Our Musical Kids

These girls are always singing!  They love singing along to the radio, their Disney movies, cartoons - you name it.  I think we have some musical kiddos on our hands, which I love!  My attempts at catching it on video are infrequent, so here are a couple I happened to get in the last week: 

We've been working on "I'm a Little Teapot"

 

And they love all the songs on Yo Gabba Gabba:

Enjoying FALL!

We are thoroughly enjoying Fall here in Chicago.  This past Sunday we took the girls to pick out pumpkins to carve (pictures to come of that), and then went to the Farmer's Market for some yummy food, music and the nice fall weather. 

Video:



Caroline 

Olivia 

Messy girls! 

Videos:



Here's the Halloween pictures they colored.  

And Caroline was excited to try on her Halloween costume.  She LOVED it and didn't want to take it off.... Olivia, on the other hand, told me, "NO! I scared!" heehee. 

Let's hope she puts it on this weekend.  

Happy Birth[month]

Whhheeeeewww.... the girls' official birthDAY was a couple weeks ago, but they've pretty much had a Happy BirthMONTH.  They certainly are celebrated and loved!  Welcome to the Terrific/Terrible (depends on the day) TWO's, my sweet girls!  Caroline & Olivia have had more birthday cake and happy birthday songs and presents and celebrations and surprise packages delivered over the past few weeks, they probably think this has become their norm.  ha! 

We started it out early with my family down in Texas by taking them to Chuck E Cheese.  Thanks to Aunt Nee Nee and Grandma Karen for the Mermaid cake and favors! 

The girls' classroom at school made them this banner with all the kiddos' hand prints - it's still hanging in our living room.  

Here's Caroline snuggling with her new puppy dog stuffed animal

from Great Grandpa Smith and Great Oma. 



And then we had another birthday celebration at Aunt Kari & Uncle Jay's house this past weekend where they were spoiled with lots of PRESENTS!  

Mermaid Bath Toys!  

Thank you, Mama Diane & Papa Bede for our NEW BIKES!!!



Jay's, Rob's and my birthday also fall close together so we too took our turns wearing the birthday tiaras.  =) 

That's a lotta CAKE!



A couple videos: 



Almost TWO!!!

Our sweet girlies are almost TWO!!! 

Here are a few pics from the other evening at the playground.  And a couple videos of the birthday girls singing Happy Birthday to themselves.  heehee. 

O in blue, C in white.



 

Texas Trip

We took a quick trip down to Texas to surprise my Nanny for her 75th birthday last weekend.  It was so wonderful seeing my family!!!  And what a great turn-out for her party!  Happy Birthday to my dear, sweet Nanny (tomorrow).  We love you very, very much. 

 

And a huge Thank You to my cousin Steph and her husband Jon for hosting the party.  Stephanie is a very talented photographer and captured some great shots for us that evening too.  If you're in the San Antonio area, check her out! http://www.lynnephotography.com/. 

 
 
 

FOUR Generations! 

 
 
 
 
 

 

I'll update with more pics from our trip soon. 

But for now, here is a cute video of the girls trying on their new dress-up heels they got for their birthday:

 

 

Plane Pull

Last weekend, Rob's department participated in the 2010 Plane Pull Fundraiser at O'Hare Airport.  This event raises both money and awareness for the Special Olympics.  It was so neat!  Teams of 20 played tug-of-war with a UPS Airbus A300 aircraft - weighing more than 99 tons!  The girls and I went to cheer on daddy's team.  They had so much fun looking at all the equipment and climbing on the snow plows and firetrucks they had out there.  Cousins Katie & James came out to join us too! 

C

 The girls and daddy



Snow plows!!!





Playing with the their toy airplanes. 

Liv 

Caroline

Driving the firetruck

Liney 

One of the teams pullin'!

Us on the busride back to the car.