Here are our pictures at 17 months old.  It is more impossible than ever to get us to sit still at the same time. And be looking in the same direction.  Without one or both of us hurting one another or ourselves.  Mom still tries…

We can be attracted by the light in the dryer, however.

We somehow keep getting cuter and our hair is getting longer!  Aurelia’s hair has grown a lot (you just can’t tell because she is so blonde).  Mom can almost put a clip in her hair!

We love getting books from the library!

We have been trying out our new plates from Omi.  So far, one night we kept them on our high chair tray, one night we dumped them off.  We’ll see how things go tonight…

This is us on our first snow day of the season… we were supposed to go to Omi’s but had to turn around because of the snow.  Don’t we look disappointed?

We love our baths!

Aside from this being a funny hair picture, Avery was a *little* frustrated that his bath pirate wouldn’t fit in his life raft…

Playing at Omi and Papa’s on a Saturday.

Aurelia loves to take selfies (aka looking at herself in the camera). Avery either runs away or tries to take the camera from mom.

All of that playing with stickers has him tuckered out!

Painting.  We both like to splash in the water just as much (if not more) than we like to paint.

One night we decided to make dinner for mommy and daddy.  We put cheerios and raisins in our pot, and Avery liked to “taste” it, as you can see.  He even makes a slurping sound as he does it.

Mommy has noticed that Aurelia is getting really into her artwork (notice the tongue sticking out in the middle picture- a sign of intense concentration).

Avery was more interested in watching Nemo…

Here are some videos to enjoy!  This time they are of Aurelia, because Avery loves to run away from the camera (or grab it, like we said!)

Fake laugh

Gallina craziness

Eyes

More eyes

We had an amazing second Halloween!  It was also mommy’s birthday, and we all had an extra special day.

What did mommy ask for?  Well, first of all, you should know that we adore Finding Nemo.  We watch it every day.  Secondly, we love to climb on things, and the only thing we really love to do more than that is to push the buttons on the dvd player.  We make the movie stop, and then say “uh-oh” relentlessly until mommy finally comes over and makes it work again… just in time for us to push more buttons!  We think this is pretty funny, but mommy feels differently.  Also, mommy is afraid that we will climb on this entertainment center and hurt ourselves.

This is the look Avery gives mommy after she says “don’t touch” for the thousandth time…

 

So to fix this problem, mommy asked for a big TV that we can put on the wall.  That way we can see the TV better, and we won’t have those pesky buttons to touch…and we won’t kill ourselves trying to climb up the TV stand!  Everybody wins!  Daddy is THE BEST.

After opening the present, we tried to take some pictures in our Stitch outfits.  Aurelia decided to have a momentary tantrum.  During many, many moments of the day, this is exactly what life looks like with two 16-month olds.

We only liked wearing our hat when we could look at ourselves in the mirror.

Then we went on a hike at our favorite spot on Spruce Mountain.  We drove down Mt. Vernon first and saw all the houses decorated for Halloween.

We came home and opened the door to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters (closing and opening the door is another one of our favorite activities now, so it was especially entertaining for us). We also got a special visit from cousin Morgan (aka Mary Poppins)!  She brought mommy macaroons from the Wild Iris!

 

We love her!

Avery somehow knew that those little purple foils held something that would be amazingly delicious to eat.  He kept trying to put the entire thing (wrapper and all) in his mouth, so mommy decided to let him have some chocolate (it is Halloween after all!)

Gooey fingers!

So. Good.

Straight into the bath after that!  You know it’s been a long, good day when we forget to take our socks off before we get in the bath

We had the PERFECT day!  Our family is the best!