So Happy We Won!

Go Giants!

Tony and I both grew up Giants fans, and Tony is crazy about them, so he set his mind to taking his son to the World Series Game and I am so glad he did! We had amazing seats (row M) behind the Giants dugout. I was a little worried about the babies with the noise and weather, but everything was perfect! It was actually warm the night we went and the babies were perfect. We had them in Bjorns most of the time and they were happy to stand up/sit down/repeat with us the whole game! It was pretty clear that the guys sitting next to us were not too stoked when we showed up, but they were high fiving the babies by the end of the game. I think everyone was amazed at how good they were :0) The lady behind us was even holding Laney by the end of the game! The Giants won and now the kids can say they have been to a world series game for their team... I think Dad is the most excited about this! But hopefully Deemie will appreciate it one day. It was one of my favorite nights as a little family!

Halloween

Better late than never...

For Halloween this year we decided to honor D & L's favorite animals... they love giraffes! And I figured Tony would make the perfect giraffe! We started off the day by going to a friend's house for a baby-week party compplete with spooky snacks and our first party favors! Then we headed to Oxnard for our traditional night of trick or treating with great friends in a close beach community. The babies were troopers and loved being Bjorned for the event, but took to their stroller for the second half where they quickly fell asleep. They are such good babies!

Changing Schedules

Today is the first day of a new schedule. The schedule seemed to change a lot when they were younger, but we have been on the same 4 hour schedule for several months now. I would happily stay with our 3 nap schedule, but the babies have been letting me know they are ready for a change. They have been horrible nappers lately... 45 minute naps instead of 2 hour, waking up early in the morning, and falling apart at night). I reread Babywise 2 this week and was reminded that they are at the exact age to drop the evening nap (Everyone with kids needs to read these books monthly, I swear!). Going down to two naps also means rearranging the schedule a little so they aren't exhausted by evening. I was expecting today o me a disaster, but so far so good. The babies are almost 2 hours into nap 2!!!!) This change also has us eating solids 3 times a day rather than two. I significantly lowered the amount of cereal they were eating and brought in a few more servings of fruit and veggies. I was a little worried about the kids getting chubb-o last month, but Dellan has become the incredible shrinking baby this week! He learned to sit and "crawl" backwards and move in every direction this week and there went the rolls. We bought all his winter clothes a size bigger anticipating huge kiddos and they are hanging on him! We had to make a run to Gymboree this week to get some smaller shirts... the sleeves were driving him crazy going over his hands. Laney has come a long way these past 2 weeks as well, but she is still not too "mobile." She will roll out of the Nap Nanny now and easily rolls both ways, but still prefers her back to her stomach. I have no doubt she will be right behind her brother. The biggest change with Laney has been her personality. She is a crack up these days! She has the loudest, highest voice you have ever heard and just happily screams and shrieks nonstop. We took her out to dinner last night and I kept wanting to apologize to everyone sitting around us as she provided the background music for the evening. But she is a happy girl :0)

Laney got the giggles tonight

Pumpkin Festival

The biggest annual event in Calabasas is the Pumpkin Festival... and it's right down the street! They shut the street down for booths and vendors, and fill the park with games, bouncies, fair food, face painting, a pumpkin patch, and a stage with live music... oh, and a beer garden! A whole group of us with babies met at our place and walked over Saturday. The babies wore their Halloween leg warmers (thank you Grammie and Target dollar bins!) and looked so cute! The beer garden let babies in, so we made our own romper room in there with 9 babies under one year old! So funny. I was happily surprised that both babies fell asleep and took a little nap amidst the commotion. D peed through his onesie in the Bjorn (the second time this has happened!) so he got a new one with an orange polka dot tie (It was all I could find in his size at the fair... but very cute)!

Stay still, look at the camera, and smile...

yeah right!

Getting a good picture of the babies these days is near impossible, and getting one of both of them looking in the same direction is even harder. Now that they are somewhat mobile they are too busy and distracted to pose for mom. But you can see their real facial expressions (and the constant stream of drool that poors from Deem's mouth).