Mermaid Mayham and a Non-Scarey Clown

Vegan organic mermaids.
Mermaid onesies. Reeses said "Birthday Girl".
Stairs = No Mermaids Allowed.
Scariest pinata in the world. Devilles mom was nice enough to mention that Ms. Mermaid has the face of a blow-up doll. EW. Did we just go there?? (She does though!)
Stylin' in the sock monkey pj's. Thanks sock monkey. You aren't such a jerk after all.

So here are some birthday party pics. I don't have many since I was running around after at least one one-year old. Rich and I think they had a great time as evidenced by thier total anarchy when it came to naptime. They just wouldn't take one the whole day. Loved the clown (sorry no pics) and so did Ella, Deville, and Aunt Joanie! Ok a side-bar about the clown. Rich and I sooooo did not want to get a clown. But we were walking around Christmas shopping and realized we were going to have all of these kiddies (and adults) stuck in the house for a couple hours. What else could we do?? So I started calling around, pricing clowns. This is quite a complicated business. I was offered puppet shows, face painting, cotton candy "circus style", helium balloons, story time, sing-a-longs, and magic tricks. I really wasn't looking for more than 1/2 hour of baby entertainment without freaking any of the kids out. One place offered me a 90-minute clown. Seriously? I can barely sit in a movie for 90 minutes. I broke it down as just give me a couple puppets, sing-a-longs, and jokes, no dare to be great situation. All in all, lots of fun. Luckily he didn't show up intoxicated. (One company ASSURED me that they screen all of thier clowns so they don't show up "intoxicated". You thought that was just a clown stereotype. Apparently not.) Ok, back to the party, the girls got to boogie down to thier favorite tunes like "Old MacDonald", "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and the "Ho-key Pokey". They did love the spinach lasagne for lunch the next day and also all of thier awesome friends and family that made thier first birthday so special and fun. Thanks Slappy. That was his name. Kinda wierd right?

Rich and I have decided not to buy them anything for Christmas thanks to all of their friends and family too. Our living room has been taken over by Ollie the Octopus (ok, we gave them him) and activity tables and animal trains and shape cookie jars and a mini-kitchen (hopefully they will not go into nutrition like thier mom although we have ruined them as far as thier food tastes. No cupcakes, goat cheese and cucumbers pleeeaase mom!!

One

Lily wasn't all that into the cupcake but we did catch her smiling. Maybe she is smiling at the cottage cheese to the right.
No words.
Post-party VIP bath party.
Not a birthday picture but is this normal? She loves celery.
Sister love.

Happy Birthday Lovies!!

We can't imagine our lives without you and could not ask for more. Really. It is so hard for me to look back at the last year and think that it is over, but on the other hand things just keep getting more fun. I say to Rich everyday, can they really do anything cuter? And then the next day they do. Today, Reese pointed at a glass of water that she wanted. She never did that before. Lily could not stop hugging her new tickle me elmo. Reese was glued to the TV watching her new Elmo video laughing and smiling. I really do not know where we would be without them and going through life and chemo all over again.

Sure its hard but how can we complain when we have four bright eyes looking at us laughing over the side of the bath tub. We are so lucky to have the friends and family we have that have helped us through the past 2 years. We know that the people around us are 110% loving, understanding, and the best best best. We know it hasn't been easy for them either and we cannot express how much thier friendship, love, and patience has helped us get through it all and continues to keep us focused on getting through this now.

Anyway, back to a giant Happy Birthday Lily & Reese.

You Rule.

xo

MomMom& Dad-ee

Last Day of 11 Months!!

Rich loves this picture of Lily. Kinda a punk rock Lily in her black knit hat. Did I mention how much Fugazi she has been listening to lately?
Blocks taste good on front teeth.
Bad Santa picture but you get it. Lily is having the time of her life, not crying.

Hard to beleive they only have one more day to live it up as 11 month olds. How the hell did they get to be one so quick?? Rich and I were in the mall this weekend looking at baby clothes and I realized that they are also toddlers, not infants anymore. Not that they just turned into toddlers as far as label on clothes go, but as Rich put into perspective for me, "They are still my babies to me.".
Right.

Oi to the World

New hat at Janie & Jack. It has reindeers on it. She didn't take it off for about 1/2 hour.
Lily in her hat.
Post-Santa craziness.
OH-MY-GOD-I-JUST-SAT-ON-SANTAS-LAP happiness
Love.

