The Babies B

Thursday, December 11, 2008

belated thanks

Since the babies were born I have not sent one thank you note. I write this in shame, I have several written and the list of who to thank grows ever longer as the babies get older, but I have not addressed, stamped and sent these thank you's. I still have hopes that I will eventually get these cards out... what's the Emily Post on this one, do I have a year like the wedding gift rule? Do I have some twin exemption? Anyway, I have a few photo thank you's below. Maybe I can do them all this way, more fun all around.

We went almost nine months without matching each other, but here we are thanks to Christiane, "the perfect pair".

Here is Miss Iman playing with her Ugly dolls (it's really their name, I am not being mean) thanks to Dawn. It seems like she is having words with them and is generally upset that they aren't responding.

Here we are at our last day of our Caterpillar class at Isis. Bibi and Iman were two of the oldest babies in the class and often showed the other babies and mommies what was coming soon... giddyap!

I have asked my mom to find baby pictures of me that show that Iman takes after me and not her dad, but so far I have only seen a 1973 version of Bibi in purple outfits.

Cool hand Bibi chilling with his daddy.

He has practiced his bongo playing, pretty much everything becomes a drum, the table, his booster seat tray and even Amine's face. It all works out since Iman is more of a dancer, she needs someone to lay down the beat.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Dr. Evil

I forgot that I also had this footage of Amine and Iman hatching their evil plot.... to take over the world!

shadow puppets

The little lady found her shadow the other day....

She decided to invite it to play and found an alligator...

and a frog. Yet another twin that will be with her always, at least when it's sunny.

Her shadow, a fair weather friend.

Bibi grabs the bull by the horns, quite literally.

Amine came home early on Friday and spent a little quality time with Iman.

Today we went to Amine's cousin's house to celebrate the birth of his daughter. This lady is dancing on a table, if you are curious. You would think we were in Morocco, not Methuen.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

It's in the computer

Here's a current photo of my family, chilling before bedtime. We had a few firsts this week, Bibi is now crawling, he pulls himself to standing in his crib and he slept through the night last night. Iman is getting her first top tooth and is cruising and climbing up a storm, and most definitely not sleeping through the night. We are trying to get into more of a routine. I usually leave the house with them for one activity a day. Mondays we have a class at Isis and Fridays I go to baby and me yoga. This week we also tried out story time at the nearby JP library which the babies and I enjoyed except for the part where I had to carry them both down to the library basement at the same time. I think I may have to bring a Bjorn or some other baby carrier because car seat with one baby and one baby in my other arm is getting to be quite the workout. The rest of the week plays out depending on our mood and the weather. We had a lovely fauxsgiving last night and of course I don't have a single photo of that, the downfall of twins. Hopefully Lisa or Katie will post something on that evening.

For those of you familiar with the movie Zoolander, here is Bibi acting out one of the final scenes, for the rest of you, I guess you should rent Zoolander so you will know what I am talking about.

Here is my attempt at showing Iman cruising along the couch which bears a very close resemblance to Beau's Melon head series, imagine if Iman had the Tremblay head.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Our first Halloween

Here is a little game of peek-a-boo and our daughter the dolphin.

The Babies B got dressed in their costumes and off we went to yoga, the grocery store to buy some candy and then to the nearby park to meet up with other families.

Who says having kids ages you?

It turned out to be quite a gathering, there were four sets of twins and probably twenty other kids.

Of course I only took pictures of my kids, but we met some nice people and Iman was digging on baby Giovanni... Amine is applying for his gun license tomorrow.

I am afraid Iman is aware of her cute factor

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Feats of Strength and Wits

5.13.08- Iman rolls over... recorded on video
6.2.08 & 6.3.08- Tayeb sleeps through the night... two nights in a row
6.27.08- without jinxing things, Bibi consistently sleeps through the night, last night breaking a record....9 hours, now if only he could talk to his sister

7.23.08- Babies first solid meal of rice cereal. Iman eats more avidly than Bibi, much to our surprise

8.1.08- Bibi and Iman learn to roll over back to tummy while in Morocco. They also found their feet. Both feats were learned within a day of each other.

