The New Adventure at Snack Time

THE Twins have a new distraction during snack time - toddler feeding bowls. Now they can amuse themselves retrieving their own oat puffs from the spill resistant Tupperware.

Buggy retrieves and inserts an oat puff into her mouth where it has 50/50 chance of winding up on her back side. Notice the AWOL oat puffs littering the tray? They, like water, seek the lowest level.

Buddy's technique is to invert and shake the bowl like a salt shaker. He then gathers them up and fills his mouth to capacity and often gags on the mass. Sometimes he smiles at Dad while eating thus proudly showing off his mouth's contents.

When his own bowl emptied, he didn't cry out for a refill. He just nabbed his sister's bowl. And today for the first time - mark your calenders New Family readers - the Twins began protesting when the other took something from their hand. Yay! Not.

Hopefully this will pass quickly. The otherwise precious Leetle Deelites look a lot less "deeliteful" whining and playing tug o' war over bowls, toys, and other stuff.

Perhaps it was just yesterday's excitement that has them overtired and impatient with each other today. They hardly napped more than a half hour all day yesterday because of the trip to the forest preserve. Mom and Dad hoped they would nap in the buggy, they have many times before, but not yesterday.