Keeping up with the Reiters: May 2010

Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi...

you're my only hope!

Avery took a shine to my sweater on night, and I kept having the urge to dress Noah as a cute little robot! :)

Our new sandbox

Instead of a sand table, we discussed building the boys a sandbox, and then actually found one at a garage sale about 15 min. later!

So, here are the results...

They try to fit 2 toddlers and 4 large trucks in a 4 foot by 3 foot area.

Tractors make him happy.

First trip of the year to the Nature Center

A month or so back, I took the boys to the Nature Center with fellow twin mom Lisa, and her girls Katy and Alyssa.

How many multiples can you fit in a hollow tree? (depends on the size of the multiples and the size of the tree :)

A PERFECT picture, save for the appearance of our frequent friend, big ugly forehead scab!

It was a bit dreary, but after a LOOONG winter, you take what you can get!

A solitary man

Isn't this awesome?

"Sharing" snacks. Avery took control of the container, and we had to work very hard at distributing the chips without a meltdown.

The highlight of the trip. I didn't bring my stroller because Lisa didn't have hers. I thought "It's not that far" Mmm, hmmm. Noah wanted to be carried the entire time, and our lunches were at the center, so we did have a bit of a deadline. I forgot the cardinal rule of toddler outings, its the JOURNEY, not the destination. What do you do when he wants to throw himself down in the path and pitch a giant fit? Photograph it, of course!

MY hat finally pulled him out of it.

and was then transferred to Avery's head.

The elusive Little Foot!

LUNCH, finally!

My little bear with his little paw on a mold of a big paw. Scary!

Awwww!

We had a picnic at a park with Lucy and Jill. Afterwards, we created this cute little moment. I was trying to use the function on my camera to pull the pink out of Lucy's dress and make every thing else black and white. I don't think the pink was dark enough, and it was a VERY bright day, so it didn't really work. The pics are cute though!

Fun in the sun

We have been spending every possible moment outside! For those of you that live in cold, snow bound areas, I'm sure you understand. I've also been trying to train them to wear their sunglasses. Enjoy the pics :)

Football anyone?

My boy loves his hats! I was cleaning out a drawer and had tossed this one on the floor. Between the hat, and the shirt, doesn't he look like an old time football player?

Leather head!

Jammie Party!

Ha, Ha! I love these pictures. These were taken on our zoo day. The boys napped with Lucy in her room while I helped Jill pack. Then we ate dinner, played, and realized we hadn't packed any jammies to change them into for the ride home (it's about a 40 min. drive, and they usually fall asleep). Since Lucy had borrowed Avery's jammies at the boy's birthday party (which they both talked about for a very long time) we graciously accepted the offer of Lucy's jammies.

I just laughed and laughed and laughed. Wouldn't you? (and yes, Noah has a black eye. Avery chunked a hard plastic elephant into the air and it landed right below Noah's eye. A bit scary actually.)

hmmm, who looks like me?

Triplets at the zoo!

Ok, not really, but we did have three :) We took Lucy and the boys to the zoo so her parents could prepare to move into a new house. Since they are the same age/size, and get along so well, you could tell people were assuming that they were all ours. LOL

Beautiful Lucy! They are watching the fox.

Our attempt at getting Avery and Lucy to look at the camera at the same time. You've probably noticed, there are not many of those cute, posed, everyone smiles at the camera shots anymore. sigh

They zoo's wolf pack. I love them. There are five of them, all from the same litter. They were relocated to the zoo to keep the area where they were born from being overpopulated. When the elephant was moved to California, they became the zoo ambassadors.

The boys kept climbing on the fences, and I kept waiting for Avery to fall.

The tigers, one in the doorway, one up above. The tigers share a boardwalk with the backside of the wolf enclosure. Instead of looking at the awesome tigers, the toddlers were talking to the zookeeper who was cleaning out the wolf enclosure. It was funny. We had mucho fun at the zoo, then headed back to Jill and Brian's for nap time and dinner. Very fun day.

Random Funny boys

They possess so much cuteness it is hard to contain! Noah has a plastic fireman's hat (backwards) on his head. AND, he's sitting in Avery's seat, which by itself causes hilarity.

Practicing our new picture word, Monkey. (I read in a magazine that it makes better smiles than Cheese. I really should test it on Noah, not Avery, eh?)

This is the hallway outside the library where we eat our snack before we drive home. It has fabulous echos, so they holler a lot here. A lady actually commented that day that she could tell they were twins because they had the same sweater on. Right. I could dress a monkey and a duck in the same sweater, it doesn't make them twins. Sheesh!