Hannah will kill me one day ...

Sisterly love ...

... until Meredith got tackled and checked to see if she was "stinky" ...
... which she clearly did not care for ...
We went back to the zoo on President's Day with Sarah and the girls had a lot of fun, as usual at the zoo! Here they are climbing all over the fake iguana.

Here we are all riding on the little train that goes around the Children's Zoo. They weren't too fond as it was loud and I think it scared them a bit.

Meredith

Hannah

Here is Hannah. She is practicing for when she has her set of twins ;)

So the Pediatrician thinks that the girls' obssession with all things "pee pee" and "poo poo" may mean it is time to introduce a potty chair (or two) ... yes, she will hate me for this ... but it is a classic pic! At this point (according to the girls), potties are for playing on ... we have yet to have any real action ... which is OK by me. I am not going to start any formal training until after we move and get settled. I guess the good thing about being an identical twin is that even though I say this is Hannah, years from now, she can deny, deny, deny!

Throwing Mommy's clean laundry all over the hallway ...

Here is Meredith. She is trying to diaper her baby doll. It kills me because it is really cute and fun that they are starting to pretend a lot but at the same time it is frustrating for us all because they get SO MAD when they aren't able to do something on their own. True toddler behavior and I guess this is why 18-24 months is called the "terrible twos."

Meredith has always been more independant than Hannah but the difference in their personalities is really starting to come out. Hannah is very social and I really feel like she needs to be engaged seemingly constantly. Meredith was sitting practically behind this shelf peacefully stacking her blocks. They can stack blocks taller than they are! They will take them on as a team effort ... Hannah stacks one, Meredith stacks one ... if only they ALWAYS shared this well!

house hunting and hanging out

We have had a busy few weeks with Barbara, Sara & Kate visiting us, the girls and I visiting my parents in Spartanburg for a quick few days, and then taking a trip to Charleston to see a few houses. We had a great time and actually fit in a playdate around all the real estate appointments! I took the girls to Alhambra Hall Park to meet a few of my friends.

Here are Amy and Macey (~5 months) Levine

Here are Amy, Alex (7) and Claudia (2.5) Mendez
I couldn't get over how sweet Alex was with the girls ... here is Alex and Meredith

Here is Hannah ... one of the things I am most looking forward to about moving back to Charleston is the fact that you are rarely ever lacking for a gorgeous view of either a marsh, harbor, river, ocean ...

The girls have really gotten into their baby dolls lately and love to tell me that their babies are "stinky" and will bring me diapers to change their babies with ... they love to feed their babies and put them "night, night" and walk them in strollers and carry them in "carseats" ... here is Hannah looking like quite the little Mommy

Here is Meredith ...

For a while there I would let the girls have my cell phone so I could change their diapers without all the drama ... then it turned into them wanting my phone all the time and I decided to put the kabosh on letting them have it ever ... b/c I don't really want to buy a new cell right now =) Well, they (as you can imagine) are not thrilled with this plan and are pretty hysterical every time I talk on the phone b/c they want to play with it ... if I only knew then what I know now ... these were taken before the "the phone is not a toy" ruling ... we both have their photos on our screen savers on the phone and they love to look at the "babies" on the phone ... they open them up and say "baby!!!"

With Daddy ...