Sports Fans

Here are my little Red Sox fans the other day. I love how O looks so concerned for her sister. I can't believe how BIG they are getting! Now its on to Patriots Season!

Labor Day Weekend

What a fun labor day weekend! Sunday we went to the Woodstock Fair in Woodstock Ct. It was VERY crowded and difficult to push the stroller around, but we had fun anyway. J&O got their first taste of fried dough, Del's Lemonade (not fans), corn dogs and cotton candy (not fans of that either). They also had some of Grandpa's french fries. They got to see lots of cows (VERY exciting). They loved the chickens and the bunny rabbits. They weren't too impressed with the piglets, but I'm not convinced they could see them very well. Gramma got them these alligators on a spring and I hung them from the ceiling in the van. Now I get to hear O say "Alligay" all the time. It is adorable. On Monday, Mommy and the girls went shopping in the morning. Then we stopped at Memere and Pepere's house for lunch. After that, Mommy, Daddy, J&O and Emmett all went to Colt State Park (where Mommy and Daddy got engaged) for a picnic! It was so fun. The girls loved going for a long walk in their wagon. They even made a new friend (a little boy who thought it was fun to crash his big wheel into the wagon). The girls sure slept good that night!

Its starting to feel like fall! I can't believe the summer is almost over. J&O now think Memere and Pepere's house is synonymous with "pool". Boy will they get a shock when they aren't allowed to play in the pool anymore! The biting is getting better. They are still biting a bit, but it is definitely improving. We went to doughnuts on Saturday with everyone and it was so funny to see them toddling around the doughnut shop! We are trying to teach some manners and the girls now know how to say "please" and "thank you"!

We had a great day yesterday. We went to the zoo with the girls. It was "Multiples Day" at Southwick's Zoo. They liked seeing all of the animals and were equally as impressed by the ball in the baboon's enclosure and the waterfall in the tiger's enclosure. They wanted to walk a lot of the time which made for a slow move through the zoo, but it was adorable. We met up with some of the other moms of multiples that I know from being in my twins group. The girls were very excited about all of the babies! O learned the word "alligator" last week and it is my new favorite cute thing that she says. So we went to see the alligators, but they were camouflaged in the water. Oh well.

Last weekend we made our first trip of the season to the beach. They really didn't care for the sand, but we had a good time anyway. They looked adorable! (Thanks to Auntie Heather for the super cute headbands).

The girls have been biters for awhile now. Whenever one has something the other wants, she bites her sister. They have been better lately, but today, while Daddy was cutting up the chicken, J decided that she wanted the car that O had. So she bit her face. Poor O has a huge bite mark on her face. I would feel really badly for her, except I know that she has given her sister quite a few nasty bites herself.
They are really into reading right now. They love any books with touch and feel kind of thing. They walk over saying "Book? Book?" and holding out the book for you to take. Then its "up!". And once one is on your lap, the other one comes toddling over "up! up!". It seems that the simplest books (like the ones with 5 pages and 5words) can be read over and over and OVER, while the more interesting books with lots of words just won't do, and get tossed to the floor after a page or two.
They are loving the pool. Memere and Pepere have a blow up giraffe (named Nathaniel) that floats around in the pool. They love to point at it and say "Giafe", but when it comes within touching distance, they lose their tough exterior, clinging and shaking their heads "NO!".
Walking and talking a ton (although not always in a language that I understand). They are so funny and so much fun. Tomorrow (0r today rather, as it is 1:30am) we are going to Southwick's Zoo for the first time. It is Multiples Day, 1/2price for families with mulitples, so it should be interesting!

Our first Plane Trip

The girls did great on their first plane ride! We had a really nice flight attendant who helped us board, got us cookies, offered to watch them if I had to use the restroom and got them a certificate with their names and "wings".
J and O got to meet their newest cousin B. He is so cute and such a good baby! Here he is nestled in his little sling at the zoo...

N's newest obsession is Jeeps, so you can imagine his joy when we came accross this display at the Zoo! He was sooooo excited!

My favorite part of the zoo was feeding the giraffes. It was super cool! Never thought I would get to pet a giraffe!

And back at Auntie Lea's house, we spent a hot afternoon chillin in the pool. What fun!

So all in all a great trip! Can't wait to go back!

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Too long between posts!

Okay, I am becoming a horrible blogger. As Lisa pointed out, it has been forever since my last post! So, in the interim, the girls have turned ONE! (I can't believe I have toddlers!). They started crawling a couple of days before their early intervention appointment (they were approved for services for gross motor), so she will be back in July when the girls are 15months old. They are cruising, pulling up, riding their little cars and horses all around the house and just generally creating mayhem! They are so freakin cute. They each have 4 teeth now (O cut her 4th one today). They had a great birthday. You can see their pictures on Megans blog at
www.perspectives-photography.com/blog and search under April 2009. We had a blast and the girls got tons of stuff. We will be moving to "Big Girl" carseats soon. And we will be taking away the paci's after we get back from our trip. Which brings me to the next thing... The girls and I are flying to Michigan on Tuesday! Lea had a little baby boy (well, not so little 9lb15oz!) on May 15th. So the girls are going to get to meet their newest cousin! We will be gone for a week and I unintentionally planned the trip for over fathers day weekend. And you would think that not getting up early and being able to do whatever you want on Fathers Day would be a great gift, but Steve will be doing a side job, so it isn't all fun and games! But we will get to celebrate the following weekend. They are both saying "down (sounds like don), mama, da da, dog (daw), bubbles (buba). O seems to say things more consistently than her sister. They both sign "more", but O seems to think it just means "I want". She does the sign for more then just points at what she wants. They love looking out the big window in the living room to look for birds, and say "bir... bir?". So that is all for now. Wish me luck on the big trip. I'll try to be better about keeping up with this blog!