VOXBOX

So I recently joined influenster.com; it's a review site and they send you free stuff to sample and review.  So if you see some random posts with random reviews that's why!

Trying so hard

Charlie is trying SOOOOOOO hard to crawl.   Both Charlie and Adella really want to move and mostly they can get wherever they want by rolling or scooting, but Charlie is super determined to crawl.  He started off by just getting on his toes and putting his head down and using any amount of strength to propel himself forward a few inches.  Now he's actually starting to figure out how to get on his knees and I have caught him basically army crawling a couple of times - he only goes a few inches at a time.   The crazy thing is that neither of them can sit up unassisted (they are close to that too but just haven't quite got the ab strength I guess).   I was fairly certain that you had to be able to sit before you can crawl, but Charlie might just prove that wrong!

I've tried to get better pictures but I have to be super sneaky; as soon as they see the camera they zone in on it and stop whatever adorable thing they were doing.   But you can clearly see in this one that he is up on his knees, if you look close you can see he is down on his right elbow ready to army crawl away!  As I watch my babies learn things its just amazing how things just start to come naturally.  It's really amazing to watch growth and development in such a little body!

High Centered

Charlie was after the water bottle, but the darn polar bear got in the way!

Stand off

 I put these two down on this blanket, right next to each other in the middle.  I left the room to take care of the dirty diapers, came back less than a minute later and found them like this.  These kids crack me up!

Events!

This last week I was preparing for two events, hence the reason why blog posts were a little scarce, I spent pretty much every moment the twins were asleep either cleaning or preparing for the parties.  First up I threw a baby shower for my good friend Laurel who is having a little girl in a few weeks!  We are so excited for them and excited for our kids to have play dates soon!   Unfortunately I only took pictures before the food and none at the party.  FAIL!!!

The second event was a YW Activity - Personal Progress Olympics!  It was this idea I had back several months ago and so glad we could make it work!  I hadn't really ever heard of a personal progress fair, but after googling around apparantly they aren't too uncommon, so I decided to go for it!  We made it Olympics themed because its almost the Olympics!  The girls got tickets for each of the 'events' they would complete or start at the activity.  Our events included having the missionaries teach them how to teach the Plan of Salvation, a mom's panel about divine qualities needed to be a mother, discussion on the holy ghost, and a lesson in conducting hymns.  The mom's were invited and we sent them home with a challenge to have the girls help plan and prepare meals for two weeks.   We also ended by giving them a "Go for the Gold" challenge and read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year.  I loved that Virtue is Gold and fit so perfectly for that challenge!  We also broke up the activity by having games in between (minute to win it games themed around personal progress values).  For never doing something like this before it turned out great and many of the girls expressed how much fun they had and we should do this all the time!  I took lots of pictures at the event, but I always feel funny showing pictures with other peoples kids in them, so I'm only going to share some of our decorations.

These were the tickets the girls got to remind them of the experiences we either started or completed that day.  I designed them somewhat off the Olympic tickets for this year.

Challenge!  We added a little gold satchel with hershey's gold nuggets as a take home reminder.