Our big night out!

Mike and I went to NYC overnight Sat to celebrate my birthday. Mike made all the plans, dinner at a tapas restaurant, a show "The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" and a hotel room. Mike's parents stayed here with the girls. We had a great time. We got so crazy we drank the $8 Coronas in the mini bar!!! It was hard for me to just relax when we first got there. I just felt like I had stuff to do!! It was nice to get out by ourselves, just like the old days!!

Olivia now has 4 teeth, two on top and two on bottom. She just started singing also! When you sing "the babies on the bus say..." she goes "dadada". It is so funny!! Ava has "mama" down pretty good but most times it is in despair. Like when someone wants to change her or put her to bed!! She also does "this" when you give her something. Lila is still Lila. She just makes us laugh all the time. She is on her own agenda. She is getting better at crawling. Now she will crawl over things. They are all really good at crawling. Ava and Olivia stand for short (seconds) periods of time. And pulling up is second nature to them. As far as food goes - if you cook it they will eat it. Turkey breast, grilled cheese, all kinds of fruit and veggies, shredded chicken. Doing really well with finger foods. We hardly do any of the pureed foods now. Just oatmeal in the morning and cereal at night. the rest they feed themselves. If you put the cereal on the spoon and give it to Lila she actually feeds herself. The noise coming from the high chairs is gross. Alot of lip smacking!!!

Happy first birthday to Ava and Jessica!! We went to the girls' first friend birthday party!!! Patricia had a couple of us over for the girls' birthday. They all had a lot of fun. Seamus and Tobin were there and holding their own with my bullies ( they are a few months younger than the girls). How funny - the girls have a whole list of friends!!!

They're with the band

We spent Saturday at the Bellview Winery Wine and Seafood Festival. Uncle Mike's band, The Blue Method, were playing and the girls were there to show their support. They wore their pink shirts proudly saying "I'm With the Band". And here they are with the band.

And here Lila and Olivia are helping to tune Uncle Mike's guitar...


We also thought it would be funny to show the differences a year can make. When we came to the Wine festival last year, Lisa looked like this...

This year was a bit different...


Today was also Lisa's birthday and the girls helped us celebrate by not sleeping! I decided at midnight after being up three times already, to sleep in the spare bedroom so at least one of us could sleep for an extended period of time. So, it was deja vu all over again as I was up and down until about 6AM when I got in bed to get a few hours sleep. Needless to say, I was not in work today.

The rest of the day the little monsters were fine, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

It's gate time!

Gates are going up, outlet covers are in. You know what that means. Everyone is crawling!! Olivia is fast now and pulls up to stand really quick. All she wants to do is stand. In fact she has a nice mark on her cheek from falling into the rocking chair. Lila moves fast when she is heading toward me. Getting to be a good stander too. If you stack blocks up, Ava will hightail across the room to knock them down. She is fast; crawls over and pulls up before you know it!!

We had our first blood accident. Olivia fell into a toy and split her lip on the inside. I looked down at her and she had a bloody mouth. I think I was more upset than her. Luckily, my mom was here to calm me down. I wanted to call the ped but she got over it pretty quick.

Chrissy and Ashley are here visiting. Ash flew in on sunday and Chris took the train up from DC on thurs. We are heading down the shore for the weekend. It's nice to have some extra hands around!!

Olivia finally joined the tooth parade. Except that she wanted to be different and got her top tooth first. Right now it is :Lila two bottom, Ava two bottom, Olivia one bottom and one top. Ava does "so big" when you say it to her or anyone else! Lila does a "I will just amuse you - so big" and Livi laughs. I will try to get some pics on photobucket soon.


Lila playing house. The girls at the aquarium for breakfast with the sharks.
Ava the bathing beauty!!
Olivia smiling - what she does best - besides eat!!!