Jolie is a whiz with the crayons.  They color in the nursery at church, and she’s totally got the hang of holding it the most correct way a toddler can hold it just after a couple times of practice.  I am elated for them to bring home their art once we start Mother’s Day Out in the Fall.  I have real grand plans for their little art projects to be hung and displayed like this.  My girlfriend, Jacqueline did this in their playroom and I about died over the genius of an idea it was.

Parker is still working through it.  It is amazing to see the different levels of maturity in their skill development.  Parker far exceeds Jolie is some things, and vice versa for Jolie in others.  Eating with a fork and spoon came as a ‘no-brainer’ for Parker, but holding and using a crayon has been a struggle.  Jolie still, after months of practice, hates the spoon and will use it only half the time during meals, and the other half she will throw it off her tray in frustration.

It is super hard not to compare them.. I’ve been doing it all their little life.  Size, weight, who is eating what.. and now we’ve come to this drastic time of skill development, and as a mother I feel like I cannot help but compare them, once again.  A positive comparison, not negatively – I’ve been really pretty good at keeping myself in check on that.

Up until now we’ve done everything in their high chair, and after witnessing my children tirelessly fidget while sitting at a kids table at a birthday party, I decided we needed to ‘practice’ sitting at the table for activity rather than restricting that to our high chairs.

Recently, I received these Nuby booster seats and we’ve gotten amazing use out of them.  Before ever strapping them to a ‘big girl’ chair, we used them as a comfy seat for everywhere.  These kids tote them around like a handbag and love every minute of it. We’ve taken them to BB’s house, Ashley’s house, and traveled with them for use while they eat (and we don’t need to cart the huge highchair around)

There will be lots of coloring going on over here this summer.  This coloring had inspired me to go through my Pinterest boards and find some more toddler-friendly activities.  Carly did a blog post for Twin Talk a couple weeks ago about summer fun for twins (well, kiddos in general) {find it HERE} and she had some really fun ideas to share, and, yup- I’ve pinned it.