Embrace the Moments

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

ABC's & 123's

This video was taken the night they turned two. It melts my heart. =)

Ava still called Gracie 'Dee-Dee' and Gracie called Ava 'Dee-Cee'.

{And upon closer inspection I see that Ava really did have

the cup with the green lid to start with!}

Five months later (July 2010):

And now in May 2011 at 3 years, 3 months old.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Friday, May 13, 2011

Giggles

*Correction*

They were 16-months-old.

I think they would have been around 18-months-old in these videos. =)

Thursday, May 12, 2011

And So It Began...

{Note - Blogger had some major issues and was down for 2 days and when it

finally came back up, this post had been deleted so I've tried to re-create it.}

And continues daily, even hourly:

They're not fighting in this one but I love how Ava has no intention of going down the slide until Gracie tries and then, "No, it's my turn!"

But much of the time they do play very well together.

I think I tend to take those times for granted.

{This was shortly after we moved into our current house

and had all the cabinet doors off to be painted.}

This one is for Aunt Steph:

This picture is especially sweet to me because as soon as I have them ready to go somewhere I tell them to stand by the door and wait until I'm ready. Almost always, they end up fighting over who gets to hold the door knob, or one is screaming because they're standing on the rug and the other one is trying to move it, etc. But this time they were hugging and giggling and being so sweet. =)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

This girl...

Cracks me up!

Further proof:

Here she was standing on a plastic plate (because standing on the actual floor is so boring) and slipped.

I love Ava in this video:

Becoming a Mother

I was just going to put a few pictures of Ava and Gracie from when they were small but I came across all these pregnancy pictures and they are so funny that I had to put them on here.

The day after we found out we were pregnant. =)

20 Weeks

Oblivous to the fact I was carrying twins. We found out 5 days later.

Fast forward to week 36:

Here we are at a Valentine Banquet 9 days before the girls were born.

Check out those swollen calves and ankles!

Ava saw this picture just now and laughed, "You were silly, Mom! Daddy is not silly, just you are silly! You have black shoes? Your shoes are not silly, just you are silly."

A lovely close-up of the swollen face. =)

And I just can't resist putting this picture on. (Sorry if you're grossed out!) I would sleep with my feet up on pillows so in the morning they were a fairly normal size. If I wanted to wear shoes I'd have to put them on the second I got up and the swelling would just fill out around them. So this picture was taken in the evening when I took off my sandals, which just went across my toes.