Girls First Birthday (non official entry) you media whore you

This is not the official post but im throwing up the media from the girls first birthday party.

Will type something up and play with all this at a later point for now heres just random video and craploada of unsorted images :)

Was busy day im being super quiet hoping the girls will sleep in for awhile pretty tired this morning.  The girls did have lots and lots of fun on there first birthday!

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Girls First Birthday

Preparing for the birthday photos and vids

Just woke the girls up form there nap Amy still laying down but checkout the preparation into the first birthday party how cool huh!

Good shots of the household before and after setup for there birthday.  Amy has been working hard keeping up on house duties while im rolling in mad overtime.  She managed to keep the house clean babies tended to plan her entries which look amazing and traveling days before the party to ensure fresh produce and all the supplies needed for a birthday!

Here is an album of the preshots.

Napy time first birthday configuration

Of course with all this crap comes some vids I do not have much time to talk as babies are awake now and I need to make this offically fun.  

I can say now they re loving the decorations :)

One year old

One year ago today I gave birth to my beautiful twin daughters :) How unexpected they were but I was over the moon with happiness and excitement. I remember when I told Eric that I was pregnant with twins, I had to meet him at the pub later that night :) The first time my husband ever went to the bar by himself to drink. I know we were both terrified but were so happy at the same time, and now we can't imagine life without our girls. Below is a picture of me 4 months pregnant, yes only four months you can imagine (and will see) what I looked like at the end of this long journey.

Here I am at different stages of my pregnancy


This photo I am 5 months pregnant notice the difference in one month! At five months I was the size of a full term pregnancy with a singleton.

Here I am below at 6 months pregnant. Oh my gosh I forgot how huge I was. This was taken the day my mommy came to stay which I am eternally grateful for.

Here I am about 3 weeks before delivery (7 and 1/2 months pregnant). I was so miserably sore and sick all the time :( but it was worth if of course.

Here are the first pictures of the girls. They were just born. Claire is first then Chloe below that. Awww :) I didn't get to see the babies for almost 2 weeks after they were born because I was so sick in ICU from loss of blood during csection.I remember looking at these pics my mom and Eric printed for me all day long.

Here are the girls one month old. Chloe is on the left and Claire on the right. They were only 4lbs when born so were still a little funny looking for a while. :)

2 months. Chloe first then below that is Claire. I remember Claire would only take this huge pacifier and refused all normal sized ones lol. Now only Chloe will take a pacifier at all.

3 months- Claire is on the left and Chloe is on the right. This is still one of my fav pics of the girls :) This is about the time they finally started sleeping through the night. Also around 3 months they would hold head up when on tummy and were getting better head control while sitting.

4 months- Claire is on the left and Chloe is on the right. They were looking at the mobile their Grandma Tina bought them :) At for months they started rolling over from tummy to back.

5 months- Chole is on the left and Claire on the right. This month they learned to roll from back to stomach and would scoot themselves on their backs by pushing their feet. This month the girls started eating some solids for practice and Claire loved it right away but Chloe wasn't so sure :)

6 months-During this month we spent most of the day doing tummy time, fortunately they didn't hate it like a lot of babies and they started army crawling at 6 months :) This was a fun month that felt like finally they are doing something :) Claire is on the left and Chloe right.

7 months-  Here the girls are at 7 months. Claire is the first pic and Chloe the second (with her goofy face that sometimes comes out ) :) This month the girls were crawling all over non stop. This month the girls could also sit with a little help every now and then. Also the girls had perfected their finger food eating skills.

8 months- Chloe is on the left and Claire on the right. This month the girls stated really interacting with each other (although not always nicely) and was a lot of fun to watch. This was the month were we found out Chloe was allergic (extremely) to the ABC mat in this picture, scary. The girls could sit up well at this point but still preferred playing on their tummy.

9 months- Claire is the one crying and Chloe is chillin  :) Look how ragged I have become only 9 months later :) The girls are upset in this pick because they cannot both practice their new skill of pulling up to stand and cruising at the same time, this is the month where I really wish their was another mommy around. Fun to see the new skills though.

10 months- Yeah the weather is finally nice and the girls start playing outside with mommy. Chloe is on the left and Claire right. The girls get to crawl around and walk (with mommy's help) outside almost each day now. Although they DO NOT like dirt. :) They are getting much better at cruising the furniture.

