THE PINK PRINCESSES TURN ONE!

Sophie, Lauren and their parents made it through the first year! Should it get easier now?? On January 9th the girls celebrated their first birthday with more gifts and some gooey cakes. With Christmas and birthday only two weeks apart the girls are really getting into opening packages. Think they'll expect that every week? Maybe Grandma will have to help out with that expectation.

 

Another playground! (...much more fun if Mom gets in the game too!)
What's the twins favorite time of day? BATHTIME!
"What would I do without my constant playmate? Life would be so BORRRING!" 

The girls are almost one year old and putting on the pounds so we're sitting down from now on for the monthly Grandma photo. 

Christmas celebration was full of surprises (some when Grandma Geidre and Uncle Tom came, some when Grandma Linda came, and some when Santa came!) The Christmas tree was "prickly" but that didn't stop the Curiousity Kids.
"Wonder what's under here?"
Opening gifts (some each day) wrapped in "rattley" paper and discovering new noise makers kept them occupied for... well, a few minutes.
Zoom, Zoom, ZOOM! Look out walls and doors and toes and anyone in their way! Demolition Derby is a new favorite game (complete with screams and a few tears.) 

"Want some macaroni and cheese?"
 

"Let's see, do you want to read to me or should I read to you?"
One of Sophie and Lauren's favorite playmates is their "brother" Cooper. Such a patient and cooperative friend. 

11 months old and upright most of the time, but still depending on tables and "walker toys" to get around. Also happy most of the time (unless the ear infections choose to flare up -- hopefully taken care of now by the insertion of ear tubes.)
 

The girls are 11 months old now and this is probably the last photo you'll see of me standing up and holding them both. They're an armful!  

How many kids have their own little Pantry Playhouse?

Wave bye-bye! Or should we play Patty Cake?
Daddy'ssssssss home! Yea! 

Sophie and Lauren have discovered new worlds and places to play, some good, some not so good. It's a full time job chasing after them. What is in store when they learn to walk (and run)?


 

Ten months old and almost getting too much to hang on to. Too heavy too!
Such early readers checking out the news in the Chicago Tribune (before tearing up the whole newspaper in disgust!) 

An airplane trip to Chicago in October allowed Sophie and Lauren to visit with their two great-grandmothers and two grandmothers. Needless to say they did not suffer for lack of attention! Only problem was the visit wasn't long enough!