Better Late than Never

Sorry everybody.  We have been SO busy this summer.  Blog posting has been neglected, but honestly, who has time to get on the computer when we are having so much fun with new activities?

We discovered that we love live music.  We're fanatics!  Margot and I LOVE to dance and sing in front of the stage.  In these pics we are spending an evening enjoying the entertainment with our friend Paige at the Dog Days of Summer in the Village.

Do you like our hats?  GAM got them for us, we think they are swell!

We also recently took our very first trip to the zoo.  I know, I know....Mom and Dad totally slacked on getting us there.  Boy was it worth the wait!  We went with Paige, Bennett and their mom Alysha.  Just last night Margot and I were discussing what our favorite part of the zoo is.  We went back and forth between the gorillas and the polar bear.  We decided on the polar bear because he was such a ham doing flips in his pool.  The gorillas were just sleeping.  They did have funny feet, though.

Mom and Alysha got pretty tired....so did Margot and Bennett.  What dopes!  They didn't figure out how to conserve energy and prolong zoo time like Paige and I did .... ahem strollers.

Check out our 'cheese' faces below.  We say cheeeeeeese for the camera, the only problem is that we can't open our eyes and say it at the same time.  Another thing you might notice in this pic is us sitting in big boy and big girl chairs.  YES!  Seriously, no more baby or high chairs.  We're in the big leagues now.

I'll leave you with a sight I get to see every night and every morning....my best friend Elmo Margot!  Yes, I realize the binky might negate the "big leagues" comment above, but it's just too cute to keep from you.

Milk and Cookies,
David

Summer fun

We have been busy kiddos!  We are getting in lots of play time with our friends this summer.  Bennett and Paige have been coming over lots for dinner and play time.  If you look closely, you can see that I'm sitting in a big-boy chair in this one.  Bennett showed me how it's done.

Aunt Martha set up a fun play date pool party.  We met a new friend - Remy - and also swam with Paige and our cousins Braden and Calen.

Mom made us wear these lame life jackets, but they actually ended up being pretty cool because we got to sit on the edge of the pool and splash our feet whenever we wanted. 

We forgot about the ball pit!  Mom brought it out for play time with Paige.  Fantastic.

Can you believe all four of us could fit in a chair and a half?  Da says we have to get in it every year until we graduate from college.  Dad says that at the rate we destroy it he hopes we don't have the chair that long.  According to Mom and Dad, we are covering up the milk stains and magic marker calligraphy.  Calligraphy?!  Dad, quit looking over my shoulder and putting in big people words!

Speaking of our penmanship manuscript scribbling skills, Magnadoodles are the best!  Here we are having some arts and crafts time at home.

We also got a new mailbox.  Mom lets us know when we have mail, but we also have figured out it's a good place to hide toys for later.

 As I said, I can now rock the big boy chair.  Margot is working the big girl chair, too.  Here I am outdoing my earlier effort in a big boy chair WITHOUT arms. 

TTFN, big white hen,
David

Yogurt can be dangerous

Hello everyone!  It's David.  It seems we got a little big in our britches with the whole yogurt thing.  Um, did you know it hurts when you get it in your eyes?

And Margot says it's even harder to get out of your hair than fire pit ashes.

Slack Happy

Okay, we know, we're slackers.  It's been a month since our last post!  We have been too busy playing with all our birthday toys, I guess.  PLUS it has been so nice out - we have been spending lots of time at the park and swinging in Ba and Da's losha lozzia loggia.

Let's see.  The day after our birthday party, we did the March of Dimes' March for Babies.  It was cold, but still fun.  Our cousins Braden and Calen were there, so of course we had fun.   Afterwards, we went to our friend Maeve's house for dinner.  Our friend Liana was there, too.  It was a blast!  Soon after, Mom and Dad started letting us feed ourselves yogurt.  Sweet.....but messy!

The next weekend was Mother's Day.  We let Mom take us to the Mother's Day 5K (apparently this is now a tradition).  The cool part was that Aunt Jane was in town and could come with us!  And GAC (Great Aunt Cheryl) and her sister Stephanie were there, too.  Fun times!  Of course, GAM bought us t-shirts and cheered us on the entire time. 

