14 months!

The months just fly by!  They are turning into little boys and a girl right in front of me.  I now have toddlers instead of babies.  Sigh.  But with every stage brings new and exciting things.  Here are a few updates.

Feeding...Elsie is finally feeding herself.  Her Diva status just dropped a few notches as now the princess dirties her own hands during mealtimes.  Which is much nicer than the screaming and holding her mouth open until you shoved some food in it.  Her and Sammy prefer the pincher method of using two fingers and picking up one piece at a time, where Danny prefers the rake method which is grab handfuls and shove them all into his mouth at once.  Hey to each their own.  I still only give them 'non-messy' finger foods, and leave all the messy foods to feeding them with a spoon.

Walking...any day now.  Danny is taking a step here and a step there, but not what I would consider full out walking.  Elsie and Danny like to race on the walk behind toys and go back and forth from one end of the house to the other.  When they run into an obstacle they can't muscle over they scream loudly until assisted.  Sometimes Danny will just start walking backward or sideways with it.  Elsie flat out jogs with it, and wears a smirk with pride at her accomplishment.  Sammy has finally taken a liking to them and leisurely cruises across the room when he feels like it.

Talking...Elsie has had a clear 'mom' for a few months now, Danny says 'dada' and 'daddy' (especially when mommy isn't letting him do what he wants) and recently started with 'ya'.  Sammy says 'dada' and a lot of other syllables at different octaves and tones.  Elsie has really started picking up different sounds and I feel some words are imminent, which will be great because our current format of communication is scream, scream louder, scream louder than womb-mates, scream louder than Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween.

I recently started using my actual camera instead of my phone camera because I feel the kids are moving so quickly I am getting a lot of blurry shots.  Well the flash on my camera is pretty bright, so now I'm getting crystal clear shots of kids with their eyes closed.  Working on a happy medium.

Here are some pics and videos :)

The oh so frequent let us out of jail picture

late fall walk at the park on a nice day!

the new game of hide in the corner to play

Sammy

he looks so cute sleeping

oh look he is awake

Sammy made a new friend in the tub the other day

let me boop your head a few times to check you out

now he is squawking loudly and bouncing up and down at the whale

after bath selfie with mommy

Erin loves us!  Feeds us bagels and cream cheese!

this is my favorite outfit on Sammy, a little train conductor look.  I tried to get some cute pics of him in it but he didn't like the flash

mommy...so bright!

now when he sees the camera, he closes his eyes and smiles.  

or makes this wrinkly nose face

Danny

his smile is even cuter with teeth coming in!

what you talkin about Willis?

love the cream cheese!

can I have more please?

MMMMMMMM

playing peek a boo with Ryan

punkarelli

oh look the blinds aren't blocked off

I'm not tall enough to get over the gate, so let me stand on something

let me show you how I shove food in my mouth

Elsie

seriously.  her faces.

selfies with Kaitlyn!

I can do this selfie thing all by myself

so the other day, I was changing Sammy's diaper and turned around and couldn't find Elsie.  The room is gated so I wasn't worried, but I found her sitting quietly behind the couch.  

clearly hoping to get the wires she knows she isn't supposed to touch

love her little jean skirt and tights.  

this is her up to no good

Busted!

videos

playing with the walking toys

we all scream for ice cream

Sammy laughing

feeding ourselves

learning how to touch nicely