Two Turn Two!

Lillian is ready for her party!

When do we get to eat cake?

Happy Birthday to you!

Lillian's not sure about the party hat.

Elzi's ready to blow out her candle.

This cake is yummy!

Elzi got right to playing with her new toys

...and crawling through her new tunnel.

The tunnel was quite a hit!

Counting

Halloween, Seuss-style

Halloween may quite possibly be our family's new favorite holiday. We had a great weekend filled with parties and trick-or-treating.

Elzi was less than thrilled about the hairspray

Thing 1 and Thing 2 having a snack before the party

Mothers of Multiples Halloween Party

Thing 1

Thing 2

(and our Tinkerbell friends)

Dinner break and entertainment courtesy of Grayson

Party #2

Thing 2 playing in the hay

Gimme!

Time to trick-or-treat

Now what?

We're getting the hang of it

Good night

Family Fest

Today we went to Family Fest at the American Tobacco Campus. Although we didn't stay long enough to see the Duck Race, we had a blast with the other activities. The girls bounced in the tiger bounce house, colored on the giant coloring wall, and pet some exotic animals from Noah's Landing.

Lillian is more interested in a piece of plastic than the crayons. Elzi is selecting her colors.

Elzi LOVES to color. She cried when we left the coloring wall.

Of course, Lillian thinks its a good idea to color the glass instead.

Lillian kept demanding, to no avail, that the keeper let the bunny "Out!"

Pool/Lake

July - September 2010

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Drumming with Daddy

The girls have definitely gotten their daddy's love for percussion. Anytime they are allowed into Daddy's forbidden space, they go to town on the Thai musical frogs.

Slides!

These days we are really into slides. We attended a playdate this morning at Duke Park, and went down many of the slides over and over again. It was obvious that slides are our new favorite attraction.

When she realized that I was taking her picture, Elzi made sure to "cheese."

After dinner tonight we went outside and continued the fun with our little backyard slide.

Climbing on the outside is fun too.

...as is climbing up the slide.

Weeeeee!

Lillian...or Buckwheat???

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Elzi Says Her Name

Time to Potty Train?

Our girls are still only saying a few words, most of which begin with D or B. Some of their favorites are dog, duck, Daddy, diaper, ball, beep, baby, up, apple, open (which sounds like apple), and water (which sounds like wow). They even learned the name Donald when our friends Donald and Amanda came to visit. Of course! It starts with a D! They have just recently (in the past week) started saying Mama with its true meaning. Needless to say, I am extremely elated with this new development!

This morning, Lillian and I had our first conversation. It went like this:

I was in the process of dressing Elzi, so she was standing in the living room in her diaper.

Lillian (pointing at Elzi's diaper): Diaper.

Mommy: Yes, Lillian that is Elzi's diaper. Are you girls ready to stop wearing diapers?

Lillian: MmmNo.

At least she's honest!

Water Fun and Tissue Mischief

We started our day today by going to the Mothers of Multiples play date at Forest Hills Park.

The girls had a great time playing in the water,

making music with the chimes,


and playing with sand.



Due to the fact that it was approximately 100 degrees today, after nap we just stayed inside and played. As I was checking my email, I noticed that the living room had grown a little too quiet. When I entered the room, this is what I saw...

My first reaction after seeing the tissues torn and strewn everywhere was to tell them to stop and take the box away. On second thought, I decided I'm going to have to clean it up anyway, so why not take a few pictures first. The girls had a blast continuing to shred tissues...



and they were proud to show me their handy work.