Happy Father's Day

This Sunday is David's 2nd Father's Day. He's such a proud, loving Daddy!

Birthday Party Videos

FINALLY!

Birthday Videos--Finally Posted

On their actual birthday we went to dinner and they enjoyed coloring, spaghetti, and cupcakes!

Puppet Show

Everytime we take out their finger puppets, Sylva wants her own. She imitates what we do when we put on a show. It's super cute.

5th Tooth For Evelyn

Just 2 days after Sylvia sprouted her 5th tooth, Evelyn got another one too. This is her right upper second tooth.

Puzzles!

Sylvia loves to play with puzzles and quickly figured out how to put the round piece where it belongs. She also stacks rings like a pro.



As you can tell, there are many more videos with Sylvia because she actually sits still for a moment or two. Evelyn is way too busy walking around to be bothered with videos!

Cute

Just a cute video of curious Sylvia.

Sylvia Walking -- 13 months 11 days

At 13 months 11 days, Sylvia is pretty much walking, but just doesn't stand up without pulling herself up. I will update you when she starts doing that.

Evelyn's Words

Evelyn loves to say dog, tickle tickle, hi, hey, and banana. Here's dog and banana.

Evelyn's Kisses

Signing

The girls are signing several words and especially like it when we sign songs to them.

Tooth 5 for Sylvia

We discovered a new tooth! It's Sylvia's 5th and it's the left one next to the front tooth. It's totally in and we didn't even know she was teething! Yeah for Sylvia because the other ones were very hard for her.

Evelyn has 4 teeth, which is funny since she had teeth a few months before her sister.

Getting Ready For the Pool

Sylvia LOVES her new sunglasses. She had her lunch wearing them one day.

Sylvia Cleans Up!

Sylvia Climbing

Sylvia is a great climber. She'll climb on anything, if she can do it. And, she tries until she can!

Sylvia's Walking

Check out Sylvia's walking skills.

Trip To Charleston

We went to Charleston, South Carolina over Memorial weekend. What an amazing trip. The girls were GREAT! I really can't believe how good they were. They kept to their schedule, slept 12 hours, ate tons, and still took 2 naps a day (mostly out and about!). They are such good girls! Mommy and Daddy even enjoyed two evenings out on the town while the hotel's sitter watched the girls. It was a very nice trip.

Here are pictures of Ft Sumter, Evelyn walking, girls playing in a fountain, naked girls digging through their luggage, and hanging out with Mommy in a historic theatre.

Evelyn Is Officially Walking

At 13 months 2 days, Evelyn Louise is officially walking. She has long ago mastered the art of walking across the room after pulling herself up to standing. Now, she is popping up from the middle of the room and walking across it! Video coming soon!

Evelyn's First Steps on Video

Evelyn's 4th Tooth

Well, the same day Sylvia got her 4th tooth, Evelyn's made an appearance. Her left upper is finally coming through. And, last night, it felt like we got the best night of sleep in months.

B Words

As I've mentioned before Sylvia has a thing for "B" words. Yesterday, I brought home a few bananas and repeated the word to Sylvia several times. She started out with "Ba" and then did a lalalala thing with her tongue. She's a smart girl. It was very cute.

Go back to 1 year and read posts

I never got around to the longer post about their birthday. Go back to April 28th!

Sylvia's 4th Tooth

Sylvia's fourth tooth made an appearance today. It's her left lower. Thankfully this one didn't make her suffer has much as the uppers.

Evelyn is working on her 4th tooth too, but hers is the left upper. It is definitely causing her some problems. I'm sure it will appear today or tomorrow.

Thankfully, they love to brush their teeth at night and often get upset when we take away the tooth brushes because it's time for bed.

It's funny how it took 11 months for Sylvia's first tooth to show up and now she has more teeth than Evelyn. It's like this with everything. One is ahead of the other, but not for long. They are constantly changing. It's so fun!

Trip to Old Mine Farm

We went on a trip today to a petting zoo with Angela, and our friends Wyatt and Julia. The girls loved this wagon (Angela says they are presenting it "Price Is Right" fashion) and all the animals. They had a blast on their hay ride too!

Water Table Fun

The girls' were given this very cool water and sand table by their Grandpapa and Grandmama Romley. They had so much fun and got sooo dirty!!! We invited our friends Wyatt and Mattie over to play too, then we ran around the house in our diapers! Afterwards, all soaking wet, they went swinging! These girls are loving life!

Last Infant Carseat Ride

While we switched our carseats out a while ago, Angela was still using the infant seats (they are good up to 22 lbs, we're not there yet!). Angela sent us this picture and wrote "Our last car ride ever in our baby infant seats. I told them that and Evelyn clapped. Guess she's ready for the real deal. " Too funny!

Most days Angela sends us pictures of the girls. It brightens our day to no end and we are so thankful for that! In fact, many of the pictures I post on the blog were taken by her and sent to us!

Open Cup

The girls are getting better drinking from an open cup! Here's Evelyn showing off her new skill.

We Love to Swing

Evelyn and Sylvia love to swing. Now, Sylvia is getting really into slides! She actually pushes herself down! She's such a big girl.

Pudding Art

They girls loved fingerpainting with pudding! And, they liked eating it!

Birthday Wagon

Gram got the girls a red Radio Flyer wagon for their birthday. It is decked out with a canopy and cup holders. We had to show it off to our friend Wyatt yesterday.

Another Tooth For Sylvia

Sylvia got another tooth! Her right lower. She now has three. She has her front uppers and right lower. She does not do very well while teething. She cries and cries. No sleep for Mommy and Daddy, and hard days for Angela. Not fun at all.

Evelyn has 3 teeth too, but she has her two lower and right upper.

Fun Times with Family

We had such a great time with our Great Granny, Gram and Granps while visiting for our birthday.

Playing with Gram and Great Granny

Although the girls' wouldn't stay still enough to sit on Great Granny's lap, we got some good pictures of them playing together with balloons. Sylvia LOVES balloons! Evelyn was busy playing with Granny's flashlight.

Best 1st Birthday Party Ever!

Evelyn and Sylvia celebrated their 1st birthday party with lots of friends and family on May 1st. Great Granny (nearly 90 years old!), Gram and Gramps visited from Indiana and Michigan. Their cousin's came from Philadelphia and lots of local friends! It was really special to have everyone there.

We had a big party at our house. About 10 of their friends came and 22 adults. All the kiddos were under 18 months except for one who's 6. It was good fun! We played a little, ate a lot, sang happy birthday and then turned them onto their yummy and pretty smash cakes (made by Angela!). Check out Sylvia's cake -- she finally enjoyed cake! And, she ate more than Evelyn!

Within three hours, the girls were ready for naps! What a good day, and an incredible year!

Fun at the Park

The girls love to go to one of the many tot lots in our neighbhorhood! We took them to the park after their birthday party and naps with cousin's Laura and RJ (we're going to call them Aunt and Uncle from now on).