huh.

Sometimes it gets really quite in my house. It's amazing after two little screamers refuse to sleep. Chris and I will go check on them later and make sure they're warm and cozy in their little baby beds and we laugh at the latest position Zuri has wiggled her way into with her piles of blankets and stuffed animals all around her.

I just can't believe sometimes I have kids. It's incredible, and exhausting sometimes, but mostly just incredible. They are happy, tough little munchkins. They are my happy place.

Here and there.

First off, I'm loving the show Downton Abbey. Oh man, that's some good stuff. Thanks for those who recommended it to me. I feel like my mind thinks in a British accent after I watch it.

It's funny, there are a few things I've been thinking a lot of lately that our cousin, Ashley, posted just the other day. Such as:

Instagram. It's so great. I feel all fancy and artsy for not needing to be artsy about it at all.

Second, the news. I can't watch/listen to it at all. I never really was a fan of it. I know it's important to know what's going on in the local community and the world, but all these terrible stories about how evil people are, to kids especially, just makes me furious and I hate people for it. I'm serious. I get full of disgust and anger followed by a large desire to just cry. I just don't need that in my mind.

Off that topic.

Then we have this little guy. We had to shave him last week due to his ability to get fleas so dang easy. He's better now just constantly cold and burrowing into blankets.

Dot got her first tooth the other day. She's scooting in 180's. I had been waiting to get her ears pierced until she could sit up pretty good. Which means she got them pierced last night. She was not happy with me. She's much better this morning and looks like a little lady.

happenins

Z has figured out how to get her clothes off, which she'll accomplish the second we get home from any outing...

How many licks does it take to get the center?

You know the Plain White T's "1 2 3 4" ? It's one of her favorites.

Zuri is 2 and Christmas

The festivities were exhausting.

I just love her little smiles

Zuri's new hoodie.

Dot got bandana bibs. (they keep the drool at bay, very nice)
Dot also got binky's for Christmas.

A little Christmas cheer. She wasn't as into the Belle doll as I thought she'd be. That's alright cause she got a good amount of toys from family on her birthday. These slippers were a nice hit though. She wore them around the house yesterday paired with just her pull up. Very humorous.

Zuri's birthday. Hailey got her a cute little "it's my birthday" dress and Chris taught her the latest trick, a hug/squeeze.

one.

Dot at three months. A common face of hers.

How zuri wanted to decorate the tree.

D. helped decorate the tree by staring down the lights.
This kids last day being a 1 year old. I can hardly believe it.
I wish I woke up with hair like this:

Zoo

This is a totally late post, but oh well, I wanted some of this documented.

We went to the Zoo a few weeks ago and Zuri loved it. I'm pretty sure she would have been perfectly thrilled to hang out with the sea lions the entire time. Dot was awesome and slept the whole time. Luckily my friend, Whitney, had a double stroller and we could just stick our babies in that. man, I need to get me one of them!

Dot and her boy pal, Tate. I love the binky action going on here. Throw that with the glare Dot is shooting at me for taking her out in the cold and I think we got ourselves an entertaining little video!

This is pretty loud...Just warning you.

The Zoo is a billion times more fun with little kids. We'll definitely need to go back again soon.

The girls

I'm doing a bit of a lazy day at home with the girls and posting some videos that just make me happy. Zuri's is longer for those who don't want to watch a minute and a half of my chatty kid. But come on who doesn't want to do that?!

I did this video just so you can hear what Zuri says when she can't pronounce something. It makes me laugh very time maybe because it reminds me of what I would do in Spanish...

Dot is starting to laugh now. I missed more of the giggles and got the 'laughing so hard I'm choking and now have the hiccups' part.