We are now half way through our second year!  Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Fingerpainting with mom and dad!

Mom tried to mix in some veggies with Avery’s beans.  Looks like he noticed…

Avery’s first real hair cut!  Mom and dad were the barbers.  It took quite a bit of time, and there was a lot of writhing and wiggling and squirming, and mommy was afraid he would be bald by the end of it, but it turned out to be pretty cute!  He was not happy about getting pictures taken after the torture, however.

 

We had some nice warm days so we could go for walks with mommy!  We always look for doggies.  We also like to say “beep beep” when we see the cars, and we like riding over the crunchy leaves on the ground.  We always help mommy take the mail in, too.

One of daddy’s clients gave us a home made quilt!  We love the colors and patterns, as you can see.

We love to cook in the kitchen!

This is what happens when you play too hard…

Mommy made us a felt board.  We like it a lot, especially our fish that look like Nemo characters.  Aurelia’s favorite seems to be the red bear 🙂

Mom loves to take pictures of us when we pass out during the day.

We helped mommy get ready for Thanksgiving!

 

Avery “helped” by “cooking” with the flour while mommy baked cookies, and Aurelia helped by eating cheerios and looking cute.

We still love our art time!

We had so much fun at Omi and Papa’s for Thanksgiving!

We had yummy lasagna and we loved the fruit tart for dessert~

More cute ones from Thanksgiving

We are looking so grown up!

And Aurelia’s hair is even getting long enough for bows!!!  And we are trying out these new sippy cups.

More mild weather for playing outside.

And that results in more sleepy pictures.

Daddy got a new car!  We are so happy for him and we all love the car!

 

 

 

Daddy had to work one Saturday, so mommy took us to see the Christmas lights.  Since we are leaving we aren’t decorating this year, but we really enjoyed all of the lights.  We especially liked the giant inflatable dog they had.  Avery also liked the train in the village.

 

Weekend shenanigans with mom and dad.

Now we are old enough to eat apples like big people!

Thank you Omi and Papa for our new winter coats!  Now we can hike with mom and dad and we are toasty warm.

One more 🙂

Mommy gives us piano lessons sometimes.

We have started to really enjoy taking, and looking at, pictures of ourselves.

It’s a classic shot that every mom and dad love!

Living like royalty at Omi and Papa’s.

And we are finally 18 months!

Here are some videos of us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19MRn9NGec

New things: Avery is obsessed with vacuums!  He also likes to figure out how things work, and he likes to do it by himself!  Aurelia has started saying more words, like “turtle” and she tries to say “Love you” which comes out “aooo”.  We can say “up” and “apple” too.  If you ask Aurelia “How old are you?” she holds up one finger and says “Uno!”

We are very excited about the potty, and we love the potty book we got from the library.  We still love Nemo but will also watch Ratatouille, and we are getting excited about our Disneyland Christmas!  Mommy also caught us playing/communicating with each other in the pack and play at night.  Aurelia will point to something and Avery will laugh, and vice versa. 🙂