being silly and growing up fast

When we eat dinner they love to be silly and play with our bowls and spoons. Last week they wore our bowls like hats. Bradley's bowl fell off of his head while I was taking a picture and it turned out really cute. They refuse to wear bibs so we just strip them down to eat and they are happy as clams to be in just a diaper.
They eat almost everything we eat now and they don't like baby food anymore. Kiersten's favorite food is yogurt bites. When she sees the bag she gets all excited and does everything she can to get ahold of it. Walking by the baby aisle in the store and seeing dozens of bags of them is a huge tease! She starts screaming and tries to climb out of the cart to get them.

Bradley loves bananas and will eat one in less than a minute. I will give him one then go take care of Kiersten and when I turn around his banana is gone! I sometimes lift the tray and search the floor because I don't believe he could have eaten it that fast.
Kiersten had a huge teething spurt and got six teeth in two weeks- we were all miserable for her.
She now has 11 teeth and Bradley has 10. I can't wait for them to be finished cutting all of their molars.
They both walk very well now and rarely will crawl. Poor Kiersten walks like a drunken sailor and go back wards to both sides and then forward to get places. She couldn't walk a straight line to save her life! I try to let them walk to the car but one always runs for the dumpster and the other runs to tear the plants up the other way.
Its getting easier to take them to the park by myself now because they are more interested in playing on the slides then eating the bark and acorns on the ground.
Bradley knows 7 words now. He can say ball, train, uh oh, Ow, daddy, duck and quack. Kiersten only knows Uh oh and Ow. They babble all the time in their own language and are starting to follow commands. They are starting to get the concept of clean up and stack toys in their bins. We have been teaching them to fold their arms to pray and its a lot easier at home then at church! At home we say "prayer time!" And they put their hands together- but at church they scream as loud as they can and forget what to do- we are still working on it.

Bradley's First words

We have a few toys that work better on the linoleum than on the carpet so on Friday I cleared the dining area floor and put the table in the living room so we could play. We have a toy train that pops balls out and the train rolls and sings when you press a button.
So Bradley grabs one of the balls while I was still getting toys out and he says Ball and put the ball in the train. I drop what I was doing and said Ball? Ball?
And he looked at me and smiled like - yea Mom, I know you want me to say it again but you know I wont!
So this morning the kids were playing with our Duck bag dispenser that you keep in the diaper bag and then Bradley said- duck! And then of course we couldn't get him to say it again... so we had to run an errand before I dropped Adam off at school and when we were putting the kids back into the car Bradley saw the duck again ( he brought it with him into the van) and then said- Duck! Quack! Quack!
We started laughing and playing with the duck and he kept quacking- it was soo cute! Kiersten wanted to join in on the fun and said over and over duh duh- so close to duck! I almost want to count that as her first word because she hasn't said anything yet.