Fun at Wildwood

We had so much fun last weekend. Mommy and daddy took us up to Wildwood, G&G Kreiser's place. There was even a surprise for us in the morning when we woke up. Our cousin Derek, he's 2 1/2, was there too!!!!! What a treat. We all played and played and played. It was a blast.

He taught us how to ride the 4-wheeler.

He also showed us how to use the "See and Say".

We played "fort" under the table. That was really fun. We were hiding from mommy and Mor Mor (grandma).

We now know what a slinky is. It is SOOOOOO COOOOOL! Meaghan and I had to share of course.

Meaghan's favorite part was being read to by Mor Mor. She loves books or magazines.

My favorite part was wearing the "Princess" crown (aka a tossing ring).

Papa played the banjo for us and we danced for everybody. Meaghan wanted to learn how to play the banjo so papa was trying to teach her.

Guess what Derek found??? Santa's hat. Can you believe he left it behind? We asked Mor Mor to send it back to him so his head doesn't get cold. Plus he'll need it for Christmas! Meaghan, of course, had to try it on first. They wanted me to try it too, but I didn't really want to be a part of that.

Meaghan and Mor Mor

Mor Mor with me and Derek

Papa with Meaghan and Derek.

Stay warm and hopefully Spring will come soon. Mommy's not too happy about this winter cold stuff. She says she's a beach girl. I'm sure we'll learn what that is soon enough.

Love Allison (& Meaghan)

Happy Heart Month!!!

Hello, it's me Allison. We hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day! It's happy heart month.

The big news right now is that Meaghan can walk.
Just across the room so far, but watch out "here she comes". I'm not too far behind. I can walk, although I seem to think I have to hold onto someone. My mommy tells me that I'm not even using her for help really, it's just a security thing. I don't care what you call it, I like holding on to something. The other news is that I'm getting my top 2 teeth. I don't like it very much. It kinda hurts and I get a bit crabby and clingy. Pretty soon I'll have more teeth than Meaghan.

Here are some fun pics of us.

On Valentine's Day, we got to have a bath in the BIG tub, mommy's tub. She even came in with us. We could really get used to that. It was really fun.

Mommy wanted to have our picture taken with daddy, but we only had eyes for toys. Actually, I didn't have eyes, Meaghan was covering them. I was quite a bit perturbed about that as you can see.

We finally got a grip on ourselves and went back to playing. Daddy and I were building things. Really though, I was destroying as daddy was building.

Meanwhile, Meaghan was in the kitchen going through the drawers. She loves to empty everything out. She even loves to empty our dresser drawers.

Guess what? Mommy "let me play" with her cell phone. It flips open and takes pictures too. Of course Meaghan had to get in on the action too and took it away from me. Someday!!!!!!

Mommy gave her a toy phone instead, HA!

We hope you all have a great week. We get to go up to G & G Kreiser's farm this weekend. Yeah, we haven't seen them since our birthday and we miss them something fierce.

Love, Allison (& Meaghan)

Our Friend Jake and More

We had much fun this past week. Allison and I couldn't go to daycare this past Thursday 'cause one of the daycare lady's kids was sick. Our friend Jake couldn't go either, so he came to our house and mommy watched us all. We got to have a friend over all day! Jake is our neighbor and is an older boy (by 2 whole weeks). It was so much fun. He had breakfast with us and Allison seemed quite smitten with him.

We also had tons of fun playing, although Allison had issues as usual sharing. She just does not like it when I want to play with the same things she does. Jake just watched us squabble.

We showed Jake our stash of Baby Einstein DVDs and all the remotes that mommy lets us play with.

Jake and I had fun wrestling over the rocking horse too. I'm used to bugging Allison over toys, not someone bugging me. I thought it was funny. I don't get why Allison usually has issues with it.
We had such a good time playing and we played so hard that we finally had to rest. My favorite spot to rest is, of course, one of the toy boxes.

Thank you Jake for coming over. Come back again soon.

I have a favorite new activity. I love to read and have books read to me. I'm quite talented too. I can read words upside down!!

I like to help turn the pages. Sometimes I'm so excited to see what's on the next page that I don't wait for daddy to finish with the page he's on.

Allison likes to read too. She starts at the end of a book and works her way to the beginning. Whatever works, right?

I hope you all have a good week.

Love Meaghan

And Allison

What we like to do...

How did everyone enjoy the warmer weather this weekend?? We had fun. Mommy and daddy took us out to lunch and then we went to this HUGE place called Cosco. Mommy and daddy filled our cart with tons of stuff. All the old ladies that were handing out food, FOR FREE even, were asking mommy and daddy about us. They thought we were so cute, of course. We were so wiped out after that though. I fell asleep right away in the car. Mommy cheated though and gave me my nuk. I'm only suppose to get it for my afternoon nap or if mommy wants to sleep longer in the morning. Meaghan wasn't so happy in the car. She kept staring at me and wondering how I could sleep. She even got really mad for a bit, then just stared at me again. the only reason I know this is because mommy took pictures. Look.

She finally woke me up with her all her comotion. We both napped well when we got home and then just played and played 'til dinner and then bedtime. Meaghan talked and talked on the phone. Daddy's in so much trouble when she's older.
She seems to think that the grocery cart is not only a push toy, but a climbing toy as well.
Hey look at me. I like to pose for the camera. I also like to try and put my socks on by myself. The only problem is they don't seem to fit on my head.
We decided we would bake something for mommy and daddy since they are always making stuff for us.
We got these blocks for our birthday. Meaghan carries the bag to mom or dad and has them open it for us. Daddy likes to build with them and we love to DESTROY!!!!! Daddy is trying to teach Meaghan it's better to build than to destroy.

And of course play time is never complete without Meaghan falling into (or climbing into) the toy box.

People always ask mommy what we're into these days. Here are few pictures to answer that question. We like to ....

1. Play with our Little People toys. We have a house, farm, zoo, ark, and garage.

2. Play with the electronics. Especially the Tivo buttons and volume control.
3. Ride on our toys. Although Meaghan seems to think the grocery cart is a riding toy too.
4. Practice how to balance things on our heads so we can be in beauty contests when we're older. Mommy says that is so NOT happening. But why, look at how good I am at keeping things on my head????
5. Not share very well. Meaghan is always taking what I have and I don't like to give it up. By the way mom, the grocery cart is NOT big enough for two people to play with it at the same time! If you can't tell what I'm doing I am hanging my head down and having a bit of a fit. Meaghan could care less.
6. Eat and drink.
Have a good week and take care.

Love Allison (& Meaghan)