My little Frankenstein

Averie 16 months old and still does not quite weigh 20 pounds. She is my little angel. We took this video of her trying to walk tonight. She is so close to walking, but she has to have a lot of praise to get the courage up to let go and walk. She will get it soon though. I thought this video was just too cute not to share. Please excuse my high pitch voice. Sometimes you don't realize how you sound until you hear it on video.

Outdoor fun!

The weather has been wonderful for most of the month of September. Low's in the 40's and highs in the 60's was the norm for most of the month. However, this week the weather has drastically changed. Low's in the low 30's and highs in the 40's, rainy and very miserable. Also the "termination dust" is racing down the mountains, therefore, we will have snow on the ground before long. Actually,the weather people are predicting a mixture of rain and snow for Monday. However, before the weather turned bad, we had tons of fun walking around in the neighborhood, playing at the playground and just being outside. Here are some of our pictures from our days of outdoor fun.

Averie loves to slide. She just grins and laughs and wants to do it again and again.

The see saw is lots of fun too!

This is a playground at the neighborhood elementary school. They do not have baby swings so we just made the best of it, because the twins LOVE to swing.

Averie is still not walking, but she is soooooo close. She still has a good time outside playing, but it would be easier if she could walk.

My boys, walking side-by-side down the trail. Andrew kept up pretty well. He loves to be set free to run outside.

Our first injury....

Well everyone, we had our first busted lip on Wednesday. Andrew's new favorite thing to do is run around outside on his own. There is a little slope at the end of our driveway that met Andrew's face yesterday because he got to running and couldn't control his speed. As you can see in the picture, his mouth started bleeding and it ran out on his clothes. He was pitiful. His lip was all swollen and I know it hurt bad. However, we continued our walk and he acted like nothing happened. Can you see the bruise on his forehead? That happened yesterday too. Poor guy, he had a rough day!

Bruce....

Bruce and his friend, Greg Hough, went out to "chop" firewood a couple of weekends ago. They made a huge deal about how much work they did to bring home the wood so that we would all be warm this winter.  Now, they did have THREE truck beds full of wood, so it looked impressive.  However, after I had complemented him on his hard work, I found out the truth.  The truth is the tree was already cut down and cut into big round pieces of log.  They had a gas powered splitter out in the woods to "chop" the wood for them. They did not do any hard labor. They just fed the wood trough the splitter and the splitter made the big, nice pieces of firewood.  BIG CHEATERS!!!

Averie....and her motor!

I have decided that Averie uses her tongue for a motor.  She can't move unless it is hanging out of her mouth. Lately she has is over to the side, and hooked on her top lip.  She is a mess!

For those of you that don't know, I had to have an ovarian cyst removed on September 1st.  I am doing great and recovering with no problems. However, Bruce's parents came up to help with the babies while I recovered.  Now that I am feeling better we have been able to get out a little and show them Anchorage.  This past Saturday morning we went to breakfast at Snow City Cafe.  It's a famous breakfast place around here.  Well, Averie was playing with her dad's hat while we were waiting for our food and this is what we ended up with.  She put the hat on all by herself and her pride is showing in her big smile.  I think she is the cutest thing ever!!

Andrew....

For reasons that I am not sure about, Andrew has become attached to this pink wash cloth.  A week or so ago, I picked it up to wash and put it in the laundry basket with the other clothes.  Well, we were all upstairs doing something and I turned around and there he was sitting in the laundry basket with his pink rag.  He had dug it out and climbed in the basket with it.  He sat there for over half an hour with that rag.  Now, I promise that I have tried to give him a yellow and a blue rag, but he only wants the pink one.  

Bruce took Andrew to get his hair cut last week and this picture shows how he felt about the whole thing. Bruce called me from the hair place and said he had burst in to tears when he sat him in the chair.  Andrew is not a daredevil at all.  He is really skittish about trying new things.  It takes him a while to warm up.  Now, Averie, she is not scared of anything!