I'm too tired to think of a cute title for this post

We're having a lot of fun with the babies.  In the last week or so, they've started noticing each other.  One will look at the other and smile while the other looks off in another direction.  They both do this, just never at the same time.  But yesterday, I was holding both babies on my lap.  They started looking at each other and smiling, and then they had a little conversation.  One would say something in baby talk, then the other would smile and say something back.  It lasted a couple of minutes and was the cutest thing ever.  Last week Matt's friend Lynden was over helping move some furniture.  I was holding Hattie on my lap and he came over and started snapping his fingers right in front of her face.  She just stared at him, then she smiled, and then she laughed.  I've heard her do little laughs before, but this was a full on baby giggle.  Seriously heart melting.  It was so cute.  And she kept doing it.  We haven't gotten her to laugh like that again, but it was the best. 
We've still been waking the girls up every 3 hours at night to feed them.  A couple weeks ago, on a Friday night, I slept through my alarm and didn't wake up until Matt woke up 3 hours later to feed them.  So we realized both girls had slept 6 full hours and were fine!  Hallelujah!  We decided to try again the next night, and just get up when the girls started making noises.  We made it about 5 hours before the girls got hungry.  Still fantastic.  I was sure this would be the beginning of almost enough sleep again.  But the next night, they only made it about 2 1/2 hours, and the night after that, just 3 hours.  It's so much easier feeding one at a time in the middle of the night, with changing, feeding, cuddling, and putting them back in bed.  If we have to do two at a time, one will fall asleep, then by the time the second falls asleep and we try to move them to bed, the first will wake up again.  It's a bad cycle.  And Matt and I can't both be waking up a few times a night to do both babies at the same time.  So we're back to taking turns waking the girls up for feedings every 3 hours.  I'm sure we'll try letting them sleep again in the near future, but we need our sleep too.

Now that I don't have a full gym just a 3-minute walk away, I've been going running/walking in the neighborhood each morning.  And some days it feels like we live in a forest.  We have tons of blue jays and magpies around our house, so we're getting used to seeing those.  But we've also seen a kestrel (in a tree right by our driveway!), a pheasant just wandering somebody's front yard, and squirrels.  Then on one of my morning walks a couple months ago I saw something in the corner of my eye run across a yard.  As I got closer, I saw a couple more things run across.  And then I got close enough to see 2 raccoons eating apples under a tree.  There must have been 4 or 5 total before I scared them.  I don't think I've ever seen live raccoons in the wild, so I thought it was kind of cool. A week or two later, I was out walking and a family of deer walked out of somebody's yard and crossed the sidewalk right in front of me.  We looked at each other for a few seconds and then all went on our way.