Some more steps!!!

Saturday, June 13th Drake took his first steps (2)!!! It was very exciting. It was especially exciting for me since he was walking to me. Kera walked to daddy for the first time. Drake walked to me :). One of his legs is weaker than the other, but he is getting much much better! I am so very proud of the both of them. Kera walks everywhere now. No more crawling for her. She practically runs. She turns corners, and everything. It's very cute. Drake is standing up more and more now (still not by himself, but he is starting to grab up on things lower and lower to the ground - so he has a longer way to go). They both babble constantly. Kera says Mama, Dada, daddy. Drake says Dada. No mama yet. Sunday night Kera started doing peek a boo with her hands in front of her eyes! So precious!!! Kera knows how to get on her 4 wheeler by herself. They are growing so incredibly fast. I think once our house is either sold (yes we have our house on the market until Sept 1st) or not sold... starting September 1st, I am going to try to potty train Kera. I doubt she is ready, but I am going to take her to the bathroom with me, now that she is walking I think it would be the best time. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully she takes to it like a champ. I would like to potty train them seperately.

They played with their Sand/Water table we got them for their birthday for the first time today. I think over all they liked it a lot. Pics to come soon! Just wanted to give a quick update!

Walking all over...

I am sorry, I have been a procrastinator with pictures, and this blog. I'll try to get better.

It is official, I have one walker on my hands! Kera hardly crawls if at all! She is all over the place. Walking along, playing with toys, tripping over her pants. It doesn't matter if her pants are down to her knees, she continues to walk. Even if that means tripping every five seconds. It's so adorable!

They have both been very lovey lately. It's sweet! Kera will be sitting in my lap, and Drake will craw as fast as he can to me, and push her out of the way, and put his head on my shoulder or in my lap and go "awwwwwwwwwwww". I guess he hears that a lot when he gives me loves. It's going to be difficult trying to teach them how to share. Drake always takes the toys that Kera has away from her! The only thing they know how to share, are cups, and that is something I don't want them to share. Sometimes they are very sweet together. Kera will walk to the play room door, and she looks for Drake and says something in her language. Drake follows, and then they go play in the play room together! Super cute.

This weekend will be their first official overnight vacation, in a hotel. We are going to go to Corpus Christi. Saturday morning, and stay until Sunday afternoon. It should be fun! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures :).

This week has been incredibly busy. Last week we decided that we wanted to put our house up on the market, to move to a better school district. Now we want to build a new house (once our house sells), while we live in an apartment for 6 months. We've been scraping wall paper down for the past week! There is not one inch of wall paper left in this house! YAY!!!!! Tomorrow Ken is going to come over and help Dane paint the outside of our house a beige color, then he will texture the guest bathroom and dining room. Saturday we are leaving for Corpus. Sunday we are coming home, and we are going to start cleaning and organizing the whole house. Continuing with that on Monday as well. On Monday we are also going to prime and paint the guest bathroom and bedroom. Then Tuesday the realator is meeting with us to put our house on the market. I hope it goes fast. I want to get into a new house before the kids second birthday. So we'll see.

Alright, Sunday I'll write another blog, and post pictures from the beach!

Happy Birthday and One Day!!

Wow, I can not believe that I fell asleep last night without writing a blog wishing my babies a Happy Birthday!! I can't believe their first birthday and their first birthday party has come and gone! It went by so quickly.

Yesterday on their Birthday we gave them a new Breakfast. We gave them french toast, powdered sugar, and syrup (not much of the later two). They devoured it. We had their portraits taken at Picture Innovations, we finally used that gift card that Dane's lovely co-workers got us for our Baby shower present! We have been saving it all this time to use it for their one year old pics! Kera hated having her pictures taken in a studio :(. That is probably our fault for never going to one, except once when they were 4 months old. Drake was really scared at first also, but he warmed up after a little bit. We did get great shots of them, so it all turned out ok. I was hoping for a little more of them together, but all in all I am very pleased with the amount of pictures we got and the poses. We then came home, and baked... and baked.... and baked.... and baked... and baked... Ok I could go on for a couple of hours, with these "and baked.." statements, but you get my drift. I was baking all day :). Then my wonderful Sister in Law A came over to help me put the finishing touches on my cupcake pop favors for the kids party today. :) Thank you A so much, that was such a great help. Without you I probably couldn't have gone to bed at 1am, I probably would have still been up at 4am dipping those cakes! So thank you.

I was originally going to go to the party hall at 7am and start frosting the smash cakes and the cupcakes. However my lovely husband told me to wait on him. So Grandpa and DeDe came to watch the kids at 8:30, while Dane and I went to the party hall... it took some time to unload the van. Then I had to help Dane unload all the tables. Then I started getting the cupcake stuff out and on the move. I was freaking out, I had like 30 mins to ice all of the cupcakes and the smash cakes!! I was a bit nervous. Thank God for my Mom and Ned who came and helped. My sister also came and helped! So everything was done in the nick of time. Dane ran home to get the kids and to get my outfit, and right as the first guest was showing up, Dane got me my outfit. Thank goodness :D. We thought we were going to have a Pizza dilema, but everything turned out perfect. Sure I got WAY more food than what was needed, but some people got some free dinner for the night :). The party was great!! Kera officially does NOT like cake. My weird child I know. She had it two days in a row, both times she didn't like it. Drake was not a fan yesterday of the cake, but today was a different story. He was chowin' down. They also got Pizza for the very first time today, TWICE actuallly... at the party, and then again for dinner. They LOVE it!!

