New Toy!

We decided that we didn't have enough baby stuff in our living area, so we bought the girls an ExerSaucer. It's the girly tea party edition in all pink of course! The girls are still a bit too small for it because their little feet don't quite reach the base, but we had to try it out!

Caroline

Olivia

Weekend in St. Louis

We made the drive to St. Louis on Friday afternoon to see Grandma & Grandpa Smith. The girls are having fun getting all the attention. A few pictures from Saturday...

Liv & Grandpa

Caroline & Grandpa

Liv & Daddy

Hey - you look like me!

Sweet Caroline!

Liv

Caroline laughing

Awwwwwee

Starting to look a lot alike!

We've got Rollers!

So yesterday the girls were having their daily torture session (aka - tummy time) and Caroline flipped herself over! I think I scared her since I was clapping and saying, "good girl, Caroline!". And then I flipped her back over to her tummy and she immediately rolled over again to the other side! Both my girls are rolling over! We'll keep practicing so one of these days I can try to catch it on video.

Yesterday we also had our first play date with three other sets of twins and their mommies. The kids had so much fun playing together, it was so cute. My girls were the youngest at 4 months, then there were a set of 6 months, 9 months and 11 months. Liv and Caroline mostly sat in their bouncy chairs and watched all the other "big kids" play with the toys and just took in all the commotion. It was soooo nice for me to chat with the other twin mommies since they have gone through everything I'm going through. I got lots of advice and suggestions and it was fun to compare pregnancy and birth stories. We'll have to make this a regular get-together.

I thought this was funny this morning - I had the girls on their play mat to get in some kicking time and everytime I went to check on them, Olivia had scooted the top half of her body off the mat so she'd be able to watch the TV! I would scoot her back on the mat and then sure enough a couple minutes later she would have her head hanging off staring at the TV again! Hilarious. She's always wanting to watch TV while I feed her too. Here's a couple pictures of it and a video of them kicking away on their mat.

Sunday at Grandma & Grandpa Krupa's

We dropped the girls off at Grandma & Grandpa's house yesterday so Rob and I could go out to dinner and see a movie for a late Valentine's date. They got lots of Valentine's goodies from their Grandparents, Aunt Kari & Uncle Jay, and cousins James and Katie. Too bad mommy has to eat all of their treats since they don't have any teeth yet!

Caroline taking a nap before heading over to Grandma'sLiv fighting to take a nap

Bundled in the bear suits to head out

Family Photo!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My little Valentine'sTheir faces crack me up in this picture

In their Valentine's Nightgowns

It's next to impossible to get them both to smile in the same picture

Just being cute

The girls have decided that they absolutely HATE tummy time now, so they get mad at me for forcing them to do at least a few minutes of it each day. The other day during one of these torture sessions, Olivia worked herself into such a frenzy crying and tightening her whole body in a full out temper tantrum that she rolled herself over! She was confused as I was cheering her on and smiling while she continued to cry and cry. She hasn't done it since that one time despite my egging them both on each day during tummy time. Oh well, we'll get there one of these days.

Here are some pics I took of them just hanging out on the couch today. My girls are getting so big! Even little Caroline is starting to fill out I think.

Liney in white, Livi in pink

Outing

The weather this weekend was the nicest it's been in months here in Chicago! We even made it to the mid 50's! We decided to take advantage of this sure to be short-lived break from the snow and cold and got the girls out of the house for a bit. We took a nice little family Sunday stroll around the neighborhood and down to get some lunch and a starbucks. Believe me - this is the highlight of my week considering I rarely get out of my sweatpants these days! You should see the looks and attention I get from pushing around a double stroller. Everyone stops us and asks, "is it twins??" or "wow! twins??" I don't know what other scenario it could be when one sees two infant carriers a-top a double stroller, but oh well. I enjoy showing off my precious daughters anyways.

Here we are in front of our condo building.

The stroller pusher's point of view