Kissing Santa's Butt

Sorry again, no pics but soon!
Lily and Reese have learned hugs. They hug each other, a stuffed Santa head (kinda funny), and Buddy, thier giant teddy bear. Its so damn cute. I seem to say that alot. Today they were alternating hugging Santa head. Then of course they look at me like, Ahem, so I had to get in on some of the action too. We need lots of hugs in this house these days and they are so in-tune to that is just nuts.
So I go to pick them up today from daycare anticipating thier "school pictures" only to be told they didn't happen. At least for Lily & Reese, who decided they didn't like the picture lady and freaked out the whole time they tried to get thier pictures. I hope this isn't a sign about how it will go with Ole Santa probably this weekend. I can already see Lily&Reese&Mom on Santas lap while Dad stands cracking up on the sidelines saying, "I'm not going up there". Yup.

Ok, working on pics. Promise!!

Round 2

I know it has been awhile since I updated the page, and our other camera broke and I tried to upload a video but that didn't work either. I promise to get the Lily&Reese eating tofurkey and pumpkin pie shots up as soon as I can.

First thing is first, as many of you know Rich is starting chemo again, actually his first day is tomorrow. After being hospitalized twice, lots of tests and bloodwork, something finally came back positive, although that positive was for cancer. We decided this time to remain calm, BREATHE, and roll with the punches and try to keep everyone else on our page too. We don't want alot of calls everytime there is a test, or everytime Rich has chemo. Just believe that it is fine. And believe in Rich. If you don't, do whatever you have to in order to really believe in him. He is amazing and Superman in the ladies of Clay Street's eyes. He did it once, knows how to do it, and will do it again. So far we have talked to a couple gastrointestinal cancer specialists, will probably talk to some more, and make the best decision we can on how to deal with this long term. For now, there are just 4 swollen lymph nodes that are barely being picked up by a CT scan and PET scan (reacts to cancer cells) that his oncologist caught and did not let go of until he found out what it was. Thank god for Dr. Nissenblatt. The man does not sleep until he has an answer and we are so lucky to have him taking care of our #1. We don't have alot of answers. We will keep you posted when we know something and that is a promise. We want to try to continue to live our lives as normal as our lives were before this ugly cancer came back. Don't go crazy, we aren't. Well, we kinda did and then we talked ourselves out of it, found some inspiration through some other awesome cancer survivors (Kris Carr, the crazysexycancer girl herself!), and looked at our little family and decided we were going to do anything we could to kick cancer's butt again. Well that last part is Rich's job. He just as 2 more cheerleaders and reasons to do it again. And he will.

So welcome macrobiotics, yoga, exercise (Chava is super excited about this part), guided imagedry, mediation, bancha tea, juicing, and positive positive-ness.

Moving on to our little mermaids. The mermaid party is all set. And no cancer talk at the mermaid party. Not permitted. Rich and I are busily trying to put on the mermaid party of the decade which is looking like it includes mermaid attire for all of the Cunninghams (you have to be here to believe it). Boys, suck it up and put on your best mer-man face (anyone remember Zoolander?? I'm not a mermaid dad, I'm a merman, A MERMAN!!). If you haven't seen these two turkeys lately you won't beleive it. They are walking. Walking ALOT. Deville can attest to this . We took them to the mall for a playdate a couple weekends ago and Reese just got her shopping shoes on and wanted to walk (without holding my hand) all around the mall. Talking. Oh we are talking. Sometimes it makes sense sometimes not. I think they are trying to say "cat" which sounds more like "at" or "dat", "dog", and maybe "that" which sounds like "dat". They can say da da, dad-dee, and mom mom mom. Reese today followed me out to the kitchen on my way to work, stopped near the stove, pointed at me, and said "dat". Oh, and Lily is pointing....to things in books which is freaky. She can point to a ball, cat, and dog. If you ask her where the flower is on the ball page, she points at the ball, but that is ok, we still think she is a baby genius. Is that normal for an 11-month old that is really 9-months old for her corrected age??

