Two posts today! I guess I have lots to say!

I was in the kitchen yesterday while Kaleb and Kendyl enjoyed their lunch out in the living room. They love to watch Clifford while they eat, and I'm totally cool with it. It usually gives me the chance to clean up the kitchen while they eat. I happened to look out at them, and I realized "wow, they really do look alike for being fraternal twins!" So I grabbed my camera, and wanted to take some pictures.


There's something that's really hard about taking pictures of my kids. I can't just take out the camera, and start snapping natural pictures of them. The SECOND they see the camera they start smiling like cheesy goon balls, and I can't just get a picture of them being kids. I know, most parents would LOVE to have kids who just want to look at the camera and smile right? I'm not complaining, except for when I just want to capture them being kids! you know, doing the kid things that I'll want to look back on for years to come, and go yeah
I remember that!!!

Especially with the twins. I feel like everything goes in double time now that they're here. I can hardly believe that they'll be three this summer! It really doesn't seem like that long ago that we found out it was twins, and that I was big, and miserable, and pregnant with them.

Also, going down that road opens up all the feelings of guilt that I have from their first year! They were born in July, and in September of that year we put our house on the market for the first time to try to sell it. And in that time, we rushed around like crazy people trying to get things ready, and keep up with this house so that we could
sell it, and get something bigger. I really feel like we missed so much of that first year in the shuffle. It all just seems like a fog. I have such VIVID memories of the boys when they were really little, and it just seems like with the twins, unless its on film, I forget it easily.

I'm really glad that I've been a camera whore in the last two years though! Because I have caught so much on camera. I'm really thankful for those pictures now! I do have to say that pictures really are one of my most valued possessions.

So, the series of pictures here are Kaleb and kendyl eating lunch yesterday afternoon. Hamburger, noodles, and carrot. IDENTICAL plates, yet they still eye up what the other has, and what the other is eating. They still usually eat with their fingers, unless reminded to eat with their forks!!

I just can't believe how BIG they are now.. .look at them.
they're turning into big kids. They're really not my babies
any more, no matter if we still call them "the babies" or not.


And now that we're potty training it just seems like we're one step closer to being completely done with the baby stage. I don't know that I'm actually ready for that. I LOVE the baby stage, and the all the way up until they sass back at me stage. And we're going to be done with that soon. Yikes.

Thinking about that, I need to sit back, take a big deep breath, and I need to try not to cry! I don't want to think about the day that my kids aren't going to need me. When they'll be grown up, and living their own lives. I don't want to think about
all of that! But you know, sometimes I just can't help it. It just seems that life flies by way too quickly. Like I spent the first part of my life thinking time was crawling, just waiting to be an adult, and be on my own. Little did I know I'd be wishing for the days to crawl that slow. I'd be wishing for every extra second in every extra minute in the day to let things slow down enough that I can just enjoy them. Enjoy my kids without having to worry about money, or health insurance, or bills, or whats for dinner. just enjoy the simple things.

Like bare little piggie toes on my beautiful two year olds!!!!!