Balance Balls

They love to bouce on their balls and are pretty good at it, but they always fall over.

Zipppers

The girls are so super cute these days, kissing, holding hands, zipping each other's zippers.

Tots in Baskets

The girls' playroom has been redone and the girls have already discovered how to easily break their new baskets. This is a major no-no.

Cutie in Front of the Tree

Sylvia is very festive with her snowman pjs and holiday music book in front of the tree.

Holiday Festivities

We went to the National Harbor for their holiday celebration. We went to dinner, saw awesome decorations, road a choo-choo train, and visited Santa. Their favorite words are "Tan-ta" (they can't say ssss's yet) and Tree (teee). Daddy had a bad day at work, can you tell?

2 Word Phrases

This afternoon, we were coming home and I was feeding the girls crackers to keep them happy because it was past their lunchtime. Evelyn said "Mo crak-er". She said it over and over. The weekend continued with "Hi Santa," "new too-too (toothbrush)." The list continues. Sylvia picked up on it too and said the same ones and a few others.

Painting

The girls are totally into crafts. Coloring, painting, using a pen to make beautiful artwork on our ottoman (yes, resolve is a wonderful thing!).

Climbing Stairs

The girls are getting better at climbing low stairs without holding onto a railing. They can do down/up normal height stairs by holding onto the wall. However, once you think they are good, they can still fall. Evelyn was crawling up the stairs the other night and fell down four steps. She busted her lip, but otherwise she was fine. She's one tough cookie!

Pie

When grandparents are here, all rules are out the window. Like eating PIE on the FLOOR of my FAMILY ROOM RIGHT BEFORE BEDTIME! They love pie (it was apple and pumpkin so not too terribly bad and they were homemade and delicious -- thanks Grandma Debi) and it was their favorite word over Thanksgiving weekend. I know, loosen up, Mommy!

iPAD

The girls LOVE their iPad and Sylvia is a very good sharer.

Harmonica

I gave David a harmonica a few years ago for Christmas (stocking stuffer). I keep it in the stocking. The girls loved playing it.

Museum

We went to the National Museum of Natural History and had a blast in the butterfly exhibit and running around.

More Recent Pictures, Continued

Continued thanksgiving pictures.

Lots of Pictures from Recent Fun Times

Thankgiving with Grandpa, Grandma Debi and her Mother (Gloria) [Evelyn was attached to Gloria the entire weekend}, fingerpainting, and putting up the tree.

Pie

Lots of discussion of pie this Thanksgiving.

Evelyn's Words

Evelyn uses a lot of words, here are just a few.

Cute Pig Tails

Videos to see Sylvia's cute pigtails and Evelyn's use of her favorite word -- Mine.

Family Shots

The Alexandria Times called wanting to feature David on Veteran's Day and also asked for a family photo. I can't find the article in the paper, but you can read it here -- http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=346056&paper=59&cat=104

This is the best photo we got and then the camera died.

Pig Tails

The girls' hair is long enough to wear in pig tails and it's just so adorable. Sylvia's hair curls just perfectly. [can you tell the best place to take their pictures is in their highchairs strapped in and unable to move?}

Learning Shapes

The girls are getting very good at shapes. Yesterday they used an application on the iPad and consistently pointed to circle, square, triangle, heart, oval, and rectangle. What smarty pants!

Zippers

The girls are both very much into trying to take off their clothes. Sylvia cries and says "na-na" and lifts her shirt. She wants to be naked. They are getting very good at unzipping their pjs. A couple of times we've gotten them in the morning and they were unzipped all the way! Silly girls!

Daddy Turns 40!

We had a little breakfast party for Daddy on his 40th birthday -- November 12th.

Veteran's Day

November is pretty cool for Daddy. November 1oth is the Marine Corps birthday (235th this year), November 11th is Veteran's Day, and November 12th is David's birthday (40th this year!). Yeah Daddy! Lots to celebrate. We went to Mt Vernon with the girls. We also learned out new house is on George Washington property -- River Farm. We can even get a plaque to go on our house saying we're part of Historic River Farm. Very cool!

Cereal

The girls now love to have milk and cereal like Daddy in the morning. They also drink the milk from their bowls, just like Daddy. Nice, eh? We'll have to undo a lot of the etiquette Daddy is teaching them.

Doors

At our new house, every door has a handle door knob, not just a round knob. This makes it very easy for a nearly 3ft high little girl to open doors all by herself. She can say "knock, knock" and then locks her sister in the pantry. Evelyn loves it. In this video, you can hear Sylvia say "Evelyn" too...she says "ya ya."

Painting and Dancing

The girls (especially Evelyn) love to dance. Here they are painting and dancing!

Crazy Tots!

The girls go nuts before bedtime. They love to run around upstairs and scream!

Dress Up

The girls LOVE to dress up. We do it every night.

Halloween Part 2

Daddy was away over Halloween weekend, so I decided it would be too much to go trick-or-treating. And, I really don't want any candy in the house the girls wouldn't eat anyways. We had more fun with our friend Melissa -- the girls played with some fun masks and she brought them bubbles, which is always a huge hit!

Happy Halloween

We hosted a Halloween party for all of the girls' little friends. Evelyn was a puppy and Sylvia was a cow. They wore their costumes almost the entire party (2 hrs). Evelyn was all sweaty when I took hers off. They really picked out their own outfits; I held up a few and Evelyn said "dog" and Sylvia said "mooo". It was a really good time. They are both totally addicted to stickers. They were very helpful in the party prep phase too!

Latest Videos

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