Attack of the giant babies.

Jack loves trains. That is no suprise. What you don't know, is the babies also love his trains. The girls typically nap from 10-12 and Jack watches Word World and Sesame Street and builds his trains- that is his safe time, ha! Nice and quiet and he can get his toys out without worrying about them getting drooled on. He left them out after naptime was over and the girls went straight for them!

They have hit the 'let's bang everything together' stage. It gets dangerous when they try to bang toys into each other.

Ah, pretty much her only happy moment today.

And like typical siblings they tend to fight over the same toy. Usually a ball from the ball popper.




George can be so mean. They now 'cruise' along furniture and George will drag Iz down All.The.Time. Then she climbs on top of, chews on appendages, pulls hair or ears, hits... you get the point...


George is on top. Really for no reason at all, she wasn't going after a toy or anything, just looked like fun.

What a cutie:)

But lately Elizabeth has been giving it right back to her. I have to put them in separate play areas many times during the day.

Finally he just got sick of them "ruining all his things!!!" and went in his bedroom to play with legos. It is funny, because for the longest time he refused to play in his room alone, but lately he goes in there just to get away from the girls. Or to play legos, that is the only place he is allowed to play them, at least that is what I tell myself. He loves his sisters, but everyone needs a little space sometimes, right?

My sewing journal.

In my perfect world I would keep a notebook next to my sewing machine and keep detailed notes on the fit of each garment, what I liked about the pattern and fit, or what I didn't. Well, I do have said notebook, but NEVER write in it... Well, I did for about a week... So I decided to start a seperate blog for my sewing projects so I could link my flickr account to it and comment on other blogs without having a bunch of strangers look at my family blog. Doesn't mean strangers don't look at this blog, but if you don't know us, why are you reading?? ;) So anyways, the link is http://sewingforfour.blogspot.com. Check it out, if you want.

The girlies.

I thought this was funny because usually Georgie is the one attacking Izzy, well lately Iz has been giving it right back, ha! But then a few minutes later, George fell and pulled Iz down with her, so she got it back this time.

Surprise! They stand! For the last 4-5 weeks Elizabeth has been pulling herself up on our make-shift play pen, and in the last week or so she has started to take steps along it! Georgie has only figured out how to pull herself up this last week, buuuut she went from pulling up to her knees for two days, to her feet for three days, then taking steps. So she went from nothing to steps in a week. Whoa! I am so not ready for this, they are not even 9 months yet!!

Fun with Jack.

He loved crushing the oreos!!
Looks good to me!
He wasn't quite sure he wanted to taste it at first, but he loves oreos, pudding and gummy worms, so they must be delicious together, right?

Yep! They were delicious together. He loved "swishing the worms" (as he called it) around in the pudding then licking them off before slurping them down.

Which led to the above photo. He was absolutely covered from head to toe in pudding... and so was my counter!

Pictures of two.

This is a story of a silly Mom who thought she could out smart her twins and come up with a decent picture of the two in their new outfits she made for them.



First, the babies realize Mommy is alone and there is no one to make noise to trick them into looking at the camera, so they don't.



Then one decides she is too good for this and pulls the diva card.



And when that didn't make Mommy stop trying to take their picture she remembers she can just flop on her belly and get away.

Dang. That didn't work either. Fine, she decides, I will just sit and look and maybe she will be done with it. Turns out, Mommy wasn't prepared and the shot ended up out of focus.

So they decide, fine, we will sit and look adorable (and in focus) but the catch is, we wont look at her. And Mommy gives up. Babies 1, Mommy 0.

Time.

The girls have been sharing a sleeping space for the last ... well, 15 months, if you count time inside:) In the beginning they shared a bassinet, occasionally sleeping in separate ones, and have always shared a crib. After one too many mornings going in to find George on top of Iz smacking her in the face, I knew it was time to pull out the second crib. I think it is funny Georgia is the aggressive one, I would have thought that would have been Elizabeth. But G is always scooting over to E and stealing her toys, bottle, attention, hitting, pulling her hair, pretty much whatever E has, G wants. And E just looks at her, or cries, but never fights back.


Seriously, how sweet is this?



How did I end up with two red headed kids??

I think Elizabeth has finally, almost, grown in to her belly. haha. It has always been the biggest thing on her!

Bath time!

We put the bambinos in the real tub for the first time the other day in just a few inches of water, and they went WILD! They kicked and splashed like crazy. It was so cute. And much better since they splash like that in the infant tub and make a mess in the kitchen. I think this will be our new thing.