They love all their new toys! They ate their afternoon snack on their picnic table from Grandpa &DeDe. They LOVE their Activity block that D & A got them! Drake especially LOVES the ATV Grandma & PeePaw got him, and Kera loves hers as well! They love all their new toys, seriously, they haven't played with any of their old toys so far. They go to the new ones! Thank you everyone who came, and who made our memory of Drake and Kera's first birthday a special one! Love you all.

Bye Bye Bottles, Hello Sippy Cups!

I had been apprehensive about the whole switch to the sippy cup for some reason. After this topic was brought up on a forum, I told Dane that I would like to do the transition this weekend! We did, and now it has been two days without bottles. They are doing VERY well! It has been such a smooth transition, and I am so happy. I really shouldn't of had any doubts. My children are amazing :). They do prefer straw sippy cups to regular spout sippy cups, but that is ok, because I heard that the straw sippy cups work their talking muscles. It must, because Drake has started to babble now. It is too sweet. He has such a cute little voice!

Today when we got home from getting their party supplies, and going grocery shopping for our dredded 10 day diet :(, Drake and Kera were in the living room. Kera picked up an empty bowl, and put it to her face, and played peek a boo with Drake. They were both giggling so hard! It was the sweetest thing. I love when they play with eachother, and show love to eachother.

Kera also was practicing her gymnastic moves today. She was on the hard surface by our front door, and she stood up by herself, and she reached down for her cup. She kept reaching and reaching, as her feet seperated more and more and more, and she finally did the splits! It was pretty funny!

Well less than two weeks until their first birthday, and less than two weeks until their first birthday party! I am not sure what to expect, I should of put RSVP on the invites. We invited 80 people, but I am pretty sure not all of them are going to come, but I need to know who is not going to come, or who is, so I can get a approximet guest list. I am not that great trying to put together a party :(. Hopefully everything will go smoothly.

First steps!!

Tonight as I was watching Dancing with the Stars in the bedroom, Dane yelled out "Mama come here quick!". I got up, and went as fast as I could out of our bedroom and down the hall. He told me Kera too a step! So we stood her back up, and sure enough she took two steps to daddy! That was the sweetest thing ever. Tonight after there bath, I hope to capture it on video! Pretty soon, I'll have a walker on my hands. Oh no! :D

Consultation appointment.

Drake had his consultation appointment, his second one mind you, for his circumcision. Basically the Urologist said "There is no medical reason to perform a circumcision, his foreskin pulls back nicely. If you go through with a circumcision, it is because the two of you wanted to do it." So it definitely made Dane and I think. There are pros and cons to each side of the debate. Over all we decided to do it. Now if something happens to my baby boy during surgery, or complications after, I will definitely never be able to forgive my self. I don't even want to think of the ifs but they are there. I don't want to hand my baby boy off to a complete stranger, and then have him sedated. That is so scary to me. I wish I could be in the room with him to hold his little hand, and rub his hair. I just can't bare the thought of something happening to my little man. We are doing a cosmetic procedure, is it really worth all the risks? I am not sure really. Overall I think we are going to do it and get it over with while he is young. It is such a tough decision. I think we will be scheduling it for July. That way it will be after their birthday and our Corpus Christi trip, and after 4th of July, and before the arrival of Drake and Kera's cousin Avery Kate.

I hope Avery and Kera will be very close growing up. It would be so cute to see the two of them playing Barbie's, dolls, etc. together. I can't wait until she makes her debut. Well I can, but you know what I mean. I am happy that D and A found out the gender today. :)

Oh, Drake and Kera went to visit the Easter bunny today as well. Drake LOVED the Easter bunny. He was just hamming it up. Kera on the other hand, I don't think she was too amused. She had a look on her face like 'take my picture already so I can get off of this bunnys lap'.

Drake and Kera also got their first pair of 'real' walking shoes today. We went to stride rite and got them their first pair of shoes. Crazy expensive, but they hardly even notice they are there. Any other shoe you put on them, well Drake rather, he will just sit down, and refuse to stand up. These are very light, flexible, shoes. I think he loves them. He stands better in them in my opinion, as well as Kera. I hope they fit for a while!!! If not, they are going in a box for our next kid. Well even if they do fit for a while, that is where they are going!

A break down!!

So this afternoon when Dane got home from work we were feeding the babies. He mentioned Easter which seems so far off, but he said it was just this upcoming weekend! Then I looked at the babies and started to cry. He asked me what was wrong, and I said, next weekend can't be Easter, that means only two more weeks our babies will be one! It's really making me emotional. It feels like just a couple of months ago I gave birth to these two beautiful precious little ones, and now they are not going to be my little cuddly babies (they've been out of that stage for a while). Rather they are going to be my toddlers, running away from mommy! I don't want them to turn one yet. I am not ready. I want them to stay babies. I want them to be my babies, not forever, but for longer than two weeks. :( They are classified as toddlers when they turn 12 months old. I am not ready for toddlers. I want my babies back... I just want them to be small, and start all over again. I know this is life, but this year has went by way too incredibly fast! Dane started to tear up, and he told me not to cry, and I said but they are going to be one in a few SHORT weeks, and then they'll be 5, and then 10, and then 20, and then 30 before we know it! Life just goes by way too quickly when you have these special humans in your life. When you want to savior anything, rather it be a vacation, or a little baby... it all goes by in a flash of a second! :(