Ok, so there it is. Check out crazysexycancer's blog. Very cool. You will be inspired.

i went for a walk

We went to a book reading, sing-a-long thing in Metuchen to see a face from the past from a fave band from the past (at least for one of us) that wrote a children's book and is doing a tour.

http://www.iwentforawalk.com/

Anyway, I was hugely skeptical that these little 11 month olds (happy late bday!) would make it through more than 10 minutes. Believe it or not, they were sooo into it. Maybe it was the narration that made it so interesting, but usually between 630 and 730 pm its not such a happy hour at our house. Its usuallly lots of pre-bed crankiness and rubbies. Not tonight. In fact, somehow Rich and Reese ended up in the front row, which made me more nervous anticipating a breakdown and then NO WAY to sneak out. So after the story was over, they did a little song thing and of course Reese stole the front row. Swinging her arms and screaming, mouth open, so happy. I guess all of the Rick Springfield sing-a-longs we practice to have paid off. Ha! Just ask us to put on "Kristina" the next time you come over to see Reese really have a dance off. Anyway, mid-Reese dance-breakdown, Greg just started laughing because she was probably the youngest kid in the front 3 rows (only to be beat by a 5 month old named Isabel) and she was jammin'. Lily only had one little fuss, and I was forced to hit the snack table and feed her the bottom part of a cupcake. Hey, she has had a pumpkin muffin, so really what is the difference. As Jim Gaffigan says, a muffin is just a cupcake with no icing.

ANYWAY, one hour and no meltdowns, lots of smiles and waves to all the kids and adults.

Baby Gap, baby!

So of course we think our kids are the cutest in the world and entered them in the Gap Casting Call.

http://kodak.eprize.net/gapcastingcall/index.tbapp?page=gallery

If you type in heatherette74@hotmail.com in the "search by registered email address" you will see the two cuties.

So keep this in mind when I remind you to vote for them if they make the next cut.

They have to right?

June 8, 2007

The TJL Foundation, a friend of ours, that has thier annual fundraiser in June, posted Rich's speech from this year. As many of you know, he spoke at thier dinner this year. It was an extremely fun and special night for us and we are so happy to know these folks.

http://www.thetjlfoundation.org/richstory.htm

Happy 1st Halloween!

This is when I can see Lily in Reese. Right? This is Reese.
No, Lily is not doing her impression of a dead ladybug. She just wouldn't wake up. And check out the ghost in the graveyard pumpkin (left) and the pirate ship pumpkin (right). We both have a bad case of carpel tunnel syndrome now.
Apparently, Lily loves Butterfingers.
Happy Bug. Check out the teeth. Hello Milltown! Come to our house and check me out.

We were worried. We had some big plans for Halloween for the ladies and for most of the day they were just the CRANKIEST. That was until we pulled up to Kindercare for thier Halloween Parade. It wasn't their day to go there, but we figured we would bring them in to see all of thier friends and they just had a blast. In fact I think it was the first time all day they both smiled. Well other than when we put them in thier costumes. When they were all both dressed up there was a minute where they looked at each other and started laughing. Like, oh my god, what did they dress you up in? Me, what did they put YOU in? Are they crazy? It was downright adorable.

So then we came home, after they got to march in the parade, and we sat on the front steps like lots of other Milltowners. Its funny, lots of the people sit on thier steps waiting for the trick-or-treaters. Then when there is a lul, the neighbors go next-door and chit chat and then wait for the next swarm of kids. And when I say there are swarms, there are huge swarms. Every year we end up with only a couple of pieces of candy left. And this year we had 15+ pounds of candy, plus some skull rings, tombstone and eyeball erasers, plastic spiders, and oh yeah, halloween stickers (I try to do a nice spread for the kiddies).

Ok, back to the babies. So we are sitting on the steps and they are just waiting for the kids to come. Everytime some kids come, the kids come over to them and say things like, wow, you have TWO BABIES, and pat their heads and stuff like that. Then there was the little girl that said, Two Babies is too Much! Ha, if she only knew. So at some point I suggest we give them some downtime and try to feed them. The problem? Well everytime they see me or Rich go to the front door for trick-or-treaters, they follow us, like, HEY, I want to see the kids too! So we had to just keep them on the porch so they could squeal everytime some kids came by. It was pretty cute.

Needless to say, we think they had a blast on their first Halloween. Even though we missed the library party, I think they didn't feel like they missed out.

Pumpkin Awesomeness

Preparty shots at Whole Foods.
How cute am I in my blue jeans? Ready for the farm and pre-major-diaper blowout.
How do I pick just one?
Lily vs. the giant pumpkin.
Love love love this place.

On a recommendation from skater-baby(s) we took the girls to Terhune Orchards today and they had a BLAST. The only hitch in the day was the pre-pumpkin bash major blowout Reese had and we, as responsible diaper bag packers, totally forgot a change of pants, so Reese had to smell like poop all day, which was ok since she was on the farm.

