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Eggs...

I always know that trouble is brewing when the twins are being a little too quiet.

So when we were having a playdate and I realized the twins had gone missing I started to look around. And then Ella appeared waving her hands around and saying they were dirty.

I go into the kitchen to find this...

(and then run to get my camera, the mess is already made right? might as well document it.)

What? I'm just checking the eggs out.

Let me show you my creation!

See I just took the eggs and put them in and out of the carton. I don't know how they broke.

See how gentle I am.

And for the 2nd day in a row we loose another 1/2 dozen eggs.

At least he kept the majority of them in the carton. But if he really wanted to do me a favor he would have done it on the tile instead of the rug. My boy has a fascination with eggs. He loves them and really loves to crack them open.

I think it may just be future training for the great chef he will become. The eggs are now hiding on the very top shelf of the fridge behind the milk.

We'll see how long it takes him to get to them there.

And so continues the everyday adventures of raising two very spirited and curious twins.

Love seeing old friends

When we went to pick up the twins a few weeks ago we got to stop by and see my best friend in Austin. We have been friends since our oldest girls were born. And it has been so fun to watch the kids grow and change. Here are her girls from this last trip.




And us! I think we look better now than when we first had our girls 11 years ago. :)

Some new pics of littlest angel

Love that my big kids are home

but they seem to have grown mustaches while they were gone...weird. ;)

Florida Pics

You can go check out my Picasa Web album to see the pics from our recent Florida trip. :) I never got a chance to post them up and there are too many to put on here.

So behind again

I really really meant to blog, but everything else got in the way.

My twins are back home after a weeks visit with Grandma and Grandpa. They had a blast and I wasn't sure if they even wanted to come home. Although I did try to talk Grandma and Grandpa into coming back to live with us, but they passed. ;)

My big kids are still at their grandparents house and should be back next week. Can't wait to see them and get my hugs and kisses in.

Clean Eating- I have pretty much failed at this. I have made much better choices and have been eating much healthier but I still have some food items I can't live without. Also when I start giving myself restrictions, all that I want are all the things I just can't have. So I am happy with my experiment. I have made myself much more aware of what our family eats. We are all eating healthier as a whole but still enjoying indulgences from time to time. :)

Just moved the twins out of cribs and into toddler beds. We really just took the sides off their cribs and made the conversion into the toddler bed version of the crib. Last night was not very successful. They did end up sleeping through the night but it took them 3.5 hours to go to sleep. It was actually pretty funny. All I heard last night was thump thump thump thump thump giggle, thump thump thump thump thump giggle, LAY BACK DOWN, thump thump thump thump thump giggle thump thump thump thump thump giggle squeal LAY BACK DOWN, and repeat for the next 3 hours. Ella would lay back down and pretend to shut her eyes. Beck would say "okay nigh nigh lay down" When it got too dark in the room to play, they turned the lights on and continued. I had to stop myself from giggling. I sat in the room, outside the room, sat next to them with my hand on Beck's back, etc. There was just a lot of energy in that room.

Today for nap time we went and got some blackout curtains (which didn't actually block all the light out) and layered them with the blinds and the original curtains to have a somewhat dark room. We also picked up some gates for the beds. So over all it went much smoother. They didn't realize they could get out of the beds so they went right down. Cross your fingers for tonight!