A Quick Trip to Indiana and the Fourth of July

We had a whirlwind visit to our great grandmas' in Indiana. We flew on grandpa's airplane to Chicago and then drove 6 hrs in a car to Evansville. We stayed with Aunt Martha in her big farm house and had sooo much fun. It was fun at the farm. We played outside chasing hoppy bunnies, picking vegetables from the garden and swimming in our little pool. We ate so many good things from the garden - squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and corn!! Yummy. Martha's great grandchildren came to visit us. They are twins too! What fun it was. We got to see both of our great grandmas, our aunts, cousins, and lots of friends, too. In the evening we sat on the porch swing and watched the lightning bugs and listened to the crickets. Sometimes we rocked in the rocker and watched the cars and trains go by. Then it was time to go home. We said good bye house, goodbye barn, goodbye everybody. Thank you Martha!!! On our trip home we sat in the airplane seat like a big person. We could see the moon out the window and it was coming with us!! Mommy and Momo say we are very good travelers.

We're back home now and it's Fourth of July! We're going to watch fireworks tonight!

Happy Birthday Momo!!!

June! Happy Birthday Momo!!! We had a lot of fun celebrating Momo's BIG birthday!! Henry got a big boy haircut!

We're TWO!!

We turned two on the 15th. Hard to believe. We had a fun birthday with Mommy, MoMo, Grandpa, Auntie Cher Cher and Auntie Cindy at the Rain Forest Cafe. We sat by the elephants and were scared of the gorillas at first. We've been very busy. We got new bikes and helmets and we ride our bikes at the park - we like Chambers Bay the best. We took the Ferry to our Anderson Island beach house and that was fun! There were so many rocks "Woweee" says Emma, she loves rocks. Emma sings Happy Birthday, she's practicing for MoMo's birthday. Henry is our best recycler. He knows which can is recycle and which is trash and is a great helper keeping our house neat and keeping us "green." We can say just about anything now, so watch what you say around us.
The neighbor's down the street have a big yard and they have lots of the neighborhood kids over to play (ages 4-8). We walk by and talk to them on our daily walk. Some days, when the weather is very nice, some of the boys play naked, playing with water and in the pool (that is until someone reported them - busy bodies!) Everytime we go by their house Henry and Emma look for the "naked boys" and they say, "no naked boys today". Henny and Emma like to be naked in their pool and yard sometimes too - ssssh don't tell anyone.

Rain, Rain and more rain...colds and runny noses and diar#@%# x2 UGH

Hello! What a rainy spring we are having. We have been shut in for days on end...ugh! We have had the flu/colds as well. So our mom and Momo are pretty excited for ANY sunshine we have. The other day we went out and played in the rain. We wore our rain boots. That was fun. We color with chalk and crayons some mornings. And talk and talk and talk. We can say so many things now. The adults have to watch what they say as we are like little myna birds and repeat everything we hear. We say "please" and "thank you" and we like "tiny bit" right now. And "maybe". We have lots of library books, oh and we can say "library" perfectly. Our favorite book this week is "Freight Train" which we can also say. We love "Olivia" and "Madeleine", too. Next Friday we will be TWO. We can tell you that our birthday is " May teenth" and we will be "TWO"! We have started potty training. We like to read while we sit. Emma is very intrigued and goes often, while Henry, not so much. It will all come in good time.

We always want to go to "Costco!" and we are looking forward to going on a trip with our Grandpa on his plane. Well that's all for now - more after we turn two!

A Blustery March full of new words and haircuts

Rain and snow and hail and it's March. We've been to the zoo, to Odyssey-an indoor playground that we love-and to the hair salon. It's been a busy month for us. We have soooo many new words. Milk, wawa, zebra, dump truck, peez (please), peet (pizza) (they love Momo's homemade pizza), and lots more new words. We know all of our colors, red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, pink, black and white and can count to 4 - Emma can count to four in French but when gets to four she says meow instead of quatre (un deux trois quatre). We are mastering the steps now too. Everyday we learn new things. Next week we are going to the Children's Museum and maybe a trip back to Odyssey so we can run and slide INSIDE while it still rains outside...we're getting tired of winter. We've done lots of coloring and reading this month. Henry knows about dinosaurs - steggie, T-Rex and the gang. They have place mats with dinosaurs and a map of the USA. They can show/tell you where everyone they know lives: Grandma Polly (IN), Aunt TuTu (Kris) & Mike and Josh (WI), Rachel (Canada), Aunt Pollyann and Ed (FL), Mick Mouse (CA) and his summer home (FL) and where we live (WA). Emma loves the Princess and the Potty book and has even pottied in her new potty chair three times! Well that's all we are going to tell you for now. Keep watching for more.

February already!

Well here it is February already! Soon we will be 21 months old and are learning and doing new things all the time. We go the library once a week for story time. There are lots of other children there. It is fun. We learned about the groundhog last time. It is snowing here today. We can say "snow." We can say lots of words: purple, turtle, no no, moon (we love the moon- we look at it every night), star, milk, and lots more. Today we colored with sidewalk chalk - but we were indoors so we colored on our chalkboards. We like to color. We read a new book this week titled, Corduroy. It's about a dept. store bear and the little girl who buys him and takes him home. When we go to the library next time we are getting Good Night Moon. Here are some pictures of us. As you'll see we're getting BIIIG (that's another of our words, big and tall.) We go to the zoo about once a month. Our favorite animals are the Beluga whale - Emma calls it a banana, the Tiger, the owl, the Meerkats and ET the Walrus. We like the playground there, especially the slide! Today we ate cereal, cheerios and wheat chex with blueberries and milk. We can feed ourselves pretty well. We like to sit at our new table and chairs. We have so much fun every day. We get along pretty well but do have our moments. Emma goes to time out for biting. That is naughty and we know we shouldn't do it but she slips up sometimes. Well, that' s all for now. It's nap time and our Momo needs to get some work done while she can! Happy Valentine's Day to all of our friends!