bonnie & jason

Amanda likes to sing and dance

Dancing babies

Amanda may be little…

… but she can hold her own.

Here’s my interpretation of what’s going though their heads.

Amanda picks up the book and says, “I’m gonna give this to mommy. Oops, I fell.”
Ashley, being the pain in the butt younger sister, immediately makes a move to get in Amanda’s way. “Haha, can’t get past me… I’m even going to arch my back so you can’t use the couch to get by.”
Amanda says, “Outta the way fatso!” and proceeds to throw her out of the way with a stiff arm before finishing her off with a hip check.

Ashley says, “Hi.”

Ashley practically running!

Ok, she’s not running. But from the video, you can see she’s gone from taking a few tentative steps at a time to really getting a move on. They grow up so fast… *sniff*.

Amanda is ready to take her first steps, but she’s kinda chicken. Won’t be long though before they’re all doing laps around the house.

Sisters – pictures from the point and shoot

Amanda’s army crawl:

Ashley’s real crawl:

Daddy’s nasty Cornell hat:

Carving the pumpkin (I realize this is a little late.)

Fun with videos

And a random pic of Amanda, Ashley, and Jackie:

Compare and contrast Amanda and Ashley

As far as twins go, Amanda and Ashley are really very different. Not only do they look very different, but their personalities and preferences are very different as well.

First, in the looks department, Ashley is more substantial in almost every way. More hair, she’s longer and heavier, has bigger cheeks, fuller lips, chunkier thighs, etc. Amanda is catching up as her leg folds are becoming quite deep in their own right. But even so, there’s no denying that they look very different. I think in general, Amanda has more features from my side of the family whereas Ashley has more features from Bonnie’s side of the family.

As for personality and preferences, I don’t even know where to begin. It seems like there’s nothing they can agree on here. Ashley really likes to breast feed. Amanda never really breast fed and is just ok with bottle feeding. You would think that would translate to solid food as well, but it turns out that Ashley doesn’t really like solids whereas Amanda sits waiting with her mouth open. Ashley likes to crawl, but Amanda likes to roll.

(Here’s some video of Ashley sort of breast stroking her way toward some yummy Cheezits.)

2009 09 29 Ashley crawling from Jason Wang on Vimeo.

Ashley likes to sleep on her stomach, Amanda likes to sleep on her back. Ashley hates her high chair, Amanda loves her high chair.

When you put something over Amanda’s face, she immediately pulls it down. Ashley waits for you to pull it off.

They are both sort of adequate at sitting up but still need help maintaining. Here’s a short clip of what they’re capable of:

And an even shorter clip of what happens when they weeble, wobble a bit:

Hmm, what else… Amanda likes silicone pacifiers, Ashley likes latex ones. Amanda likes to pick things up with her hands and seems to have more dexterity at the moment. Amanda used to be more vocal experimenting with sounds but now they’ve kinda swapped. Amanda sleeps through the night consistently, Ashley gets away with an extra full feeding most nights.

You get the point. It will be interesting to see how things change as they get older. As it is, it may be hard to tell they’re sisters much less twins!

Baby party #umpteen

Edward and Nancy’s red egg and ginger party last weekend = another opportunity to put the girls in dresses.

Also, here’s a random video of Ashley:

Ruh roh…

I dropped our camcorder a couple days ago. I had bought it before Alissa was born to capture her in the glory of HD. It still plays video back ok, but when I try to record new stuff, I get this “effect.”

*sigh* I considered getting a new high end point and shoot camera but they’re expensive and frankly, do everything well, but nothing great. And since I’m good about carrying my SLR around, I wasn’t willing to compromise on the photo side of things. I also thought about getting a new SLR with video capability, but the handling and autofocus on those things is not so good. The image quality and ability to use my SLR lenses is really appealing, but given my subjects are uncooperative at best, that path got shut down. There’s also the possibility I could repair my current camcorder but my initial research showed that option to be good money chasing after bad, especially since the thing isn’t worth much money these days anyway. So I finally made the decision to just buy a new camcorder. I didn’t go super high end, but I didn’t go cheap either. So what did I get? You’ll just have to wait and see… I’ll put up a little first impressions post once it arrives and I get to play with it a bit.