One month away from our first birthday! It’s a nearly impossible task to get two 11-month-olds to sit still, which makes our photo shoots hilarious 🙂

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We are loving our books more and more.  We are also getting into everything!  We know exactly which cupboard holds our food!

We are cutting even more teeth, and starting to understand a lot more words (like fan, kitty, Luna, light, mommy, daddy, sister, brother, cookie…)

For Mother’s Day we made Omi a card.  It was our first time painting!  It was homemade paint so it was edible, which is good, because you can see what happens when you tell Aurelia “Not in your mouth”.

Avery really got into it, and he seemed to know it wasn’t for eating, but was for the paper.

The finished products.  Avery’s is on the left, Aurelia’s on the right.  Any takers on interpretations, from a Modern Art perspective?

Look who is standing all by herself!  She loves to practice standing up!

It’s rare when we pass out on a bed in the middle of the day, so mommy always makes sure to take a picture to remember that it did actually happen.

We had a great mother’s day!  We spoiled mommy with a dustbuster 😉

And then a potluck/campfire with family at the lake.  Aurelia made fast friends with Brook.

The weather is getting nice and so is our backyard!  Mom and dad have been working hard on pulling weeds and planting flowers, and they even gave us a fun swing!

We had so much fun meeting cousin Shannon and Brook!  We had dinner with them, and Aurelia even held her own spoon!

One more month to go until we have made our first trip around the sun!

We are going on 11 months old and this month has been so full of new things.  We are getting bigger personalities, for sure!  Avery can be very sweet and cuddly, and Aurelia is always on the go- she’s also a tough girl!  She falls and gets right back up again- no crying!

Mommy lets us do sensory play days.  The examples here are tupperware with oatmeal, and plastic balls in a pool.  The oatmeal was concerning to Aurelia at first, but then she started having fun with it.

We are interacting a lot with each other.  Most of the time we love each other, and it is sooo cute when we hold hands and smile at each other!  Sometimes, though, we annoy one another.  Especially when Avery climbs over Aurelia… or pinches her ear… or tries to stick his finger in her eyes… or takes her toy… or touches her.  But really, we LOVE to play together!

 

Mom is having a lot of fun getting creative with our food.  We are experimenting with new things, and we want to eat a wide variety of foods and flavors so that we are open-minded eaters!  Some menu examples are tofu, eggs, raspberries and pears.  We liked them all (we love fruit). We also ate quinoa and avocado, which we also loved.

We really like the homemade sweet potato fries!  The rice is more fun to play with than eat- it’s a little hard to grab those tiny grains!

We adored our baked beans!  Avery is a good eater.  Aurelia likes sweets like her mom.  She throws the veggies on the floor

Aurelia did like the cubed butternut squash.

Here we are eating tzatziki with spoons like big kids!

Here are some pictures of the cuteness that occurs when we fall asleep in the car 🙂

We are such happy babies! (You can detect Avery’s ongoing obsession with the bunnies…)

Aurelia is such a nut- she loves to hold things in her mouth like a wild animal.  Sweet, savage baby.

 

Avery is such a handsome man.  He is so easy-going with his sister.  He is so good at figuring out his stacking toys and his blocks.

 

Aurelia is so smart and so pretty – she knows what she wants and is good at figuring things out.  She’s a mommy’s girl right now.

Aurelia likes to touch the bunnies on the wall.  Of course they both love bunnies!

We absolutely love to read!  We love looking at books and listening to stories. Mom and Dad took us to the bookstore to read, and bought us a book about a kitty.

In one of our favorite books, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear”, there is a page full of animals at the back.  If you ask us “Where’s the kitty?” we will point right to it!  We are genius babies.

We can also share our food now- we love sharing!

We are very lucky to be so loved and spoiled by auntie Denise and cousins Morgan and Mackenzie!

We met Denise and Brent downtown for the big bike race!  We loved watching the pros ride soooo fast down those hills!  It was chilly out but we had lots of fun!

We have also started brushing our teeth every day.  We really like our toothbrushes.  A lot.

Shopping with mom and dad is so fun!

   

Can you believe we’ll be 11 months old next week?

We are already getting prepared for our 1st birthday party!!!  Invitations have been sent, party decorations ordered, and we can’t wait to celebrate!