...and we're 2!!!

Two 2 year olds in the house can be entertaining, frustrating, and hilarious all within the same 5 minutes! I remember looking at my newborn babies, thinking toddlerhood is soo far away, but we are already there. I can't believe it. I heard this saying the other day, "the days seem long, but the years are quick". So true. Some days seem to drag on, but in the whole scheme of things, it is such a short time that they are little. Even through my most trying and frustrating days, I try to cherish these moments, because my 2 little blessings are literally growing before my eyes!

We had a Shrek themed party for the b-day. We invited their 3 best friends, who we get together with at least once or twice a week. It is so fun to watch toddlers with their besties. They hug and giggle and five seconds later are fighting over the same toy!! They really develop a sense of relationships at such young ages. They had a blast playing together, eating tons of cake and wearing their shrek ears, even though 3 out of the 5 kids had diarrhea, it was still a success! We also got to enjoy nana Karen coming to visit us for the week!

Rylan's verbal skills and vocabulary have really increased over the past month or two. He repeats everything we say, I mean EVERYTHING!! He doesn't miss a beat! His favorite phrases right now are, "I love you sunshine" (we are into loving everything), "sissy's funny" and "I did it". He is hilarious to listen to! He is ALL boy - busy, destructive, loves to build, is obssessed with B-ball (thanks to daddy), loves cars and airplanes - but, he still has a very caring and tender spirit.

Kamryn is a little sweetheart/spit-fire!! She loves to cuddle with mama and is always aware of where I am at. She is a big show off, especially for her brother. She loves making him laugh, which is quite often. Her fashion opinions have alreay started. She picks what shoes she wants to wear, even if it doesn't go with the outfit, I let her choose! We are slowly easing them into potty training, and Kamryn has gone potty on the big girl potty 3 times. Who knew that would be so exciting for us parents! Even though our interest in the big potty has passed for now, we will try again later! I love my amazing job, being a mom!

Here are some random pics and photos from the birthday party.

What month is it?

Wow, Christmas flew by, the new year flew by even quicker and now we are planning our almost 2 year old's birthdays, time does fly!! I feel like I need at least a week or so to catch my breath! Our holidays were wonderful as usual, we were able to spend them with both of our families, it was relaxing and fun just being home!! The twins were completely spoiled and had so much fun opening their presents and of course fighting over who got to play with it first!! Believe me, there are definite perks to having twins, but the whole sharing concept is not one of them!

We are slowly embarking on the potty training journey, they each have their own potty seat and are quite intrigued with using them. Kamryn is a little more excited to sit on it, she tells me "poop", then "potty" so we rush her to the bathroom, rip off her pants, and she sits on it for a minute and then says "toot, toot", sometimes, she actually goes. She has gone twice now, and she gets so proud of herself when she does it! Rylan will usually tell us after he has gone in his diaper. But at least there is some interest in that department! They are growing like weeds and say new things everyday, it amazes me how much they really know and understand at such a young age. If you ask them what color something is the answer is ALWAYS yellow, and if you ask how many? they will always shout out 2!! We definitley have begun the terrible two year old attitudes and tantrums, hoping that this "stage" soon passes. It is forcing mommy and daddy to contemplate moving out to the garage for the next year!

Say Cheese!!!

Ok, so i was trying to cut cost and take my own Christmas picturse of the twins, i thought i would just stick them in front of the tree and get a couple cute shots of them. It didnt quite work the way i planned, so here a few of the pics i took, needless to say i did not use one of these photos for our Christmas cards!! This is why we do professional pictures from here on out!! We wish you all a blessed and happy Christmas, may Jesus remain the center of this holiday season!

First "official' vacation!! (with the twins)

We took our little family on our first vacation to visit our wonderful friends, the Darcy's, in California! We had such a good time visitng them, and enjoying the sunny weather! We took the kids to their first zoo trip, they loved it, especially the monkeys. We also made a trip to Yosemite Park, which was absolutely beautiful, but needless to say we had very tired and cranky kids by the end of the day, which resulted in tired, cranky parents, which resulted in a nice mixed beverage to top off our long day! After 4 days of wonderful conversation, road trips, and parks we were quickly back on the plane to come home, wondering where the time went!!

Rylan has no fear when it comes to exploring new things. He climbed right up next to this goat at the zoo and started brushing it. When he stopped brushing, the goat let him know how she felt about it. This video stops just short of the knockout blow, but you can see where this was headed.