My daughter...

Aviendha is such an amazing creature! One smile from her and any heart will melt! She is starting to be a lot more comfortable around other people and will even give her slobbery open mouth kisses away, even to Uncle David (surprise, surprise!). But there is someone who has never been denied a kiss! 

 Avie LOVES Evona! Evona is the cutest little dog that belongs to my niece Hannah! These two just get along so well, Evona even lets Avie pet her and give her hugs, as long as Evona gets all the kisses she wants!

Just last night Avie wanted to share just how silly she can be! We gave her and Jona a bath. Got them out, put on fresh diapers and clean Jammies! Avie slipped out of the living room and went back to the bathroom where Rand was having a bath. I guess she decided that she was still a little dirty....

This was the first time she got in the tub with NO assistance from Mommy or Daddy... We still haven't determined whether or not Rand helped! He was laughing, just a little!!

Family Pictures!

A few weeks ago I was looking at my walls and decided that we needed new pictures, new family pictures. The twins have changed so much in the last year! So last week we got all dressed up, except Rand-I had a shirt all picked out for him but somehow I managed to leave it on the living room floor-oops! We went to Richmond where Tonya, my amazing Sis-in-law took some really neat pictures of my family and the kids! Here are a few of my faves!

My beautiful daughter!

I Love this one! She and that bear are inseparable!!

A family picture!

My little Jonathan!

This boy would not stay still for ANYTHING!! He would have took off to who knows where!

My Rand!! Just a freaking awesome kid!

Another family pic!

After the tracks we went to a park!

Jona and Avie (at the train tracks)!

Mommy getting some Jona kisses!!

Daddy's girl!

Rand!

Avie kisses for Mommy!

Rand and Pyper playing!!

Hi!!!

Weeeee!

We had such a blast and now I get to swap all those tiny baby pictures on my wall with some new pictures of my rambunctious toddlers and handsome 4 year old!!

Halloween

This year is all about Toy Story for Rand. His birthday party was a Toy Story theme, cake and presents. So naturally when we asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he chose Buzz Lightyear! Grandma found this awesome costume for him and he was so excited to dress up and go Trick or Treating!

For the twins I decided to spend two days frantically sewing with many calls to Tonya!! (Thank again!!) I made Avie a princess dress and Jona a dragon top, complete with a lumpy tail!

These are from the night before trick or treating, hence the pajama pants on Jona! We put black sweat pants on him for the actual event! They are just at that stage where it is next to impossible to get a wiggle free picture!
It was a fun night! We took the twins and Rand trick or treating to all of our neighbors and then some friends came over and so I stayed home with the twins to hand out candy and everyone else went trick or treating! The kids (and parents) came home with baskets filled to the brim and warmed up with some finger and toe soup (baked potato soup) and some bugs, snails and worms in dirt and Swamp juice!

The rest of October was a fun time filled with things such as going to the corn maze with all of Rand's class mates and field trips! But here is a slide show of some of the silly things my kids have been up to, we even spent a Sunday afternoon playing at the park! The twins LOVED the slides and the swings!

This week I learned an important lesson: Here is why I do not clean or do pretty much anything until they are asleep. If I leave the room, things like this happen: