Seth in a tent

Disneyland, of course! Attn: photo experts

We went to Disneyland with my parents, and Audrey and Davis took their first ride, on the merry-go-round at California Adventure. I have a video of the whole ride if anyone's interested :)

Anyway, the last picture I think would be the cutest, but my camera does this weird thing sometimes, where part of the picture is green or red. So if any photo experts out there have any hints, I would appreciate it. This never happened with my old camera....

Woof

Audrey's first word. (See I told you girls were smarter than boys :) ) Audrey likes to converse with Pinky the dog, and will woof when she hears her. And will woof if you ask her what Pinky the doggie says. She's so pleased with herself.

I think Seth may also have made dog noises at an early age, I can't quite remember. I do know that his first major reused on his own with no prompting word was "Uh Oh" very useful in the daily life of babies.

I uploaded 3 new videos, see down on the right.

9 month portraits

How cute are they? And we almost got a picture with Seth.... almost....

Seth takes pictures

Not bad... (I did, however, delete about 20 others...)

Little Zoo for Little People

We took the kids to the Santa Ana zoo. Lots of fun. I especially liked the new farm part, where they have all the basic farm animals for feeding and petting. Seth liked the monkeys alot. Audrey like the llamas. Davis slept through the whole trip.

Splashin'

We all got out in the hot sun (I seriously can't remember which day right now) and the kids got in the splash pools. Lots of fun although it was difficult to keep Seth from accidentally drowning his siblings. Particularly when he came down the slide.

Horns all around

Bathing at Grandma's is always fun, we got both babies in, and then Seth asked to join, so the threesome bathed together. And of course, all three needed shampoo "horns"

We're 9 months old!

Yesterday (9/11/08):

Davis 24lbs 1/2oz 31inches

Audrey 18lbs 1oz 27.75inches

Sneak Preview

I know its early, but TOO CUTE! Seth requested a Buzz Lightyear costume he saw in a catalog, so I ordered him one online. Every time a delivery truck rolled down the street he'd run to the door and yell, "Buzz?!?" Unfortunately it came while we were gone. Anyway we tried it on last night and well, see below:

More pronoun fun

Just because I am currently obsessed with the toddler acquisition of pronouns, I had to share this. Many of you are familiar with the kid gymnasium chain called MyGym. Well, as far as Seth is concerned it is now Mommy's Gym. Most recently he was perfectly happy calling it MyGym. Originally he called it MyGym, and then for a little while he called it Seth's gym, and I corrected him, no, its MyGym. So now of course, it is Mommy's gym and I cannot convince him otherwise. It always astonishes me what they connect on their own. I forgot to mention this in the Mysemite post, but he has for a time now said Mys instead of Mine, and I couldn't figure out why until I realized he was connecting the opposites i.e., your is yours, therefore my must be mys. How does anyone ever learn this language?

Monkey See

These are the portraits taken of the twins at 8 months. How cute are they? I know they are because the studio had me sign a release so they can put them on the wall. How much fun will it be to see them there!

Not yours... mys!

First of all, everyone gets so excited about crawling, and walking and all that stuff that babies do, but I'm here to talk about the excitement of pronouns. Yes, pronouns. Watching a two year old struggle with me, you, mine, yours, his, hers, etc is hilarious and amazing.

Anyway, I had to put up one more Yosemite picture, even though it didn't turn out that great, because... yesterday Seth and I were watching Dangerous Season, which was showing the Yosemite Search and Rescue team. I said: "Look Seth, its Yosemite, see the big rocks?" He said: "Big Rocks, My-semite! (As in mys, not yours, Mom) It makes me happy to see him have such a personal attachment to a place I love. :) So here he is, looking at those big rocks in My-semite.

Redeeming Moments