Our Happily Ever After

when i started this blog i said i was not going to be a super blogger but i guess that has been forgotten because i am being hounded, i mean encouraged, to post more! thank you because i know i need to.

the girls are doing really good and we are just enjoying the great weather around here. excited for thanksgiving and good food and planning a trip to ny after christmas. i think they girls will love christmas this year, well all the lights anyways.

my other big feat is that i cooked every night last week. ok, for those of you who know me well you know i don't cook so that is a big deal for me. i know not really a big deal but for me it is. but i guess it wasn't a whole week because i did go out to eat one night when eric and greg were working late. jamie and i and the girls went to get bbq. but i did make homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs that day so that counts still, right? it took long enough so it better! and of course we ate out friday and saturday. that counts as a week for me.

feeding the ducks with kylie and savannah. ky ky and nanna is what they call them but mostly just ky ky. i think that rolls off the tongue easier so both of them get called ky ky. poor nanna.

stealing some of the ducks food. they definitely eat more than they throw. if jamie and i weren't there too i don't think the ducks would really get fed!

livy saying cheese. not a great pic but i needed one of her in here too! she turns the tv on and off by herself now. she pulls her little car over and stands on it to reach the power button. she also saw where i put some christmas presents and i caved and gave her one early because she was pounding on the closet door crying for her piano, my piano my piano. just a junky keyboard but she loves pianos right now. she would pretend everything was her piano. it has some buttons that play beats on it so she pushes them and dances/bounces to it. but has a small problem sharing! she is getting better and rachel is quick to remind her to share. she crosses her arms and says, no, share.

i do. that i rachels favorite statement these days. she wants to do everything herself. i do, i turn and i carry you are the most popular phrases. it is really cute to hear how much they are learning and speaking.

they are getting so big. they pushed their own shopping carts at the food store the other night. they have child size real carts here. for those in ny, i haven't seen them there but maybe they have them now. anyway, it was a disaster because rachel gets distracted by any box that has a bear or dora or anything on it so she lets her cart go flying and livy will not let me help guide her cart. if i touch it she has to stop and push my hand off and then start again. but it was fun. livy crashed into a soda cooler going into the checkout line. it was seriously hysterical. the cashier couldn't stop laughing.

livy sitting on her potty. we are not going to start potty training for a while but we bought these when we went to ikea that other day and the girls love them. they have sat on them a few times without diapers but they didn't go.

they like using them for other things too, as you can see. and they like to carry them all over the house with them. lovely. at least they haven't used them yet so i don't have to worry about them making a mess. rachel was scared of it the first night and then the second time she did it with livy. livy loves it.

this is what happens when i don't give livy what she wants. or don't let her carry her potty around or in this particular case she wanted the camera. she throws herself on the floor no matter where she is. lovely.

rachel saw a picture of my grandpa fred on the fridge and immediately started calling him pop pop. then she wanted to hold the picture and was just smiling. it was so cute because she has never me my grandpa. he passed away before she was born. well, i should say she never met him here, on earth. he must have been her buddy up there in heaven before she came. this is her kissing her pop pop picture.

grandpa fred. both of my grandpas passed away before the girls were born. maybe grandpa george was livys buddy. we miss them both a lot. i really wish they could have met them. i am so happy to have both of my grandmas still. love you guys!