Getting Ready for Winter

It's been cooling down around here, so we had to pull our winter gear out last week.  I bought the girls winter coats in January of 2011.  That's three months before they were born.  They were a fantastic deal, and I thought they would be able to wear them last winter.  Actually, they fit this winter:)

The girls look so cute in their little hats and puffy coats.

19 Months!

The girls started daycare this week.  They aren't getting as much sleep as they normally do, and Harper is either teething or has a little cold.  They were not cooperating when I tried to take their 19th month picture.

 

Reading books and combing hair - two of their favorite activities.

 

Sippies of milk before bed.

At 19 months:

• The girls love books (especially books that have flaps to lift), pushing toys all over the house, and their blankets.
• They regularly say "more" and "up".
• They know that ducks say "quack", cows say "moo", tigers say "roar", and dogs say "rough".
• We're still dealing with major tantrums on a regular basis. The biting seems to have slowed down, but they sometimes pinch.
• They love hot dogs, yogurt, goldfish crackers, cheese, and pretty much all fruit.
• They drink about three sippy cups of milk per day.
• They really like to use utensils.
• They wear size 18-24 month shirts and 12-18 month pants, size 4 diapers during the day and size 5 at night, and size 5 shoes.
• They love to "help". They like to throw their diapers away, and we've been working with them to pick up their books and blocks.
• They love to dump their mega blocks on the floor.
• They love to stand on their chairs and look out the window.  They can climb up on our dining room chairs, and we have to make sure that we don't leave anything too close to the edge of our counters.
• They give fantastic hugs and kisses.
• They slept from around 7:30 or 8 until about 8:30 am until we started waking them up at 6:30 for daycare.  They now go to bed around 7:15.  They take one nap, but haven't been sleeping for very long at daycare. 
• Tannah has 16 teeth, and Harper has 12.

 

The transition to daycare this week has been a little rough.  I'm really hoping that we settle into our new routine soon.

Boo!

I know I'm late for more Halloween posts, but life has been busy lately.  Two days before Halloween, the girls were eating dinner when the doorbell rang.  I went to answer the door, and this is what I found.

We got booed, and according to the letter in the pumpkin, we had one day to boo two more families.  Figuring out who to boo and what to give is stressful.

The girls loved the light sticks and the pumpkin.

Wei-Yand enjoyed the candy, and I enjoyed sending Wei-Yand out to boo our neighbors and watching him come sprinting through the back yard to avoid being seen.

Happy Halloween!

from the cutest little pandas ever!

Wei-Yand started work on Monday, and my dad has been watching the girls since their new daycare doesn't have openings until next week.  The girls are loving spending so much time with Grandpa.

When pandas attack.

Trick or Treat

On my way to work yesterday morning I heard an advertisement for trick or treating downtown tonight.  There were also free carousel rides, a dog costume contest, and other fun activities.  Wei-Yand and I decided to take the girls. 

Since my mom is making the girls Panda costumes, I decided to try to track down their costumes from last year.  They were dresses last year, and this year they were more like shirts.  They worked for a quick costume though.  It's amazing for me to look at pictures from last year and see how much the girls have changed.  They don't look like babies anymore.  Sniff, sniff.  They are beautiful little girls though:)

2011

 

This was Wei-Yand's idea for them to trick or treat.  We let them get a few pieces of candy, although I doubt we'll actually let them eat any of it.  That's one thing we've managed to avoid so far.  This plan worked great until they started fighting over the bag.

 

 

We all rode the carousel before we walked up the hill to the downtown area.  Wei-Yand and I rode with the girls, but it still makes them nervous (despite Tannah vigorously nodding her head when we asked her if she wanted to ride).

 

One of the hard parts about doing anything after work is that the girls tend to get really tired.  The girls had a great time seeing all the people and the dogs, but they were sleepy.

 



 

The family that we walked with has a dog that came a long.  Tannah is getting much more adventurous when it comes to dogs.  She was even petting Harley.

 



 

 

Harper tolerated having Harley stand next to the stroller, but she started to get nervous when he looked at her.  It was a really nice event, and I look forward to being able to attend more things like this as the girls get older!



Panda Girls

My aunt and uncle gave the girls hooded wraps for Christmas last year.  They have panda heads on them, and the girls love them.  I think they are supposed to be towels, but the girls use them as blankets. They sleep with them at night. 

They love when I put the panda on my head and growl at them.  They run up to me and pull it off and demand that I put the panda on their heads.  They love them so much that they inspired this year's Halloween costumes.  Here's a preview.

Smile!

These girls are some of the happiest, smiliest, giggliest girls I've ever seen, but trying to get the two fo them to look at a camera and smile at the same time is difficult to say the least.  I get a lot of pictures with one girl looking at me, but the other turned away.  Or, if I manage to get both of them to look at me, more often than not, they look at me with a look like, I cannot believe you're taking my picture right now.  That's why I get really excited when I get a picture with the two of them smiling and looking at the camera.  I treasure pictures like this.

Because I get a lot of pictures like this.