Our Mama tries hard, but...

It is a good thing we are learning to cook. Check out our Mama's first attempt at cupcakes for our birthday.



Our Mama is ordinarily proficient in the kitchen (she makes a killer banana cut in chunks), but she has clearly had better days!

Someone's in the kitchen with Mama

Now that we are getting bigger, we get to freely roam the house while we play. We enjoy helping our Mama cook.

 
 
 
 

Someday we will learn what these things do.

Good morning!

Every morning, one of us wakes up first, and that girl is responsible for waking up her sister. Then we talk and sing in our cribs until our Mama or Daddy come to say good morning. Then we get to spend 15 minutes playing in the same crib before it is time to get up for the day.

 
 
 
 

Playing with our friends

Our friend Liam and his Mommy came over on Friday for lunch and playtime. We discovered we all three have a mutual hatred of the food processor and strikingly similar taste in clothing.

 
 

We had such a nice time with Liam, though it is not clear whether he had a nice time with us!

Reading with Daddy

We have been a fan of books for some time now. However, recently our attention span for reading is not all that it could be. We'd rather explore.

In spite of this, our Mama and Daddy persist in reading to us, even when it becomes a sport of Olympic proportions to merely turn the pages.
 
 
 
 

Visiting Daddy at work, part 2

We did eventually make it out to visit our Daddy at Lewis. We had a very nice time, chatting with all the science professors and staff and other people who stopped by to see some rare cuteness! Our Daddy let us crawl around in the physics/chemistry office.
 
 

Then we helped our Daddy grade his mechanics homework.
 
 
See how helpful we are?

Visiting Daddy at work: part 1

We went to visit our Daddy at work last week. Naturally, we dressed up in our Lewis University clothes. Our Mama thought we were cute in them, so she tried to take pictures of us in them. We, of course, were against this idea.



 
 
 
 

Flower and garden show

We ended our spring break with a rainy trip to the Chicago Home and Garden show. We dressed in our finest jackets with flowers and took our new-to-us umbrella stroller (from our new twin friends Elliot and Dietrich) and had a very nice afternoon. The highlight of the trip, for us, was the kids' area, where we took our first ride in a real swing!

 
 
 
 

In our stroller

Last week our Mama and Daddy were on spring break, so we took the week off too. We went for lots of good walks when the weather was so nice.

We do enjoy time in our stroller!
 
 
 
It lets us learn all kinds of new tricks.
 

Tot lot times

Once a week or so, we get to go to the tot lot. Sometimes we go with our Mama or Daddy, sometimes with our Gramee. The tot lot is over at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, where we also have our music class on Fridays. They open up the gym for little kids like us to play in. There are some great toys there, too, but many days we hardly need toys at all. We are happy to crawl and crawl.

This week, there was a ride-on toy out. We hopped right on and went for a ride!  
For some reason, our Mama matches the tractor perfectly.

Anna and a truck
 
Julia and a push-along toy.
 

We both like to chase basketballs, too.
 

Cheer, cheer

We made our first trip to Notre Dame, our Mama and Daddy's alma mater. It was, in true South Bend fashion, bitterly cold, which made it hard even for us to enjoy our walk outside (and we love walks outside).

We saw the Dome and the Basilica
 
 
Mama took us back to where she used to study.
 

We made some new friends.