28 months!

These are their official 2 year old pictures that we took last month!

-Both girls wear 12 and 18 month dresses and shirts. They wear 6-9 month shorts. Even have one or two 3-6 month shorts.

-as of last week wore Pamper Swaddlers size 3 but as of last Tuesday started wearing 2t underwear (smallest I could find)

-Starting playing together this month…also fighting more

-Love playing outside, swinging, and playing with their kitchen.

-Both know their names and know they are two.

-Love Dora, Gabba, and Minnie Mouse.

-We get asked all the time still if the girls are identical twins. At least once almost ever time we go out. They aren't and don't look the same to me at all.

-I get told how much they look like me from people we know and don't know all the time.

-started watching real movies…Ultimate fav-Toy Story! Hands down…they LOVE woody and buzzy (kinley calls buzz that)

-have found a new love for swimming and usually ask everyday if they can go swimming.

-BIG BIG on “do it myself” both say it at least 100 times a day.Kills this mama sometimes!

-they sleep 1.5 to 2.5 hours for nap

-12 to 13 hours at night.

-Up until this week or so they have always had certain beds they slept in. All of the sudden they want to sleep in Sissy’s bed.

-BIG on taking turns…they will always say “sissy turn”

-both ask for about 100 things before bed.

-know lots of colors

-all the animal sounds

-love playing ring around the rosy.

Kinley

-weighed 20 pounds last time we weighed her not long ago

-wears size 5 shoes some 4.5

- 2.5 itches or so taller than Maddie

-calls herself Kinny

-talks all the time and it’s so funny just to listen to her. “Uppy please Mama” “I do it myself” “l love me” “watch itty bisty mama” tons more.

-One of my favorite things she says right now is that she calls humpty dumpty…hunkie duckie

-counts to ten at least

-loves to sing and will ask to sing all the time.

-asks if we can go home…when we are at home, means she wants to leave.

-has not had a pee pee accident other then naptime (which was HORRFIC) in two days.

-can be clumsy

- wants to carry a towel around.

-if looks could kill, we would all be in trouble

-will say I want to dance Mama! and she will. but only if you say go Kinley, go Kinley go. so strange.

Is a strong willed little girl that always keeps us on our toes. She can be the life of the party and show off but also can be shy. She is a vocal thing and tries to talk for Maddie more and more. She is a good sleeper and sleeps like her Daddy. Always the last to wake up…and if you wake her up. WATCH out! She can whine with the best of them and tries to get her way often. All that said she is cuddly and my sweet Kk!

Madelyn

-weighed 21 pounds last time we weighed her not that long ago

-shorter than kinley

-wears 4 shoes and a few times worn size 5

-doesn’t really call herself anything on a normal basis but always calls Kinley Sissy.

-is getting so much better at talking. She is saying sentences and become much more vocal. Her speech therapist was impressed how well she did this last visit.

-counts but doesn’t seem to care about counting as much as K does.

-LOVES to build with anything

-sorts toys, lines them up. cleans up after herself and others.

-makes sure all doors are closed (OCD much?!?!?)

-will sing right along with her sister.

-scared of loud trucks…we can thank Kinley for that.

-quite the daredevil

-loves to take care of her dolls and any one else

-ALWAYS tries to share her snack.

-She wants to do everything herself all the sudden

-Kinley used to push her around and she fights back now. But she is quick to hug and kiss Kinley, especially when I see her hit or push her sister.

-LOVES shoes!

-Her new best friend is my cousin Elayna…totally in love with her! Both girls love her but Madelyn is quite taken with her.If Elayna is over Madelyn is usually in her lap.

Madelyn has such a tender heart. She loves animals and loves her sissy. She always talks about Kinley if Kinley isn’t in the same room. She is quite a Mama’s girl. She always ask for me to hold her and always pats you on the back while giving hugs. She is quieter than Kinley, yes but gets her point across just fine. She is just happy to let everyone else talk. She loves to point things out, like dogs, cats, cars and airplanes. She is always trying to take care of everyone and brings you anything that is yours to you. ex.purses, phones. She is my sweet Maddie Moo!

It’s so fun to have twins especially during this stage in the girls lives…ok, minus the potty training! I love that they have each other…I love seeing them become best friends all the while being completely different too.

What’s 4 more!?!

A few months ago I was talking to Suz and she was telling me they were getting to go see their Bff’s in Cali. I volunteered to watch the quads while they were gone. However, It took some convincing, she had this crazy idea that it might be hard to have 6 kids under one roof…ha!

We always have a great time over at the Steece household and this was was no different! Madelyn and Kinley LOVE the quads and totally look up to them, the girls were great the entire weekend.M and K have been having some issues with being 2 lately and it was so nice for them to just play!

