November 2
Luca is 6 months old!
November 3
Perry & Ella's 2nd Birthday Party
Perry in her party dress
Ella in her party dress (minus the shoes)
Luca in his party outfit (minus the socks)
Decorations
Backyardigans plates!
Watching the magician
Lyndsey and Brady
Dylan...Riley and Lyndsey
Leighton...balloon animals
Ella and Mommy...Perry
P&E with their balloon animals
Not sure what's going on...and definitely not liking the "happy birthday" song
Good thing we practiced blowing out candles the night before
Who needs forks?
Mmmmm, so yummy!
Opening presents
Playing with some of our new toys
Luca playing with the aunts and uncles...and getting a ba ba from Uncle Andrew
Holy presents!
Perry loves Tyrone
Ella opening up some presents
So much stuff!
What's under there?
A kitchen!
Perry's grilling up some flowers while Ella's washing dishes
Luca is a cute little chef, isn't he?
Perry in her chef hat and apron
Great Aunt Melanie is good at opening the twist ties and Great Uncle Chris eating a hot dog bun
Ella taking a little nap in the swing
November 4
Ella is earning her keep around here
(Appropriately enough, her shirt says "Big Sister" and Luca's says "Little
Brother")
First fruit...bananas!
November 5
Perry & Ella are 2 years old!
P&E's door decorations for their birthday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABIES!
Presents!
Happy Birthday sign and of course, Backyardigans on the TV
Perry liked walking through the streamers
Luca thinks this is funny
Perry opening her Mary Jane Crocs
Ella with her Crocs and Jibbitz from the Grandparents
Ella loved ripping the paper off, but didn't really care what was inside
Perry opening some presents
Luca has this sippy cup thing figured out already
Balloons are way more exciting than presents
We went to Kiddie Kandids for 2 year portraits of the girls
We wanted all 3 of them together, but P&E wouldn't cooperate...so Luca got his own picture
Back home with the "big" present from Mommy and Daddy
It was hard to figure out how to push the pedal and steer at the same time!
Perry wouldn't put her hands on the steering wheel
November 6
Luca's 6 month appointment
19 pounds, 14.5 ounces (75-90th percentile)
27.75 inches (90th percentile)
It's Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua!
November 10
Sleeping beauties
November 11
We love bath time!
November 12
A silly fashion show
Ella in her onesie and slipper boots, carrying "B"
Perry in her onesie, a potential Christmas dress, slipper boots, sunglasses, and puka shell bracelet
Jumping boy
Check out that tongue!
More outfits...
Perry in her onesie and slipper boots with sunglasses and Mardi Gras beads as
accessories
Ella in another potential Christmas dress and Mardi Gras beads
November 15
Playdate with Lauren and Arianna
Luca and Arianna
(she's 2 months older, but he's bigger!)
They both have the tongue thing figured out
The big girls watching Curious George
November 17
Whittle Shortline Train Station
There were 3 small train tables and a big one
P&E playing with the trains
(Perry likes to wear her sunglasses to keep the paparazzi away)
Perry and the trains
Ella and the trains
Luca with Mommy and Daddy
*Our Nikon broke (2 days before the 1 year warranty was up) so it
had to be sent off to be fixed.
Until then, we are using our lesser quality Canon so please forgive the blurry
pictures :)
November 21
Thanksgiving at Grandma Teppie's
Perry
Ella
Luca enjoying his "turkey" dinner
Luca and Great Grandma Teppie
Everyone watching some Backyardigans (of course)
More Luca and Granny time
Finders keepers on the snacktrap, right Mom?
Taking a nap with Grandpa...and hanging out with Grandma
Luca in his cute sweater hoodie
(He was VERY tired at this point...but this serves as proof that he *does* get
cranky...it doesn't happen very often though)
November 22
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Rogan's
Luca hanging out with Great Uncle John and Uncle Julio
Perry and the small potato head
Ella being nosy and silly
Self portraits
(She actually took these herself)
Luca and Grandma
Ella playing pinball
November 23
Perry with the potato head glasses and lips on
November 24
Lunch at MickeyD's
Ella LOVES dipping her fries and chicken in ketchup
Perry is more interested in the juice box than the food
Luca using his leg to hold up the bottle
Daddy and Perry
Mommy and Ella
Yay slides!
Playing
Perry experimented with some new ways to go down the slide
Ella wants the camera...a future photographer?
Just to show how long Ella's hair is when it's wet/straight
(and yes, she's washing Perry's back)
November 25
The Mills
Ella LOVES baked ziti
Perry loves to run around
Is this all he ever does?
November 26
"Decorating" the Christmas tree
Mommy demonstrated hanging an ornament on the tree
and apparently they thought ALL the ornaments had to go in that spot
Pretty tree!
I have to write this story here b/c I know the blog gets overlooked and this is TOO cute:
Dave and I put the tree and lights up on Sunday, so the girls and
I decided to finish decorating it Monday night before dinner.
I grabbed a chair from the kitchen to stand on to put the garland on and Ella
promptly went over and grabbed her Little Tikes chair.
She wanted to be just like Mommy and help put the garland on the tree. She
did a fantastic job!