More Parks!

W discovered a park in our neighborhood we didn't even know was there!  hehe!  We checked it out but it wasn't our favorite.

Little chefs

These two have really grown to love helping us cook.  Charlie especially loves to be involved in the kitchen.

Organzing

(Repeat for those on instagram)

Adella is such a little organizer.  She likes to put all of one kind of thing together.  She also likes to bring her toys to you and let you hold them all.   She woke up before Charlie one day and decided to bring me all the balls and all the powerade bottles, you know in case I got thirsty!  I tried to put a few balls on the couch, but she insisted they all be on my lap.

And then she took them all down and lined them up in a row.  She actually lined the balls up over and over in different configurations.   It's so fun to watch her little personality develop!  She is  very particular about the way certain things need to be. 

Little Crazies

Nap time is wonderful, after naptime not so much.  Naptime generally ends with lots of screaming and tears and continues for quite awhile afterwards.  But one magic day I was alerted to their waking up with plenty of giggles.  I let them just giggle for quite awhile because it was so darn cute.  Finally I went in to see what was going on and they were both jumping in their beds.   And as I got closer, I noticed Charlie was all out of sorts with his shirt!

Yep, he has both arms out of the sleeves, one arm is up through the neck hole and the whole thing is backwards.  I don't know how he managed that!

Oh Christmas Tree

I debated a lot on if we should put the tree up and how to decorate it if at all.    Some said no, some said they would be good and you just show them not to touch anything and it would be fine.   Um, I doubted that!  Even if I just used plastic ones, Charlie thinks anything round is a ball (even nasty egg shells out of the garbage) so he would have to play with it and throw them!    Finally I came up with a solution.   I made tulle pom poms!   They are perfect.  I don't care if they get messed up, and Charlie and Adella can put them on themselves.  I knew if I used other ornaments if they took them off they would never get them back on and that would frustrate both of them.  I wanted the tree to be something fun and magical, and not to have to constantly say NO when they touched it (I have to do enough of that already!).  So it's not the prettiest tree ever, but it's simple and still magical in their eyes. I still need to get out the tree skirt and see how that goes and put the topper on. But for now, here it is!  And I bet you can't guess who put all the white ones on.