Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to Andrew/Dada!
Some cute pics of Dada helping the girls practice the stairs at church (happens every Sunday!)


What a good Dada.

Skinned Knees as Artistic Inspiration

So just as Nora's skinned up knees healed, she fell down again today. I kind of like skinned knees. I feel like my girls are being the clumsy, daring toddlers they should be. I brought Nora in and cleaned her up. She went out to the living room and obsessively started coloring a piece she calls "Nora's Owie"
My kids are brilliant.

Here's Nora in one of the shirts Aunt Heidi got them for their birthday. She looks...well, like wearing a Yellow Submarine shirt isn't much of a stretch.
Ella.
The rest of these photos were taken by Nora this morning. She grabbed my camera and because one can take photos via the touch screen she snapped quite a few shots. Enjoy the work of this budding photographer.







Okay, so I tried--again--to post a cute video of Ella singing and it just wouldnt upload. Dang. I'll keep trying.

Happy Birthday Day!

As we had the girls' birthday party the weekend before their birthday we decided to take the girls to the Philadelphia Zoo on their birthday, just as we did last year.
Aunt Natalie & Uncle Matt got the girls this cute little easel and their nanny, Gwen, left them a nice birthday message:We got the girls some necklaces to play with. Here Nora proudly wears hers:
The girls in their new shades, on their way into the zoo
Daddy and Nora look at hippos
(Hi, Heidi!)

While at the zoo, we met up with two other moms and their twins (we all knew we would be there the same day--and we all belong to the Mainline Mothers of Multiples club). The other two sets were identicals, all 3 y/o. Josh & Jared (mom Amy) and Charlotte and Rebecca (mom Allison). We walked around with them for awhile as they new the best places to go and quickest ways to get there
Nora kept trying to get my camera from me and pushed the button during the struggle

Bear fountain
Checking out the polar bears

Twins looking at the giraffes

Everyone checking out the parrot--all was fine until it make a loud sqwak and a couple of the little ones started crying
This is how Ella responded to seeing a gorilla. She never did uncover her face.
Watching the little monkey swing around
The lions

Nora saw this waterfall and yelled, "Water!" running as fast as her little legs would carry her.
A stuffed snow leopard. Toy.
The girls watched the prowling tiger across the yard. Despite numerous attempts, we could not get the girls to notice the tiger sitting a few feet to the right of them.
Nora wanted to push her sister in the stroller and had a huge smile the whole time. It took us forever to get to our eating area. But she was happy!
Lunch. Ella kept taking her shoes off.

The petting zoo. Nora was bold.
Ella preferred to be with Daddy.




Family photo!
Wearing the backpacks from Aunt Mia and Uncle Tim. They will wear these things for hours at a time.

Birthday dinner-pizza!
Mama & daddy also enjoyed a bottle of bubbly--celebrating our survival of the first two years!
Happy Birthday always makes one of them cry. Scary song.