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| An amazing friend of mine, who also happens to be part of the Flying V's Club commissioned this darling illustration of my baby bears. Can you tell which one is which? She captured their personality perfectly! |
You know how I'm all about "signs", horoscopes and hippy, psychic stuff like that? Well did you know that I KNEW this was the house for us when I saw the super random statue of two brother bears in the front yard?! It was as if the universe couldn't have made it any more obvious that this little Bears Den was meant for our growing family.
Here we are two years later and although I had plans to get rid of the "Brother Bears Statue," because it's not really our "thing" to have yard art.... the bears have stayed and it's where the nick name for my babies originated.
These two boys are gaining momentum when it comes to their love and favoritism for one another. They stay up late at night laughing with each other in the same crib. They wake up in the morning with inside jokes as they hide under Otis's crib and giggle until mom or dad finds them. The boys gang up on their sister and they are discovering how to play together in a way I had always imagined. As of late I've noticed their special vocabulary that they share. It's every day words that I hardly even notice until I leave them with a babysitter and I find myself having to give the sitter a "vocab" list with definitions!
Seer-Dots = Cereal
Bun-Tips = Buttons
Billy-Bun-Tips = Belly Buttons
Em-oh-nem-nems = M&M's
Stwaw-bah-bee-bee's = Strawberries
Ash-you-wah-wee = Actually
Ouw-gah-gore = Aligator
The Farm = Rider's Blankey
Poon = Spoon
Even Layla finds herself using their language or providing translation when she's around them. In fact Kday and I now call cereal Seer-Dots. While big sis is at school these boys have really figured out how to play together and it's so fun to listen to them giggle as I fold laundry or wash countertops. They fight as emphatically as they love and my heart swells when I think of how lucky they are to have each other. They are twins at heart, they knew they needed to find two people to get them from Heaven to Earth as close as possible. I'm quite certain they were in on Heavenly Father's plan and they giggled the same way then, as they do now at their inside joke to come to our family 4 months apart. I can't imagine one without the other. They are The Brother Bears.
