Ski Weekend

I was able to get Auntie Geri's camera chip a few months back and decided it's probably a good idea to get these pictures posted from our ski weekend in March!

We had such a fun weekend with Geri and Stacie! Hope we get a repeat this year :)
Little cute patoots at the top of Keystone!
The 3 amigos Papa, James and Stacie were all in it to win it, skiing like crazy!

All the ladies so excited to Ski the Beav!

Geri and Stacie at the top of the Super-G run

Of course Geri had their hair in rollers when she babysat!

We managed to hit Keystone twice, Breckenridge and Vail... what a weekend!

I'm going to back-date this post to March since that's when our trip was :) Nevermind that it's September now!

Play Play Play

Yes, they are girlie girls and playing dress up is their hands down favorite thing to do! They will dress up in anything, their clothes, our clothes, blankets, Sophie came out the other day wearing a pair of James shorts like a dress with one leg on and the other leg hanging off the side :) Here are some of our favorite outfits.... Bella striking a pose!

Little ballerinas! They already love to dance and when we were watching the ice-skating during the olympics they both started spinning in circles :)

They just learned to hold hands so now they love to hold hands and giggle everywhere they go, they crack up the whole time :) So funny to watch with the giggling and the clacking of their high heel shoes!

Time for an outfit change

Bella

Sophie

Bella putting together her animal puzzle, she sings "e-i-e-i-o" every time she puts a piece in place

Sophie taking a break to sit in her dump truck

They finally learned that reading is fun! For a really long time it was almost impossible to read them a book because they wouldn't sit still and whoever wasn't interested would keep trying to grab the book - but now they love to sit and be read to or just look at the pictures and talk to themselves!

Their favorite book by FAR is "If you give a pig a party" they want to read it all day! The first time I read it to them I laughed at a couple of the pictures so now they turn to those pages and fake laugh :)

Picking out a book to read. They are very good at taking all of the books out all the time and we are working with them to learn to put them back!

Sophie looking at herself in the mirror

Bella giving her dolly a ride in the stroller

Our living room on a typical day - trashed beyond recognition!

Valentines Day

Valentines day was lots of fun this year with our little sweethearts! Dada gave them both a little box of chocolates and a card, then we all went to their first Monster Jam! We were lucky enough to sit in a suite which made their first time at the Pepsi Center so easy :) They were able to walk around and play with Papa, Uncle Bradley, their cousin Joseph and friends Adam and Mike and of course eat popcorn! At first they were scared of the big monster trucks but after awhile they were having a blast. They saw Monster Mutt, a truck that looks like a dog with big ears and a tail and even a tongue that sticks out, Bella was cracking up and clapping along when he came out to that song "Who let the dogs out?!" After Monster Jam we went home and made and decorated sugar cookies..








They learned the word "cookie" that day and now they say it constantly - cookie cookie cookie - very cute! They also learned about chocolate but they say "caca" instead :)

First Dance Class

The girls just finished their first dance class last week at the Garrison Street Sports Center. The class was called Movin with Music for Tots and was one night a week for 1/2 hour for 8 weeks. At first they wouldn't even let us set them down on the floor they were so scared! But after 2 classes they got down and started to run and play with the other little ones. They learned songs like Wheels on the bus, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes and the Hokey Pokey and got to shake pom poms to "shake their sillies out" and did lots of tumbling, balance beams and running in circles :) We enjoyed the class so much we signed them up to do it again after a month off...

Here is Isabella getting ready for the last class
Sophie doing the balance beam all by herself!

Bella doing the balance beam all by herself, the teacher said she is the youngest one she's ever seen to pick it up as quick as she did, maybe she will be a gymnast someday!

Our little hanging monkeys!

Their favorite part of class is the obstacle course

Sophie having fun running around on the gym mats

At the end of class they all sit on the edge and get their hands stamped and a sticker!