Standing Milestones

Both Teddy and Taylor reached some standing milestones today. Taylor stood without ANY support for a good 10-20 seconds. It's probably only a matter of weeks until she walks! Meanwhile, Teddy finally learned how to pull himself up to standing. We were so proud of him. I tried to get a video, but he kept stopping every time I took the camera out. I finally got something, but it does not show his full ability. He can pull up and stay up. Check it out:



Here are some other cute shots at the cottage:

Birthday Pictures & Video

I finally uploaded some pictures for the blog from Teddy and Taylor's first birthday party. This first one shows the lovely decorations that we purchased from the oh-so-fancy dollar store in Orillia. Bubbe made a fabulous lunch.


Here's the cake. YUM!


Teddy is waiting patiently for his cake and shaking a box of Smarties:


Taylor LOVED the cake. However, she did not love her party hat. This is why she is pictured sans hat. She had a pink one that matched Teddy's. I think Zippy got a picture of Taylor in the hat with his SLR camera, but I was too slow.


Here we have the video of the cake eating. Notice the two very different personalities:


After cake we opened presents. They liked the super cute pajamas...


...but the toys were even better!


After the party they were both wiped out and they needed a little booby snack from mommy. This is the first picture I have taken of them tandem nursing that is appropriate to share with the blogging world. No booby parts are shown, but isn't it the cutest?

Teddy & Taylor's First Birthday

Today was the big day. The babies are now officially one year old. I had wanted to upload all the cute pictures of Teddy and Taylor stuffing their faces with cake and opening their presents, but I left the camera cord in Taylor's room. I weighed the pros and cons of going in there to get it and the one BIG con won out. I do not want to risk waking up the sleeping birthday girl. Pictures and a video will be added tomorrow.

The party was great. It was a very small family gathering at the cottage and the babies were absolutely adorable. At one year, they are as perfect as I could possibly imagine. They both said their first real word yesterday. By REAL I mean they don't just mimic the word, the know what the word means. Taylor has said szeretlek a few times (which is "I love you" in Hungarian), but it was always as a mimic. Yesterday she learned how to say "duck" and she says it consistently when she sees a rubber ducky. Teddy said "duck" shortly after Taylor did, but he is not as consistent.

We've been at the cottage for almost a week now and they both crawl around like crazy. Taylor has a funny sort of monkey crawl where she scoots along on her butt. It's very efficient because she always has a hand free to carry stuff. Teddy does the traditional crawl and he if very fast. He loves to hang out in the kitchen to see what Bubbe is up to. Taylor is standing all over the place, but she isn't walking yet. Teddy can pull himself up to his knees, but not quite standing.

Stay tuned for pictures from the big day!

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe that the babies are almost a year old! Where has the time gone? Teddy has made so much progress this past month. He crawls all over the place and feeds himself. Taylor cruises like crazy and sometimes you can catch her standing without support for a second or two. She's even got her top two teeth! Teddy still just has the two on the bottom.

In preparation for the big day, I put together a video of some of our favorite pictures from the first year. Get ready for ultimate cuteness...