A Trucker and a Duck

This was too cool and sweet to to share...enjoy!

Busy

I haven't had much to blog about lately. I have been cooking a lot in my spare time and had an extra kiddo over here for 4 days this week. :) I haven't even taken very many pictures of the girls...shocking, I know!

So here are a few pictures that I did take of the beautiful stinkers I like to call my own.

Alexis...

Lilly kissing her baby...
Lilly playing with a toy...Aren't those pants too cute?! Her great-grandma made the girls each a pair and we love them! The girls kept pointing to the colored circles and saying the colors.
Sweet Lexi...
I tried to make my hair look like theirs just to make them smile...
Silly Lilly...

I had just finished the pigtails and wanted at least 1 picture before they ripped them out. I asked Lexi if she would give "sister" a big hug. Without taking her eyes off of Elmo, she put her arm around Lilly's back and I got this picture.
I love the toothy grins! This is Lilly.

Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Veteran's Day! Thanks to all of you brave men and women who have served the country you love and thanks also to those who are serving now!! We appreciate all you did and continue to do!

Here is a special thanks to my beloved! Eric, I am so thankful for you! You are my most favorite veteran of them all. :) And weren't you just a handsome little man in uniform....

Who then turned 17 and became a handsome young man in uniform...

Hope everyone has a blessed day!

Missing Pictures from the last post...

Here are some pictures from the baby dedication. My Dad took more so I will maybe post them later. Eric was holding Lexi and I had Lilly.

Pastor Dave reading scriptures...

Grandma Mary with Lilly and my cousin Tyffany with Lexi...
The next morning, the girls wanted to snuggle with Eric.
Here are my 17 month old cuties! Kissing sisters...
Lexi and her favorite horse. We have now had to remove the horse from their room since Lexi wants to only eat the hair off of the mane.

Lexi...

Daddy and Lilly...

Miss us?

I seem to get on a blog roll and look forward to blogging every single day. Then I suddenly hit a wall and seem to have to make myself write a blog. Apparently, I have been in a slump lately. :)

BUT there have been some great things happening around here and I have some catching up to do. This weekend we were blessed enough to be able to have a "Baby Dedication" at church. It was our chance to stand before family and friends and all of our church and ask for continued prayers as we try to raise our babies to know and love God. It was fun!! The girls were so cute and sweet. Lexi waved at the pastor's little girl in the front row and Eric told the congregation why we were there to dedicate them. Then Pastor Dave prayed for us and our job as parents. It was really nice that we could do that. My father, stepmother, her mother, cousin, and friend Jessica were able to join us. Then we came back to our house and had some lunch. The babies were exhausted by Sunday night and had so much fun. Monday morning, I heard Lexi calling for her Nana and Papa as soon as she woke up. Now both girls keep calling them all day on their play phones. So cute!!

We also celebrated my babies turning 17 months old yesterday! They are growing too fast! They couldn't even sit up last Christmas and now they are running and talking and getting into mischief...time flies! :)

What are you up to these days, Lexi??

• She loves to talk. She says words clearly and precisely. Some of the things she likes to say are: turtle, burrito, taco, sister, Lilly, yellow, blue, brown, pink, ball, dog, cat, boo-boo, uh-oh, yea, two (the only number she likes to say...must be a twin thing), I love you, Sneezy, mommy, daddy, and tons more. She knows tons of animal sounds and most of her colors. She has even started telling me that I have 2 eyes. These are just a handful of the words she can say. She tries to copy us a lot.
• She isn't interested in signing anything other than "more" and "eat".
• If you say the word, snack, she will run to the kitchen and start begging for something. Lilly does this too.
• She is beginning to hand toys to Lilly when asked. She is not perfect at sharing, but seems to be better at it lately.
• She loves to give kisses and hugs. She will take time to run across the room and kiss her doggies on top of their heads. She will also kiss a "boo-boo" if you tell her you have one.
• She loves to go outside and will hold my hand until we get out there.
• If you say, run, she will run in place but spin in a circle. It is so funny. We keep trying to tell her that she is actually spinning. She doesn't care.
• She has started throwing fits when she feels bad or gets really angry. The best thing to do is ignore her. Hopefully that will continue to work.
• She loves to turn the tv on and off, and on and off, and on and off. It's funny and frustrating. Lilly loves to do this too and they will take turns!
• She is still the accessory queen. On any given day, you will see her with her purse, a scarf, one shoe on, sunglasses on, and a stuffed toy under her arm.
• She gets mad now when you have to change her diaper. She used to love it, but now you are interrupting her play time.
• She will eat anything. Current favorites are peas, carrots, any kind of bread, most fruits, animal crackers, pasta, pb&j, craisins and raisins, pickles, and any kind of chocolate! They also seem to like salmon a lot. I get the canned stuff and make it up like tuna salad. They both gobble it up.
• She has started humming tunes while saying, Meow, instead of words. I did that last week while we were being silly and she keeps doing it. So cute!
• She loves her Daddy and Mommy!
• We call her the destroyer, since she is not super gentle with her toys. She loves to make LOUD noises and play loudly.
• She really loves her sister.

