1 Year, 11 Months, 4 Weeks, and 1 Day

Ruby & Charlotte are 1 year, 11 months, 4 weeks, and 1 day old today. We are 2 days away from their 2nd birthday! Ruby sings many songs while she plays throughout the day, with newer additions to her collection being "Sunny Days (Sesame Street Theme)", "Sing After Me", and "We All Sing With the Same Voice". Charlotte also sings occasionally, but mostly when the song is actually playing on the stereo (which I first noticed when she kept singing "Get down, get down" when "Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang began). We had a small birthday party for them on Saturday morning, which consisted of balloons, a few presents, cupcakes, and Ava & her parents. Enjoy the photos!

It took me 6 hours with some construction paper, a glue stick, and various other tools... :

...to make 3 Sesame Street favor bags for their 2nd birthday party:

Once they woke up and came upstairs, they attempted to climb up to the bags & presents:

Opening gifts once Ava arrived:

Ruby goes through books and points out what she likes ("Ruby likes boats, Ruby likes kites..."):

One of Charlotte's many dress up styles (notice that her clothes are on inside-out & backwards):

Outside our home on one of the first fall-like days:

Despite overcoming her fear at the park in Aurora, Ruby is not so sure of walking on the grass outside our home, where the ground is sloped:

Running ahead to walk on the nature path:

Charlotte set up these books in the window so that the "beetlebug" on the screen could read them:

Playing with Melissa while I get lunch ready:

Ruby reaches for my hand to hold so she can walk on the grass with Charlotte:

Charlotte runs off, with Bob going after her:

Charlotte got a kick out of holding Siouxsie's lead and "walking" her through the grass:

Ruby was very happy to have a big stick to walk with:

Ruby, Charlotte, Ava, & Melissa holding hands and walking on the bridge in our neighborhood:

Ruby, Charlotte, & Ava sitting on the gazebo bench: