34 sundays

...another sunday closer to a year of these mini's being home! In the past couple of weeks we've had some more changes. Miss Aubrey now is a proud owner of her first tooth! (bottom right) Mister Truman is officially a master at the army crawl and has already learned how to "turn on the charm" when the word "no" is uttered from my mouth. Miss Aubrey took an adventure and found a new area of the home, all on her own! They don't crawl so I still have one up on the speed of them, but they are getting quicker at squirming their way around. It won't be long until I will be running laps in the house trying to capture them! At least I'll save money by not needing a gym membership.

They are both enjoying having a variety of tastes to their meal times, they even like squash! And just this week I decided to give them some banana puffs, it was utter enjoyment watching their expressions. The first time they just stared at these foreign objects in front of them, then would look at me with confusion. The second time I put them in their mouths and Miss Aubrey decided it just wasn't for her...she automatically spit it out and since it was stuck on her bottom lip she kept trying to push it off with her tongue. She was NOT impressed. Mister Truman kept it in his mouth, but wasn't sure why. The third time, Miss Aubrey picked one up and put it in her mouth and kept it there. She actually went back for a second one! Mister Truman, well he just decided he'd play "puff hockey" with them on his tray. Disclaimer: I don't give them because I think they need snacks, rather I want them to learn hand/eye coordination...so maybe I can soon give them their spoon and they will feed themselves so I can just eat bonbons on the couch during meal time! ha.

They are definitely growing quickly and keeping this house a busy one. I enjoy all of it and constantly have the video camera out trying to capture every moment for their daddy. I am fairly certain they think the camera is just part of me now! Well, enjoy and maybe soon I'll figure out how to put videos on here so everyone can see them in action. OH, I also had too many cute/funny photos for these weeks so I put bonus photos at the end...feel free to comment with some clever captions!

33 sundays

miss aubrey

mister truman

34 sundays

miss aubrey

mister truman

bonus photos!

share any clever captions you have...

...until next sunday,

annie and mini's

32 sundays

February was a busy month for this family, so we got a little behind on blog posts. But here we are, into a new month and marking the calendar for 32 sundays of the mini's home.

We were traveling fools and the mini's were champs through the whole trip and really didn't mind being in their seats for that long. I think they've al

ready realized what army life consists of...lots of traveling! It's been bitter sweet to be home as it's tough not to be close to all our family and friends at home, yet the additional space is comforting. I could tell that mister truman recognized being home, the first day we were here he smiled the entire day! We have had a lot of interesting things happen in the past month, but I won't bore you with all the details because you probably won't find it interesting at all. So, below are the photos from the sundays. Unfortunately I misplaced (LOST) a memory card from our camera so we don't have photos from the 29th and 30th sunday. It's a bummer I know. But enjoy the ones we do have!

31 sundays

miss aubrey

enjoying her "new" toys at home

mister truman

also loving his "new" toy at home, so many things to do

...and we wonder why our kids attention spans are short

32 sundays

miss aubrey

?possible thumb sucker?

mister truman

(he's a serious superhero here with his bib on as a cape)

...until next sunday,

annie and mini's

28 sundays...

Superbowl sunday, our last sunday in north dakota...we've had a blast here even with it being so cold. I know we didn't get to see everyone due to many blizzards and the lovely flu, but we will be returning and the mini's are already excited. But until then I will try to maintain the sunday posts!

27th sunday

mister truman

miss aubrey

(sporting her favorite outfit, she LOVES to be "naked")

28th sunday

mister truman

miss aubrey

(any clue as to what she's thinking?)

28th sunday with grandma terri and grandpa steve, we love you!

...stay well and enjoy the sundays everyone!

until next sunday,

annie and minis

26 Sundays

In the past two weeks we've been busy accomplishing new milestones.

Miss aubrey lynn decided to roll over from back to tummy for the first time on her daddy's birthday. Happy Birthday Daddy!

She also has a degree in bottle holding, but mister truman quickly jumped on that and showed her up by being able to find his mouth when the bottle falls out. Let the competition begin!

It seems though that mister truman could care less on rolling over, no interest at all. (They both do tummy to back and have for a while, but I don't really consider it rolling over)

Next on the agenda, sitting up alone and getting teeth.

mister truman

25 sundays

26 sundays

Truman's thoughts: "seriously, I need a raise...this weekly photo shoot is exhausting and I obviously have a fan club so start negotiating with my agent."

miss aubrey

25 sundays

26 sundays

happy sunday everyone, enjoy the week...remember the days seem long, but the collection of them goes quickly.

annie and the mini's

24 Sundays

Welcome to the 24th Sunday! Hard to believe that just 24 weeks ago these little mini's couldn't even hold up their head, or smile without gas as the prompt. And here we are, the beginning of January enjoying all the new things they are figuring out. We were able to sneak to the cities to visit all our friends there and the Archers were so happy to see us that we got family photos with them...I put those at the end as bonus materials! Enjoy.

mister truman

like the track suit ladies!?!

miss aubrey

Truman with his cousins and auntie...

aubrey with her cousins and uncle...

the cousins had a lot of fun together...