What are you up to these days, Lilly?

• Lilly also loves talking, but talks so differently. It is adorable. She mainly babbles all the time. The more I listen, the more I figure out and she gets clearer all the time. She can say flower, sister, dog, puppy, kitty, Sneezy, Toby, fish, ball, love you, hi, how are you, etc.
• She likes to count with me, but tends to grunt her numbers all excitedly. She is really good at her phonics too. We sound out all the letters of the alphabet and she copies me. Her favorite letter is S.
• She likes to suck her thumb. A LOT.
• She is super mellow and usually calm. She has her crazy moments, but likes to sit still a lot more than Lexi. She will sit quietly with a book or a toy and just check it out.
• She is now really interested in coloring and drawing.
• She loves a little beanie baby dog we have and she calls it "Arf". She says arf for a dog sound and Lexi says woof.
• Lilly loves to make a bee buzzzzzz sound now since she loves the song, Bumblebee Buzz.
• Any animal makes her face light up and her day better.
• She likes to do this little thing and make noises with her tongue. I can't for the life of me copy it, and she will lay in my lap trying to show me. Then when I do it wrong, she will tell me that I am not doing it right and shake her head no.
• She is the cuddliest little girl that I have ever met. She is content laying in my lap for hours at a time while Lexi runs around.

I cannot imagine life without twins running around. It is so much fun. I know 1 baby at a time is great too, but I love it that God gave us these two together! They are an amazing joy.

I really have to go grocery shopping now while everyone is asleep and Eric is home. I will post all kinds of pictures later tonight.

Yesterday...

Last night was fairly stressful and yet ended with laughter...the best way to end that kind of day! So here we go with the long story...

I had run all my errands during naptime so that I could be done for the day and not have to drag the girls out with me. It just goes faster when you don't have to get the double stroller out and load up the kids 5 times in an hour. I got a lot of groceries....a LOT! I was hoping to not have to go back to the store for the rest of the week.

Well Eric leaves for class and the girls are suddenly awake...after only 1.5 hours. This is not a good sign. They are sick and grumpy. When they feel rotten like this, they usually sleep a good 3 hour chunk. I knew we were in for the grumpies. :) I go into their room and Lexi had gotten the wipes case in her crib and had removed and thrown about the room almost a whole pack of wipes....this will come into play later in my story.

So it comes to dinner time. Eric is home from school and I go to the fridge to get out the tub of BBQ for dinner. Eric loves this stuff and it's an easy option for me. :) I remove the paper packaging and discover that there was a small tear in the cellophane and there is juice dripping all over the tub. It was super gross and we weren't confident enough to eat it. I was afraid that it had been contaminated. I got upset since I had spent so much time at the store. I usually check most packages before I buy them, but there is no way I could have seen this. I really wanted to make Eric something he liked and was so disappointed. I offered to make him something else but he was sweet and went to get us a burger. :) Gotta love him!

After feeding the girls a healthier meal and sharing a couple of our french fries with them, we decided to take a relaxing walk around the block. We make it 3 houses down only to see Sneezy running down the street. What a fiasco! Sneezy has some issues and since he was a shelter puppy, we don't know exactly what his story is....BUT when he gets out, he is hard to get back inside. He will usually go just a street away for a few minutes and then come home. Last night, he decided to run across the FM road and go down about a mile from the house. I tried chasing him with the girls in their wagon until I am soooooo winded. Then I ended up getting the babies in the car and driving across the road to find Eric. He gets in the car and 30 minutes later, we get Sneezy home. He almost got hit by a handful of cars and the whole thing was horrible and scary.

After we get inside, I decide that bath time might calm everyone down. I bathed the girls and then let Eric watch them. I just needed a moment. I was frazzled and exhausted. I went just around the corner of the living room and sat down. Next thing I know, I hear Lilly run out of the bathroom. She comes around the corner, with no diaper on, and says "Hi!!" Her little smile made everything better. I told her that I was really stressed out and asked her if I could have a kiss. She immediately began peeing on me. :) I just had to laugh. There was nothing else to do.

She very slowly backed up looking a bit nervous. She has never peed without a diaper on and I think she was a bit concerned as to what was going on. I told her Mommy wasn't mad all while cracking up. She ran to her Daddy and we got everything cleaned up.

I was hoping the evening's events were over, but then I managed to slam a plastic container into my face while crawling under a crib, in order to reach several handfuls of baby wipes...remember what I caught Lexi doing after her nap? :) Yeah!

What a night...this was all between the hours of 5 and 7:30 pm. Yikes!

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