Hope you had a Happy New Year! Our New Year's Eve ended up being very uneventful. We ended up staying home with the girls and watching a movie ("The Dark Knight") after they went to bed at 7:30. We couldn't even stay awake until midnight...how sad! It's tough to stay up late anymore now that the girls are awake by 6:00 a.m.
We spent January 1st through January 4th at home. Our daycare was closed on Friday the 2nd, so we made a long weekend out of it. We ended up not doing much, which was nice. Jamie went ice fishing on New Years Day with my sister Terri's husband Aaron, which he enjoyed. They came home in the evening with a bucket full of sunnies. The girls stayed in their pajamas all day...how lucky! We had to take the girls to the doctor on Friday morning so they could get flu shots. It was our quickest doctor visit ever. We had Jamie's aunt, uncle, cousin & family over for the Vikings game on Sunday. Too bad the Vikings didn't play well...but at least we had good company.
Otherwise, we didn't do a whole lot! We spent the long weekend trying to reduce the girls' pacifier use. The first few days were the worst, we had to endure some crying spells. But it got better as the weekend went on. Luckily, daycare is very good about honoring our wishes, so they are also trying to avoid using pacifiers. The girls went back to daycare yesterday, and their teacher said the girls would cry and point to where the pacifiers are kept...but the teachers didn't give in! :)
Violet has been standing quite a bit now, and she will take up to five steps on her own. Olivia wants to walk everywhere, so I think Violet is trying to keep up. They discovered our magazine rack over the weekend. They love to tear the pages into pieces. Before I knew it, we had magazine shreds all over our living room! They also like to push objects around as they walk...chairs, our organ bench, boxes....anything that will slide on our hardwood floors. They have also discovered the telephone. If you say "hello?" they will hold whatever toy they are playing with up to their ear. It is pretty cute, but I guess I am biased!
Over the weekend, both girls were trying to look out our dining room window, but they are just a little short to see over the window sill. When they went down for a nap, I heard a whole bunch of sawing and pounding in the garage. Pretty soon Jamie walked in with a little platform he built for the girls to stand on so they could look out the window. What a sweet daddy! The girls love it. Violet is very much a daddy's girl. She is constantly wondering where Daddy is, and saying "Dada" and "Dad." When the girls and I got home tonight, Violet kept pointing to the door and saying "Dad." I guess she was wondering when Daddy would be home! Olivia is quite the daredevil. She tries to do stunt riding on their plastic rocking horse. She will stand up on the seat and rock the horse...usually without hanging on!
Here are some pictures from our weekend at home.
Violet playing with a puzzle:
Olivia using a puzzle piece as a telephone:
Olivia doing stunts on her rocking horse:
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How cute that Jamie made a step stool for them! It will be fun to see Violet keeping up with Olivia when we are in Minnesota in February!
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