Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

We are not going to be able to visit with all of the family due to my boss taking off time the week that everyone was getting together, so we decided that we would take a week off a few weeks prior and go visit my Mom and Dad.
We had a good time. Mom was busy getting Grandma moved into a different facility so that took up much of her time, but we had Dad at home most of the time so he had fun with the girls.
I feel bad that Mom did not get to spend very much time with the girls, but what time she did get was good.
The girls were good the whole time. I am so blessed to have good girls!
Ana has started doing a squinty smily thing that is hilarious and I wish that I could have caught her doing it, but I was not ever quick enough! Both girls had a great time flirting with Grandpa!
I have attached some pictures of the trip.

Pictures with Grandma Ricks and Great Grandma Dayley





Emily testing out a new baby lamb


Grandma Ricks holding the girls for a last minute picture


Best Friends


How we have to stroll in Burley in March! It was super windy.


At Shoshone Falls


Grandpa holding the Girls


The girls hanging out by the warm fire!


Just hanging out


The girls on the last day of the Trip in our Hotel room in Ontario. They are a little bit worn out!


St. Patricks Day spent in Jerome and surrounding areas to scope out family reunion sights!

Silly Stomach Sleeper

Emily was being a little stinker the other day about taking her nap even though she was super tired, she kept rolling around in her bed. Once it finally got quiet I went back in to see how she ended up. I then had to get a video of it since her face was smashed into the bed and she was caught up in her blanket!
Crazy silly girl!

New Milestone

The girls can hold thier own bottles!

Bens Buddy Ben Visits!

Ben's friend Ben came to visit over Presidents day weekend. It is always good to see him. We went to church and had to get some pics afterwards!

Getting big!

Emily and Ana up to no good! They sure do like to play with one another and be naughty! I am worried for when the times come that they actually conspire together!



Emily learning to drink from her sippy cup all by herself.



Ana just out of the bath with Da. She is our cute little Jedi baby.

Valentines day 2012

So I remember getting books on Valentines day growing up, and I would be so excited about getting a new book.
Now the girls are having that tradition passed on to them. Here are the books they got and them in thier cute Valentines day outfits.
Later Dad read to them. I still am amazed at how much they love to be read to. They eat it up.

Pics

My baby pic and my girls.

Some new pics

Sisterly Love

The other night we put the girls to bed, and a few minutes later I check the monitor to see if they are asleep. What I see is that Emily has rolled over on to her belly and Ana is whacking her in the head repeatedly. I go in and break it up and get them to go tp sleep...next day the girls are playing on the floor and they do the exact same thing, so I have to go get the camera! Enjoy!

Update on the sleeping arrangements and other stuff

So we tried the separate crib thing for about 3 nights, and decided it was time to revert back. So we put them together again and slept a blissful night again. I guess we separated them too early. Kind of like we took their pacifiers away to early and ended up giving them back. We have learned the lesson that we will try to do what we feel is right, and the girls will let us know if it is or not!
They are both doing so well.

They don't have any teeth yet although I had a dream last night that Ben woke me up in the morning and told me that Emily had 4 teeth break through during the night lol. darn dreams. I am ok with them not sprouting teeth yet!
They are also not crawling or even hinting at wanting to yet.

They still get tummy time, and have gotten much more content with it. They are still rolling around a bit and they love their jungle gym. It is their favorite place.

We have a lot of fun with their Bumbos in that it seems everytime we put them in their Bumbo's they poop their pants and have a nice blowout due to them sitting on their diaper and it forcing the poo out! It has been fun! We now have them sit with caution! lol.

They are eating really well, and Emily has been trying to figure out how to drink from a cup. She is trying different ways, and some of them have worked, some have not. The latest trick is she sucks in the water like you would slurp the last little bit left over on the top of a soda can, except she sucks it up and then chokes because she has not figured out how to get it in her mouth them stop slurping, so she slurps it down the wrong pipe, and coughs and spurts all the water out again! But she is trying to figure it out so I will keep at it! Ana just lets it all run out when I try to give her water out of a cup, and she cant figure out sippee cups, she thinks it is a spoon and tries to chew on it to get the water out!
They are eating like champs, and now have gotten so they tolerate meat. They eat lots of good stuff now! They had a really hard time with the home made peas, but I don't think I pureed them enough and they were having a hard time with the texture more than the taste.