Horses

I'm sitting in my office right now, at 9:45 pm, and Reese opens the door of her bedroom and screams out "Mommy, where are my horsies? In the family room? In my backpack? Yeah". Translation: My horses are in my backpack in the family room. Go get them for me or I'll stand in the doorway and keep yelling.

I put her & Ry to bed almost an hour ago and thought they were asleep. Little did I know that she's been playing with her toys in the dark while Ry is passed out under a pile of blankets. She is my little Energizer bunny.

Accessories

We ventured out today for a short outing, but R&R would not leave the house until they had ALL their accessories on. This included hats, sunglasses, Dora backpacks filled w/ animals, and a necklace for Reese. Just when I thought we had everything we needed and were on our way out the door, they would find another "must have" item to wear.


Reese

Ryan & Reese

Baby, Mommy--Mommy, Baby

Everything from R&R's perspective is Baby & Mommy or Baby & Daddy. If there are 2 of any object, then one is the mommy and one is the baby. The other day I had a travel size baby powder and Ryan found the larger powder bottle. She said "here's the baby powder, and here's the daddy powder". So now it's baby powder and daddy powder. Today the obsession was a mommy & baby dog figurine that my mom had at her house. They were breakable, but the girls were dying to play with them. They were crying and saying "I want the mommy doggy, I want the baby doggy". Ry is also crazy about lining her babies up perfectly on the couch or the floor and she loves carrying them around in the baby car seat so she can "keep them safe". She's such a good little mommy!

Kat Von D called...

 

and she wants her tattoo artist back.  Ryan sleeved herself with markers and wrote all over her belly.  Of course, our kids are always naked, so it's not a surprise she decided to draw all over her skin.

 

BTW, our house looks like a BOMB went off.  I'm trying to show you in these pictures, but they don't do the mess justice.  It's hilarious!  I'm going to be up the rest of the night cleaning up.  At least it was a no-nap day, so bedtime is rapidly approaching :)

 

We're going to the zoo

The lions were sleeping as you can see and the girls were screaming out, "WAKE UP LIONS, WAKE UP!!" I'm sure that's exactly what they wanted to hear--three toddlers yelling at them through the fence. Every time we go to this lion exhibit I think about Ryan losing her little Adidas shoe when she was 16 mos. old and how I was begging the zoo staff to try to retrieve it. No such luck-the lion thought it was a tasty snack. We're much more careful now. We just stand on the stroller platform and antagonize the sleeping giants.

My little farm girls.

Ryan LOVES the goats way too much. She was obsessed with touching them all over. Look at her standing on this bench trying to get closer. I washed their hands up to their elbows when they were done, but they still smelled like goat.

Mini Me

I think one of the most fascinating things about having identical twins is the difference in their personalities. They have exactly the same DNA and look exactly alike, but R&R are opposites in so many ways. Here's an example: I LOVE dessert and anything sweet and so does my Mini-Me, Reese. Ryan couldn't care less, just like Cory. She'd rather have a 2nd helping of dinner than ice cream or cake. Here are a couple photos of Reese tonight w/ 1/4 of a cupcake I gave her. It was all she could focus on. She got through her dinner and was obsessed w/ eating the cupcake. Look how happy she is once she's gotten her wish! Like I said, "Mini-Me".

The end of my insanely cheap pampering routine

My Aunt Marilyn has been going to esthetician school for almost a year now and my mom & I have been her guinea pig that entire time. It's been so fun because we've gotten facials, waxing, peels, and microdermabrasions all for 75% off for being a "case study". Last night was her last night to do treatments and my mom & I went in together. I was going to get my arms waxed, underarms, and brows, in addition to getting a peel/facial. We skipped the eyebrow waxing since it would have been a bit much with the peel she was doing. I got a bikini wax instead. The funniest part of the evening is when my mom & her were talking about waxing the inside of their noses and how it's the greatest thing ever. I watched both of them do it and was slightly horrified. My mom said, "It really doesn't hurt". That's all it took and next thing I know there's a gob of wax and a popsicle stick up my nose. She was right, it really didn't hurt that bad, but I don't think I'll be doing it again anytime soon. I think we're supposed to have hairs in our nose for a reason. My skin looks great today, all shiny and tight, and I feel kind of like a hairless rat. I'll really miss going to her school and getting loads of treatments for $35.

I'm a teenage girl

I am totally obsessed with the Twilight saga right now. It's so silly, but I can't break away from the books right now and it shows when you look around the house. The laundry is piling up, the toys are scattered abound, and I don't really care because I all want to do is read my books. I read before I go to bed, in the morning when no one else is awake, at the gym. Seriously obsessed. I dragged Cory to the movie on Friday night and he was more than willing to go along because he thought it was a movie about vampires. He liked it, but said "That was much more of a love story instead of a vampire story". He's such a trooper! I just finished the 3rd book last night (at 1am), so in a few days our life will be back to normal. (They are all about 500 pages & I'm reading each book in about 3 days) Until then, I'm a reading freak that's cracked out on the Twilight saga and dying to talk about it w/ anyone that will listen.

Tea time

We've gotten a few tea sets in the past 2 years and the girls just started really playing with them. It's fun to watch their imaginations work and come up with pretend scenarios. Ry kept bringing my tea and told me to blow on it. She says "like dis Mommy" and then shows me by blowing on it. So cute.

The end of my sanity

We have pretty much given up naps at the Whyte house. It's not so bad, but I find myself missing that short bit of alone time I had every day. The trade off is bedtime at 6:30 instead of 8:30. These are a few shots of us playing outside during what would be naptime. Like I said, it's not so bad.

Ree the pilot

Ry riding her trike--she can't reach the pedals all the way, so she rides it like a ride on toy.

Lounging on the floor. Very tired, but fighting the much needed nap.

Playdate

We have lots of estrogen going on at our house, so it's always fun to visit the Allan household where they dish out a healthy dose of testosterone. Misty is outnumbered with her boys, but she loves it. Trucks, BBQ grills, dinosaurs, horses, construction equipment--you name it, the Allan house has it. We had a playdate yesterday and the #s were even--4 boys and 4 girls and it was so much fun. R&R love their boyfriend Zackary and Baby Lane, or Baby Yane, as they like to call him. It was a great day for us!

I need a helmet

It's amazing how quickly language develops and we've been seeing the girls make huge progress everyday. The sentences have started completely flowing out and we just laugh at some of the funny things that are being said by R&R. Today, my mom & I took the girls to the mall and we walked right by Cactus Bike. I couldn't resist the shiny bikes inside and we wandered in. The girls were immediately squirming to get out of their stroller, so I obliged and they started playing with the tricycles. It was so cute and Ry immediately climbed on and yelled out "I need a helmet!". My mom and I just started cracking up. It was so funny because it was clear as a bell the way she said it and also because she hasn't had to wear a helmet for anything yet, so we wondered where she got the idea from. After they were done w/ the trikes they moved onto the bikes w/ training wheels. They liked the boy bikes that were flourescent yellow and orange. Daddy would be so happy. No princess bikes w/ streamers :)