Nutcracker

Sunday, Dec. 12th, my friend Nadine (Joe's godmother) and I took our daughters to see the Kansas City Ballet's Nutcracker. We had an amazing time and Caroline and Emily loved watching the ballerinas. While Emily (age 4, almost 5)sat in her mommy's lap, Caroline danced in front of her seat trying to imitate EVERY move the ballerinas made. It was quite entertaining. For a "new" 3-year-old, I think she did very well. Thank you Emily and Nadine for a WONDERFUL time! We look forward to it next year!!!

The girls, Emily and Caroline, in the lobby of the Music Hall.
Thank you Emily for the Pink Crown!

Girls Night at the Ballet!

Three Years Ago....

We were born!!!...And why not have 3 birthday events to celebrate it!

Caroline striking a pose!

Here we are blowing out our candles at home with Mommy, Daddy and Jonathan.

Here's Joe with a new remote control truck. They got lots of fun new toys! Thank you Grandpa and Granny Sandra, Grandma, and Grammie and Grampie Bak!!! ..OH, and mom and dad too!!

Santa Visit 2010

So, this year we spontaneously decided to go see Santa at the BassPro shop. The kids were all VERY excited to see him ... until they actually set eyes on him, except for Joe. The closer we got, the more Caroline clung to me. When it was our turn, Joe ran as fast as he could to get in his lap, Caroline held on for dear life, and Jonathan hid behind me. Once Caroline saw that Joe was "safe" in Santa's arms, she did tell him he wanted a "princess tower" (not sure about that?), Jonathan informed him he wanted a Jackhammer (not sure about that one either?), and Joe just asked for a candy cane (since he saw all the other children walking away with one). Needless to say, I am hoping next year I won't have to be in the picture!

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.