Catching Up! Early 2011

Helping in the garden...

Preschool St. Patrick's Day crowns and insect art projects...

And their posters for the Mother's Day Tea at preschool.

Kimberly: My mom is special because she reads to me every night and day. Sometimes she takes me to the library and sometimes she takes me to see my grandparents. My mom's favorite color is green and her favorite thing to do is go biking with us. My mom is my sunshine and I love her very much!

Bekah: My mom is special because she plays with me. Sometimes she makes cookies with me and sometimes we go on a hike together. Her favorite food is cupcakes and her favorite color is red. I love my mom because she kisses me all the time!

Catching up! December 2010

Catching up?! November 2010

I'm not sure I can truly catch up from the past year, but I'll try to post a few photo gems from the past little while that I've been sending to family and posting on Facebook.

First up - snow at our house last Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween, the girls decided early that they were going to be a construction crane and concrete mixer. Quite the project for me to create, but we all made it! Bekah's the red crane and Kimberly's the blue concrete mixer.Out making the rounds around the neighborhood. Kelsi was their construction foreman.

Soccer Time!

We're now a few weeks into big sister's soccer season and we've been busy! First up was a tournament in Monroe - Kelsi's the goalie with the green top over her blue uniform.
While we were in the area we visited some family friends. The girls had tea with Bryan.
Labor Day weekend took us to a tournament in Tukwila. Kelsi's team before one of the games with Kelsi in the green top again.
Kelsi in goal - waiting for a corner kick.
The girls have had lots of playground time during all of the soccer fun. This particular climbing structure is at the Starfire Complex in Tukwila - where the Seattle Sounders FC is based. Bekah's in the purple shirt in the middle of the picture, Kimberly is below.
Needless to say, Kimberly picked out her own outfit.
Kimberly was all over the playground, including the slides. Bekah was climbing on the ropes for almost an hour.

4th Birthday!

Last Friday the girls had the joy of turning 4 years old. They had been very excited all week and were very into anything that had to do with a party. We started off the day going out to eat for pancakes. (I have no idea why they're looking through "binoculars").
Then we got to go to their party at Pump It Up where their friends came and jumped for an hour with them. The ages of guests ranged from 3 months to almost 6 years old and everyone had lots of fun. For the party photos, Kimberly is in the blue tank top and Bekah is in the gray. For the posed pictures, they made us laugh because I'd ask them to smile before taking the first picture and then Daddy told them to open their eyes and I'd take another one.
Elizabeth - 3 months.
Snitching sprinkles off the birthday cakes.
These is their new sandboxes that they got from us for their birthday.

Happy Sisters

The girls were having a fun night last week and I took a few photos. Bekah's in the Huskies jersey and Kimberly is in her favorite monkey pjs.

A Day Out with Thomas

The girls got to see Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt Saturday at the train station. We had our 20 minute ride on Thomas down past Snoqualmie Falls and back and they had a lot of fun. Bekah decided she wanted to wear her train engineer costume and Kimberly didn't want to, so she picked out her cow pants to wear instead.

Easter!

With the weather a bit cold, wet, and windy, the Easter Bunny made an appearance inside today.. some photos of last weekend's trip to watch Nathaniel play lacrosse as well as from this morning are in the 2010 slideshow.

Hope you weren't holding your breath!

The LONG awaited photos from Aunt Vikki's trip to visit... Slideshow (June 2009)

July through September are on the "Big Trees Tour" blog.

I'm trying to track down some later 2009 photos, but I took them on our old digital camera, so I'll have to look on our other computer.

Early 2010 photos are around, however... Slideshow (Jan/Feb 2010)

Aunt Vikki & Uncle Jimmy's Visit

Aunt Vikki & Uncle Jimmy came to visit this weekend - here's a sample of some of the photos that Aunt Vikki took yesterday and today. Can you guess if this is Kimberly or Rebekah?

Can you believe it's already June?

Summer is quickly approaching, which means in a few short months the girls will be turning 3 years old! I can't believe it was a month ago I posted the development updates.. letters are still going strong, they're up to over 16 now with the favorite of the moment being "W"! With shapes they have added squares to the ones they can recognize and pronounce. One of their favorite activities is to run in circles in the backyard while telling you repeatedly as they do it. "Run in circles, run in circles, run in circles..." Kimberly is even bending her elbows when she runs now, it's pretty cute because her fists are up at her chest. One of my favorites that I forgot to mention before is if Kimberly wants you to come with her, she'll keep yelling "Mon" at you until you follow - like "c'mon!" without the "c".

Some other cute pronunciations include Bekah saying "jes" for yes, Kimberly saying "follow" and Bekah saying "sour" for flower, the letter Q is "coo", the letter R is "awe", and they both LOVE Costco ("cah-coh") and ask to go there often.

Not a whole lot going on at the moment, we're all in our routines. I'm working on getting the memory card in our camera cleared - it's full and the button to delete is not working! Arg.

May Update

I still haven't gotten Easter photos posted, sorry. I wanted to do a few updates on the girls' development, though.

They are pretty much daytime potty trained. They have been pre-training for a little while and in the last week or so made the big jump so now they're only wearing diapers at nap and bedtime and doing really well about not having accidents. They even poop on there! Exciting times...

They actually recognize letters already.. we're a little surprised, but are happy they are so excited about it. They both LOVE the letter B, but also know H, I, K, L, O, P, and Y. Bekah is hit and miss on numbers to 10, Kimberly loves to count "one, two, five". (She used to say three, but apparently has found "five" is more fun to say). They're very excited about colors and shapes right now, so when they used to be able to point out what an object was (like an orange), now they just say the shape that it is (circle!!). Circles and triangles are very popular around here.

They're also talking a lot more now and much clearer. We can usually figure out what they mean with context, so that's good. They used to get really excited when we could correctly repeat back to them what they were saying to us, but now they expect it.

Kimberly still has an obsession with airplanes and Bekah loves to watch for them as well. They'll happily tell you that they go "to the airport" if you ask them where the airplanes are going. They love watching Wall-E with big sister Kelsi, and go through rotating phases of enjoying Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Elmo. Kimberly loves to pretend everything is a baby. Even if it's not small. They are avid climbers and getting more confidence to jump off of more things rather than just while standing on the ground already. Anything to do with their little kitchen is still fun for them. They have a bunch of play plates, cups, pots, pans, and food that they make "dinner" with, no matter what time of day. Bekah runs really fast, but luckily only shows it off when we're running laps around the track while Kelsi is playing soccer on the field. Their morning routine includes helping Daddy wash the dishes, they still love to help with that one.

Okay... that's enough for now. Hopefully I'll be able to post new photos soon.

Spring is FINALLY here!

We've been doing all sorts of things waiting for Spring to finally arrive... sit in the backyard watching for airplanes, taking baths and styling our hair, washing a LOT of dishes, talking on our cell phones, and then today we could finally hang out in the backyard...