11 Months Old!

The girls are 11 months old, as of yesterday. One more month til the Big
O-N-E! Where have my little babies gone?? They are growing and learning so much.

Let's see, new tricks and accomplishments:

• wanting to feed themselves more and more
• Eating EVERYTHING - favorites right now are black beans, string cheese, cream cheese & bagels.
• standing on their own for a good 2 seconds before landing on their tooshies
• walking around with the help of their walker toys
• major separation anxiety when mama has to leave for work in the mornings! (which I secretly love)
• Olivia got her third tooth! It's her top left one, about half way out now. Caroline still just has the two bottom front ones.
• talking up a storm, well in baby-speak of course. It is so fascinating watching them deep in conversation with each other. I wonder what they talk about?

Weekend with Family

Saturday we went out to Grandma & Grandpa Krupa's house. The girls are so bored with all our toys at home, so they were quite entertained with all Grandma's toys!

C in blue, O in orange

"Hello??" My girls love phones.

Piano Playin' time!

Liv rough-housing her sister, as usual.

Grandma Diane teaching Caroline how to play.

Video:

They love Shautze.

They're kinda freaked out by grass,

not quite sure what to think of that stuff.

... so we got out a blanket.

Charlie was loving the fresh air too.

Olivia flipping the bird, or picking her nose.

Either way, we did NOT teach her that!

Then Sunday we all went to Aunt Kari & Uncle Jay's house. C&O had a blast with all their cousins "big boy/girl toys". Uncle Jay got some cute pictures of all the kiddos.

Of course once we got back home, they didn't want anything to do with their own toys. So what better way to entertain them for a few minutes than mom's mixing bowls and wooden spoons!

A video of them playing:

Shortly after that, the spoons became weapons so had to be taken away.