Out with the "butt scoot".......

Well, Danner has officially mastered the "butt scoot". For those of you who have no idea what that is.....let me explain. Instead of the normal baby crawl, Danner prefers to sit up and put one leg in front and one in the back (like a split) and scoots around on her butt. She can get whereever she wants like this and it is quite a talent. But tonight when Jesse got home she decided she would upgrade to the official crawl. For some reason the babies love Jesse's glasses. So he put them on the floor in front of her and she crawled over to get them. It was as if she could do it all along and just didn't want to. So we will see which is the crawl of her choice, but now we know she can do both. She has also mastered waving bye, bye, clapping, and holding her arms up in the air. She is quite the little smarty pants.
Here is a video of her "butt scoot"

I'm Old.......

Well, it's official!! I'm old. Last night we celebrated my big 3-0 birthday with the family. We went to Hiro Japanese Steakhouse for dinner. Danner and Sawyer really enjoyed it there. They could be as loud as they wanted without anyone hearing them. Sawyer really loved the rice. He made a big mess. They were also very fasinated by the chef and the loud sounds and bright fire at the table. They had some rainbow sherbert for dessert and really loved it. Here are a few pictures from the night.....

Snow Day!!!!

Well it has finally snowed in Wilmington. Yaay for snow. We were anxiously awaiting the arrival of our light dusting of the white stuff this morning. I woke up and peeked out, but it wasn't there. So needless to say, I was quite disappointed. But around 10am the snow started falling. So after naptime, I dressed the babies......or attempted to dress the babies for their first trip out in the snow. It was a 20 minute ordeal. Sawyer couldn't keep his shoes on or his mittens. His hat and 1 mitten was off before we hit the door. And Danner left her mittens on but refused the shoes. SO.......here are some pictures. Danner loved the snow. She even got a few flakes on her tongue. Sawyer did NOT like the snow. I guess he will just be the beach bum.

Outside fun

We took the babies outside last week to play. It was a cloudy day but warm so we went outside to explore. Of course, Sawyer was everywhere. In the flower beds, on the concrete, trying to climb stairs to get a better view of Buster (our Jack Russell) who was peeking out the window.


Danner was more interested in my cell phone. She eventually did figure out that there was some grass and leaves around us.

Danner

Sawyer

more pictures.....

Here are some more pictures from around Christmas.....

More Pictures......

Bumpers.....what's the deal?

Okay, who wrote all the baby books that say to take down the crib bumpers at 5 months? Because I really want to talk to them. Yesterday I decided that I was overdue for removing the bumper since Danner and Sawyer are well past the 5 month marker. So I thought I would go without the bumper. I thought it was a bad idea just for the sole fact that I have 15-20 pacifers in each crib in case theirs falls out in the middle of the night (I want them to be able to find one quickly before starting the bloody-murder scream. And it has worked well!) but without the bumper there would be nothing to keep the pacis from falling out. That is a problem. What I didn't realize was there would be another problem. Babies fall through the cracks. Well not completely falling to the floor or anything, but close. When I walked into the nursery this morning to get the little munchkins out of bed I was surprised at what I saw. Danner was lying on her belly with both legs hanging of the crib because they had fallen between the cracks. Now how is that safe? And how long had she been like that? Poor sweet Danner could have been in such an uncomfortable position all night for all I know. So the moral of the story is..........Don't believe everything you read in the baby books!!! Bumpers are more than just decoration. They hold pacis in the cribs and they keep baby legs and arms in too.

December 08

Christmas time with Jesse is just plain embarassing. As most of you know I hate being the center of attention or drawing any kind of attention to me. He THRIVES off of it. So he has this thing of wanting to dress up and wear Santa hats while we pick out the tree.........sounds cute right? Wrong!! It is just embarassing. But we did it. Babies wore cute striped outfits and Santa hats and we wore red sweaters with Santa hats. It was the worst. Then comes the Christmas card.....every year it is us with the dogs. The dogs have some sort of hat on their head and we wear the Santa hats. This year it was babies and us all wearing hats around a tree. I will have to post that later. Sawyer and Danner didn't really care about the tree. They didn't even go near it so that was nice. I didn't have to worry about them eating pine needles or drooling or presents. Once again we are lucky to have both sets of families around here so we don't have to travel. The babies got quite spoiled with all the toys and gidgets and gadgets that got. You should see my living room, no really, it is a toy factory. And it kills me. I am an obsessive cleaner and it just is never clean with babies. Ugg!! I might just have to take a picture of all the toys and clutter that I am living with.

We had a great Christmas and we once again realize how lucky we are to have such great families and friends around us.





Danner's favorite present from Santa was paper.

Sawyer really wasn't interested in presents.......he wanted to chase the dogs.

Here is Danner and Sawyer all dressed up!!