Singing....well sort of....

Camping...

We took the camper out for a test spin on Memorial Day weekend. I was nervous because Averie and Andrew had never slept in a bed that was not a crib or a pack-n-play. They slept in the double bed in the back of the camper and they did GREAT! They had a hard time going to sleep, of course, but once they were asleep, they slept all night. This first photo of them sliding together at the playground.

This picture is of Andrew and Bruce having breakfast at the table in the camper.

This picture was taken outside, under the awning of the camper. We were just sitting outside relaxing and they started to laugh at each other. VERY CUTE!

Precious time....

I know that it does not look like night time, but this picture was taken at about 8:00 pm. I had been sitting on the floor playing with them and I got tired of the floor so I hopped up in to Averie's mini chair. Those are really comfy, by the way. Over the course of the next few minutes they both crawled up into my lap. They crawl, climb, roll, and slobber on me all day. Sometimes I get really frustrated with them, but at night I am the only one that will do. They don't want anything to do with their daddy or anybody else for that matter. At night, I am on duty no matter what, and I love it!!

Warm days....yeah!!!

Our weather has warmed up quite a bit. Andrew and Averie want to be outside every minute that they are awake. I feel like we have been set free from the snow and harsh winter. When it is sunny outside there is no place on earth more beautiful than Alaska. We are really enjoying being able to go outside and play. I took this picture on one of our walks the other day. I know that she is my child, but I think she is the cutest little girl...hehe!!

Bright nights....early mornings....

Way out here in Alaska we have really short days in the winter and really long days in the summer. Right now we are having days that last about eighteen hours of daylight. When we arrived here last year it was the same way, but the babies didn't seem to have any trouble with the long days. This year, however, we are having lots of trouble. I can't really blame them because the light really tricks you. Really sunny days are harder because the babies get sun in their rooms until about 9:00 pm. I have black out shades on their windows and that helps a TON, but it doesn't make the room completely dark. Tonight we attempted to put them to bed about 8:00 pm. As you can see in the first picture, Andrew was having none of that. This is him standing, looking out of the window at 9:20 pm. It is still really bright outside.

I took this picture a few days ago at 11 pm.

The sun starts coming up by 5:00 am. Andrew is already an early riser and because of the long days he sometimes will get up really early. On this particular day he was awake and ready to party at 5:45 am. I took this picture of him sleeping in his car seat at 11 am. He didn't make it to lunch. He was really tired and out of it the entire day. I usually try to get him to go back to sleep but that day he just wasn't having it!!

Cookie Monster

Andrew has a bad sweet tooth. I can already tell that he is going to be a picky eater like me. For those of you that know me, you know that is really bad. Anytime I ask him if he is hungry he looks at me and does the sign for "cookie". He would live on cookies if I would let him. Sometimes he might only eat a little bit of his main meal and then start asking for cookies. It is times like this when I regret trying to teach him to talk!! Anyway, the other day I accidentally left the cookies out on the table. Before I knew it, he was up in the chair and opening up the package. I wanted to tell him NO, but he was so cute that I just took his picture. As you can see, he has a cookie in his hand as he is going for another one. I guess it's more fun to have two cookies so that both hands are occupied.

Birthday Blog!

All I asked for was a cake. I wanted a real birthday cake ordered from a bakery with my name on it. Bruce came through with a lovely cake with red roses. It tastes really good as well. The babies love cake!!

However, I got a really big present. It was not for my birthday, but we did pick it up today. We have been talking about getting a camper since we found out that we were moving to AK. All of the places that you can travel too around here are tourist kind of places and it is very expensive to stay in a hotel. We are not sure how it will be to "camp" with the babies, but they are very good sleepers and I am just going to be optimistic. Worse case would be that we don't use it all that much and we sell it. People around here are always looking to buy campers like this one. I am going to start working on getting the camper stocked ASAP. We are very excited!
Just to brag on myself a little, I pulled it home from all the way across town and I backed it in myself. If my dad is "King of the Road", I am definitely the "Queen"!!