As you can see, this year was much warmer than last year:

Did you know how fun fire pits can be in the summer?  Mom and Dad let us play in theirs (okay, we started behind their backs), and wow!  We are artists (pronounced ar-teests) - the face-painting kind, I mean.  Mom and Dad have learned to clean out the pit when they are done with fires because, whoa nelly does this create a mess.  Afterwards we went straight to bath time.  You may have already been thinking this, but what do you suppose happens to fine ash in your face and hair when you pour water over it?  You guessed it.  Paste!  Mom and Dad don't have pictures of this, but you can imagine their sigh of relief once the whole ordeal was over.

Mom and Dad brought us out to the Legends for Grandpa's birthday.  It was Legendary!  We saw race cars and dinosaurs!  And our cousin Nick was there, which made us very happy.

What you don't see in the above picture is the very large, clear-as-day sign that says no climbing in the cars!  I know, we are rebels.  To be fair, we can't read so the parental units are to blame for our faux pas.

This is our cousin Nick showing us the dinosaur bones outside of the T-Rex restaurant.

Now that we are talking more, we are realizing how cool it is to ask for what we want.  We usually get it!  Especially when we say please.  We ask for walks all the time.  Last night we insisted Mom and Da take us on one and....as we were hoping....they took us to the park!  We love this one area with rubber 'bouncy' mulch. 

Mom and Dad are so clueless.  Since we love the bouncy mulch so much, they thought we would love the bouncy house at the NICU reunion last weekend.  Seriously?!  We can't jump two inches off the ground so even walking in that monstrosity of a "House of Fun" was more than we cared to handle.  We were not impressed and instead bee-lined over to the oatmeal raisin cookies.  We saw our NICU friend Maddie and our nurse Nancy.  Good times!

GAB (Great Aunt Betsy) came in town for her birthday!  How fun.  She brought us cheese curds!  Does she know what we like or what?  Mmmmm, speaking of the curds, I think there are some left.  I'm going to go ask for some now ("cheese please").

Toodaloo Cockatoo,
Margot

Zoolander

Hi to all you zoo keepers out there, it's David here to tell you all about our second birthday party.  Mom and Dad had been preparing us for weeks on how to say "two."  I'm not really one to brag.....okay maybe a little, but Margot and I totally nailed our age when asked.  Ba totally outdid herself with the decorations - we had a zoo animal theme.  It was really neato.  

 All the usual adults were there, but we also had some friends closer to our age come - our cousins Braden and Calen, and our friends Bennett and Paige.  We had fun swinging with everyone and playing on our new chairs.  

 Boy was I glad Bennett was swinging with me.  I was worried I would grow out of the swing soon.  This confirms I have a couple more years.  Phew.

One of our favorite things about the party had to be the unlimited animal crackers!  Lions and tigers and bears oh my!  We were in heaven.  Large amounts of the party passed where I would not even take my eyes or hands away from the bowl. 

Margot reading her new potty book.  I got one, too.

Aunt Denise gave Margot a Jessie doll!  Now maybe Margot won't take my Woody doll.  I think it will work great.

Goodies for all our buddies.

Margot in full Jessie mode.  I'm in the background being held by my cousin Elizabeth.

 Mommy showing me how to work the bell on my new Radio Flyer scoot-about.

I'll leave you with a final shot of me sneaking up on Da (with my "2" visor).  Hilarious.  He loves it when I sneak up on him.  Everyone does, really.  I'm not sure how effective I am since I am always giggling from the time I get the idea to do it until the dastardly deed is done.  I'll have to think about that. That is all for now.

Love,

Your humble two year old

We LOVE the Easter Bunny

Mom broke her wrist last week, so she hasn't been helping us with the computer as much.  Ugh.  Sorry we haven't posted in a while.  This is Margot with an Easter recap.  By the way, Easter rocks!  We LOVE the Easter Bunny.  Seriously, how cool is he?  He brought us Easter baskets with eggs filled with Cheerios and toys and yogurt melts.  You would think that would be enough to make me happy, but perhaps my favorite part of Easter was digging in the back yard and putting dirt and sticks in my hair.  David was up to his usual tricks of pseudo engineering - remember the age and context.  He was taking plastic eggs apart and putting them back together after eating the oaty heart-healthy goodness they once entailed.  Later on that day Mom and Dad checked on us in our room at one point, and David had moved the book shelf full of stuffed animals and pulled out the cord to our night light.  When Mom and Dad ran toward him he plugged it in as if he had done it a hundred times that afternoon.  What a stinker!  They are already figuring out ways to keep us from moving our furniture.  They are such control freaks.  They should really try taking two hour naps in the afternoon or whatever a chill pill is that I hear about from time to time.  Anyway, enjoy the weather, we are.

Tom Boy Margot