We have 12 month old babies! I'm not sure how this year has gone by so quickly, but I'm hoping time slows down soon. They are at such a cute age where they play together, they're starting to understand commands, and they talk to us and to each other.
This was AFTER they got their shots. They weren't in the mood for pictures.
This is the last picture of them wearing plain white onesies with stickers on them sitting in front of their chevron blankets. It was a very sad photo shoot for me
Emily
Emily weighs 22 pounds 7 ounces (85th percentile) and is 30.25 inches long (85th percentile). She can walk and she walks everywhere! She no longer wants to crawl, only walk! Emily's favorite word to hear is "pretty." If she gets fussy, you can tell her how pretty her hair is, or her shoes or her shirt, and she will smile so big! She is already a little diva and loves her ponytails (they are very tiny) and bows. She loves her pretty silver shoes and her shirts with Minnie on them. I tell her at least 50 times a day, "you're the silliest girl I know." She laughs so hard! She loves to laugh and be chased. She knows she isn't supposed to go into the kitchen if the gate is down but she does and giggles, waiting for you to chase her. She tries to play peek a boo but puts her hands over her ears instead of her eyes. It's very funny. I have to say "peek a boo" when she uncovers her ears and she laughs so hard! Emily has recently started dancing and loves to clap while she dances. Emily loves to be praised. If you tell her she did a good job, she will smile so big and do whatever she did over and over again to continue being praised. If her siblings are praised, she will do whatever they just did to also get praised! If Ella walks to me and I tell her "good job," Emily will walk as fast as she can and collapse into my arms to make sure I know that she can walk, too! She says "sister" and actually associates the word with Ella. She will walk up to Ella and pat her head as she says it. It is adorable! She is just a happy little girl who makes us laugh constantly!
Waiting for her paradise for playing the xylophone
Got her praise... Big smile! Then she does it again!
And more... She smiles a lot!
Emily's first ponytail. It wasn't very successful
We told her Tripp's hat was sooooo pretty so she kept it on for awhile!
She got to go to Toys R Us with me to buy presents for her friends
Emily was the first to figure out how to drink from a straw
She sat on this box for about 10 minutes waiting for something to come on the tv
Emily's first cat scratch
This is Emily with her first ear infection. Still smiling even with fever and swollen eyes
Then she wanted to snuggle with Mawmaw
Here she is having her blood drawn. She just watched quietly the whole time!
Our first time taking them out to dinner. Emily loved it!
Reading instructions
Hanging out on the Mickey sofa
Ella
Ella weighs 20 pounds 1 ounce (55th percentile) and is 29.75 inches (72nd percentile). She is catching up in both height and weight! Ella is walking slowly. She isn't a professional yet but she's getting there! Ella is our moody baby. Sometimes she just wants to cry and whine and sometimes she is the happiest baby you've ever met. I think it depends on how much she's slept, if she woke up on her own or was woken up, and what you're offering her to eat. She no longer wants to be fed. We took them to a Mexican restaurant and she refused to let my mom feed her beans and rice. That's right, we had to lay rice on the table for her to feed herself (I cleaned the table with Clorox wipes first). She finally allowed my mom to feed her once she was offered a delicious burrito on a fork. Ella's favorite game to play is to throw her cup or pieces of food onto the floor during meal time and say "uh-oh." Luckily she says "uh-oh" before the toss, too, so we can grab the cup as fast as possible before it hits the floor. Ella is really loving playing with her siblings lately but if they get too close she cries like someone is physically hurting her. There was one day that she decided she would scream and cry anytime one of her siblings simply touched her arm. It was a very loud and stressful day at our house! When she's happy she's so happy and smiles and chases her brother and sister and wants to cuddle. Occasionally she will walk up to me and just put her head on my shoulder and smile at me. It's adorable!
Ella's first ponytail
One of her sweeter moments. She crawled over and just laid down on me
Grocery shopping with daddy. One of her moody moments
Ella looks very different with a ponytail. I love being able to see her whole face!
Go Texans!
Sleeping on Daddy when she had an ear infection
Ella puts her head down a pillow and waits for me to say "night night Ella." Then she pops her head up and I say "good morning Ella!" She does this over and over and over and over again!
She likes to sit on my lap!
