The girls
birthday was the day before Thanksgiving this year, we celebrated by giving them their favorite dinner - hot dogs. Then Saturday we had our families over to help us celebrate and eat dessert. I didn't get too many pictures, it's a little hard to take pictures when we're hosting. They were excited to have everyone there at the same time since they're use to seeing one side of the family or the other. Thanks everyone for coming.
group hug saying good bye. I heard Eliza asking people if they could live here.
Annie's friend made these cute
tu-
tu's, and they both had to go find their boots to wear with them. They've been wearing them a lot, and they think they have to take their shirts off when they wear them.
Earlier in the day, another new princess dress.
wearing out at the end of the evening.
Adie is lining up her new hair ties here.
Most people's comments to us as the girls turn two is "can you believe it, hasn't it gone fast?" My answer is no, I can barely remember when they were born because it feels like it was so long ago. Not that it's been long and miserable, they continue to be pretty easy little girls (maybe knowing there is going to be another newborn in the house shortly makes us not dwell on them being babies too). They play together really well, and fight like all siblings do. When one of them is hurt or in trouble the other one always runs to get her a toy and her blanket. We see differences in their personalities, but if someone were to just spend a couple hours with them I think they would say they are really similar. Luckily they like similar toys and activities, and both like being outside, lately they want to go for hikes which has been fun. We get all bundled up and walk around our property and two of the neighbors property which is a lot of space to roam. It would be really hard if one always wanted to be inside and the other outside. They still love their babies, their night nights and playing dress up. Lately they've loved coloring with markers and playing with
Legos. We're working on the potty training -
Adie went this morning for the first time and she's so excited about it she's been sitting on there all morning trying to go more. Guess that's all for now,
Adie is on the toilet and Eliza came out crying saying
Adie pulled her hair.
Adie is in there yelling "sorry
Ziza, sorry
Ziza"
We spent Christmas Eve at the BreMiller's house. We always enjoy spending time with them and look forward to Donna's salmon chowder every year. It's so nice to take the girls places and feel comfortable just letting them run and play. Adie and Eliza obviously feel a lot of love there - they are totally comfortable. They get so excited to see everyone, on the way there Eliza even let us know she wanted to sleep with Donna that night.
Christmas eve project, making bird feeders to put on the tree Grandma Kilmer planted. Tony must be saying something funny here...
Eliza in her new rocking chair that Ryan's dad made. I didn't get a good picture of her face when she opened her presents. She would gasp with a huge smile like she couldn't even believe she was actually receiving a yogurt container containing a $2 mini plastic pony.
Adie opening her back pack from Jeanette and family - we miss them a lot when they aren't here for the holidays. For anyone who knows them Jeanette just put a lot of new pictures on her blog http://nislysierra.blogspot.com/ We just watched some video from this summer and I couldn't believe how much Adie looks like Jessie - funny that I only think Adie looks like her even though they're identical.
"Sorsie" rides from Grandpa C. Nisly - we're not sure where the C. came from, but for some reason the girls always include it when they talk about Ryan's dad.
