Some Pics

Ok, so I started this post about 3 weeks ago and I am not finished with it, but I thought I would go ahead and post the pics I have downloaded. Here they are.

Bathtime Cate loving Ava

Playing so well together

Snow Day

Playing in the bathroom

Ava on Easter

Checking out what they hunted

Kitty Cate

The family watching some Frogs baseball

Cate and Daddy

Ava and Daddy

Go Frogs!!!

Sweet Sisters!

Ava

Cate

Eating at the mall

Cheese!

Yum-Yum

Disorganized!!!

Yes, that's me. I am not one of those people who have to have everything marked off my list before I can sleep at night. I have a mental list of the things I need to get done and the most important things do get mentally marked off. Downloading, organizing and posting pictures of my sweet angels is not one of those things. I have not written anything in their baby books, but I do have a huge stack of post-its with those fun milestones waiting for me to get my act together and get organized. I have one folder of pictures from the girls first year that takes about 5 minutes to open b/c there are probably 3,000 in there. I have not gone through it to pick out my favorites, to delete the bad ones, or to organize and group them. I have only printed maybe 50 total. This is the primary reason I never blog, so I appoligize to anyone who actually comes by to see if I might have added anything (Jenn). So, here are some pictures of our little monkeys. They are old, but new to the blog!

Ava and the cut on her face. Bad mommy let her fall off a chair while I was getting sister out of the bushes.Family Christmas picture.One of the only pictures I could find with both girls looking. They just got finished eating, so Ava has some food on her chest.Ava using her car to get on the couch. She can already open doors. She is one determined little girls who I have to constantly watch. See picture 1. Cate double fisting.

The "bugs" on Halloween Cate the LadybugAva the bumble bee

Helping mama with laundry. Sweet Cate patting Ava's back.Sweet sisters. This is an old picture. We are now off the bottle completely and I am so glad!!!

Transitions and What's New

Ok, so I know taking the pacifier away is going to be tough, but I had no clue taking the bottles away and moving to the sippy cup was going to be this hard. Maybe its because we are no longer letting the girls have their pacifiers during the day and they look forward to the bottle for comfort. They have been drinking water from sippys for several months at meals, so they know how to use them and actually like them, but when I first put milk in them, they threw them. Milk is not new either, they have been drinking it really well from their bottles - no transition problem at all. I think they got desperate today and drank a little but maybe 2-3 oz a piece which is progress, I guess. I am still giving them their morning and night bottles, which I hope to take away over the next week, so we will see. I just can't wait to be completely done with bottles and the sterilizer!

The girls are so much fun now. They are walking everywhere. It became their primary mode of transportation about 2 weeks before their birthday. They love shoes and socks. They carry them everywhere and want me to put them on so they can go outside. I don't know what I am going to do when it gets too cold to go on 2 walks a day and play in the backyard. They love Erick's and my shoes and try to put them on - too cute! Ava is also in the habit of throwing her sippy cup and food off her high chair tray, saying uh-oh and shrugging her shoulders. Cate is picking up on this and copying her. It is pretty cute, but I don't like it. I am also dealing with a little jealousy right now between the girls. I can tell they both just want mama without sister in her lap too. They cry when the other comes to sit down and even try to push each other out. It makes me a little sad I never get to give them one on one attention. I need to work on this, but I feel so guilty if I do have just one and the other is crying for me. When Erick gets home at night and we hear the garage door, Cate says dada and walks to the laundry room to greet him. The older the girls get, the more different their personalities are. I love them so much and feel so blessed everyday!

Here are a couple of pictures from their birthday party and one of Ava b/c it is so cute!

Wow, it has been 3 months since my last post. Jenn, this post is for you! I figure if a mom of a two year old and 2 month old triplets can update her blog with pictures, I have no excuse!

Too much time has passed to catch up, so I will just start from where we are now. I go back to my part time schedule this Wed. and I am so excited. I can't wait to spend more time with the girls. They are getting so big and are so close to walking. The are both standing and taking a few unassisted steps. They have been cruising everywhere for at least a month now. Actually, I am a horrible mom and never wrote down when they first did it, so I am guessing - ha! With working so much and juggling two I don't find much time for documenting their lives. I hardly have the time to just live it!

The girls are eating more and more table food. Cate loves just about anything we give her, and Ava is still a little picky, but just a little. They had avacado for the first time today, and liked it ok. I am trying to introduce more fresh finger foods, but the good old packaged Gerber is just so much easier.

Here are a couple of pictures. I have a bunch on my camera that still need to be downloaded.

Ava at the beach in her shades.The girls! We need to get rid of the paci's, but they make life so much easier.Girls at the beach.Ava eating pancakes.Sweet Cate!Cate loves stuffed animals. Anything soft.

Cate eating pancakes Ava loving the "car"Silly Ava makes this goofy face all the time now that her top two teeth are in. Cate riding the "car"Ava's silly face again! I LOVE it!Ava dance! Actually Cate is the one always dancing, but Ava loves to put her arms in the air like this. Silly girl!

Mommy and her girls.

Fight over the puffs. I thought it was such a good idea to put some in a bowl and put it on the living room floor. Big mistake!Ava likes their new table and chairs. Love her face.Another body slam by Ava. She love to rough house.