Chatterbox, silliness, and waving

Just some random cuteness for your viewing pleasure--mostly Makenna chatting away like she often does. If you watch the whole thing, the girls will wave "bye" to ya! ;)


FYI:
*On 3/20, Makenna signed "more" for the first time; she wanted more oranges. :) She is now also signing "please" and "milk". I had given the girls some goldfish crackers while I washed their bibs and trays after lunch the other day. I turned around and she was signing "more". It was so cute! I'll try to get it on video soon.

*In the last week or so, Avery has started doing this thing when she doesn't want to do something, if you're trying to take something away from her, or if she is just upset about something in general--she says, "No no no no no..." It's kind of funny but I have a feeling it's gonna get old soon. I finally got her to sign "more" this afternoon by bribing with chocolate animal crackers, ha ha! Usually, she just screams for what she wants when I try to get her to sign "more" or "please" before I give her something. Stinker. We'll see if she starts signing more.

*Recent Facebook posts:
*3/12: Avery has a sippie cup in each hand and one hanging from her mouth.
*3/14: Playing outside with the fam.. :) Makenna is picking out just the rocks from the wood chips at the playground and Avery is picking up leaves from the ground.
*3/18: Both of my girls have top molars cutting through. Fun times! :)
*3/18: Someone should invent a contraption where baby high chairs can be placed on a grate and all the food that falls (i.e., thrown on the ground) goes through the grate and into a trash receptacle so the food can be easily thrown away, used for compost, or used to slop pigs (ha ha). My kitchen floor is NEVER EVER clean!
*3/18: Makenna is sitting in her high chair waving at everything around the room. Cute.
*3/20: The twins are 15 months old today!
*3/20: Makenna signed "more" at lunch today for the first time (not on her own, I prodded, but neither one of them has ever been interested in doing any of the silly signs mom does, ha ha). She also tried to say "belly button" during their bath tonight. It was so cute!
*3/21: The twins' 15-month stats: Avery=29 3/4 in. (25-50%), 20 lbs. 5 oz. (10-25%); Makenna=30 in. (25-50%), 22 lbs. 1 oz. (25-50%). They did pretty well after their shots--helps that we played at Aunt Kiki's for a while after she came and helped us at the appt. Thanks, Kiki!!!

Looking forward to Easter! I bought their dresses and will do Easter pictures soon. Will post them as soon as I can! :)

Another day at the park!

It was another warm day today and Jared was off of work, so we hit the park again. It's so much fun to take them and they love it, of course!

{Makenna's waving to Daddy}:

{Avery LOVED walking everywhere by herself!}:

{The red marks on Makenna's forehead are from falling while walking in our front yard before leaving for the park--our yard has a little hill and she did a face plant trying to walk on it. Oops.

Here are a couple of videos of them on the swings--lots of squealing! :)



So much fun!!!

Snow, Park, a Birthday, a Wedding...

On 3/1, I noticed the snow was coming down really hard and went to let Praia in, thinking she was probably hunkered down in her dog house but, nope, she was just lying out in it, letting the snow pile up on her!:

On 3/5, Jared was off of work and it was a warmer day, so we went to the park, where the girls loved swinging on the swings. We also went to Sam's Club and to eat at Cracker Barrel. A fun family day!

This is at Cracker Barrel:

It was a fun, busy day and the twins were exhausted that evening. Makenna fell asleep sitting on Jared while watching TV, ha ha:

To wake them up a little so they'd stay awake enough go to bed that night, Jared played horsey with them. Avery wasn't so sure (she looks terrified in that pic, ha ha!) but Makenna loved it:
On 3/9, we got to go to my niece, Carma's, 7th birthday! A Smurf party! Kiki did such an awesome job with the cake and all of the Smurf-themed treats and decorations. The twins were a little over-stimulated by all the loud kids running around; Uncle Michael named them the Grumpy Smurfs.
Look at their new, first tennis shoes--this was their first day wearing them! They did a great job walking in them. And looked adorable, too! :)
Avery's favorite part of the party was playing with all the tissue paper after the gift opening:
Carma got a Wii Smurf dance game that we played after most of the kids left. The girls were in a much better mood, then, and were having fun dancing and running around:
On 3/10, we went to a cousin's wedding reception. We barely got to visit with anyone because we spent the entire time chasing after these two!:

They sure did look cute, though, in their new dresses and first "big girl" church shoes. :)


Some Facebook posts the past couple of weeks:

2/24: I don't know what the twins are saying but they're having some kind of discussion, hollering across the room at each other (in their cribs post-nap).

Makenna just fell walking and stood up by herself. Then Avery walked into her and knocked her down again. Ha ha!

Kiki posted this pic of Avery, taken at her house on 2/25:


2/28: Makenna has been walking around for a while with the head of a little plastic dog in her mouth; she is always doing silly stuff like that.


3/1: Poor Makenna has a top molar cutting through. What a Grumpy Gus! Avery may be working on one, too. Two babies stuck to me like glue but I don't mind.

We just went grocery shopping as a family and the twins were trying to catch the falling snow as we left. :)

3/3: I wish I knew what Makenna was saying. She has been telling me a story for the last 5 minutes--looking straight into my eyes like I know exactly what she's talking about. So cute!!

Makenna has a new obsession with hats--she keeps putting them on and walking around and loves when we say, "Oh, so pretty!" I need to get it on video tomorrow. I've taught the girls how to tickle feet (preparing them for the next time we see Paw-paw, ha ha!); Avery keeps tickling my feet and says, "ticka ticka!" I love it!

3/5: It's a little warmer today so we just took the twins to the park and they had a great time on the swings. They are so much fun!

3/7: Cute: Makenna starting to wave "hi" or "bye" all the time now. Not so cute: Makenna pulling Avery's hair when she's trying to get Avery away from a toy she wants.

3/9: I bought the twins some (super cute) tennis shoes yesterday and they're practicing walking in them. They weren't so sure at first but they're doing great now.

Kiki posted this on 3/10:
"Kenna and Avery were over stimulated. Michael asked "who invited Grumpy Smurfs". hahahah"

I'm still on the search for our new home. Please pray that I find it soon before I go totally nuts! :)