Busy Busy Twinkies!

Its been over a month since I last blogged. It's really no excuse, but with 2 crawling babies I never seem to have time to sit down and relax! In the last month, we have had our 9 month checkup, gotten teeth, learned to crawl and pull up, and the girls are just into EVERYTHING!!

I will start first with their 9 month checkup(although they are 10 months now). The appointment was on April 5th.
Addison: 26 3/4 long and weighed 16 LB, 14 OZ. She is maintaining in the 20-25%

Ashlyn: 25 3/4 long and weighed 14 LB, 4 OZ. She is maintaining in the less than 3% YES, that's LESS than 3%. She is just going to be a tiny little runt!

Both girls now have their bottom 2 teeth. Addison got hers several weeks before Ashlyn did. Now I think Addison is working on her top 2 teeth, so hopefully soon she will have more. They are eating everything in sight. I have never heard babies make so much noise while begging for food...MY FOOD and anyone else's food who is within feeding range!! They scream, squawk, grunt, and bounce in their highchairs until you feed them. They eat everything from cucumbers to steak and shrimp to double decker tacos and bea burritos!! THEY LOVE FOOD!!!

They are now both crawling. Ashlyn started first, as well as pulling up first. Addison is now doing both too. They follow each other around the house, getting into trouble. Their favorite things to do are swing on the drapes in the living room, pull moss out of our potted tree, get into Claire's dog dishes, get into the pantry and play with cat food cans and 2 liter coke bottles, and eat remote controls and phones!! I'm not kidding when I tell you it is CRAAAAAZY around here!! But this has been my favorite stage so far!

They both can say certain words, but they don't say them in the right context. I think they just say them to SAY them! Ashlyn has the biggest vocab...she says: dada, baba, mama, nana. Addison only says baba. But Addison talks with such enthusiasm. She will talk like she is speaking a sentence, with different tones for each baba she says! Its cute! As far as their development, I think they are probably behind on verbal skills. But for preemies, that is supposed to happen and they tell me not to worry just yet.

Here are a TON of pictures of the highlights of the last several weeks. Some of these will show just how rambunctious these two little girls are!
playing with the drapes. Addi looks so sneaky and sweet, but don't let her fool you!

Ashlyn leaving the scene of the "drive by mossing". She heard me yell and she got out of there so I couldn't prove she did it!!

splashing in the pool

sunglasses...a HUGE waste of money!

Addison singing in the microphone

Playing on the air hockey table is fun....
trying to catch the pucks is even MORE fun!

The new sound around our house is "DOOOOOOOIIIIIINNNNNGGGG"! The sound of the springy doorstop thing. This was their first time discovering this annoying toy!

Hanging out with Daddy upstairs in the gameroom. Spinning in the swivel chair is lots of fun!

Playing cops and robbers....Addi was the robber and Ashlyn threw her in jail!!

Addison's cheese face!! This is what I come in and see after every nap or good night's sleep! It makes my day!!

Ashlyn is learning to climb things. I think she will be a big climber...I caught her climbing the baby gate the other day. She was up about 4 or 5 inches off the ground....like a little monkey! In this picture she is standing on her crib bumper, trying to get a little higher!!

Ashlyn splashing on the dishwasher

Helping Daddy with dishes

Addison found the dog's water bowl...if you look at the placemat you can see how much water she had spilled. What you can't see is how SHE was soaked as well!!

Ashlyn's cheese face....anything will make this girl smile!!

CHEEESE!!

Another funny face from Addi.

Professional Pictures

After rescheduling twice we finally got our (supposed to be) 8 month pictures done. Although, now its a week away from their 9 month birthday!! Between us getting the stomach bug and the weather being rainy or cold, we just couldn't seem to catch it on a good day. But we decided that it was sunny enough to take their pictures last week...even though it was VERY windy! Addison was a trooper, but Ashlyn literally cried the entire time. I don't think we got one good shot of her. If she wasn't crying in a picture, then her nose and eyes were red because she HAD been crying! Nothing made her happy, except when we fed her.....see the previous post on the past photo shoots. My friend Carlie did the pictures. She is starting up her own photography business, so we were one of her first shoots. I think she did great and I am very happy with how things turned out. I think she has a lot of potential and I hope her business takes off....I know we will probably be returning customers! So here are a few of my favorite pictures...this is only about half of them!

Birthday and a Bar-B-Que

We went to my cousin's 1st birthday party and the girls had a really good time! We got stuck in traffic on the way, and the trip turned into over an hour so I totally expected them to be awful by the time we got there. They ate hot dogs and cupcakes and enjoyed the balloons and party blowers that were there...which is good because I recently bought both for their 1st birthday!!
Addison and Pierce, the birthday boy!



Addison trying to figure out how to blow in the party blower!


She was so excited over the balloon, she was screeching


Little party animals


"it goes something like this???"


Addison in her party hat....I thought she looked more like the Travelocity gnome!!


Ashlyn chowing down on some cupcake!


Our balloon hat!



They played with them for days!!






We also had a bar-b-que at our friend Eric and Carla's house. Supercross was here for the weekend, which meant that Ryan's racing buddies were also in town. We enjoyed getting out(even if it WAS with the babies) and spending time with friends that we don't get to see very often. It was also the first time that the girls really interacted with other kids. Ashlyn really took a liking to Keegan("the older man") and he really liked her too! Addison just enjoyed sitting around and eating. In fact, they both ate like PIGS. They had shrimp, quesadilla with cheese, fruit salad, beef, baked potato, plus all of their baby food and bottles that I brought for the evening!!!
Brayden



Keegan and Addison


Ashlyn and Keegan


The girls and Leo just hanging out!

Photoshoot part 2

So because of the weather, we had to delay the professional photographer's photo shoot again. My mom and I went to the wedding chapel again and had another shoot, this time Ashlyn was a little more cooperative. But they have now learned that when taking pictures, they get fed treats. So they start to cry purposely so that we feed them....which means that every picture we get has drool and weird tongues!! Here are some of the newest "spring" pics.














Gotta have the crying shot!!

photoshoot

We were supposed to have our 8 month pictures taken this week, but since the girls got sick we postponed it until next week. But I wanted to take advantage of the pretty day, so I decided to do a photo shoot myself! I decorated a pink bucket and went up to the wedding chapel(they have flowers that are blooming). The pictures didn't turn out very well. My camera battery died, so my mom raced home to get hers. In the 5 minutes she was gone, Ashlyn got angry and nothing made her happy. Then my mom's memory card filled up and we couldn't take anymore pictures! The entire shoot only lasted about 30 minutes. So, needless to say we will just wait for the professional to do it next week!

This was taken just for fun. These goofy hats came with this outfit and I clipped a flower on them and put them on the girls. They look pretty silly in them!









"Hey, sister look back here!"



This is the closest we came to a good shot of Ashlyn




Addison always sticks out her tongue when she smiles!



HAPPY SPRING!!!