June 2013

This one is written by mommy:

 

Lukey - favorite thing to do at restaurants is play with cup and straw, screams for it. sings ba ba ba and woah woah woah at bath time like the raphi song. favorite books are little blue truck and does a duck cluck. No more binki and he got rid of it very easily. trying to talk but right now he goes around talking gibberish all day in the house. He can say birds, bug, all done, and many more. he stands at the pantry and yells for yogurt pretzels and fruit snacks. When he gets mad he throws things. He could eat all day long and he is always the last one eating at meals. throws balls constantly even in the bath tub against the bath wall. wrestles with lydi and daddy. crawls on head of lydi on the floor. climbs on other people's feet and legs to get higher or see over things. threw rocks in the ocean for 45 mins straight. walked around the pool and threw toys into the pool then got them out and threw them all in again.

 

lydi sleeps with her dollie and duckie under her tummy and always asks for a nose wipe. she pointed to my boobs and asked for some of those for her birthday. I said what, earrings? she said no boobs. obsessed with the farm book and wants to read it every night. she reads to herself and makes up stories, words, and songs. she has one moron word - fransagoodie. She volunteered at the sea lion show all by herself and wanted her face painted and to go on the carousel. She asks everyone their name about 10 times. Loves disney princesses but only wants to watch cinderella. runs up to everyone to talk to them. sings to and rocks her baby dolls. for her 3rd b day she got a water table, disney princess scooter, coloring book, game for little ipad, picnic table, candy land, bike helmet, tennis racket, sticker earrings

April 2013

Hi Cuties,

We'll start with Luke (aka Azadukey!) today. Your first word(s), we think, are "all boy" which is hysterical. We always say that you are all boy, because of the things you do so much differently than Lydia. She is definitely girly and you are all boy. A new obsession with you is animals, especially birds and dogs of all kinds. You love to point them out wherever we go and get real excited about them. I think I mentioned that you love playing catch and really throwing any type of ball around. Your coordination and throwing arm are really good. You love the baseball song, "take me out to the ballgame." You kind of have that engineering mindset too. You enjoy putting things in and out of boxes and like to see how things work and how they are made. A challenge now for us is that you've just started to get attitude. It's kind of funny when you are trying to show us that you are mad and you go and throw your cup on the floor. Speaking of your drinks, you really like chugging your milk down, but really haven't taken to any other type of drink. Hopefully, that starts to change because it's causing you to have really painful poo-poos.

Lydia, you are even more social than ever, which I think I've mentioned quite a few times in these writings. It doesn't matter where you're at (playground, store, restaurants, walking down the street, etc.) all you want to do is say hi to absolutely everyone you see. You also like to ask "what's your name" and "what are you doing" and "where's your mommy and daddy" etc. etc. etc. You love playing with and taking care of your dolls. You even have to have them in your bed with you. Speaking of your bed, we recently converted your crib to a big girl bed. You are now sleeping there on your own and it's open so you could just walk right out, but most nights you sleep very well in your bed. As always, you love the ipad and all these electronic. On the ipad, you especially love to watch videos where they are singing happy birthday with cake and candles. It's your absolute favorite thing in life and on the computer. You even try to sign the videos that are in a different language! One of your new things is to tell us this long drawn out stories that don't really make much sense, then you laugh at the end of the story. It's really cute! One of the things that worries us is that you tend to not look where you're going when you're walking, playing, running, etc. You trip quite often because of this. We think it's because you are so social that you just keep talking or singing without focusing on what you're doing.

We love you both so much,
Daddy and Mommy Pants!

March 2013

Hello my two little love bugs,

Lydia, you love to read books especially brown bear. When you read them, you just make up your own words, which is adorable. You love to pray at night and fold your little hands together. You also love to kiss everyone and talk to baby #3 in Mommy's belly. You're basically the most social toddler around too. You say hello to absolutely everyone that you come across and in any place. This social nature you have is evident too in that you are obsessed with Facebook. You've even taught yourself to post our pictures randomly on the site with jiberish words. You love your Thursday dance class and going to the doctor's office (you think you're a nurse!). One of your favorite places in Bread Company, which you call the Muffy place. Mimi loves to take you there. Lately, you've learned to crawl out of your crib. You then come into our room and want to sleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed. This is not a good thing, but sometimes we let you get away with it because you're so darn cute and snuggly.

Luke, you love to kiss and hug just like Lydia. You're both love bugs. You love to eat, especially your morning eggs. You are obsessed with your binkie, especially come bed time. You can't sleep without it. You are a really coordinated little guy. You taught yourself how to go down the stairs so easily. You throw any kind of ball really well. You're also a star at playing with Legos. You are so close to talking, but not quite yet. This words you are coming really close to saying are oh, bird, baby, dog, mama, dada, and mimi. You love reading books and can identify anything that we ask you to point out to us. You really like reading through the animal books and pointing out all the animals, especially the cows and doggies. You also are obsessed with watching and pointing at birds and at airplanes when you are outside.

I love you both so incredibly much,
Your daddy.

January 2013

We just rolled into the New Year my two babies!

