Fashion Police - HELP!

Kiera is really into dressing herself right now. If she finds a pair of pants/shorts she will pull them on and she loves wearing hats. All day long she is putting socks on and off and shoes on and off. One interesting thing is that 90% of the time when she puts shoes on, she puts them on the correct foot! Don't know how she does it but Todd and I have both noticed this.

So in case you missed any of it, Kiera is wearing:

1. yellow construction hat
2. purple PJ shirt
3. rainbow suspenders
4. Dylan's black with white and green striped athletic shorts
5. LEFT dress shoe on the LEFT foot
6. plyers in top picture
7. pig snout pacifier in left hand (bottom picture)

Splish splash, we were takin' a bath!

"Silly Daddy, I'm not Bozo the clown!"


"Our daddy is SO silly"

Bubbles!

Chillin' out by the pool

We were finally able to use our kiddie swimming pool for swimming and not dancing (see previoius blog post Firsts). This is early evening time just after dinner so this is actually half pool time-half bath time.

What a ham!

They LOVE rubber duckies!


Dylan wants to have just as much water outside the pool as inside.

Relaxing after fun time in the pool.

Blog Updates

We have been complete blog slackers! Here are several posts with hopefully more to follow.

Super Heroes

We couldn't let Dylan be the only super hero in the house. After several of months looking we finally found a super hero outfit worthy enough for our little girl. Here are some pics of them waiting to save the world and of their flying lessons.

Looking out for evil

Ready to save the world!

Flying lessons

Easter

This was the kids' 2nd Easter, but it was the first one they were able to participate in our church's Easter Egg Hung. The night before, Todd and I put several plastic eggs around the living room and "taught" Dylan and Kiera how to collect Easter Eggs. Todd had a lot of strategy involved on how to beat all the other kids to the eggs, I will let him explain that, I just wanted them to collect some and not end up playing with rocks or grass. Speaking of which, when we were allowed to start collecting eggs, Kiera discovered all these rocks around a tree and Dylan of course followed along. These rocks were much more exciting than all the candy filled eggs. We eventually got them to go for the eggs again, but it took a while because we were both laughing too hard! Unfortunately I was not able to get any pictures of all the rocks they collected.

Look at all the rocks, forget the candy!

"Yeah, I'm cute!"

Cute family pic!

More Fun Times in Houston!

Along with visiting the Laus in March 2009, the four of us were able to visit with some of Todd's friends from college. First we had lunch at a really cute 50's diner with Sarah, Massy and their sweet little girl Annalisa (love that name). There was a huge mirror in the front of the restuarant where all three kids had a blast dancing while the parents talked.

Not quite sure what Dylan is doing here but it makes for a cute picutre!

"We don't know what this is, but we want some!"

After hanging out at the diner we then stayed over night with Todd's college roommate, Brent and his family. The first time I (Maddy) met them, their twin girls were about 3 months old and I was extremely pregnant with ours. How crazy is that, college roommates each having a set of twins?! Staying with them when were only a couple months from the birth of our twins let us see that we might actually be able to survive what we were headed for.

With this visit their girls had just turned two and again it was really neat to see where we were headed in several more months. Our kids were very tired from all the traveling we did, so we were only able to get a couple pictures, but all four kids had a blast watching and playing with each other.

We were trying for a picture of just the twins, but Dylan and Kiera were not handling any separation from Mama.

Dylan on a king size bed with a remote, what more does a boy need?

Houston's Children's Museum

The last weekend of March, we drove to Houston to spend some time with our friends The Laus. We spent one day at the newly re-done Childrens' Museum. They have a WHOLE floor just for toddlers! The kids had so much fun, especially when it came to sitting in the car. Once they found the car we couldn't get them away from it. When we finally did get them away from the car we discovered FlowWorks! FlowWorks is a huge outside water learning/play area. It was chilly, threatening to rain, the kids were soaked and they absolutely loved it! Here are some pictures from that day.

Sam and Charis Lau (they also had do-it-yourself face paint)

Firsts

Their First Dance

and

wait

for

it. . .

Their First Kiss!