Little Benny! love this boy!

Sav and Kinley: peas in a pod!!!! We joke that Kinley is a little Sav. The girls are a lot alike and are two strong willed little girls but I LOVE watching their little relationship unfold. MAJOR DIVAS!!!!! I have an idea they will be the best of friends but fight the good fight every once in a while!

Best we could get with all six playing! We played outside a lot this weekend.

Shi Dog…

as soon as we got home I missed having her following the girls around cleaning up their dropped food!

E-Bud

Drew…Could these boys be any cuter?!? All three melt my heart!

For someone that is completely happy having two girls and wanted girls from the beginning. It sure was nice having boys around to play with. They can be so cuddly and are somewhat more drama free, most of the the time!

But for now the Steece boys and Carter will work for my boy fix!

Madelyn curled up and tired after playing hard all day!

We went through a lot of food over there! (also wanted to show Suz they ate fruits and veggies! ;)

We went to the pool one day but the water was pretty cold so we spent more time eating our lunch poolside!

Madelyn

Quaddies!

Kinley, eating a PB and J!

Drew and Ben!

Little Miss Savi!

We let the girls have a slumber party with Sav.

The three of them did AMAZING! (the girls are in the peapods)

We were brave and took them all to church! We were actually early…took a mini van and a Tahoe but we got there.

This picture CRACKS me up…you can see all their little personalities

More playing outside!

Car Car (Carter) and his parents came to play!

The next morning eating a snack!

The last day we were there a pretty big storm came…I thought for a while we were going to have to pile all 6 kids in a closet…Wow, wouldn’t that have been fun?!? While we were waiting to see if we were going to get in the closet I got them all to come downstairs to watch a movie. We had a WONDERFUL time…was it a lot of kids…yes but honestly we had a wonderful time. We would totally do it again. My girls have a BLAST playing with all four of them, and having slumber parties with Sav. In Fact Suz kept our girls right before this weekend and let all the girls sleep in the same room too, although I think they stayed up a little later playing and chatting! I love getting to see them all play together.

Crazy times!

I promise I will be back with a TON of blog posts…but we have been busy here with the new adventure in our life.

We have been hanging in there…it’s been rough!

Come back Huttons part 2

Our fun with Huttons continued…like I said we tried to fit in as much fun as we could while they were here. We didn’t always take pictures but we sure did of the highlights!

We decided to take the girls to their first movie…Our Studio Movie Grill has a movie every Saturday for kids that is an hour long. This time it was Olivia, my girls have never really watched it at home but we thought we would give it a try. We weren’t completely sure how it would turn out!

Kinley getting ready for it to start!

Now while we were waiting for the movie to start, I noticed Madelyn had a dirty diaper. I grabbed the bag and went to change her. We walked into the bathroom and she gagged,I jumped into a stall (not really knowing what to do) and Madelyn threw up, actually into the toilet. She started acting a little better so we went ahead and stayed for the movie.

Madelyn watching the movie

Kinley was TOTALLY into the movie the whole time…I mean she loved it!

Alex enjoying the popcorn and the movie!Avery!

Madelyn started feeling worse again and ended up back in the bathroom. Chris went ahead and took her out. They sat outside and she fell asleep…poor girl!

Also while they were here we went to the zoo.

Here are the girls waiting to head into the zoo!

The Ft. Worth zoo is having a dinosaur event right now so there are life sized dinosaurs all around. At first the girls seemed to enjoy them.

Until we got too close…Love Maddie’s face in this one.

The girls did such a great job at the zoo that we even got them out of the stroller some to look at the animals.

We had a great time until we left…Kinley had a poopy diaper (realizing both of these stories involve a poopy diaper starting off a disaster) Anyways, I decided that the car was too hot so I thought I would change her in the stroller. I stuck the key in to start the car and I guess I pushed the lock button while I was doing that without knowing. I didn’t realize it until I changed the diaper. And after Kristi had left, luckily I had my phone and tried Chris and then my mom…Luckily my mom answered and headed to my house and then to the zoo.

We were so glad she was coming but had time to kill till she got there so we found a shady spot to wait and where I could watch the van.

I pulled out all the stops but it was nap time and the girls were DONE!!!

We were so glad to see my mom pull into the parking lot with the spare key!

Huttons, We were truly blessed to have you up here for a couple weeks. We got to know each other so well and made some new best friends. Madelyn and Kinley still talk about Alex and Avery everyday. They ask several times a day if they can see A and A and get upset everytime I say we can’t. If only they knew how to text like Kristi and I do…We love you all and can’t wait to play again!