I think aubrey and truman will be bored with just me at home now, sorry kiddos.

Happy Sunday everyone! tata for now.

23 sundays

Happy New Year everyone! This household loves 2011...and for those of you that know us best you understand why. Below are the sunday photos with two bonus photos showing how the mini's celebrated the new year. They just look so excited right!?!

Enjoy and we hope that everyone has a great 2011!!! May this year bring as many exciting times as we will have.

23rd sunday

miss princess aubrey, sober as can be

mister truman with another silly face

Happy New Year Everyone!

Just chillaxin', waiting for the blizzard to pass us by!

Yep, the blizzard called for a day in our pajamas.

Why not when all major roads were closed for three solid days.

until next sunday!

22 Sundays...

We've been traveling everywhere lately and so the kids are getting more and more pictures with others. So for a change of pace I thought it would be special to start putting some of their Sunday photos with those that they visit. The first photo is with Uncle Nathan in their Twins gear that he gave them as a gift. How appropriate! The photos capturing their 22nd sunday home is a rare photo this year, it is proof that I in fact do exist!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. Stay warm and watch out for those nasty midwestern blizzards!

21 sundays home...we are HUGE Twins fans!

mister truman with his big giggle smile and miss aubrey with her "i'm so pretty" smile

22 sundays home...Merry Christmas everyone!

mommy and miss princess aubrey in her christmas dress

mommy and mister truman in his christmas sweater and his "giggle smile"

...until next sunday! Enjoy and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We personally already LOVE the year 2011.

20 sundays

It's our 20th sunday home, and boy have we been enjoying all our fans from the Midwest! We love getting to be cuddled and talked to all day long. Sometimes we get a bit scared of all the fun, but please don't worry...we still love all of you! For those we haven't met, we can't wait. See you soon!

mister truman (like my tie ladies!?!)

miss aubrey (I love to show off my tutu!)

...until next sunday everyone!

hugs,

the mini's

19 sundays

...well we've been traveling fools and so we've missed a few too many sundays in a row! I guess closing up a house, preparing the yard for winter and packing twins for a extended stay in North Dakota proved to be a very busy schedule of events. But we survived it and had plenty of help along the way!

So here we are at our 19th sunday home. Truman and Aubrey are still such beautiful blessings to our family and are growing strong. They have their 4 month appointment tomorrow...FOUR months, that's right. Time really does go quickly when you measure it by the weeks of a newborn baby.

17th sunday home

mister truman, all smiles while he plays before our long trip to nodak

miss princess aubrey...notice the mirror by her!?! All smile when she can stare at herself.

18th sunday "home"

mister truman, the man of many expressions

miss princess aubrey, talking away

19th sunday "home"

mister truman, in his sunday sweater

miss princess, in her "colorful" dress (yes, she gets her love of color from her momma)

...until the next sunday! I hope everyone has been enjoying the winters and we have loved meeting everyone.

16 sundays

Here we are...we've survived 16 sundays and we just keep growing. I hope you enjoy our fun outfits for this sunday fun photo day!

Thank you Auntie Shannon for the awesome outfits! They really are "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" - it'obvious by the above photo that they really are best buddies and will gang up against us someday for sure!

mister truman (aka "thing 1")

miss princess aubrey (aka "thing two)

As you can tell mister truman still isn't 100 percent, can't you just see it in his eyes, poor guy.

...and since mister truman wasn't feeling well I of course said he could watch the vikings game! Go Vikes!!!

first video chat with dad!!!

we love you daddy.

we miss you daddy.
we'll try to behave for the next 50 wednesdays....

15 sundays

mister truman

all smiles!

miss princess aubrey

still always serious!

and of course we just had to pose together in our twins gear
(thank you uncle nathan for the cool outfits!)

I guess for their joint photo shoot the princess decided to finally show off her gums, but her brother looks pretty rough - this is the sunday he wasn't feeling very good. We found out after two days of doctors visits that he had pneumonia. Poor fella, can't you just see the hurt in his eyes. Makes my heart break.

happy sunday everyone! Stay healthy.