Demi is 1!

This is what you get as a  1st cake when your mom is amazing!!!

The beautiful birthday girl!  Look at that outfit!  Perfect :)

Isabella and the b-day girl.

Isabella was a little under the weather but still had a good time!

Leah played great the whole time! 

Leah and Kai's best buddy!

One of Demi's little friends...so cute!!

I love this picture!  She look so feminine

Monkeys

Pizza time!

All the other kids enjoying their dinner :)

Grandma was babysitting Kai and Demi on Saturday, so we headed over for a quick play-date. 

My kids refused to eat breakfast until we got to Gamma's because they were so excited to get there!

Pancake nose :)

BUBBLES!!

New Years Day

Nana turned 93 on New Years day!!  She is an amazing woman and we had a great afternoon celebrating her birthday at Mom's house!!

She is still beautiful!!

Daddy and Leah

She sang a "thank you" song after we sang happy birthday!!

"Feeding" the fish before bath time

TALKING

I don't know when it happened, but all the sudden my little girls are TALKING...not just words, but they are forming sentences that actually make sense.  This morning, I went to get them out of their cribs and here was the conversation:

Isabella:  "Daddy Sleeping?"
Leah:  "No Daddy Sleeping Bella, Daddy downstairs watching TV"
Mommy:  you are right Leah, Daddy is downstairs watching TV (not sure how she knew that..he rarely does that!!).
Leah:  Come on Mommy, Let's Go See..Let's go see".

We get downstairs...she drinks her milk, gets off the couch and says "I go see Daddy" and she ran over to Cesar!

That was just crazy to me...last week they were stringing a few words together...now they are talking with intelligent sentences.  Each word that Leah said was pronounced well and made perfect sense!  I don't think I am ready for this yet :)

Why I am Home Schooling Leah


Well...maybe only for 7th and 10th grade!  Those are the years that they dissect frogs...and Leah will just end up embarrassing herself and throwing up all over the frog...so better to just home school her those years so she doesn't make a food of herself!  You see...my poor Leah was blessed with a VERY weak stomach.  I had a feeling she would be like this when she would literally gag if she put food in her mouth that she didn't like, but she has taken it to a new level this past week.  First, she threw up all over the floor when she watched her sister get sick last week.  Then, when I was changing her diaper, she accidentally put her hand in it and started crying and gagging over and over again.  Then, last night, she pooped on the little potty (all by herself...without my prompting!) and she started throwing up when she looked at it.  Ha Ha Ha...hope she doesn't get thrown up on in 2nd grade like her Mommy did! We may end up having to home school her forever!

Reading!

Reading for 2 year olds!

*Sorry this is so long..probably very boring for most people...but cute to me. If you don't want to watch the whole book...Isabella attempts the ABC's at the end! She was a little camera shy, but you get the point...

*And...sorry that it is sideways...I tried to edit it and put it right side up, but for some reason the file was too big and it wouldn't upload.  Just turn your head at a 90 degree angle... :)

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Bounce-U

Grandma and I took the girls to Bounce-U this week!  It wasn't quite as fun as usual because there were OVER 40 kids!  Usually, they don't let more than 15 in for the pre-school play-date.  Don't know why they let so many in, but it was pretty chaotic.  The girls were ready to go 45 min. before our time was over, and I was TOTALLY fine with that!!  We did manage to have some fun while we were there though.  Here is a video of the girls in one of the bounce houses! 

The Girls' new playroom!!

My major goal this week was to get the girls play-room done!  I wish I had a before and after picture..we changed so much!  First, we had to get rid of the bed that was in there, so we rented a uhaul trailer and took it to moms (along with a bunch of other baby stuff that she is so graciously storing for us until the spring yardsales!).  Then we painted the room, bought a bookshelf to contain all of their growing book collection (this is only a small fraction of the books we have...I just need to bring the rest up!), and blew up the little ball pits.  So fun and the girls LOVE it!!  It is so fun to have a play area on each level for them!!  There is so much more I want to add to this room, but for now...it is a really fun space!

Longing for summer...

I just found some videos from summer that I never posted on here (probably because there isn't anything specail about them or because there is a lot of annoying "mommy talk" in both of them...but oh well) ...I can't believe this was only 6 months ago...they have changed so much since this time.  They seem so innocent and sweet (well..they still are, but in the video it is more of a baby way).  After watching the first one, I realized that Leah's personality has changed so much since this was taken.  She is so much sillier now!  If she was doing this now, she would be making funny faces and her "No" in response to my asking her if she wanted to go night night would be WAY more dramatic.  Makes me realize how grown up they are already (and how ready I am for warm weather, t-shirts, and baby pools)!!