their sando's are already out of our house, torn by our dog "shadow"
The diaper- I started to cut out my expenses in using diaper since they are not using it all the times, but mostly Amir already know how to say wee-wee and ace know to removed it on his own way. Ace actually want to wear diaper if he feel he in on his way to make a bowel (poo-poo time) he will actually get a diaper in our diaper box and he will give it to you. that's the sign he needs to wear it or he actually say "dayape" if ace cannot find the diaper.
From 2 years and 7months of age
No more "dede" for Ace- Since I started them to used the training cup, Ace much more eager and interested of using it, but w/out the lid and every time I gave him milk on his feeding bottle he keep on saying "tanggal dede" w/c mean I need to remove the cover w/ nipple of his own "dede."
From 2 years and 8 months of age,
Start to recognize- Aside from letters and numbers, they already start to learn the basic shapes and different parts of the body, before there is an endless abc's now, we start to cover our face because as they start to sleep they will start to point the different part of our face starting from eyes nose, mouth and teeth,
Removing the barriers - At this age they could actually know how to unlocked and open the doors and climb in all the barrier we put all along out doors. nothing can controlled them.
Words they usually expressed: Alis tayo, baba na, Iwan, Pabili, labas na tayo, Tapos na, Up and Down, Water please, Play, slide, swing, milk please, mamam - means drink, kain na. Title of different television shows and commercials.
Food they love to eat and shared together - biscuits, stick-O, Milo, Yakult,
Ace is not a peaky eater- He loves to eat rice specially fish,adobo and hopia. he love to try different taste.
No rice for Amir - like salty food like Adobo and Bistek, french fries and "Sabaw" only. but no rice please. He cannot swallow even one bit of rice in his mouth.
From 2 years and 9 months of age
Potty training development- Amir know's now how to express if he needs to go to the bathroom, if he likes "wee-wee", he will say it to you while holding his pants also when he wants to "poo-poo", then if he is finish he would say "wash". But it's a lot different from Ace, its still uncontrollable. He likes to pee in carpet and rags but if it time for him to "poo-poo" he will request to put on his diaper. He can simple carried out simple conversation like "alis tayo" play up or nood ABC.
Ace much interested in reading and writing...aside from the fact that he memories abc- he also knows how to make fun w/ the meaning like for example B- as in "wala ng ball" or D - is in bukas pinto instead of saying door. Number 1-10 is as easy as Abc for him so we started him to recognized 11-20.
From 2 years and 10 months of age
Video choices - Ace love to watch educational fun movies while amir started to enjoy cartoons w/ music.
Name - When you ask ace to state his name, he would simple say Ace kurip' while Amil will say Amil instead of Amir.
Get some attitude: This is the time we try to teach them some simple manners... whenever they ask something like milk we used to ask them "what will you say?" this simply replied thank you... but sometimes when Amir also replied the word thank you if we ask his name because he think the question "what is your name and what will you same are the same.
From 2 years and 11 months of age
Follow the leader- this time they can simple understand and follow simple command like if they like to spit we would say "go outside, " go upstairs if you like to play or simply sit down"
Full of excitement- Before, when they watch DVD they just simply hook their eyes to the screen, now they start to be more responsive on what they see. They really love to see something that is being drop like confetti's and balloons from above... one of their favorites is the Sky Cable T.V. commercial when man suddenly go out and fell his tv on the ground...watching the laughing and jumping is really fun to see, then they will shout "fifteen thousand pesos"
Eating habits- Ace is now completely out in using feeding bottle, he sip and drink without spilling on his own... but drinking his milk decrease a lot, maybe because of the time frame needed to drink a cup of milk makes him impatience to finish it because of other things he like to do at the same time.
It's a lot different from Amir, Amir still use his feeding bottle since he is a picky eater. we try to give him a sippy cup but he really likes to lay down while drinking his milk reasons to spill his milk and become messy.
Social Achievement and play- They would nearly play with other children since most of the time they just inside the house. So far they play contentedly alone, Amir likes cars and cartoon images while Ace are more fun in drawing and letters. Sometimes we still have some troubles in sharing toys specially if its new, but since their line of interest are completely different we manage to control the trouble with it.