Sitting in the new truck
Ella went off-roading
Daddy got the girls a pink car
Tripp
Tripp weighs 21 pounds 5 ounces (50th percentile) and is 30.75 inches long (83rd percentile). He is tall and very skinny! Tripp is walking and loving it but he is still figuring it out. He is starting to get very brave and walk more but he still falls! He is just all boy. That's the best way to describe him. He's sweet and likes to give me kisses and sit on my lap, but he's also rough and... all boy! He loves when Mark plays rough with him and chases him on the bed and pulls him back to him. It's so fun to see him squeal when they play! He still smiles so big with his mouth wide open, never exposing his top 4 teeth! Tripp loves his boy toys. We have plenty of dolls and girl toys but he has no interest in them. I don't push him toward any toys in particular but he only wants to play with his car, balls, blocks, a drum or his rubber snake. He will not hesitate to grab a doll and throw it to the side if one of the girls left it in his car and he finds it later. Tripp loves books so much! A lot of times during the day I'm on the floor playing with the girls and look over to find him laying on the floor flipping through pages. He actually turns the pages to look at all of the pictures. It's so adorable!
My mom bought him a shirt that says "strikingly handsome." It's true...
Tripp attacking his friend Jim
Drinking his nighttime bottle with Pawpaw
He likes to sprawl out on pillows and point to things.
Tripp loves the Toodles that Mark made for their birthday party. When we say "Oh Toodles," he goes to the fireplace and stares at it!
More lounging on pillows
He didn't understand why Daddy wouldn't let him in the garbage can
One morning Mark was drinking coffee, so Tripp grabbed a tea cup from the play area and pretended he was drinking coffee with Daddy. It was so cute!
JJ Watt jerseys with Pawpaw
Checking out the line at Target!
Tripp will use whatever he can find to help him climb on the furniture. If one of his sisters happens to be there, he will use them.
Another book (he does this a lot)
Tripp's favorite book is Brown Bear. When my friend told me that Gymboree had an Eric Carle event with a Brown Bear shirt, I just had to get it for him. He loves it!
He remembered he still wanted to be in it once he saw Emily get in.
He decided he loves the fan!
At the doctor with his first ear infection
Sick at home. He wanted to just sit in the backyard and watch the rain.
Then he passed out on Nonna. It was a hard day for him
One of his favorite new things: the Mickey couch!
Tripp loves to push things and Emily hasn't figured out how to push herself on this thing, she needs me to push her. I showed him how to push Emily :)
Tripp gets on the couch so much I had to teach him how to sit on his bottom and how to get off. He's very good at it now.
This was the day that the girls both decided that if anyone touched them they would scream bloody murder. Poor Tripp didn't understand why Emily screamed when he touched her head. He was confused all day long.
Tripp getting blood drawn at his check up
The rubber snake that he got at the zoo!
Waiting for Daddy to put together the pink car
Tripp loves Uncle Charles' beard
Eating dinner out. He loves Mexican food!
Ready for the Texans game
Pawpaw showed him how to lay on the sofa and watch football while drinking his bottle.
He needed to climb on the back of the truck
Group pictures
Tripp does not like when he sees the girls in his car. He will sit on top of them until they get mad and climb out.
This month our neighbors' air conditioning went out so my friend Rebecca and her twins stayed with us for a few days. I watched another friend's twins one of those mornings so we had 7 babies eating snacks off of the floor... I had just swept :)
Usually Emily, Ella and Tripp drop their food on the floor and the puppies eat it. When H and M dropped their food, my babies ate it. It was weird but they thought it was funny!
Hanging out with friends!
Emily telling Ella that it's her turn to sit in the car. When I say "telling," I mean pulling Ella's shirt to force her out.
They got pirate and mermaid diapers!
Watching the Texas State game with their Bobcat shirts and diapers
We went for a walk one morning because it was so pretty outside. When we got to the end of our street it started pouring rain. Luckily a man who lives on the corner let us go onto his porch to wait out the rain before heading home. He even gave us a towel to dry off the babies! This was them after we got home and Mark took the canopy off of their wagon.
The solution to them opening the garbage can
Playing with boxes
We took the babies to their friends Jim and Hudson's first birthday party. They had lots of fun wearing Thomas hats and eating cake for the first time ever! We learned that Ella loves sugar!
After their 1 year shots we took them to get frozen yogurt
Then we went to Aldi to get milk
