11 months and some cute pics

Pictures courtesy of our good friend Erin Schedler.

Summer fun!

As promised, here is what we have been up to this summer...

The Korfhage family reunion in Walla Walla.

My sweet Great Grandma Korfhage.

Skipping rocks with all the cousins.

Celebrating #3 with my nephew Cole.

Catching up with the Roth side of the family in Walla Walla. 4 sets of twins in the family!
Grammie with the twins!

Celebrating Krevin in Roche Harbour. It was such a beautiful wedding and fun weekend without kids!
While we missed the girls, it was great to have some quality time together.
Enjoying some good time with friends.
Pool time with Grammie while we were away.
Lots of fun up at Suncadia with our buddies!

Weekend up at Whidbey with Dad and Gran Nan.
Hmmm, not quite sure what they think of the sand...

Celebrating 1st birthdays with our PEPS twin group.

A&E are the last to turn 1 but they still got a little taste of icing a little early.


And fun pool parties with our BFF Charlotte.
Needless to say, we have enjoyed this summer to the FULLEST! I have enjoyed every second at home with my girls and can't wait to start some new activities with them this Fall.

10 Months!

10 months? How can that be? That means only two months until they turn 1! YIKES! I know I say this every month, but A&E are just changing so fast. I always thought that the "baby stage" was my favorite, but if I could box them up and keep them at this stage forever I would! They are both crawling and pulling themselves onto everything. They have really finally figured out that the other one is there and they laugh and babble to each other all day. Their favorite thing to do these days is stand up in their cribs and throw their binkies out and laugh at each other. They have both learned to clap their hands to "If you are happy and you know it" and wave bye-bye. Avery has turned into a much happier little girl now that she is mobile and can explore new things. She is so cute when she laughs after each sneeze.

Needless to say I could just sit here all day and watch in awe as they learn new things. After much deliberation, I made the decision to "retire" from Nordstrom and start my new career as a stay at home mom. I was so sad to leave my co-workers of 9 years, but we just needed life to slow down. This may be my one chance with babies so I need to savor every moment of it. And savoring it I am with the million pictures I have been taking. More of those later!

9 months and a couple weeks

Oh my, where has the time gone? I'm little late posting the 9 month picture but there just isn't enough time these days.
Here is what the girls have been up to:

• Emma got two teeth at the same time right around 9 months and Avery just started to get two too. Crossing our fingers, but so far they haven't had any "teething" symptoms.
• Avery learned to push herself into sitting position and then started crawling two days later. And she's off...everywhere, into everything.
  
• Emma is just happy to sit up and clap her hands. If she really wants something she just rolls around and inches on her tummy. I'll be surprised if she crawls before she walks.

If you look closely you can see her teeth!

I'll post some more pictures soon. I will have much more time in a couple weeks!

8 Months

Happy 8 months to my sweet girls! I cannot even believe how quickly they are changing and discovering new things these days. It is amazing to watch them learn new skills but at totally different paces. Emma can sit up on her own and play for long stretches at a time where Avery would rather fall over and wiggle her way to new toys, the dogs or whatever she can get her hands on. I am always so scared I am going to miss their "firsts" but we soak up every minute together in the mornings, after work and on the weekends. They both made me so proud tonight that I got a little weepy...Emma started to imitate me and play Patty Cake and Avery got up on all 4s and rocked back and forth.

Happy 8 months Emma and Avery. You fill my heart with such love and joy.

Twins Galore!

Last week we had our 2nd reunion with our Swedish twins group. It's so fun to see how much all the babies have grown and SO crazy to think this time last year all of the mommies were prego sitting in the classroom trying to prepare for what was to come.



Even though our PEPS group officially ended a couple of months ago, we still get together twice a month. I cherish all of our twin time together. A&E are the youngest in the group so we have learned so many twin parenting tips from the big kids.

We waited a bit too late into the night to take the picture...almost everyone was in mid meltdown. And apparently Emma wasn't so happy about being squished on the coach!

7 months and Hawaii!

We were lucky enough to celebrate Emma and Avery's 7 month birthday in Hawaii!!! We had tons of fun swimming, taking long walks and just spending a week of uninterrupted time with our babes.
Aloha!
We were lucky to have Grammy come along. It was great to spend the week with her and have an extra set of hands. She was even nice enough to let Mike and I have two nights out to dinner alone! We couldn't remember the last time that happened:)

Emma learned to hold her own bottle...they are just growing up too fast...
They both L-O-V-E-D swimming. And yes I did get a major sunburn.
Emma so stylish in Mamma's shades.
Avery can't sit still for a second these days, not even for a picture with Dad.
Posing with the pretty flowers.
Emma trying to smell the flower, but as with everything else, all she wanted to do was eat it.
The flight home and time change was a bit of a challenge but it was well worth it to have some quality time with our family and some SUN! The trip was the best 1st Mother's Day present.

PS-Both girls slept ALL night last night!!! Ahhh, hopefully this will become a trend.