Birthday Party & Great Papa Bob's House

We attended our friend, Teagan's 1st Birthday Party this past weekend.  It was so much fun! 

Here's the Birthday Girl in her new tutu. 

 

Afterwards, we stopped by Great Papa Bob's house for dinner and live musical entertainment! 



He taught the girls how to play the organ. 

[And Caroline taught herself how to tie shoes.]

...and the accordian.  The girls were just in awe!



Here are a few videos:

Terrible Two's

Yep.  We are definitely in the midst of the infamous Terrible Two's. 

The whining, bickering, hitting, biting, "MINE" phase is upon us.  I am CONSTANTLY referree-ing them.  It feels like the only words in my vocabulary these days at home are "NO, girls!" or "Stop that!" or "Don't hit your sister!"

Ugh.  Lord, give me patience. 

Last night I walked into their room and saw them actually sitting next to each other reading a book quietly.  Without fighting.  "These can't be MY children??!!", I thought to myself.  I was so taken aback that I ran to get my camera to document the evidence...  Hmph.  Yah, that was short-lived. 

And this is an extremely NICE altercation. 

Characters

Boy oh boy, are these girls some characters. 

Caroline

Olivia 

Big Girls eating at the table

Liners 

Livi

Videos from dinner last night:



**disclaimer: Livi was ok.  I keep telling her to SIT DOWN on her chair! 
She'll learn one of these days. 

Sweet Sisters

It's not often that these girls actually play nicely together.  Sad, but we're just at that stage where EVERYTHING is "MINE", which leaves me to referee them at all times. 

So you can imagine how sweet it was to catch these few moments (emphasis on the word, "few"):

Video:



Happy Halloween!

What FUN Halloween was this year!  The girls had an absolute blast with all the costumes, pumpkins, trick or treating and CANDY!  I can't wait until next year when they'll be even more into it! 

We kicked off the weekend with a costume party at the girls' school.  It was super cute to see all the kiddos dressed up, and a great chance for us to meet all the other parents in their class.   Olivia was a bit apprehensive to put on her butterfly antennae hood, but she came around eventually.  =)

And here are the pumpkins that the girls helped daddy to carve.  They still "greet" the pumpkins every morning when they wake up, saying "HI PUMPKINS!!". 

For trick or treating, we headed over to Aunt Kari's neighborhood and the kids had the best time running from house to house!  They kept screaming, "MORE CANDY!"

A couple videos:



 

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.