we love triangles

We love triangles:
the instrument, not the shape

The following videos are of each of the girls doing their version of the ABC song while the other plays the triangle. 

Here's Bell's:

And Bean:

I was going to add two more with the girls each making up their own song., but blogger is taking forever to upload them, so I'll have to do it another time.
Bell's song was something about Cogan and two birds in the window.
Bean's 1st song was something about her name, her sister and their mommy named, Nikki.
Bean's 2nd song was about crawling into bed w/ daddy and then "we smack it". (i think she just wanted to hit the couch, so she worked it into the song)

**potty training update**
only three accidents total today! that's less than half of what we had yesterday. i consider that good progress. hopefully it goes well again tomorrow!

Just Trust Me

"Don't bite my finger, just trust me." - Bell to Bean as she was feeding her.


mommy, bailey needs some of her ???? - Bell
what? - Me
Bailey needs some of her ???? - Bell
Bailey needs what? - Me
her ???? - Bell
her what? - Me

a pause

her medicine. - Bell
OH! Her pills? - Me
yeah - Bell (very relieved)

I thought that was pretty smart. She found a different word to use so I would understand.


Bell

We started potty training today. Luckily, Grandma is here to help. This morning was a little rough. I had to change pants twice, grandma once, and the girls about 4 times each. (yes, they were on our laps...we're pretty good at the whole pee pee in the potty thing ourselves) Yesterday afternoon and this afternoon went really well, so tomorrow is a new day.

hoping for the best

Before falling asleep at nap time and tonight we heard this over and over from Bell:

"say MOMMY! if you have pee pee, mommy will take you. okaaaay? you put pee pee in the potty. Okaaaaay?" I guess that's a good sign.



Bean's Explanation

"I didn't mean to go upstairs. I was pretending." - Bean (while being escorted down the stairs)

Bean

song writing - bean style

So, here are some lyrics created and sung by my Bean. She was on the potty while creating. ( it's true, some people do their best work there)
And yes, I ran and got a pen while she was on the potty singing, in order to make sure to capture every word of her fabulous songs, which were sung with intense emotion.

"Oh my goodness
oh baby
what do
what do"

that was song number one and number two follows:

"my baby is
clappin
clappin
oh boom"

She may have a future as a songwriter. If so, i'll make sure to keep this so I can read it on her VH1 "Behind the Music" special.

Side note, "we" made cookies this morning. The pictures make it look like a great time. Let me assure you, while it started off happy enough, it ended with 2 - almost 3 - of us in tears. (mostly because the girls kept getting kicked out of the kitchen for throwing flour, hitting each other, or trying to open the oven.) YIKES, it'll be awhile before i attempt that again!

Bell

Bean with flour on her nose.

Bean playing in the flour...again

Bell - yay the cookies are all done! (can you tell she's been crying? 1/2 because she had to leave the kitchen a few minutes before for hitting her sister and 1/2 because she couldn't have a cookie right that second. oh boy :( )

Way Back Wednesday

Playing along with Cheryl at www.twinfatuation.blogspot.com 
Way-Back-Wednesday is reserved for special pictures from, well, way-back-when. :)

A flash back from October 2008. The girls on their first "walk"

Bell

Bean

 

They were just over 2 months old and were finally both home from the NIC-U.:)

"nap" time

i didn't give up though - they are both sleeping now

Happy 5th Birthday Bailey

I didn't want the day to go by without acknowledging Bailey's special day.

She is the sweetest and we love her very much!

This was taken just a few days ago... she was fast asleep.

The majority of my pictures of Bailey are some version of this one.
lots of love between these two

I think this was at Christmas a couple of years ago.



The girls first day home together.
Bailey's life has never been the same and although she takes a backseat to those girls, we love her dearly!

You Come Down!

Can you tell what our current favorite Bible story is?

In case you missed it, the jist of this video is "Zacchaeus, you come down!!!!"

Bell is on the left and Bean on the right.

Oktoberfest 2010

A huge thank you to St. Paul, who hosted the Oktoberfest and are donating the proceeds to the trust fund for the girls. St. John canceled their Oktoberfest so that they could be there to support us as well. What a blessing. What a wonderful Lutheran family we have. God has truly blessed our family and Darin certainly made an impression on this world and continues to do so.
We had a wonderful time, but I didn't take my camera. Here are a few pictures of the girls from last night before we left.

Bean on the left and Bell on the right:

Thanks to Grandma Susie for these adorable outfits! They loved the purses!

Pumpkin Farm 2010

We had a wonderful morning out at the pumpkin farm! The girls enjoyed being outside and seeing the animals. I enjoyed time with friends.
Here are a few pictures. (I took about 100, but here a are a few)

Hooray for Dora!

Bean is saying to Bell, "does she really expect us to believe this is elmo?"

thanks for all your help, kim

hey look, i made it onto my own blog!

holy pumpkins, batman!

 Favorite quote:
me: So girls, what did you do today at the pumpkin farm (asked in the car as we're pulling out of the parking lot of the pumpkin farm)
Both girls: we drink JUICE!!
 they got little juice boxes of "undiluted juice"... they're so deprived... the juice over-shadowed the entire experience. lol. next time when i want to give them a memorable experience, we'll just hang out in the back yard and drink juice. :)

Bell

Bean

my girls were eaten by a two-tooth pumpkin. they enjoyed this as much as anything. they just kept running in and out.

yep, camels... at a pumpkin farm. who knew?

Anyone know about the whole camels and number of humps thing? One of the camels had two humps and the others had one. I remembering hearing something significant about the number of humps a camel has, but I don't remember what it is.


Another post about the wonderful Oktoberfest at St.Paul will be coming shortly. Maybe tomorrow.