15-month appointment

Rayla and Payton saw Dr. Lessman yesterday for their 15-month appointment. The visit also consists of reviewing their milestones with the Healthy Steps Program. The woman who runs it said the girls are right on track. She also said there will be more times now where they might become frustrated because the need or want something but they can't quite verbalize it, so we should be prepared for more physical acting out. She also mentioned we should begin thinking about potty training. We already have pottys for them and they use them for playing in.
Their stats for this visit were:
Rayla - 22lbs 14 oz and 32.25"
Payton - 24lbs 8oz and 32.75"
We aren't sure these measurements are truly accurate because the girls were squirming and screaming the whole time.

Meeting a November Mom

The girls' due date was November 10th. Based on that, I went to The Bump (.com) and found my Month board. The girls talked about everything. Then we moved it over to. Facebook group and talked about even more. The majority of us are still friends and I had the pleasure of meeting one of them in real life (irl) tonight. Her name is Laura and she and her husband have a little girl name Lucy. And Laura is pregnant again, this time with a boy who is due at the end of April. We had so much fun and so much in common. We barely even spoke of our main group. I hope to meet more of these great women.

Lounging around

Last night was a night field with lounging. Since Mom had to work late Mamo and the girls decided to take it easy and watch some Baby Signing Time. As the DVD began to spin Rayla and Payton decided to take all of the blankets and pillows off the couch so they could relax and enjoy the show. Got to love how they already know how to just sit back and enjoy and evening!

Mamo's birthday

Yay, it was Mamo's birthday yesterday!
Rayla and Payton showed off their first finger-painting picture as a present to Mamo. It was a fun-filled day of birthday wishes from all over. Mamo also spent it being sick and taking a trip to urgent care. Boo :( Let's hope she feels so much better today.

We love you Mamo!

A sign of the future?

Are bedtime routine consists of dinner, play (exercise if they play along), milk, play in their room, wind down, sleep.

Tonight Alyssa and I tried to learn some Zumba moves. Well let's just say we aren't quite experts yet. Just when you think you've got the foot/leg parts down, they throw in hips, and then add arms. And by that time you forget the basic foot step again. It was fun and embarrassing and we are going to try it again tomorrow.

Then we moved the party into the girls room. They were hilarious! Both had the best belly laughs ever, which in turn causes us to laugh. One of ky new goals is to try helping them laugh every day. I think they sleep better :)

Payton crawls up on the toy box (where diapers are currently stored) and pulled off all of the diapers that were out on the changing table. She methodically pulled them down and threw each one on the floor. With every diaper throw came a laugh. Then she moved on to bathtime penguins and plastic blocks, and then anything she could get her hands on. She thinks gravity is the best thing.

While Payton was playing with gravity, Rayla gathered every diaper on the floor, one by one. She purposely grabbed each diaper with her right hand and stuffed it between her left ARM and chest. She was only done when she couldn't find anymore diapers. She would then take each diaper and give it to me until all diapers were out of her grasp. She started the process all over again after each release and gathering period. She also thought it was hilarious to finally drop them all on the floor and roll around.

Thanks for the laughs girls, you're pretty funny.

Wonder what.....

If was very hard to figure out what Payton wanted for breakfast this morning. Maybe you can tell us :)!

Sledding on the deck

Chicago was hit with a great snowstorm, so today we played on the deck. We bundled up the girls and headed outside. Mamo taught them how to smash snow with their mittens and how to shovel. Mamo then ran to grab the sled and pulled them around the whole deck. The girls giggled in delight. We had some good laughs out there.