Two Peas In a Pod

Here are a few videos capturing Claire and Lucy in action. They are quite the pair!

Belly Buttons

Holding hands and watching Elmo

Ring Around the Rosy and Kitchen Destruction

Easter 2011

We had a wonderful Easter this year! The girls absolutely loved hunting for eggs and especially, eating the candy inside. We celebrated with brunch at Grami Tami's house and dinner at Aunt Molly and Uncle Scott's house. We also decorated cookies and delivered them to friends and family in the neighborhood. Grandma, Grandad and Grami came over to help decorate Easter eggs.

Easter Bunny Brunch

This past weekend, we took the girls to their second annual Bunny Brunch. Grami Tami, Uncle Ted, Aunt Kelly, Nora and Jimmy joined us. Yet again, the weather didn't cooperate very well but everyone managed to have a blast anyway. The girls were VERY much into the Easter egg hunt this year. Not at ALL, however, into the Easter Bunny. They screamed, cried and tried to run away! Click here for last year's pictures and to see how much they have grown!

Ok Lucy, you distract the bunny while I take his eggs

Hey, these eggs have chocolate in them!

Tunnels

The girls have a little tunnel that they play with at home. They love to play hide and seek and, while they do crawl through it sometimes, mostly, they scoot on their butts to get from one end to another. Apparently, it seemed logical for them to do the same thing when they found a "tunnel" (aka-arbor with benches underneath it) on campus at Notre Dame. Lucy ran across the grass shouting "tunnel, tunnel". When she reached it, she sat right down and proceeded to scoot on her butt for about 30 feet, from one end to the other. Claire, of course, followed suit. It was quite the site but to them, was completely logical.

Growing Up

Our little Lucy is really growing up..... too fast! It has been quite some time since Lucy has had a stretch of time that she wasn't sick. Since she has been healthy (knock on wood), we have seen her personality really start to develop. And what a darling she is! And FUNNY! In a continuation of the "God Bless You" story from Claire.... Claire sneezed last night and I said, "God Bless You". Lucy followed it up with, "Amen". Judd and I were laughing hysterically! It was so cute. She is into hiding things and then saying, "Where'd go?" while holding her hands up. Then she says, "I hide it" and goes and gets it to show you. When she wants to be held, she stands at your feet, with her hands in the air and says, "I hold you". She's got her pronouns mixed up but it is so darling! She loves to go on the swings outside and play with her baby dolls, tucking them in and giving them blankies to sleep with. Just when we think she's growing up too fast though, she asks for her blankie. Below, she found her back-up blankie and decided that she needed both of them, while drinking her ba-ba.... and playing dress-up. This girl is a multi-tasker! And we love her very much!

Ag Days

We took Claire and Lucy to "Ag Days" at the 4-H County Fair this past weekend. They were in absolute awe of all the animals! I thought that we might not get out of there without purchasing a few ducklings but we managed to leave without our family growing in number! Daddy got back to his roots by showing the girls how to "milk" the cow! For those of you who don't know, Judd's dad built him his own cow when he was a boy... out of saw horses and rubber gloves. Judd had a "barn" and milked his cow every morning. I love that story and hope that our daughters inherited their grandfather's and daddy's imaginations!

Nurse Claire

I have to praise my little Claire who has been quite a trooper in the last few weeks. Lucy had a terrible case of pinkeye and a high fever. She spent most of the week in my lap. The poor thing was miserable. Thank goodness she is much better now! Claire was very understanding and helpful during all of it. She even learned how to say "Bless You" when Lucy would sneeze. The funniest thing happened after Lucy was better but I caught pinkeye. I picked up the drops from the pharmacy and the girls watched me as I put them in my eye for the first time. They were both standing at my feet and when I opened my eye and looked down. Claire said, "Good Girl Mommy". I guess she payed attention all those times I had put drops in Lucy's eyes the week before!

BUT....... She still is only 20 months......Literally, as I wrote this post and thought that the girls were still sleeping....... I went up to get them and found that Claire had taken her pajamas and dirty diaper off and it was everywhere! Something this first-time mom learned this morning..... don't flush baby wipes down the toilet in an old home.