We are 19 months!

 
George
Communication: George's expressive vocabulary really took off this month.  He added lots of words including wow, whoa, uh-oh, ice, thank you, welcome, please, hi, blue, eye, Asha (a character in a book), moon, and Jesus.
Tricks: George can point to all different parts of the body including his head, toes, hands, fingers, arm, leg, belly, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and booty.  We taught him how to do cheers at dinner.  When he clinks his glass he says, "Ding!"
Number of Chompers: 16
Favorite Things: George loves to swim.  We've spent lots of time in the pool and he is entirely too brave in the water.  With his floaty on, he will kick his feet for us.  He also blows bubbles in the water.  George will jump off the side of the pool and into one of our arms.  George is constantly smiling while splashing in the pool.

 Peeking around the toy box.

 Tea, anyone?

Let me think that one over.

Clara
Communication: Clara continues to add words to her expressive vocabulary.  She says uh-oh, cheers, cheese, eye, hi, blue, and down.  Clara is also now saying, "Mommy, this" which is one of the first two word combinations she uses frequently. 
Tricks: Clara can also point to parts of her body including her head, toes, hands, fingers, arm, leg, belly, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and booty.  Clara loves to do, "Cheers!" at the dinner table.  Clara initiates it at almost every meal.  Pretty cute!
Number of chompers: 12
Favorite Things: Right now Clara loves to give Mommy kisses.  She will stop playing to walk over and give me a big smack on the lips.  She is such a loving sweet little girl!  Clara still loves to dance, dance, dance!  She shakes her booty and shimmies her shoulders to any music.  It is quite adorable!

 19 months!

 Kisses kisses kisses!

Sweet face!

Mommy's Favorite Moments:
-George was in bed ready to go to sleep.  Over the monitor I hear him practicing the newest addition to his growing vocabulary.  Ba - ba - ba - bluuuue.  So stinking cute!
-After a KAMOM play date and lunch out with Grandma and Grandpa Quinn, Clara was dozing off on the car ride home.  When I got her out of her car seat she was not too happy, so she laid down on the driveway to go back to sleep.  Silly girl!
-While running errands with Daddy, George was sitting in his car seat with his hands up behind his head.  John asked him, "George are you just chilling?"  George responded, "Yep."

Congratulations Christina and Sayed!

Congratulations to Christina and Sayed for closing on and moving into their new house in Houston!  We are so happy you are back.  The house is beautiful and we know you will make wonderful memories there with your growing family.  It was fun to celebrate with you!

Congratulations!

Cheers!

Aunt Christina, one of Clara's favorite people!

Welcome to Houston Riesling!

KAMOM Musical Play Date

Today we went to another great KAMOM play date.  The kiddos made tambourines.  We sang. We danced.  We played.  It was so much fun!  I am so happy I joined this wonderful group of women.  George and Clara always have a blast when we get together.  More fun summer play dates to come!

Working hard making our tambourines.

George and Clara's tambourines which are made from

two paper plates stapled together with pasta and beans inside. 

Singing songs.

Shake it guys!

Sweet Clarabear.

George running...as usual.

Wonderwild!

Today we went to Wonderwild, an amazing indoor play space in The Heights in Houston.  We met a few other families from KAMOM there and spent two hours climbing, jumping, sliding, playing, and laughing!  George and Clara had so much fun.  We will definitely go back sometime soon.  If you have kiddos and live in Houston, you have to check it out!

We climbed this three story play space together!  

Climbing in the ball pit.

Clara deep in thought in the ball pit.

Jumping pillow.  Here we come Mom!

Run Georgey!

Run Clarabear!

 George loved the jumping pillow!

Clara loved to lay down and let the kids jump around her.  

Choochoo!

Vroom vroom!

Daddy's Roses

John always works so hard in our yard to make it beautiful.  He worked for five years to get the yard at our old house where he wanted and then we moved.  Well he is off to a fantastic start at our new home.  He spends hours in the garden every weekend and I am so thankful for his hard work.  Because of it, I can enjoy beautiful flowers while spending my days outside playing with the kiddos.  John, glad you have a green thumb!

Enjoy a few pics of his beautiful roses!!

Memorial Day Fun!

Thanks to all of our selfless USA military men and women, past and present (including my Dad), who put their lives in harms way so we can live freely and comfortably at home.  We so appreciate the sacrifices you make every day!  

My parents had a party at their house for some of our good friends Memorial Day weekend.  It seems that this is becoming an annual tradition.  My parents definitely know how to throw a party!  We all had a great time and it was wonderful to see Addison, Allison, George, and Clara swim and play.  Thanks to Paul, Whitney, Jake, Maria, Mike, Megan, Mark, Sarah, George, Bianca, Mom, and Dad for all the fun! Hope to see everyone next year!

Addison, Clara, George, and Allison

 Addison and George playing in the rocks.

Clara and Allison hanging out on the driveway.

Checking out Grandpa Quinn's peppers.

Yum Yum!  BBQ!

Playing with Mike and Megan

Hanging out with Grandma H

Just the beginning of summer fun!

We recently hosted 8 Mommies and 8 sets of twins at our house for a splash play date.  When I type it, it sounds a little crazy but it was so much fun!  All the kiddos were so well behaved.  George and Clara had a blast with all their new friends!  Our KAMOM group has so many fun play dates planned this summer.  I am really looking forward to all the activities.  I hope we can host another play date soon!

Getting ready for our friends to come over!

Playing with new friends.

Splash time!

Recently we went to one of our favorite Italian restaurants for lunch at Kings Harbor with Grandpa Quinn and Daddy.  Kings Harbor has a fun fountain for kiddos to run through.  The twins loved it!  After our fountain play time they slept for three hours!  Now I know where to bring them this summer to get out the never ending energy!

George was cautious at first but then he jumped right in!

As usual Clara just went for it!

Trying to plug the holes.  :)

These two monkeys are always up for a dance party.  I have music on in the house a lot during the day so we frequently break out in some serious dance moves.  This time Mommy had the camera near by.  I love these dancing toddlers!!

Good moves Clara!

Awesome George!

Giggling girl!

Yay!!!!