They crawled all over the pumpkins, got to see chickens, goats, and even a horse (that came over to Reese after she yelled at it and waved, oh yeah, she learned how to wave over the past two days...can she stop with all of this development already??). They got to see some other dogs and cats, which Reese decided to attack like she attacks Molly, our cat. Luckily this nice fluffy farm cat didn't claw her. Once again, great parents letting our baby pet a dirty farm cat! Oh, then they got to eat some cider donuts (what??? have they lost thier minds??? she is even a nutritionist!! gasp!!), which of course they l-o-v-e-d. They honestly didn't get fussy even once in the 2 hours we spent there. The only fuss we heard was when Reese trompled over Lily to get to a pumpkin, but even that was minimal (we are convinced Lily is just saying, God can she stop touching me?? Mom! She is touching me again.)

So all in all, awesome day and we are thinking of going back since they had such a great time. And we have some pretty awesome pumpkins to carve up this week.

Happy Birthday Dad!

From on the porch looking in.
Reese in her Halloween shirt. Loving peek-a-boo.
Early AM romps.

At least dad was looking at the camera. Happy birthday!

And Dad was even home from the hospital and is doing much better. He was so happy to come home and see his girls, that missed him very much over the past week. And so did I. It is nice to have someone else get up in the middle of the night when they decide to stagger thier nighttime wakeups. Yes we are back to that but hoping it is related to teething or a growth spurt. On any note, Rich is better, not in as much discomfort and pain, and has some follow-up tests to do over the next week to make sure things are 100% in check. Thanks to everyone that called, emailed, and thought of him this week.

So this weekend we were supposed to away for Rich's bday but in view of everything that was going on we decided it not to be the best idea to go to Jamaica. Actually my boss convinced me when she said, Heather, do you want to deal with this in a Jamaican hospital? Good point. So instead we went to Atlantic City. Fun times. We both fell asleep on the beach yesterday for an hour, and then went to the Borgata and indugled in thier jaccuzzi and heated pool. The pool has music that you can hear underwater. It was totally amazing. If you have never been there, it is worth the insane amounts they charge you. Not quite Jamaica but super nice anyway. And we stepped up our game by not sticking to slots only, and hit the roulette table. Rich actually did pretty well and won $160 which is more than I can say we have won on slots. It was pretty funny when he hit the last time and cashed out, the dealer said, "I got you. Hit and run, way to play." Ha. The funnier part is that it was a $5 roulette table on a Sunday morning.

Ok, baby updates. Reese is taking like 6 steps. Lily is trying to keep up with her desperately. I got their report cards from Kindercare the other day and on Reese's it read "Caught her walking alone on two seperate times.". Pretty exciting. Its kinda funny to watch her walk since she is still only 10 months old and walking.

Tomorrow, as part of our planned vacation days off, we are hitting a pumpkin patch to get some pumpkins to carve up for Halloween. I think Reese is going to just sit in front of them and smack them, but that will be fun anyway. Pics to follow.

Happy 10 Months

Summer Wedding.
Fam Shot ~ Point Pleasant, End of Summer 2007

2 more months until the big one. that is "1". it is so crazy to think about that.
so for those of you that don't know rich has been in the hospital since thursday for dehydration. we are not sure 100% from what so we don't want everyone to start thinking the big c again. he has had a bunch of tests, CT's, blood work, scopes, ect done and so far they have found nothing. not to say that there isn't nothing going on, but i have to believe if it was something they would of found it by now. to be honest, we don't know what is going on but should know by monday or tuesday. 

all i can say is that i think lily&reese are keeping us both going.

Worst Dog in the World

Most of you know Chava our wondermutt. Most of you also know that he doesn't score big points with me most of the time and I have come to the conclusion I will like him when he is about 5 years old and much more mellowed out, but for now we dealing with him and all his puppy-ness (is that what you call it??).

The problem: The post-baby-meal clean-up.

Most dogs lick the floor clean when food has been thrown all over it, no matter what the food is....right?? NOT CHAVA. The girls are pretty much eating only finger foods (umm...more like whole handfuls of food and only 1/4 of it makes it to the mouth foods) so most of the time there are piles of hummus, avacado, cottage cheese, ect on the floor and on thier highchair tables. So everynight, when I put them down to bed, I give Chava full access to clean up. Some nights, he walks into the disaster area, and walks right out. I am not even kidding. Other nights, he fishes out the Cheerios and leaves the rest for me to scrape. On a good night, he will eat about 75% of the leftovers and leave all kinds of crumbs and other food pieces all over the floor and highchairs.

Why did I get the broken dog??

