No Words

Taken today. May be my new favorite pics of my lovies.

Killing time..

while listening to the girls talk them to sleep. Rich and I have this routine that when we put them down to bed we wait upstairs until there is no noise coming from their room. Recently, there is a nightly recap, singing "Happy Birthday" or the ABC's, or just babble between them, then quiet. The other reason we kinda wait it out is that, when they REALLY want to, they climb out of the crib and run around their rooms. Yes, we are working on toddler beds, but until them, we are on night watch. he most part, it is a good time to catch up on emails and such while waiting for nite nite.

Oh, and some more pics from Haircut day. And I am bugging Rich to post that analysis.

Eat your heart out...

3 posts in a row! Pics from one of their buddies bday party today loving cake! We told Lily that Uma Thurman called and wants her haircut back. And the first one, well what can I say. She's going to conquer the world.

First Haircuts

We have been putting it off by just giving them little bang trims. Then I was looking at some other twins about their age and realized how mullet-y Lily and Reese were looking, and hello they are 2 years old without a formal haircut. So despite all the "no haircuts" we heard this morning we loaded up the girls and headed to the local Hair Cuttery. Along the way, we went through a list of friends, family, and people we know that get haircuts to ease the anxiety. We even had to like about Luca getting haircuts to make things go smoothly! Well, after waiting for about 10 minutes, it happened and went off without a hitch. Lily sat in the chair like a perfect angel, with a totally strange look on her face (kinda like, if i hate this cut you guys are so going to hear about it) and then when she was done she kept "fluffing it" and smiling at herself in the mirror. Reese, a repeat performance. She actually put her arms out to Rich when Lily was done to be PUT in the chair for her cut. The girl was even sweet enough to give them Certificates for getting their hair cuts, as you can see above and for the rest of the day Lily and Reese proceeded to talk about it - scisscors, pretty, and water (since they wetted their hair first) all day long. I think we are going to get asked around March to make some second appointments.

Fish needs a blanket

I will get the year in review post up before the end of the weekend. But I had to share this story:

So "Santa" brought Lily and Reese two adorable angelfish. The girls after a few days settled on the names, Mooty (Their name for Snoopy) and Tiger (I assumed named after one of their other xmas gifts). The girls take great pride in feeding the fish. They take turns, scream about which one is suppose to go first. So last night while we are settling into the couch, I noticed one of the fish had gone to fish heaven. He or she who knows wasn't floating at the top he was settled in on the plant kind of with his head on the rock portion. So I of course being new to this parent thing go Oh man Heather look at the fish. Which prompted the reeser to come running to the fish tank. I proceed to tell her the fish was sleeping. She kept looking at the fish going fish is sleeping. But she wouldn't stop looking at it. I pulled her up on the couch which is located close to the fish tank and she kept looking at it. Finally she says Fish wake up. She said this about 10 times. Each time emoting more and ripping heather and my hearts out of our chest. Finally she says fish sleeping, fish a blanket. At that point the room was solemn. I told her the fish was sleeping. Put the girls to bed, threw out the fish and went to petco with chava to get a replacement. Tiger or Mooty was there the next morning and reese noticed he or she had indeed waked up.

RIP tiger or mooty (or dead angel fish number 1 - with more to follow).

TIGER or MOOTY Cunningham
12/24/08 - 1/5/09

Loved by many, but replaceably

Happy 2009

The holidays just seem to make time go by even faster, so I decided to put up some pics to cover the last 3 weeks. Lily and Reese had a most excellent time seeing family, their buddies, Santa, and just everything. They love their new fish from Santa, Mootie and Tiger, and all of their new toys and clothes and everything else a two year old could love. They are just such a happy talkative kids, and we are realizing how much trouble two can be. Rich is much better at describing them then me, so I am going to beg and plead with him to blog tonight to give y'all his take on the ladies.