Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to my Nephew Kai (and his mommy and daddy)! He is going to be a big brother in January :)

Kai is ONE!

Randoms

I love this one of Leah

My girls LOVE apples. Whenever I eat an apple, I hold it for them and let them suck on it. On this day, Isabella became very territorial of the apple. Anytime I let Leah have some she got hysterical. I finally just let them hold it and fight over it. It was really funny. You can see Isabella's fit in the first picture. I think she is going to be the one with sharing issues :)

Ahh....So happy to have my precious apple!!

The girls LOVE the bathroom. Anytime the bathroom door is open, they immediately go in. They also LOVE to play in the toilet (yuck!). So..I have been pretty good about remembering to keep it closed. The other day they were in their for a few minutes while I was making dinner, but I knew the toilet seat was down, so I just let them play. This was what I walked into when I went to check on them. Isabella was trying to flee the scene!

After dinner!

I love my Sissy!

Finger Food!

Bring on the finger food! They just love the new independence of eating on their own (sometimes a little too much because now they want to shovel the baby food in with their hands too...ugghh...what a mess!). We have tried all kinds of finger food the last week or so...lots of fruits, pasta, cheese, and of course their favorites...the gerber puffs. I even let them eat some of my dinner at our block party tonight and they loved it! YEA...one step closer to getting rid of these bottles...I just can't wait!!

We are also trying to get them to use sippy cups (again...trying to get rid of the bottles...can you tell I can't stand the bottles anymore!!). Leah has got it down pretty well. Isabella still doesn't get the idea that you have to flip it up...she just tries to drink it like a straw...maybe we'll have to get her a sippy cup with a strw to see if she likes that better! Anyway..here is Leah mastering the cup!

MOHAWK!!

So Isabella is already becoming a rebel and growing a mohawk! Her hair is only growing down the center of her head and when she gets out of the bath it sticks straight up! I tried to take some pics of it yesterday and here is what she gave me. As always...she cracks me up!!!!!

My little Bruisers!!

So the I had every intention of posting this yesterday and the title would have been, "my little bruiser." Leah did not want to take a nap the other day and I tried to lay her down next to me. She was not having any of that and took her head to my cheek bone as hard as she could. Ouch..who knew a little head could hurt so bad. So...I was left with this pretty black eye. However, the title changed last night because Isabella, who was not at all ready to go to sleep 1.5 hours after her normal bedtime decided she would do the EXACT SAME thing to me as I was rocking her in the glider! OUCH again! So, now I have a VERY large black eye. My crazy husband refuses to go out in public wiht me because he thinks people will think he hit me :) I am sure the girls will look back on this and laugh that they both had a chance to really give me a shiner!!!

First Swim!

Today we took the kids (Leah, Isabella and Kai) to the pool for the first time! I think they had a good time, but it was pretty close to nap time for all of them, so we didn't stay for very long. None of them were afraid of the water though, so that was a highlight! We tried to get some pics of all three, but none were really willing to cooperate :)

This is the best we could do with all three!

My little swimmers

Leah is curious about the other kids...Isabella just wants to know why Leah's leg is on top of her!

Daddy and Leah about to go in the water

Grandma and Isabella

Kai having fun in the water

Wow...mommy sure looks pale next to Grandma!!

Aunt Deanna let us borrow Kai's floatie! So relaxing!!

And...we couldn't even wait to get home before we fell asleep :)

Grandma took some more pictures, so we may have some better ones to post later!!

Right on Track

The girlies had their 9 month check-up today. Here are their stats...

Leah weighs 17.6 pounds, she is 27.75 inches long and her head is 44 inches! That puts her in the 22nd percentile for weight, between the 25th and 50th percentile for length, and...get ready...the 95th percentile for head. Lots of brain in there!!

Isabella weights 16.6 pounds, she is 27 inches and the her head is also 44 inches. That puts her in the 10th percentile for weight, the 25th for length, and the same 95th percentile for head.

She said everything else seems like they are right on target for their age!

The best part of the visit was that we didn't have to get any shots! Yea!! Next time we get 4 though...wish she hadn't mentioned that part!

The doctor also said that we can start feeding them table food. I am still a little nervous about this! We just started feeding them Gerber puffs and they had a hard time at first (they would choke on them), but are getting better, so I guess we will progress with other things soon. They still really don't have teeth other than a little nub of one that has pushed through, so I don't really know how they are going to chew, but I guess we'll find out!!

OUCH!

Both girls have FINALLY cut a tooth. They have both been pretty miserable because of it, but Leah has really been awful. She has no voice because she has been crying so much. It is so sad...I just want them all to come in at once and get it overwith! I can't imagine going through this many more times....uggh!

On another note, we started with a new babysitter today while I am at summer school. The girls seemed to do pretty well with her, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that this continues!

We have their 9 month appt. on Friday so I'll post more after we do that....

One more!