Memorial Day Picnic

On this video, you can hear Matty asking for a picnic. This is what we promised him: dinner out in the deck and some play time.

We had hotdogs and hamburgers and the twins had veggies and hotdog.

This is after dinner. The poor little ones were suffering from runny nose and cough. You can tell from Jojo's eyes (in the back) that she wasn't felling well.

Big brother shows his "water squirts".

The fight is ON!

lost in translation

This is from Memorial Day. It is time to get inside after our dinner, but Matty is just not ready so he negotiates for more playing time.

my precious little helper

I had an absolutely great Memorial Day. I woke up with my little man wanting to mop the floor for me. Who was I to argue? And it just so happened that the day prior, Daddy and I just discussed how we needed to let Matty do what he wanted to as long as he wasn't hurting anyone. Well, this was the day to put the plan into action.

He mopped to his hearts content until he couldn't any longer.... and then he mopped again.

my little veggie eaters

I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, but been so busy. This was lunch a couple of weeks ago. On the menu: steamed brocolli and carrots with Gerber toddler meatsticks. Did they like them? Oh you betcha, they did.

Katie didn't slow down until her tray was empty. Jojo slowed down and got distracted halfway through.

Katie loves her brocolli!

Katie

What can I say, Jojo is a comic in front of the camera!

Aaah. All done! Notice the bits of meat stick on her eyelashes.

Katie's first bloody lip

I was spending time with the girls on the floor just having a great time. Katie now pulls up to full standing on her own and she enjoys trying to reach whatever she could get her hands on. Jojo is also pulling up, but she is not a pro at it yet.

Jojo was standing up holding on to the couch, and Katie was standing holding on to a wooden chair. Both their backs were against mine, leaning on me, using me to balance. But shortly after, Katie came tumbling back. I picked her up and saw blood in her mouth. She was crying, my sleeve was covered with blood, Jojo was crying because I had left her. It was insane!

When I finally got Katie's bleeding to stop, I saw that the frenelum (the connective tissue in the middle of the upper front teeth that connects the gum to the upper lip) was torn. I wasn't too terribly worried about it, but I thought I should call the pediatrician anyway. I don't want Katie to end up with a lisp or something worse because of it! The nurse took an hour to call me back and said this had just happened to her 3 year old son and everything should just be fine. I proceeded to describe the length of the cut and that I thought it looked deep. She then asked me if I thought she needed stitches. Um. Yeah, Ok. I'm not a doctor! Instead of answering, I kept on describing the cut. She told me to go ahead and bring Katie in.

The doctor took all of 1 minute to look at Katie's gum and said she'll be alright and sent us home.

Grrrr!! I knew that Katie would be OK, but I wasn't about to ignore a health professional. I just wanted to hear the nurse say "yeah, nothing to worry about". But in the middle of telling me that, she decided to call us in!

Interestingly enough, big brother's first bloody episode was 1 week before his 1st birthday. The twins are going to be a year old in 2 weeks.

and so it begins...

The girls have started to want and take each other's toys. Though Jojo is crying in this video, don't feel sorry for her because she can handle herself. Sometimes they play intercept all over the living room floor trying to what the other has.

The Twin Test Answers

Okay so here is the answer to the quiz..

A&C are both Jordan.
B is Katelyn.

It is quite a bit harder to tell them apart when it is just the eyes rather than looking at facial expressions.

-Mr.Dad