We have officially completed one entire year of life!  We are so much fun and we bring happiness wherever we go!

Here are some peeks and what we’ve been up to leading up to the big day!

We played in the park with Mommy, and listened to some men play the banjos (Aurelia was clapping for them.  I guess she likes banjo music).

Playing in our bedroom.  We like a change of scenery now and then.

This face is what greets Mommy when she comes in the door.  Precious.

Beautiful girl.  It’s rare to catch her napping.

   

If you are thinking about having kids, don’t even buy toys.  Seriously.  It’s a waste of money. They prefer trash, toilet paper, recycling, dishes, outlets, cords, your cell phone… anything that is not a toy.

Having fun at Omi and Papa’s!  We like to stare out the window at this creepy fake owl.

Sometimes you just play too hard…

 

First time eating frozen yogurt.  We love it!

Second time eating frozen yogurt- we love it even more!

We are the expert hikers now!

After hiking we refresh ourselves with our sippy cups.

Playing at home… and eating blackberries (the results are a bit disturbing…)

Opening our fun package from cousin Anna the night before our party!  Almost time to celebrate!

Lots of wonderful friends came to the party!  Ricardo came up early to meet us for the very first time!  (We love Ricardo).

Aurelia couldn’t stop staring at Ricardo.  And of course Avery is a ladies man 😉

 

Finally- party time!

    

Ready to party!

We love our new chairs!  Aurelia feels like a boss in hers!

She thought she might just take over Avery’s chair, too.

We got to play with our buddies- lots of cuteness going on here! Jacob even came in his bowtie!  Aurelia really wanted to play with Owen. Owen and his big sister Olivia are just too adorable!  And everyone played nicely 🙂

 

Guess which one of us passed out from all the fun?

Survived the first year- and everyone is alive!

Now for the cake!  We knew just what to do!

The next day we went to a photo shoot.  Here is a preview- more to come soon!

Here are some pictures from our actual birthday.  We got to spend the day with mom and dad.

We were a little cranky but we are allowed to be on our birthday!  (You see what happens when Avery takes something from Aurelia- haha!)

 

At the Wild Iris downtown.

We also went to the bookstore to pick out some new books. Aurelia picked out the book about kitties.  Avery got Good Dog Carl.  Then we went for a stroll in the mall.

Mom and dad took us to share some gelato.  You might not be able to tell her but we are making the sign for “more”.

And here are some pictures of us playing with our new toys!

Now that we are one, we are doing some new things.  We like to point at things and make sounds like “da” or “dum” (maybe “that!”because mommy and daddy always say “what’s that?”) and Aurelia clicks her tongue.  Avery is very good at stacking things and he can take a block down from a tower very delicately.  Aurelia will throw anything in her path out of her way.

We each have eight teeth!  Our favorite foods are fruits.  We don’t like veggies too much but we do like green beans. Bananas and raspberry and kiwi are some of our favorites.  And we love watermelon!  Sweet potato fries are another hit. Aurelia really likes peanut butter.  If you give her a waffle with peanut butter she will suck off the peanut butter.  When we don’t like a particular food we will let you know by promptly throwing it on the floor.  But then sometimes we will eat it off of the floor when you put us down, so you never can tell.

We are almost walking.  We have taken a few cautious steps and are getting more confident.  Aurelia now likes to get on her hands and knees and look around with her head upside down.

We hate it when you change our diapers.  Even if they really, really need to be changed.  Mom and dad don’t understand why, even though we scream very loudly to try and express our disapproval.

We also fight with each other, even though we love each other.  Sometimes we bite. Or hit.  But we must love each other very much because we cannot stay away from one another!  Where one goes, the other goes!

We love the bunnies.  We hang out at their cage occasionally.  And miraculously the bunnies are not bothered by us at all.  They even let us reach our little hands in the cage and touch them.  But they run from daddy, who gives them hay and water…

We can both sign for “more” and “all done”.  Aurelia says “nana” for banana and made the sign for more while saying “nana”, so it’s pretty clear what she wants!  Avery will clap if you say “good job”.  We both know the words “light” “kitty” “banana” “cookie” “mama” “daddy” “duck” and “fan”.  We both love to turn light switches off and on, especially Avery.  We give high fives. We think it is hilarious to breath really fast in and out of our nose.  We think it is funny if you do it too.  We like to imitate you.  Mommy raises her arms and drops them and sighs, and we like to do it with her.

We love doing laundry.  When daddy puts it in a pile on the floor to fold, we dive in and out and crawl all around. We recently started chasing balls and toys around, like a kind of baby soccer.

We also like the game “I’m gonna get you!” We laugh before you even touch us.

We love the bath tub.  Avery likes to go back and forth and back and forth from one end of the tub to the other.

In a nutshell, we just keep getting better and better.  We make life so much fun for mommy and daddy!  It is never a dull moment with us, but mom and dad wouldn’t have it any other way 😉  We know they love us SO MUCH!!!