Halloween Fun!!

(These pictures are in reverse order, start from the bottom of this post)

We missed a lot of the trick-or-treaters because we were out in the neighborhood ourselves; the babies found the left over candy bowl in the morning and started digging in while still in their pj's and slippers :)

Brian got caught sneaking candy from their pails!

The lambs got their first taste of candy, they were trying to eat suckers from their pails , so we decided to unwrap one for each. They love suckers!!!

Hannah and her friend Rachel as pajama girls with our lil' lambs

Getting ready for trick-or-treating in our neighborhood

We also visited a nursing home, Montebello, and the twin lambs were a hit!

We visited Great Grammy Ellis on Friday morning, they didn't want to get their picture taken.

Walk A Mile in Her Shoes

Brian entered in Albuquerque's 2nd annual "Walk A Mile in Her Shoes" this morning. This walk raises money for the YWCA and awareness of domestic violence. The men were fitted with high heels at registration and Brian got a cool red pair! Men can also bring their own shoes as long as they are women's and have some sort of heel. Amber was very interested in Daddy's new shoes!


Brian opted to push the stroller because it aided in his balance and he also said it helped take some of the pressure off the balls of his feet. Good thing it was only 1 mile! He also liked appearing as a "champion"-pushing two toddlers for a mile while wearing his heels.

Amber and Ethan got bored easily because it was the slowest walk they'd ever been on. I think they were trying to count the pebbles in the road in this picture while wondering if Daddy was ever going to make it to the end! He did and we all celebrated by walking to Frontier for some tasty burritos, cinnamon rolls, and fresh squeezed O.J.!

Is this a twin thing?

Somehow I managed to lose a bunch of Amber and Ethan's socks over the last few weeks. They often take them off in the van so I'm picking up socks before I carry them into the house, but lately that's not where we've lost them. Sometimes during nap they'll remove their socks and they'll be stuck underneath the bumper in their cribs, but I've searched and searched and I even looked underneath their cribs.....nothing. Then yesterday I was on mission, I had just bought them each 4 brand new pairs of socks earlier in the week, I went in after nap and they were both sockless, grinning loons. I asked them both what they've been doing with their socks, are they eating them? Amber looks at me and points to her feet and says...."SAH, SAH" (most of her words lack the ending consonant sounds). Yep, Amber, that's where they should be. Ethan is just sitting there grinning and wiggling his toes. I already checked under the crib, but decided for the heck of it to pull away the crib from the wall....and here's what I found. Four pair of missing socks all lined up in a row! I couldn't see them before because the dust ruffle was hiding them. They were both so excited and started clapping when I found them; then I walked over to Amber's crib, pulled it from the wall and same thing, several pair of pink socks all lined up.

So are they talking to each other before nap and conspiring to hide all of their socks together? How weird!? Here are some picture of the fun backpacks with leashes that I picked up from the Albuquerque Mothers of Twins Garage Sale. Amber wanted to wear hers yesterday so she brought it to me to put on. Then she walked over, got Ethan's and carried it to him while saying "Bubba, Bubba, Bubba." She was calling his name trying to get his attention to put his backpack on too! It was really cute. They like running around the house and the two of them find places to hide.

I also included a picture of us trying out the toddler seats in the front of the shopping cart at Walmart. They seemed to like riding like that, but I wouldn't do it by myself that way. If they were getting restless and bored, I'm sure they could wiggle out of those and escape!

Right now I'm 31 weeks along and everything seems to be going fine. My belly isn't too big and uncomfortable...yet. I'm hoping for about 7 more weeks, since I had Hannah early at 38 and the twins came at 36-37.

Sick Toddlers = Fun

Hi, we have been having tons of fun this week with the latest cold virus that is going around. This morning Amber woke up first which is atypical, and Ethan was still asleep in his crib. She did NOT want to leave her brother in there alone, so she decided to lay on the floor with her blankie and thumb and wait for him to wake up. It was too funny, so I had to take a picture. Ethan seems to need more sleep when he has a cold and Amber doesn't. Eventually I got her into the living room and changed her diaper and in the meantime Ethan woke up very angry because he was all alone and with a face full of snot to top it off. Not fun times. I've been wearing the same shirt and pants all week because they smear snot all over me all day long and I don't want to have snot on ALL of my clothes, I'll just wash this outfit once maybe at the end of the week. You don't even want to see what my couches and pillows look like. Hannah got smeared yesterday when she went to help them on her lap for a story, she was not smiling like this until after I rescued her with a fresh baby wipe. We've gone through a LOT of wipes this week. Even though we are right in the middle of this cold, the twins seem to have quite a bit of fun playing. They have figured out how to share the tupperware cabinet so they can both hide at the same time.

Time Outs

We've recently began implementing time outs at our house. Here is a picture of Brian giving one to Amber after repeatedly stealing a toy from Ethan. She doesn't really care, she just sits there all stubborn and sticks her thumb in her mouth. Then after literally 3.5 seconds Brian goes up to her and tries to explain to her why she was in time out and gives her a big hug. In my opinion, he jumps to the hug part a little too quickly....it's like he wants her to forget that he just scolded her and put her in a time out. He swears he's doing it just like the Supernanny would. Ha. She had pig tails in her hair for the first time and we think it really enhances her overall spunky attitude.





Here is a picture of Ethan tormenting the cat, according to Brian this is "normal boy behavior" that we need to foster in him and is not worthy of a time out! I'm not sure I agree. I normally rescue Colors and put her in Hannah's room when Ethan gets in his chasing/tormenting moods. Overall, Ethan will probably never earn as many time outs as Amber, he is mostly a pretty sweet little boy.