Proud as can be...

Lily's a stander, too. She pulled herself up today without any help!


She's also fantastic at imitating funny sounds and faces. She likes to copy our silly noises. She can make sounds like Darth Vadar or sing in a really angelic tone which is especially funny compared to her sister Elsa who sings like a little frog. She is also queen of the fake-out and can make fake coughs and sneezes. She also likes to cluck her tongue and blow really loud raspberries.

This week, Lily has been working on kissing. It is totally cute. She can make little kissy lips (complete with lipsmacks) at mommy.

Doing time in baby jail.

Lily and Elsa plot their escape. Grass is a nicer place to practice standing than our tiled apartment.

Fun in the tub

Elsa and Lily enjoying a bath big kid style.

Oh goodness

Look what I found in my livingroom yesterday. Elsa, standing ALL by herself. How exciting, this is a new milestone. I knew it was too quiet in there! I didn't know whether to grab Elsa or grab the camera. I took a chance and here we go (please ignore over-excited mommy voice in background). Mark and I are tickled that she managed to accomplish this feat one-handed, other hand holding a book.




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Double Trouble

Elsa and Lily are on the move.

Sell your shares of Similac and Costco

Costco and the makers of Similac are about to see a huge decline in sales. We just purchased our last flat of baby formula. Yay!


This much formula lasts us about a month. Thank goodness I was able to breastfeed them for their first seven months. Since they've been weaned, the girls go through about 2 cans per week at a cost of about $25 per can. The girls can switch over to regular old cow's milk when they turn one on Sept 14th. Yet another reason to celebrate. We're going to feel downright rich.

Our other big news is that the girls are CRAWLING! They've been on the move for the past couple weeks. Very exciting!


To celebrate, I got them both a pair of big girl jeans. Here they are with Daddy looking more like triplets. (E left, L right).



They are also very into going to the park.


Elsa, especially, loves to ride on the swings. Nice tonsils!


Here is her trademark tongue of concentration.


Lily is a bit more subdued in her swinging. She's more of a sandbox sort.


I've been working on the double push.


They've both been working on pulling up. Here's Elsa practicing standing.

Teamwork

Just wanted to share some pictures showing what good playmates the girls are becoming. Don't want our readers to think that Elsa and Lily are biting each other ALL the time. They often play together quite well. Here they are with their favorite toy of the moment. Its a block toy from the Beggs family that they received for XMas. They are getting quite good at placing the blocks inside the various holes. The toy makes noise when they get it right.
(Got to love people that send us the noisy toys, always the girls' favorites...nothing is more annoying than the awful talking turtle curtesy of my mom!) They've been using the cube to pull-up. Although, they haven't made it all the way to standing, they are getting close.

On the mobility front, they still aren't cross-crawling. But, they get around. Yesterday, Lily made it from the livingroom half-way down the hall. She has the position right, but she only moves backwards. Elsa is able to move forward, but she is lower to the ground. More of a creep than a crawl. It seems they have inherited their parents' athletic abilities. Sorry kids. *I must note they are already quite adept at turning the pages of books.*



Look, no babies! Last night Jeff and Drew came over to sit with the girls so we could go out for dinner to celebrate our anniversary. We went to a fancy California/French restaurant that was totally inappropriate for children. Very fun. No cheerios on the menu.

Happy Anniversary

Happy 3rd wedding anniversary to my wonderful husband. Mark and I have been a couple for almost 8 years and it keeps getting better and better. Every year, I love Mark even more.

This has been our most eventful year, yet.

Just a reminder where we were one year ago today. I weighed almost 30lbs more than my husband and was still growing! The doctor promised us that the girls were arriving any second. He gave me 90% odds of having the girls before September. Good thing I didn't know there were still six weeks to go.


Here's another look at the twin belly in all its glory.

I must say this year it will be wonderful to celebrate our anniversary 50 lbs lighter, with a glass of wine and the babies on the outside!

Is that a Lily-monkey on my back?

Introducing my newest form of baby transportation, the ergo. Its the latest hippy-dippy method of wearing older babies. Its really nice on the back. Much better than the front carriers that make me feel about 7 months pregnant. I'm still working on mastering the move of getting them on to my back without any help. Its a bit tricky. So far, Mark has been my assistant.

Lily gives it two thumbs up. She likes riding close to Mommy. And when she wants to get my attention, she can just pull on my neck curls.


Here's a picture of Elsa talk talk talking. My girls are never at a loss for conversation. We just need to hire a translator to figure out what they are saying. They are so funny. They've started waving to people on the bikepath as they go past. Today, a jogger stopped to chat and they both started making their raspberry noises at her when she turned her back to us. It sounded like they were making "fart" noises. Oy!

Their first birthday is coming up next month. I can't believe it! I'm so excited. I'm already thinking about their celebration. Both sets of grandparents will be there. What do you think? One cake or two cakes for twins?