8.18.08- Iman starts crawling, or rather scooting on all fours more like an inchworm

8.30.08- Iman's first tooth begins to break through

9.17.08- Bibi says Dada, although we are not sure if it should count as his first word, since it applies to everything right now

9.22.08- Iman's second tooth begins to show right next to the first

10.15.08- Bibi discovers his pee pee, typical man, can't stop playing with it now that he has found it

10.16.08- Bibi's first tooth breaks through the gums, finally all that drooling has paid off

10.20.08- Bibi's second tooth breaks through, right next to the first. Although he has gotten a later start than his sister, he has caught up to her in record time

11.4.08- Determined to make it to the voting booths, Bibi begins to crawl. He has a military style of staying as low as possible and pulling himself with his arms.

11.12.08- Bibi pulls himself to standing in the crib for the first time

11.12.08- Three new foods in one day- plum, yogurt and avocado

11.14.08- Iman's third tooth breaks through, the first one on top

11.16.08- Bibi slept through the night for the first time in a VERY long time, hopefully he will keep up the good work...I mean sleep

11.22.08- Iman slept through the night for the first time. They have taken turns since then, but haven't been nice enough to do it on the same night yet.

12.9.08- First cheese for babies and Iman starts more finger foods

12.11.08- Iman stands for 10 seconds without holding anything, repeated several times the next day... should I encourage this?

12.14.08- Iman waves while we are out and about in Cambridge, I am trying to remember now, but I think it may have been the first time she clapped as well

12.24.08- Bibi claps for the first time

12.27.08- Iman is up to seven teeth now, four on top and a third one joins the first two on the bottom. I am starting to feel like a slacker not documenting any of this. Bibi is also getting two teeth on top. One has already broken through. Iman also can stand on her own for much longer now, but no walking yet, she just leaps from standing to my arms. Other updates... both babies say Dada and Baba, but Bibi especially says Dada all the time and Iman has said Mama, but I still don't think they are connecting me to Mama and Amine to Dada quite yet.

1.10.09- Bibi stands on his own for the first time a few days ago, he is repeating it more often, but still only for a second or so at a time. Today Iman took her first very shaky unassisted step after a lot of encouragement and a day full of standing and playing with Sylvie (these two will be nothing but trouble together)

2.4.09- Babies first taste of Harrira and Iman takes a few steps unassisted. Bibi stands on his own for 10-20 seconds, or until he starts laughing.

2.8.09- Babies try couscous for the first time, their faces were priceless... let's just say it wasn't love at first bite.

2.9.09- Bibi has slept through the night three nights in a row. Last night he went down at 7:30 and Amine went to check on him at 7 am to find him awake and quietly hanging out in his crib. Iman is getting close only waking up once through the night, so she sleeps for two long chunks.

3.2.09- Bibi and Iman both take a few steps unassisted a few days ago, but often leading to the "trust fall" game where they leap forward assuming we will catch them. They also play peek-a-boo which for Iman means covering her eyes when we ask "Where is Iman?" and then moving them away and smiling. Bibi's interpretation is slightly different, he covers his ears when we say "Where is Bibi?", so the two of them look like hear no evil and see no evil... we just need to teach Sylvie to do speak no evil and then we can take this trick on the road.

3.7.09- While Amine finishes the base trim in the kitchen, Iman starts walking, the next day she looks like a pro, much more steady than Bibi, taking 10 controlled steps from Amine to me. Bibi does 3-5 steps, more of a running pace, falling into our arms.

3.10.09- Mama finally breaks down and feeds the babies some chicken

3.11.09- First act of twin on twin violence, Bibi bites Iman on the cheek

9.28.09-

list of English words: Baba, Mama, Bibi, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, toes, shoes, hat, no, apple, cookie, bird, horse, cat, cow, moon, balloon, ball, hi, hello, bye bye, bus, up, baby, this, what's that?, all gone

list of Arabic words: doh, lebass

list of their version of words: mimi (feed me), numas (I want to nurse), tehta (take this, here) weeohh weeohh (siren noise-ambulance, or fire truck), woof woof (dog), nana (banana), boo boo

list of expressions: uh-oh, oh no, foufou (hot!), wow, yucky

10.19.09-

Adding to word list: bus, knees, eyebrows, meat, monkey,owl, moose, donkey, boots, bear, mess, juice, house, car

Coordinating animals with noises: monkey, donkey, cat, bear

11.1.09

Iman's first sentence: (when Jon & Kate plus 8 goes to commercial) "Where the babies go?" it has since been translated to fit Curious George "Where the monkey go?", very cute and I need to get off my butt to video babies talking