More to come....

...when we set up our home computer again. We have moved our "office" to the basement to make room for the upcoming birthday (twins) and Christmas onslaught of new toys. SO, when we are up and running I will have lots of great posts about the twins 3rd birthday and Christmas. Until then...:-)

"J" is for...

Jonathan: Hey Mom! LOOK! I made a big "J" with the dinosaurs.
Mom: That's awesome Jonathan.
Jonathan: Yeah. J for Jonathan. J for Joe. AND, J for Julie. That's you! Three "J" people in our house.
Mom: That is right!

Twins do the Weirdest, Oops I mean Cutest Things...

Tonight after baths, and very LONG and LATE naps, the twins got into their "wonder-twin-play."(SEE ABOVE PICTURE: "riding the bus") It is something we have noticed the twins do. They don't plan or discuss what they are playing, they simulateously start to play this elaborate, detailed pretend fantasy, of say, "riding the bus, to go to school, to go to the grocery store, to take their babies to the doctor, to go to daddy's work..." and it goes on. What is interesting to me is that they carry on this conversation while playing but don't really consult with eachother about what they are doing, but they are BOTH playing along...to top it off, and this is the BEST PART, they get into this zone of no disturbance! I LOVE IT!!! They want nothing to do with me...as I write this they are in the basement playing who knows, but I got a blog completed.

SO, after I finished this blog, I called downstairs to the twins for bedtime and this is the response:
Caroline: Shhhh Joe joe, mommy coming.
Mommy: Ummm, please come upstairs, it's bedtime.
Joe/Caroline: No, 5 minutes please,.
Mommy: No, it is late and you have school tomorrow. It is bedtime now.
Caroline: But we flying the airplane to the beach. See?
Mommy goes downstairs and sees the following scene:

Caroline: See Mommy! We flying the airplane. Joe Joe is the pilot.

Note: They had half of the toys in the basement piled on and next to a mini trampolene...that will be fun to pick up since I just reorganized the entire basement play area. Oh well... they played nice and I got to blog:-) Enjoy the flight!!

Spiderman, Dora and Diego

Happy Halloween 2010!

Jonathan as Spiderman, Caroline as Dora, and Joseph as Diego.
Outside shots were difficult ... it was like holding back the horses at the Derby... they couldn't wait to get going!

The Daddy's could barely keep up! (That is NOT Thomas in the clown wig:-) We have a new neighbor and he and his daughter went treating with our clan).

All the Toddler's in our neighborhood treating together.

Gingerbread Grammy

For those of you that don't know, my mother taught elementary school for YEARS. So, when she planned to come out, she wanted to volunteer and do a "lesson" with the kids in their classes at Kid's Day Out. She planned her lesson around the story "The Gingerbread Boy." She had a friend make her the most adorable apron with a gingerbread pattern. As a bonus, she had extra material that she had her friend make the kids matching aprons too. You can see below my mother and kids making gingerbread in their aprons. The kids were SO excited and HAPPY to have their Grammy visit their school!

Reading the story in Jonathan's class.
Helping Jonathan make his Gingerbread Boy for an art project in his class.

Reading the story to the twins class. They are sitting to the right side of the "circle." (Joe is leaning back and Caroline is next to him.)

Making Gingerbread with Grammy in their aprons.

Grammy time- Part 2

AMERICAN GIRL DOLL:

If you asked me what my favorite thing to do as a child, I would tell you, "Playing with my babies." I am SO THRILLED that Caroline LOVES playing babies too. SO, for her (early) birthday present, my mother and I took her to the AMERICAN GIRL DOLL store. She was in Heaven!!

Choosing her baby with Grammy.

Testing out the baby stroller (she thought it was hers and played with it for quite a bit).

She sat on this "couch" and read a story to this baby for quite a bit too!

At home with her NEW BABY.

She named her ABBY!

Grammy Time-Part 1

SO, Grammy (Julia's Mother), flew in Wednesday, Oct. 20th. We have been having so much fun, that I'm not sure how many "parts" to the blog I will be adding!

KC ZOO:

We were VERY LUCKY to have TWO Grandma's join us in the visit to the zoo!

This was the first trip in about THREE YEARS, anywhere, we did not rush home for naps or bottles! We feel like humans again and can't thank the GrandmaS for coming because, for once in a very long time, adults out numbered the kids!!