for L+R, love the gansta badgers

after a request from linds and rob we put some music on and captured the gansta side of the honey badgers. here they are getting ready to party!

take that sister!

singing along…

“oh no you di’int” says ellie.

claire flashing her gang sign.

over being a gansta – back to being sweet smiling claire.

and ball grabbing ellie. love you L+R and can’t wait to meet you in August!

something looks a little off

hmmmm….

what happened to my cute little boy and handsome husband?

tape! they put tape on their faces to pull things around. when bill and I were lovebirds in college we did this and took pictures. I would die laughing at bill when he would tape his nose up or his eyebrows or ears to different places. I wish I could find the picture that shows him like this in collage. I might have to go dig around later tonight. when I came back from working out and bill showed me these pictures I was rolling on the floor laughing. this one below is just hysterical!

ok – I found some of our best pictures from our days at madison. this is a picture of a picture – ghetto I know, but it was the fastest way to capture them. here is bill when he taped his face up.

bill was always doing more work than I and sometimes I would bug him until he would stop studying for a bit. in this photo I kept wrapping things on his head and he was flailing around. yes the thing on top is a jock strap – how disgusting (fyi – the guys on the ski team would always tease the girls by throwing their jock straps around and putting them on the fan. I had never even seen a jock strap until prior to being on the ski team. just saying this is why he had a jock strap lying around).

a little tea party

after the girls wake up from their naps in the afternoon I am giving them a mum mum cracker to munch on. they love it and they cruise around chatting, catching up on the time they were apart and munching. I often like to think they are having a little tea party together – especially when I found them like this the other day.

eleanore pulled her head back just as I grabbled the camera, but they were so cute. standing on either side of the chair babbling and smacking together.

eleanore’s view.

claire’s view.

here are some more of their antics. claire loved pushing this laundry bin.

then ellie came over to join in on the fun.

and down goes prabee.

both trying to break and enter the chemical cabinet. claire is even trying to climb up the cabinet!

claire are you supposed to be climbing up that?

what mom?

ellie is still holding tight to some object. these past couple weeks it has been a s&p shaker from the kitchen set downstairs. she always has something in each hand as she goes about her day.

the bookshelf is still a daily – make that hourly – battle. I am really close to just caving and putting it in the office for a few months.

claire loves pushing the lawn mower. she is so funny about her walking. she loves to push things or stand and sit independently, but she does not like when you help her walk. fine with me. I hope she doesn’t walk for a few more months.

speaking of claire standing. she loves and I mean loves to just grab something and stand up unassisted. she does it all day long. then when she gets off balance or wants to go somewhere she just drops to the ground and crawls off. here a series of her standing.

ellie loving her fake tantrums.

loving playing with charlie’s cars while he is still sleeping during his afternoon nap.

they are both getting all their top teeth. check out the drool.

I just love eleanore’s little puffed out lip.

these two girls fill my life with such joy!

keep an eye on prabee care!

wow – claire is really becoming a handful! she would not surprise me if she becomes a rock climber some day. it is actually getting dangerous. I can only capture some of her moves because other times when I find her I actually have to save her.

here she is going into the highchair or trying to get something off of the bookshelf.

trying to get up on the end table.

actually she is trying to get my iphone off the table.

here is proof of how quickly she gets up high. I need to tether her to the ground. any suggestions - besides getting her her own iphone?

in other news, at 10 months, she started walking while pushing the lawn mower aka "mawn mower". to walk with the lawn mower is just as hard as walking. thankfully she doesn't realize that she can walk yet so she only takes off when the lawn mower or push toy is nearby. 

E&E + E&C&C

that’s a lot of Es and Cs. my friend kate drove down from minneapolis with her 14 month old twin girls Elise & Eva. I tried to take pictures, but it was quite hard to snap good photos with the number of kiddos we had moving around. charlie was especially sweet with elise and eva. he treated them just like his sisters – actually probably sweeter. what a fun day we had. thanks again for making the trip kate!

charlie was really into eva and would just pull up a spot next to her and get closer and closer. (bummed the flash didn’t go off)

here he was trying to hold her cheeks.

the three Es all hanging out.

eva, ellie and elise.

it’s a race! go ellie & elise!

this was so sweet. elise was sad when kate had to go help eva. so charlie kept talking to her in a really high voice saying “its ok. your mom is coming back soon.” over and over.

sadly we didn’t get a picture of kate and I together or a picture of all the kids lined up. maybe next time right kate?

we throw tantrums

so both ellie and claire have decided they want to start throwing tantrums when they don’t get what they want. I don’t ever remember charlie doing this, which makes me REALLY nervous for when these two turn 2. back to the tantrums. each of the girls have their own style. claire does the ‘throw your head to the floor fold yourself in half’ tantrum. while ellie prefers the ‘fake pout cry scream’ tantrum. these videos crack me up.

here is a picture of ellie throwing her tantrum when auntie dotes would take away her plastic s&p shaker.

here is a funny video of it.

here is a video of claire's tantrum. i don't have a picture of her folded in half yet, but will need to get that up here.

this is picture from right before my parents left. I blame them for the tantrums – they spoiled the girls while they were here!

sentimental bomber jacket

check this out. charlie is wearing bill’s old bomber jacket. it fits perfectly and he looks so handsome in it.

thanks laura for saving it!