Cat food stew...

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The girls will be 11 months old tomorrow. They are now crawling, clapping, standing up on their own, eating table food and getting into EVERYTHING. Lily seems to love cat food. CAT FOOD!?! Her favorite thing is to crawl to the kitchen when mama isn't looking and grab a nice hand full of the stuff and stuff it in her mouth. Bella has been caught with a hand full once also. All that money Augie and I spend on their food! Who knew they'd love cat food? Ick! The girls generally love the cat and all the cat's things including the cat box. Bella can even say "kitty" or something that sounds similar when she sees the cat. The cat, howewever. being twice shy, hates the girls.

So, as you may have guessed, Augie and I have yet to completely childproof the house. I guess we thought the girls would be preemies for the rest of their lives. In truth, we have all the things needed to childproof but none of the time. I did, however, finally lower their cribs...and not a moment too soon as I have seen Bella ponder the task of escaping! Its hard to believe that this time next month will be the girls' 1st Birthday...oh, and Christmas, too.

The girls saw the preemie specialist again- the one that checks their growth and development. Lily and Bella are right on track, although they still function at 2 months younger than their biological age. He did say, however, that I could probably start transitioning them to regular cow's milk. Happy day! Their formula is 10 bucks a bottle and they go through 2 of them a day! Now all I will need is a gallon of the cheap stuff, a few cans of cat food and we're set! Yippee!

Woodland Fairy Twincesses...

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Here it is. The awaited Halloween costume pic. Some people at work assumed that an expensive studio took this one. Target Portait Studio fits my teacher budget and, with a few of my suggestions here and there (although this photo was an original composition by the studio photographer), they do ok.

1st Halloween...done!

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The girls are now 10 months old. For Halloween, they paraded through the grounds of their daycare dressed as a very long hungry caterpillar along with the rest of the infants at the center. The girls go to school with the children of a celebrity (whose name I will not mention for safety and privacy purposes), so paparazzi were swarming everywhere. Though the girls took fantastically beautiful Halloween pictures in their woodland fairy costumes (to be posted soon), aside from the parade, our 1st Halloween passed fairly uneventfully. We had few tricker-treaters...maybe 12 in total and we decided not to carve the pumpkins this year as the unseasonably hot weather would have surely rotted them, attracting all kinds of unwanted animal and insect life.Daycare has been quite a booster for the girls' development. When Lily entered daycare in late September, she had yet to roll over. Since then, Lily has not only rolled over, but she is crawling, getting into sitting position on her own and even trying to stand. Isabella has even perfected the walking motion and is all set to do it on her own...except for the balance part. Both of the girls have more teeth than is safe to check. Daycare has even given their immune systems a great big boost. I wish daycare could also sponsor their doctor's bills!