Total Cuteness

It has been such a privilege and Blessing to watch my two little munchkins grow and discover their world. They continue to amaze me w/the stuff they pick up and learn just by exploring their world.

Evan is still so in-love w/Teebo our dog. He walks over to him and wraps his little arms around him and lays his head on him. Teebo is very tolerant which is a good thing because Evan is IN LOVE!!!!! Which unknown to Teebo actually makes him the luckiest dog in the world because he was just seconds from getting a new home but now I dont have the heart to take him away from Evan. Why oh why, did he have to discover the dog LOL. And before anyone thinks I am mean...Teebo was just going to move to San Antonio to live w/his mema and papa...who love and adore him and I felt would get way more attention and love w/them...so really it was an act of love LOL

Taryns new love is her dolly Chrissy. She started saying her name last week and carrying her all over the house. Chrissy was a gift she received for Christmas. I wanted her to have doll but I didn't want it to be an expensive or nice one since she is so young. And Aunt Teresa helped us find one at Target...it was perfect just $8.00 and all plush so it is nice and soft for her. I put Chrissy in Taryn's crib w/her right away hoping that eventually she would latch on to her and sure enough she did. The funny thing is I didn't even know Taryn knew her name...so it was such a sweet surprise. Yesterday, when I was in the nursery changing Evan's diaper Taryn came in there w/us and was reaching through the slats of her crib trying to get Chrissy out. Ahhh...such sweet moments.

When mema was here in June...she taught Evan about the pictures on the walls...now it is his favorite thing to do...he always wants picked up so he can look at all the pictures on the wall. He points to them and says 'this'. Except when he is looking at the monkey pictures hanging above his changing table...he points at those and says 'daddy' LOL.

I forgot to give an update on the teeth count in my last post...Evan has successfully cut all his molars so he now has 12 teeth and I think he is starting to cut his eye teeth...poor little man...cant wait for this teething thing to be over. Taryn much to my surprise has cut all her incisors and 2 of her molars, so she is at 10 teeth...not bad for a little girl who didn't cut her first tooth until she was 11.5 months old.

Last week we had a nice visit w/our dear friends Megan and Ziggy and their two beautiful girls. Evan and Taryn enjoyed playing w/their new friends and it gave us an excuse to finally take the kids swimming. Taryn was a little unsure at first and cried for a bit when we put in the pool but she finally warmed up to the idea and actually was having a great time toward the end. Evan need a bit to warm up to the idea as well but it didn't take him nearly as long and he loved it. We did do a little practicing of their new swim skills which they weren't too happy about but I was happy to know they still remembered what they learned during their lessons. Definitely looking forward to taking them swimming again :-)

My Sweet Baby Boy

My Precious Baby Girl w/Chrissy

200 Sales

Wow I have been busy...yesterday I reached 200 sales at my ETSY store...in just under 2 months I received 100 orders. Wow I am amazed and excited to be doing so well all of a sudden...lets see how long I can keep up w/this :-)

A Month Behind

Yes, I know I am so far behind and have so much to catch everyone up on. All I can say it is has been crazy around here but finally seems to be settling down a bit, mostly because

DADDY'S HOME!!!!!!!! And we are so excited to have Chad back.

Chad got home at 3:30 a.m. on July 3rd. I originally wasn't going to take the kids with me but failed to make alternate arrangements so I found myself waking them up at 0300 so we could go to the base and pick Chad up. They did great w/their wake up and going back to bed after we got home. They were so excited to see their DADDY. Especially Evan who seems to be so much a Daddy's boy these days. He still cant get enough of him. Taryn was a little shy at first but quickly warmed up. Which is really funny because Evan is usually our shy one. Taryn has been such a momma's girl these days, which is so unexpected but I love it :-)

So lets get to the update :-)

Swimming: Evan finished up the week before Chad got home. I am so glad that is over at least for a little while. We will have to take them for maintenance lessons along the way but we wont have to do the every day for six weeks straight again. Thank goodness...that is so wearing...I had no idea going into it how exhausting that would be.

15 Month Appointment: Kids are doing awesome and meeting all their milestones appropriately. Except for maybe language but my pedi was looking for 10-15 words...I always thought it was 3-5 words at 15 months and he doesn't count signs which I was told counted...so in my book they are on track may not by the pedis standards but that is OK with me. Their receptive language is awesome and they are very interactive and play really well and are meeting all their gross and fine motor skills so we are doing great. And they are growing like weeds...which is great. Every appointment now we seem to be moving up a little further on the growth curve and considering that we started not even on the charts we are doing awesome. They are hitting around the 30th percentile now. Evan was 30 inches and is tipping the scales at 21.5 pounds and Taryn was 29.5 inches and a petite 20.5 pounds.

Language: The new word on the block is doggie...they both will sign it and say it at the same time and walk in to where our dog sleep and go pat him...Evan loves the dog. They don't say a ton but they are really starting to repeat words or attempt to anyway which is a huge improvement from where we were a month ago. They are awesome with sign language...they have really picked up a ton of words and will repeat almost anything you sign to them. They sign: more, eat, milk, doggie, fish, all done, cheese, sleep, thank you, up, bath, clean, ball, dada, mama. I am sure there are some I am forgetting but thats all I can remember right now.

They blow kisses and waive bye-bye, and say hi and give sweet hugs. They are amazing kids and we are so blessed.

Taryn is still our little analyzer...she sits back and tries to figure things out, while Evan just jumps right in. We have determined he is going to be our blue collar child as he loves to destroy stuff, possible occupation demo man, he loves the garbage can, possible occupation garbage man, he loves to crash into things, possible occupation race car drive or maybe insurance salesman and he loves to close doors, possible occupation door man. One more possible occupation...is a milk man...OMG does this kid love his milk. We are going through 2.5 gallons a week. Taryn likes her milk too but Evan LOVES it :-)

Taryn being our little analyzer my best guess for her is engineer or scientist or maybe a ballet dancer LOL...she loves to dance :-) and walk around on her tippy toes...she is so cute and so dainty.

First ice cream - anyone who knows me well knows I don't give the kids a lot of sugar...well any unless it is their birthday but we did give them their first taste of ice cream last night. Don't worry this wont be a habit but it was fun to let them try it. Taryn absolutely loved it, Evan liked it but was done after 3 bites. Evidence below :-) I only have on pic of Evan :-( but he wasn't really into as much as Taryn so that must be why.

Kids are awake from their nap so I don't have time to upload Evan's swim video but I will do that soon (I hope)