Hello again!

We had our 15 month check up and shots!  It was a bit traumatic for us, but luckily we are very healthy!  Aurelia weighs in at 18.2 lbs, Avery at 20.5 lbs, and we are the same height!  It was more traumatic for mommy and daddy… to prove it, here we are hamming it up for the camera later the same day.

Aurelia is napping!!!  It must have been a tough morning, because this never happens.  Capturing this moment during the day is like seeing Bigfoot riding a unicorn.

Lately we’ve been very into art!  Here are some of our latest projects:

Making Omi and Papa a Happy Grandparent’s Day card! They deserve it.  They are the best grandparents ever, and always take good care of us.

 

Coloring with crayons at the table.

Playing with corn starch and water (which daddy found even more fascinating than we did).

Coloring with markers (mommy is so so so excited about these magical markers that don’t draw on ANYTHING except this magical paper!)

Admiring his work.

We also do bathtub art.

Painting.

We are also working on learning our colors.  Mommy colored our plain yogurt that we eat at breakfast so that we could mix (and eat) our colors.

We sometimes get to eat at the table now, although we like to drop things and say “uh-oh”.  And look how well we can eat corn on the cob now!

We still love to make our animal sounds. Here is what Avery thinks lizards say…

Watching Gallina Pintadita and saying uh-oh when it stops… and Aurelia snorts like a pig.

We got to see our buddy Nico again!  This time we really got to play with him, and it was so much fun.  Nico and Aurelia had a really good time together throwing things in the kitchen.

Little buddies!

We also celebrated daddy’s birthday!  He had to work, but we made him enchiladas and cheesecake when he got home 🙂

Aurelia finally got her first pair of sneakers.  So grown up!

There’s nothing better to play with than a good old box!  And a mommy behind you to push you around in it.

We like to go on walks in the evening to see the neighbors’ doggies.

Sillies.  We love to smile at the flash.

                              

Aaaaand here are our passport photos.  Walgreen’s fail.  We think mommy should try to take them at home.  These are too horrible. (But also funny).

And while we were waiting, mommy and Aurelia played with the camera.

And in bigger news, we are really trying to say more words now!  We “say” more please (but just the intonation, not the words), and we try to say “ball”, “bear”, “zebra” and “poo poo”.  🙂  We still prefer to say “uh-oh” for almost every occasion, however.

Here’s another entry just for fun, with some extra pictures about our summer that mom hasn’t had time to include in previous posts.

First of all we are helping mom and dad with their political campaign.  They hosted a meeting for Bernie Sanders supporters, so we were sporting our patriotic clothes.  We are the cutest babies for Bernie you ever did see!

Avery decided to take a patriotic nap, while mommy and Aurelia shopped for food for the meeting.  Mommy made home-made chocolate chip cookies, and we tried some and loved them.

We have had a lot of fun playing with our cousins and running around the park.  We love to see dogs, and Aurelia pants at them.  Morgan went to college and we miss her now!

We know a lot of animals.  Aurelia can tell you what a sheep, goat, cow, horse, elephant, pig, duck, chicken, and monkey say.  Her pig snort and her “neigh” are especially cute.  We will also tell you what a camel says (we spit). Avery does a great monkey noise and pants like a dog too.  And both of us do the kitty noise all the time!  We love Luna.  In fact, when mommy comes home from the store and opens the door, the first thing we say is “meow” because, I guess, we are hoping to see the kitty walking through the door, instead of boring mommy.

Here is Aurelia snorting like a pig for Omi.

Here we are, trying corn on the cob.  We liked it a lot, even though we mostly chewed on the ends. The second time we got the hang of it.

And here we are feeding ourselves yogurt! We are very generous and especially like feeding other people.

We went to the zoo with mommy and Omi and Papa!  We had fun with the splash pad, although we were a bit overwhelmed with the water shooting everywhere.  We really loved the sand pit.

Some of Aurelia’s signature funny faces.

Sweet girl, sleeping in her Auntie BFF onesie… cuz all our aunties are GREAT!!!  They spoil us rotten.  As a perfect example, here is us having fun in our tent that Aunt Patty sent to us.

We now have our own little book corner.  We love love love to read.

Avery in his box.

Daddy and Avery at our first dentist appointment.  We did great!  We each have eight chompers and Aurelia has her bottom molar.  The dentist was so nice, and we got balloons.  We even got to watch Finding Nemo playing on the ceiling!

Hiking babies, as usual.

Our other loves including watching Uptown Funk, Gallina Pintadita, and Aurelia loves her Penguino.

Avery’s shoes were getting tight, so he got his first pair of big people shoes.  Nice kicks!

We still love bath time, of course!

Some pictures of the fun we have with Omi and Papa.  Still love the owl.

Move over, Marilyn!

Here we are in the tube.  Practicing for London in February, when we will get to ride the REAL tube!  We are so excited!  Mar Rubia, here we come to see you!!!  February 4th to the 13th 🙂

We aren’t too sure about the sand.  Apparently even after the ninth time of trying it, sand still tastes bad.

We are exhibiting twin teamwork here.  Avery takes the cards and hands them to Aurelia, who “stacks” (throws) them behind her.

Here we are just being cute and silly.  Aurelia is drawn to the flash like a moth to a flame.

Aurelia hamming it up in her new dress from auntie Denise.

Nap time on mommy <3!

Silly boy 🙂

 

And finally, we are sporting Disney fashion for our 15 month birthday because Omi and Papa and mommy and daddy just told us we are going to spend Christmas day in Disneyland!!!  We are so excited!  We’ve been watching Disney movies to prepare.  We can already thump our hands on the ground when we see a picture of Thumper.  It will be crowded, but we have the chance to relax with Omi and Papa on the beach for a few days after the Disney craze 🙂