One thing he will try to lick out of the girls hands, between the rails of the baby gates are thier teething cookies and toasts. If you aren't watching, and that toast gets close to the "other side" of the gate, its licked out of thier hands and on the kitchen floor. At which point the girls will try to reach out and take thier toast back, covered in Chava slobber, dog hair, and all kinds of other nasty crap.

Ok, I will leave Chava alone because they do love him since he is such a spaz. They laugh wildly at the sight of him chasing his ball and all of that. He gets excited when he sees them coming in from a walk and gets this pep in his step. He better get use to sweet potatoes and tofu. Thats all he is going to be seeing for awhile.

In other news Lily officially babbles "Mom-mom-mom-mom" which of couse makes my day although she says it to everyone, but I think says it more when I am home. Reese is more of a "ba-ba-ba-da-da-da" kind of girl, so sooner or later we all knew it was inevitable she would say "dada" first right? She is making major progress in walking, and now takes 2-3 (sometimes 4) steps without holding on, and then faceplants. This is usually done with some momentum, but it is scarey to see none-the-less. I was talking to a friend at work, whose son just turned 1 and has started cruising. I was so jealous, then I realized that all of this running around is probably helping me loose my last 5 pounds before Jamaica.

Good Times

Pre-swim class cover-ups. Nice bruise Lily!!
Reese and her toother.
See, they aren't identical. Double diaper swing.
I am going to be so sad when they won't fit together.

Diaper to diaper.

9-month check-up was Friday, they are getting so big!
Lily:
16 pounds, 8.5 ounces ~ 28 3/4 inches long


Reese:
18 pounds, 1.5 ounces ~ 29 1/2 inches long



And the bigger news is that Lily has 4 teeth coming in. Its the one thing she is ahead of Reese at, growing teeth. Reese has one tooth on the bottom. She is such a nut, she sticks her tounge out all day so it lies over it. So all day, her tounge is out. The doctor was suprized how much they have grown and the nurse even had to re-measure Lily twice because she grew like 3 inches in 3 months which is crazy.

So as I mentioned, the girls pretty much want to eat everything with thier hands so baby food is almost out. This has forced me to cook, which is funny. Everyone thinks dietitians can cook. Nope. We know how to tell you what to cook, how to cook it, and when to eat it. Most can't cook to save thier lives, and beleive me, I had to take many many food science labs and food prep classes. It was a joke. Lots of burnt baked goods and overcooked pasta, which I still am guilty of today. Well, this week I felt like a real mom because I cooked a sweet potato and didn't mess it up. It was perfect and the babies loved it. Now it makes all those $1.25 Organic Baby sweet potato jarred baby food's even more annoying. This week we are going to try to make homemade veggie burgers, I just can't feed them processed veggie burgers, plus alot of them are so high in salt, which aren't good for little kidneys....who knows. Maybe egg yolks first.

In an effort to keep these little minds busy we found a free baby book class at the Milltown library. The first class is Monday and apparently there are a bunch of babies signed up. They do stories and parachutes (as Rich says, "whatever that is"), and have lots of fun. Mondays are going to be big days for them now, they will go from their library class to Kindercare which they totally love love love.

One note about how much they are loving and learning at Kindercare. Now they are into hand holding. Each other's hands (how super-cute, makes me want to cry everytime I see it), and other baby's hands, and our hands. Apparently the other kids at daycare are very hand-hold-y so now they are too. Like tonight, Lily was obsessed with getting Reese to pay attention to her and hold her hand. Reese was too into the alphabet pasta, but it was cute none-the-less.

Tub Time

New Tub. Thanks Baby Squared.
Bubble Beards.
Hot tubs rule.
Going to swim class - winter session.
Lovin' the swim class idea.

No warm fuzzie pics but we did take a bunch of them in thier new inflatable tub. They just love it. In the other tub, it was really single serve. This ment one was in the tub while the other stood up against the tub squeeling about how she wanted to be in the tub too. The inflatable tub (pool really) has added a whole new dimension to baby bath time as you can probably see.

The babies are sleeping BETTER through the night. Not completely through, but we will take what we can get. Now they go down 7-730 latest, and make it until about 4 (that would be Lily) where she gets another bottle, and sleeps for about another hour or so. Some of these sleeping suggestions actually work, and we have been working hard on regulating naps. Actually some days they don't take any afternoon nap, especially when they are at Kindercare, which they LOVE. It is seriously one of the best things we have done. They just seem so much more balanced. I hate to say it, but almost like Chava at the dog park. When I come to get them its like they are ready to go and off we go home. They play with the other babies, and a new set of twins started this week, so that is even more exciting for them.

