Saturday at the Playground!

It was a beautiful sun-shiny day here in Chicago, but still too chilly to spend a long period of time outside with 1 year olds. So we decided to take the kiddos to an indoor playground at our local Menards. They had a BLAST!

Liv cheesin it up before we left.

They randomly like to wear mittens around the house for some reason.

Liners says "Let's GO!"

Caroline Crazy Hair. And what's with this face she's making?
She undeniably looks like her daddy in this picture.

The girls patiently waiting while daddy browsed the tool section first.

Playground time!!!

A video of the girls "digging":

Olivia was completely fearless on all the ladders, walls, slides, etc. It was so cute watching her just go for it, but a little scary too.

A video. She wanted to go down all the slides face-first!

Caroline was somewhat more hesitant.

Even mama got to play.

Between the cold air and all the plastic playground equipment - static did a number on Liv's hair. Check out her 'do!

On the way home we stopped at McDonalds to get the girls some chicken nuggets and then we went home and had a Dance Party!:

Caroline Kisses:

ABC's!

Back from our Texas Trip

Congratulations to the new Mr. & Mrs. Jungbauer!!!

My little sister is married - I love you sis! The wedding was absolutely beautiful and they had the most perfect day. What a party!

We had a fantastic trip, it was so wonderful to see my family! Of course I forgot to bring my camera, so I'm waiting on friends and family to send me pictures. The girls were the cutest flower girls EVER! They did such a great job. And now it's back to Chicago and back to work.

Sunday Funday

We kept the weekend low-key, as most of our weekends go. Today we took the girls out to lunch at Wendy's (actually their first "restaurant" experience believe it or not!). They did great and gobbled up their chicken nuggets and chocolate milk like champs. Then we headed to Target for all the weekly necessities.

We head to TEXAS on Tuesday for my sister's wedding this coming weekend! Traveling with two toddlers will be less than ideal so wish us luck!

"Where's our food!?"

Caroline

Olivia


Chocolate Milk is Gooooooood!


Silly Livi

16 Months and 2 Days

The girls were 16 months on Monday. They are getting to be so much fun these days! They are seriously the funniest little people I know.

A few of their current antics:

They run from me when I get out diapers to change them, telling me "no, no, NO, mama!". They blow me kisses every morning before I leave for work, and Livi chases her sister around the house with her lips puckered saying "Mmmmmuaah!" (with what we call her "smooch attacks"). They could brush their teeth all.day.long if we let them, we have Dance Party USA sessions daily. They love learning new animal sounds and are really into making the "ROAR!" sound like a lion these days. They like to play hide and go seek, but they always hide in the same spot - behind our bedroom door - which tends to take away from the point of the game, but that's what makes it hilarious. Rob and I have to literally spell out the following words because if the girls hear any of them, they will not stop repeating it (over, and over, and over) until they get that particular thing: bath, juice, shoes, paci, blanket, snack, hat, keys, book.

We're enjoying discovering their little personalities. We love being their mommy & daddy!

All 3 of mama's babies

...and yes, they are wearing their Christmas jammies. These pipsqueaks haven't grown all that much since the Holidays!

Videos:

We're slowly but surely starting to get better with utensils.

It's still a complete MESS, but they're trying!

Peek a boo! Roooar!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I did a little Valentine's Day photo shoot with the twinks this morning.

Caroline is in the pants, and Liv in the dress.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love XXOO,

Caroline & Olivia

*My friend, Neely, edited these first four for me. The rest below are straight from the camera - I don't know how to do all that fancy stuff!

NEW SHOES!!!

Sweet Caroline

And after their lunch, the girls got a special Valentine's treat!

(Thank you, Miss Dana, for the cupcakes!)

C

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Too much TV

Ok, I swear we don't just sit our kids in front of the TV all day long. They really only watch their shows first thing in the morning and right before bed ... and since that's pretty much the only time I see them because I'm at work all day, most of the pictures/videos I get are of them watching TV!

These girls sure do love singing and dancing along to their shows. It's pretty stinkin' cute.

Here are the little couch potatoes in the making. See that mesmerized look on their faces!?

It sucks 'em right in.

I never seem to catch a good video of them dancing, it really is hilarious. But here's a small sampling of Liv getting down to Yo Gabba Gabba tonight.