9/11/12 - Spending Quality Time With Firefighters

 Starting the day off with ultimate frisbee

 

 What a hunk!

 

 Sydney is pretty good with throwing the frisbee sometimes.  Othertimes she is downright dangerous.

 

 Twinsies!

 

 They were called to a structure fire in the middle of the game, and had to run.

 

 The girls waving goodbye to Daddy.  (Ryan was in the front of the truck on the right.)

 

 So, the girls and I went for a walk.

 

 And, of course, we took more pictures until Daddy called and told us he was back at the station.

 

 We then got some lunch and rushed over to eat with Daddy.

 

 And, of course, take even more pictures ...

 The "Federal Horn"

 

 Sydney, the vicious firefighter!

Zoe was much more hesitant 

 Sydney, wearing Daddy's helmet

 

 Zoe wearing Daddy's helmet

 

 Sydney (using her "responding to a call" face)

Sydney 

Zoe calling Sydney! 

 Zoe

 

Black Eye

Sydney woke up crying the other night.  Ryan and I ran up the stairs to find Syd, on the top bunk, with a large lump under her right eye.  Zoe was hiding behind the door of the bedroom, and both of them were giving their "Santa Bear" the evil eye.

From what we can tell, Santa Bear's hard nose somehow came in contact with Sydney's eye.  No one will reveal the details -- not even the bear.  But here are the photos from the event:

Sydney's black eye, about 3 days later ...

 

Santa Bear, in recovery

 

Sydney's revenge!

Zoe can write!

Zoe lacks a little confidence when it comes to her handwriting.  On the first day we tried "Handwriting Without Tears" she, well, burst into tears.  (She then laughed when I pointed out the title of the book!).

Over the last couple of days, however, Zoe's handwriting skill has improved dramatically.  Check it out:

From two days ago

As for Syd, well, she can write just about anything.  It's the reading part that we are working on right now!

Missed us?

Well, for those of you who don't have a Facebook account (Nonna!) and haven't checked Google+ (Nonna!) and tend to not check your email in long stretches and then ask us to send pictures again (Nonna!) we are going to TRY to start posting some pictures and updates on our blog again.  There are others out there, but a certain one (Nonna!) is more fun to pick on.  ;-)  Love ya!

For starters, I am the proud, but mostly petrified, owner of a fancy new camera.  Here are some of our practice pictures from the first 24 hours:

Then we celebrated Uncle Danny's birthday:

 

So, a few days ago, we went to the National Air & Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, to see the Discovery Shuttle.  GP (my Dad), Ruthi, and Ryan tagged along with the girls and I.  ;-)  It was a great time.  We even saw "Hubble" in the IMAX theater there.  I highly recommend seeing it, but the 3D version at the D.C. location is probably better.

 

Afterwards, GP's friend John very kindly agreed to escort us around the command tower at Dulles Airport.  What an amazing experience!  We had so much fun meeting the air traffic controllers, and Zoe and Sydney loved learning about how some of the radar worked from John.  In fact, Zoe still talks about how the plane shows up on one screen while on the ground, and then appears on another screen after take off.  Smarty pants.

On Monday we had a Pizza Party with my sister, niece, nephew and GP.  Yet another good time!  We all picked from the overwhelming amount of toppings (thank you Wegman's (aka Wegmere's)!).

Finally, this morning, we had a follow-up pizza bash to our pizza party.  We grabbed some tortillas, the leftover toppings, and put together tortilla pizzas.  As I write this, Zoe is almost finished with her entire tortilla.  Syd is trying to stall by singing ... cute, but it won't work!  I just told her she was "busted!" so hopefully she'll eat another slice.

Well, that's it for now.  Stay tuned for another update!  I'll try to make it soon for those of you who ... well ... for the Nonnas! in this world!

xoxox,

-- Dev and the Twincesses

Happy Halloween!

Move over Hannity and Colmes -- there's a new political duo in town!

CNN Article on Moms of Multiples

CNN just posted an article on mothers of multiples. I have to say, it's pretty on target. We have a hard time with the scheduling concept, though, since our own schedules change on a frequent basis. Still, the girls have developed a "schedule" of sorts pretty much on their own. They are remarkable babies.

Here's the link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/05/19/multiples.parents/index.html