In the eating department, they have tackeled lots of new goodies. Hummus, tofu, cottage cheese, and more teething cookies. The cutest thing is this week when they were eating thier little toasts, I was lying on the floor with them, watching them closely as any neurotic mother starting thier kids on solid foods, and wondered if they would share with me, so I opened my mouth. Well, Lily looked at me, looked at her toast, and put it in my mouth. Then Reese did it. It was honestly the cutest thing. How do they know how to do that? I mean they try to share thier cookies with puppers all the time, but me?? I almost cried it was so cute.

So we have our nine-month doctors appointment this week, let you know the stats. Actually its closer to 10 months at this point. YIKES. We are going to have to start party planning for the December Mermaid Party soon.

Warm Fuzzies

Ok so we are onto a new approach to getting these kiddos to sleep better. They were going down around 10pm (yup, 10) and getting up at 2ish, then wide awake at 6ish. That was a good night. I read all of these blogs and books now that say that most kids should be in bed between 6-9, sleep for 12 hours-ish, and not wake up most of the time. So of course I bought a book on this whole sleep thing because we are just loosing it. Come to find out, much like dog training, we are to blame for thier bad sleeping habits. Things like not putting them to bed exhausted is important because it is harder for them to go to sleep and stay asleep. Working on naps, and making it more scheduled is important. Not letting them take thier dreamy 530pm nap at all (no naps 3 hours within bedtime) ~ this was happening since their nap schedule was all screwed up and kicked back. So now we are on night two of bed by 7-730. No crying. I also got them so super cute warm fuzzy fleecy pjs. Footed so thier little feets won't get cold. That would wake me up in the middle of the night. Since we live in our big old old old drafty house, warm fuzzies are essential. I am hoping it is the magic trick. I will include some photos asap. They just look so cute in thier new winter pj's.

So this also marks week 2 of daycare, which of course they are LOVING. Today when I got there I waited outside their room for a minute (it has those one way mirrors, so you can see in but they can't see out) and watched them sitting in a circle during story time. It was so cute. Reese was just sitting there glued to Miss Jen (I still don't have thier names down...) sitting next to her two new friends Jared and Chloe. Lily was sitting on Miss Jen's lap listening and laughing. They are little people and not just little babies, which is hard to swallow, but also unbelieveably fun and cute.

Happy 9 Months!

(I think this was around 4 months-ish)

Today:
Ate Cheerios for breakfast and snacks
Drank out of sippy cups
Tried to eat mom&dads tacos and drink beer
Reese stood up using the radiator (bad), let go, propped herself against the wall, and stood up for about 15 seconds, then started crying when we tried to get her to take a step
Played with Puppers
Fell on the radiator
Watched "Underwater Adventures" for 10 minutes
Took only two-twenty minute naps
Went to bed around 8pm (Lily) and 830pm (Reese but not without a fight).
We love you so much Reese & Lily.

KinderCare Day 1

Sorry for no pics in advance but I will get some for next time. So the girls started thier day care gig today and absolutely loved it. Rich dropped them off at 11 and I picked them up at 4 only to find Reese playing with her new friend Jared and Lily in the buggy that they roll around the school to visit all of the kids. When I got to the door Reese saw me right away and smiled and started crawling to the door to meet me, It was so cute. Lily then of course saw me and started climbing on me so I had two babies crawling on me like a tree. I called at about 1 to check on them to find out that Lily was eating Cheerios (uh...we never gave her Cheerios before) and Reese was playing with Jared. It was funny, I just had this vision of one of the other kids eating Cheerios and Lily just going at them with her hand out acting like she had eaten them for years. Ha. Little sneak. Oh the other funny thing is that they only took one twenty minute nap each. Too much action apparently. They sent me off with a report card for the day which informed me that they had sang songs, taken buggy rides, and played with the other kids with no problem. The teacher even said she was suprized they had no separation anxiety. I think they were just happy to get out and hang out with new boys and eat Cheerios. Oh well. Tomorrow is Day #2.

Promises, Promises

Lily fell asleep as soon as we got to the rides. Lucky Reese! Reese on some sort of space ship thingy with dad.
Lily at Pop's in Ella's chair. And yes those are skulls on her shoes, she is a hip baby.
The best picture we could get of us on the beach. Chaos as usual, one out of four looking at the camera.
Lily on the beach.
Oh, then Reese fell asleep after the rides, and Lily woke up. This is how it goes.