a little of this ... a little of that

We have been super busy lately with family in town and exploring so I will have to post this in two parts. First, last week, Alan's Mom's side of the family had a family reunion. As soon as I gather everyone's photos (as I didn't take nearly enough =) I will post some photos of that fun time! These are mostly of this past weekend and this week. We have been doing a lot of hanging at the "new house" as the girls call it since we were gone a lot last week. We have had a few outings, though, to keep us all happy! The girls are doing great and talking more than ever. We had a Pediatrician appointment at 25 months old and they were not too happy with the weights since they are still waaaay below the 5%, but that has always been the case, so I am not too worried. Meredith now carries the title of peanut as she only weighed in at 20 pounds 12 ounces and Hannah outweighed her by almost a pound at 21 pounds 8 ounces. They were both around 10% for height though! I wish I were tall and skinny! The baby is doing well, too. It "measured" right where it should at 14 weeks gestation and had a strong heartbeat. I have another appointment a week from today (I will be 18+ weeks by then) and I would looooove to find out the gender ... though I don't know if she will do another US then or not. I may have to wait for my 20 week one. I, of course, will keep you posted!

having fun with Daddy's camping equipment (M was saying 'Hannah funny!' because she thought she looked darn hilarious in the doo-rag ... which, she did)

Hannah
Meredith's turn =)

I've never met any two kids who love to hug as much as these girls do! Hannah loves to "catch sissy" at the bottom of the slide and give her a hug/tackle. Good thing Meredith is a good sport about it!

Dora daze again ... I have figured out one thing that seems to always be the case ... when they are relaxing, Meredith almost always sucks in her bottom lip like this and Hannah does not. An expression I have noticed Alan do sometimes, too.

A tip for those looking for a difference =) There is a great indoor play area called No Limits about a mile from our house. They love to wrestle in the ball pit! In fact, they love to wrestle just about anywhere. It is all fun and games until someone gets hurt, right?! =)

Hannah running like a crazy person

Meredith's turn

is it naptime yet?

playing peek-a-boo in the tent

at the neighborhood playground ... what do ya know ... hugging at the bottom of the slide again ...

playing with a worm ... gross

We went to the Aquarium this morning where they had a blast! Here is Meredith in "Camp Carolina" where they had the most fun! My sister made these adorable dresses so I was trying to get a good photo for her!

Checking out the fish in the "stream"

My gosh do these girls love a slide?!?!? We have a slide in their playroom at home but they still spent at least 15 minutes on this slide at the Aquarium. Here is Hannah in her "Kristi Whitaker Original" =)

Mmmmmm ... chip break ... we love to go to the Aquarium because of the cool animals but also because they have really good pizza and when we go the girls have figured out that Mommy will let them eat junk food for lunch so that she can have a few minutes to snarf a piece of pizza ;)

This little bridge moves around when you walk on it ... at first, they gripped my hands like vice and would only walk on it with me, then they crawled over it a few times, then got brave enough to tackle it 'on foot' ... I am glad they are cautious and smart!

The Aquarium is full of cool things like real live penguins, bald eagles, sea turtles ... but they had JUST as much fun with this darned rubber chicken that someone had left on a bench ... go figure?!

... speaking of ...

Looking in the great ocean tank ... there were divers in there working with the fish and one came and waved at the girls and I think Hannah just about jumped out of her skin! I didn't think that something so normal as a person would freak them out ... but I guess, to them, a person with all that equipment on is just some other kind of "animal" that they have never seen before!