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...

Teddy Eats A Cheerio!

One week ago (sorry for the late entry) Teddy ate a Cheerio!!! I know, it doesn't sound like big news, BUT he did it all by himself and that IS big news. Taylor has been feeding herself for a couple months now, but Teddy had trouble transferring small food items from his hands to his mouth. He would play with the Cheerios, he just wouldn't eat them. Check out the little guy in action with his new skill:

T & T turn 11 months old!

It's been a lot of work getting the new house organized, but we didn't want to forget to put up a new video to celebrate their 11 month birthday. One more month until the big "ONE". One year ago today I was hanging out in the hospital in the L & D triage room. I was 32 weeks pregnant and I was having too many contractions. After 7 hours, and a couple bags of IV fluids, I was sent home and told that I had to stop working. Who knew it would be exactly one month before I would give birth.

So, anyway, here's a video of the babies doing their thing today. Notice what a great crawler Teddy is and how good Taylor is at standing. Listen for Cartman, ha ha.



In other news, we were visited by Auntie Melanie, Uncle Jonathon, and cousin Daniel last weekend. The babies had an AWESOME time hanging out with them. And if Auntie Melanie sends me some pics then I can post them on the blog (hint hint). We took most of the pictures with her camera.

Here are a couple pics of the babies having fun in the new house. Taylor was trying to help out with the vacuuming.


Teddy thought he would test out the new play mat.

Live from New Jersey!

Well, we did it! We finally moved to NJ. Sorry for no blog entries lately, but we've been getting settled. We moved on May 15th. The babies are loving the extra space to roam and mommy and daddy are loving the extra space to live in. We finally have a full size refrigerator that is already filled up with goodies from Costco and Trader Joe's. Victor is learning about fun things like mowing the lawn and I am learning about fun things like taking the garbage out. Neither one of us has lived in a house in over 10 years!

Teddy and Taylor had to make some calls to let their friends know that we have moved.


Bubbe discovered that feeding babies without a highchair is a difficult task.


So Bubbe and Zippy got them these fantastic new highchairs. Now they can eat in style.

We're 10 Months Old!

The babies are 10 months old today! I can't believe how close we are to the big "1". Taylor just learned how to clap and Teddy is getting closer and closer to crawling. He gets in position and rocks back and forth. We are trying all sorts of new fun foods. Taylor will eat just about anything (she takes after her dad), but Teddy is more like his mom (translation: he's a very picky eater).

Over the weekend, we went to the California Pizza Kitchen. Teddy slept through the whole meal, but Taylor was having the time of her life in a high chair. She smiled and talked to everyone who passed by. She especially loved the CPK bread.



Teddy has become quite the mover, even though he doesn't crawl yet. He managed to wiggle out of the swing. I captured his escape on film. It was so cute!



Today, Teddy and Taylor were helping me pack. They love playing in the boxes. Victor says that putting the babies in boxes doesn't count as packing.