Happy Halloween!

This year the twins dressed up in Rutgers gear because, after all, they are Rutger's BIGGEST and smallest fans! We spent Halloween evening at my sister's house with family and we had a wonderful time. Christina got it more this year than last and if AJ was aloud to roam FREE, he was happy!

Paci's are GONE GONE GONE

On Tuesday I talked to Gwen (1 of AJ's therapists) about taking away the Pacis. She said it was time and really okay. It was really MY issue, not the babies. They were going to be fine. Why did I feel like taking them from Christina was like leaving her in an alley somewhere with no protection? No clue. I just could NOT bring myself to be the one to make the decision to take something that she felt she needed and loved so much. So this is what I did.

I went to Toys R Us. I found some Polly Pockets. They look WAY fun. I knew she couldn't resist. I also wanted her to have something for bedtime...just in case! So I got her a Starsong My Little Pony.

I came home and told her that if she wanted the "big girl toys", she needed to throw away her pacis. She refused. So I sat the Polly Pockets out of her reach, but where she could see them and said "sorry, you can't have them if you keep the pacis because pacis are for babies and these are for big girls". About 30 seconds later she went to throw away the paci and came BACK to find the other paci to throw it away too!

At bedtime I gave her Starsong...and since he's a baby pony, he had a paci...and that was okay :-) I put AJ down without his paci - but he never really cared anyway and never fussed.

The next day she asked for her paci a couple of times. We just reminded her that she threw them away...and off she went to play.

It was over that fast. Now when she gets hurt, she wants a Dora Bandaid (Bandaid Dora) - so maybe we are using a little more than we need right now...but that's okay :-)

New Stools

Our sweet, wonderful, talented LEAH MICHELLE made these amazing stools for the twins for their second birthday! They love them. Christina carries hers everywhere she needs to reach something! I loved watching them both play in the water together while standing on their new stools. It's just precious to me! Thank you to Leah!!!!

Happy Birthday to my Precious Twinklets!

What a WONDERFUL party we had. Thank you to all that helped, drove from MAINE, contributed with love, laughter and some hard work! I love you all so much!

Leah & the girls come for the party!

Leah and the girls came in from Maine to go to the babies' 2nd Birthday Party! We were so excited to see them and the girls had alot of fun playing together. Even AJ had fun :-)