Lydia - One of my favorite things you are saying now is "I member that" which is supposed to be I remember that. You're so funny. You say it even when I know you don't rember it or never heard it in the first place. You are so polite too. You have several things you say regarding that: sorry, please, don't worry about that, thank you, thanks for playing with me, thank you for dinner, etc. It's adorable. We just had Xmas and you both got sooooo many gifts. Your favorite gift this year was your baby stroller. You talked about it so much asking Santa about it and were so excited when you first saw it. This was the year that you met "elf on a shelf" too. We really loved seeing you react to him.

Luke - You are now walking and it is absolutely the custest thing in the entire world. You walk like a little baby frankenstein with your cute little arms out and your stiff legs stumbling forward. You always have a huge smile on your face when you do your walk. Both of us think that you are so coordinated and going to be such a natural athlete. You take to things so quickly. One of my favorite gifts that you got for xmas was your little tikes basketball goal. It's really your first sporty thing. You took to it so quickly. All you wanted to do was to take the basketbally and have daddy hold you up to the basket so you could drop the ball in. Then, you would smile and giggle so huge, because you were so proud of yourself.

Before and during xmas, both of you got sick and it was a big bummer. You both threw up a few times in the middle of the night. You guys actually got mimi and popsy sick too. Good news is that all is fine now and everyone is better.

Love you both so much,
Daddy

November 2012

Hi my beautiful babies,

Lydia - You are getting to be so big. You are sleeping now in your big girl bed all by yourself. Although, you love when either mommy or daddy snuggles with you before you go to bed. Your new favorite show is Daniel Tiger and you always want to watch it. It's so cute. The show is the cartoon version of Mr. Roger's neighborhood. You are almost 2.5 years old and I can't believe how time is flying by. Before long, it will be time for you to go off to school and daddy is scared of that.

Luke - One of the things that is hilarious that mommy and daddy have both noticed is how you smell like Maple Syrup in the mornings. We think it may have something to do with your diapers and pee sitting in it throughout the night. We both found it funny that we both said the same thing to each other. It's only been about a week since your big one year bday party. It was a great time and mommy put together the best baseball themed party for you. Your actual bday fell on a Saturday, which was perfect. Also, it was 75 degrees that day which was amazing. There were so many kids there and everyone could play outside. You loved your party. The only funning thing was that you didn't want any part of your cake. You just threw it on the floor and fussed about it.

Love you both so crazy huge,
Your daddy

October 2012

Our kids are the absolute cutest in the whole entire world!

We'll start with Luke this time. You are almost one now. We are going to have a huge bday party for you. It's going to be baseball themed. You are so our little man. Mommy and I have this thing where we say to each other that "he's all boy." We say that because everything you do screams ALL BOY, from the way you eat, to the way you interact, to what you like, etc. You are pulling yourself up onto things now and trying to stand up. You have the happiest personality that I've ever seen. You are constantly smiling and laughing. Everything is funny to you, especially Lydia. We love the way you two interact together.

Lydia, you have such the personality. You'll be able to see the funny things that you do through all of the videos we record of you. You are an absolute wiz with electronics almost to the point where it is too much. It may be your first addiction. Your new catch phrase is "tell me about it," which you and everyone else is obsessed with. You ask us how's work.....how's crossfit......how's tennis......how's exercising......how's meeting.....etc. When we respond, you immediately say TELL ME ABOUT IT. It's absolutely hysterical. You have graduated from the crib to sleeping in your "big girl bed" at night. It was a bit of an adjustment, but after about a week you were pretty good with it. The other thing (besides electronics) that you are obsessed with is everything to do with birthdays. You love birthday cake, birthday candles, singing the birthday song, and in general you need to know when everyone's birthdays are. It is very adorable!

Mommy and I just love the way the two of you interact together. You guys love each other so much and are really starting to play together. We can't wait for that to happen even more.

I love you with everything I have,
Daddy

August 2012

One month older and so much more of you both to love!!!

Lydia - - You are starting to develop such a cute, yet demanding personality. You insist on being on the phone all the time. You want to look at videos and pictures of absolutely anybody and everybody. One cute thing you are now doing is with Luke. Every morning that you wake up, you ask me "Luke awake?" It is really adorable. If he's awake you run into his room screaming Good Morning at him. If he's not, you say "Luke sleeping?" You've started to sign one of our favorite songs every morning, which you refer to as "If that piggy bank gets broken, daddy buy you a ........." song! It's crazy adorable. You insist on me reading it to you everynight when we do our routine. Our routine if I haven't mentioned it before is Bem time, Chair time, then Crib time. Each one of those parts has a specific time and specific activities that you like to do for each.


Luke - - You are such a cute little squirt now. You are army crawling everywhere and at a fast speed. You hate to be alone and love finding where the action is. If we move into the kitchen and you're still in the other room, you crawl fast over to us. We can hear you coming and your cute little face peaks around the corner and gives us this huge grin. You are such a good baby boy. One of our new things is daddy throwing you up and down in his arms and lightly dropping you on the big pillows on the couch. You absolutely love it. When you hit the pillow, you give me this little grinned look on your face and then bust out laughing. It's way too cute! Also, you are becoming a really good eater, definitely an aggressive eater. Your favorite is yogurt, but your starting to eat all kinds of little snacks. You are starting to turn from our little baby into a little boy.

We love you both so much. Daddy loves his babies with everything he has.