All About the Twins

A lot has happened for our little family since my last post.... the twins finished up their second round of swimming lessons and they were AMAZING!!! I was a little worried when they finished up their pike class in July (that is code for beginner). I decided to go ahead and move them up to eels (that is code for not a beginner, but not even close to an expert). Gracie was having issues with not plugging her nose when she went under water and Whitney was telling me she was putting her face in the water without her nose plugged, but in all acuality she was giving herself a quick dunk. So I did what any good mother would do - I threatened them, and when that didn't work I bought them goggles. It was as if a fairy came down and sprinkled them with swimming dust.... they were swimming under water, floating on their backs, doing countless "bobs" to show me how many times they could go under water without plugging their noses, jumping into the pool....you catch my drift. On their last day of class I was SO proud of them I almost started crying. Here are a few pictures of the little rays (that is the class they will be in next summer)....






They are growing up so quickly. They are starting to take the whole playing with barbie's thing very seriously - there are numerous outfit changes and rearranging of the barbie house furniture each time they play. They have started doing weird things that makes the other one laugh hysterically and makes me giggle because they have the best laughs. My favorite thing they do at the moment is let Livvy "chase" them around the kitchen and family room. They run screaming and laughing from her and Livvy runs straight-legged after them screaming and laughing too - it is pure joy in our house when this happens.

Here are some random pictures of the girls....I really think Whitney takes after her dad in these next few photos.






And last, but not least, the twins started KINDERGARTEN on August 10th. I was having many issues with this - mostly just feeling bad for myself that my girls were growing up and they have been the center of each day of my life for the past 5 1/2 years. When the bus came around the corner to pick them up Monday morning I fought back the tears and only cried a little bit on the way home (to be fair I had cried A LOT the two days prior to that). They were so excited and have really had a good time so far. They come home and we do a "lunch check" to see how much of their lunch that I packed them they really ate, and they show me all of their stuff they did that day and then I think about how much I missed them and how happy I am that they are home and how having them gone all day is SO hard, then they start fighting and whining about being hungry and I can't help but wish is was 7:53 a.m. the next morning and they were on that bus =). Here are some pictures from the first day of school - they really wanted to wear their backpacks on one shoulder....so funny.

Lunch Ideas

Well, the time is almost here - the twins start kindergarten on Monday, August 10th. They will just be going 1/2 day for the first week and then switching over to full days that next week. I am trying not to panic - I am SO excited for them, I completely loved elementary school....in fact if I could have gone straight from elementary to high school that would have been GREAT. I digress.....I would love simple/nutritious lunch ideas from any of you - I'm pretty sure the twins might get sick of sandwiches/pretzels/fruit so I would like to have other options to give them. We are going to let them get hot lunch a few times a month - but at $1.75 per lunch I figure I can make it much cheaper. Thanks!