11 Months- Wow! How time has flown. The girls are really starting to interact even more, although most the time it is fighting over toys. However when they can't fight over toys like in their cribs they love each other so much! This is what mommy gets to see each morning! Love it! Girls want mommy to help them walk ALL day, this is the game of the month :)

1 year old! The girls eat mostly independently now! They love cheerios and spaghetti more then anything. The now sit like big girls at the table. Skills this month include clapping, waving and patty cake. Mommy still has to help us walk! but they are SO close to walking, I think they are just scared :)

What a year it has been! I wouldn't trade a minute for anything (ok to be honest maybe a few minutes of crying). It has gotten so much easier as the girls get older and seeing them become little people is amazing. Daddy is so good to them and they are very loved by us both! Wonder what the next year has in store for us?

Bedtime thanks to TC from Chloe and Claire

Thank you all for the gifts I did not get to see everything yet but wanted to show you girls going to bed with ther new blankees love ya all!

In this photo Coco is giving an awfully cute look so far they are already loving the blankets!  

I am not sure who all to thank at this point as Amy had to run when I got home and I didn't know until today about this suprise!  Whoever was involved thank you all!

Here's a vid!

Bathtime parade

 This is one of the last baths before they are officially one year old!  Chloe is extremelely annoying monkey and refuses to stay in her seat.  Claire gets very pissed off and pretends like she is going to get up but shes too scared so just watches her sister run around.

We still need to get some sticky things for the tube because this baby is nuts.  The days of Amy being able to have a break and shower herself is now long gone :)  

Claire in her seat giving a funny laugh watching the camera flicker in her face as daddy likes to do all the damn time and flood the blog.

Ima Ima Ima SHIT soon as i step up in the tub ima shit

Kitchen playtime in the morning

Amy has gotten the kitchen set officially put together last night.  She is very anal retentive and has positioned everything perfectly.  Vegetables in the sink ready to be washed toast in the toaster all utensils hung.  Now she has another room to clean!

Welcome to parenthood I guess.  Me personally I woulda thrown everything in the oven and called it good but this is why all kids need there mommy.

Morning cluster

A small apartment and no dryer we do our best but things sure do get filled up quickly.  We could use more room but I am proud of ourselves for optimizing the space we got.

We are slowly investing in space saving features and trying to get as much as possible up on the wall.  Someday we may buy a dryer :)

Jesus christ this is a shitstorm of a mess.  Baby diaper pale laundry flopped everywhere and our makeshift bathroom dresser pulled straight fomr a computer desk.  The sing is lined with baby seats and products.  Lots of work to do today!

I mounted these bad boys for shampoo and soap.  Saves random bottles all over the place.

Kanyecoo

Yep baby changing center packed dresser toys falling everywhere diapers drying and a fan in the sill

What is going on in the background?  Is that the girls waking up in the morning?  What is going on? STAY TUNED.

Well while waiting for the best show ever True Blood which starts in a week we stumbled across this masterpiece of a show. I must say it is a DAMN good show and I highly recommend everyone to watch this.

The acting the storyline every part of it really pulls you into each episode. As I watch this I forget about the whole world and beoome consumed by what is on the TV.  I must say if you do not like this show then you are not cool in my book and should immediately exit my life completely.

Babies early birthday Present

With a sick moody baby and a long week for both the babies and Amy I threw in the towel to amy's begs and pleas to give the babies there present early.

This is not the official party or official birthday but they got this cool Tefal kitchen so they can start learning to cook like good women at an early age. :)

It seems our first birthday present choice is a hit.  During setup they just can't stop tickling there baby brains by whacking crap and throwing pieces everywhere.  

There new TV show is now Sesame Street.  This is the first show that they actually sit down to watch.  Sometimes Claire cuddles up in her intertube to watch the show.  We now have a Sesame Street loop running the background most of the day.  When a specific song comes up that they love so much they both take a break from whatever they are doing and turn to the tv.
Even the excitement of there new toy is interuppted in this photo as they both turn around to gawk at the TV.   I think I will be one of those TV parents as they are so much work with two of them I enjoy taking any sitter I can to entertain them.

We will grab some photos of the final setup hopefully this weekend.  Enjoy the vidz we got they are some cute ones.  You can see little coco's attitude in these pics she sure has been a moody emotional baby this past week.