An update from a long lost blogger

I used to blog. Regularly. Then this thing happened. I started a career. Unlike any job I had the past, this is a 'career' and its been demanding. Not quite as demanding as my first career of "mom" but none-the-less, my blogging has been limited to sneak peeks and photos of other people's children. ;)

The girls will be 2 on the 30th. How does that happen? Really?! Where are my teeny little darlings? Oh! There they are! Climbing onto the dining room table and fighting with each other. Addisen's favorite sentences are "Up mommy!", "What's that?" and "Thank you Mommy". Parker is hilarious! She won't do any command tricks/phrases but instead sends em out there and you catch yourself going "What did she just say?" LOL! Last weekend she called Jason's dad, my FIL, "guy". He hasn't seen them since January and so when he told her "lets go look at this" she said "ok, guy!" hahahaha!

They are both regularly saying 3 and 4 word sentences and using them appropriately. They love babies, kitties, dogs, animals of all kind. They know all their animal sounds (including a coyote, bear, tiger, monkey and elephant). They know the colors red, blue, green, purple and yellow. They can also "count" to 2. Sort of. We're working on that one. Dressing and particularly UN-dressing is their favorite past-time here lately. They love dress-up and ask for "bows and purses" on a regular basis. Boy oh boy are we in trouble!

They "read" to us and even tell us exactly what is in the book. Its so amazing to see them conversing and carrying on appropriately. I think that is my favorite thing about this age. Its so fun!!!

We have big plans for Halloween and their birthday this year. On their real b-day, we are having a family day together and then doing a dinner out at Red Robin with my family followed with cake and presents at our house. Saturday, Halloween we are dressing up (ok, THEY are dressing up) and we are eating out with some friends and doing our local old Marysville carnival with petting zoo, trick or treating, costume contest, etc. Then on the 1st, we are having their birthday party at Bounce U. This place lets us rent out two private bounce rooms and a party room. YEAH! No big kids jumping and trampling the little ones. This year, I really tried to gear it towards small kids. And since they are obsessed with barnyard items and country stuff, we are doing a farm animal themed party...complete with animal hats in the shape of the animals! :)

I have still not spent one night away from them since they came home from the NICU and I am READY!!! I think it was hard for me to be away because they have been on such a strict schedule for so long and because the 19 nights away from them in the NICU was enough. But...I am ready. Did I mention that I was ready? LOL! I think Jason is the one who is ready for me to be ready. ;)

I worked a trade with another photographer here in town because he wanted family photos done this year and so we're going up to Apple Hill in a couple weeks to do fall photos and 2 year photos of the girls. In the mean time, here are some of them that we did back in August/September.





This one is hilarious to me because its so "us"...'you take care of her and I will get this one'. I can just hear one of us saying it!