The reason we have kids...

Legal slavery!!! Reese and Mira have watched Sage unload the dishwasher A LOT! I didn't even have to tell them what to do this wonderful morning... In the video, Reese is in the green jammies, Mira is in purple.

Happy Halloween!

...from the whole family!!!

After dark... Notice the twins are in BED!!!

Mira the Butterfly

Reese the Ladybug

Sage the Rainbow Fairy

On the 30th, we went to our church"Trunk-or-Treat" Halloween Party, where the girls collected all kinds of candy from the trunks of cars decked out with Halloween music and decor. Reese and Mira had their first lollipop, and Sage flitted around like a trick-or-treating pro.

Sage anticipated getting to wear make-up all year. She even picked out some silver sparkly false eyelashes. We were lucky she kept them on through the Trunk-or-Treat -- she didn't like how they felt on her eyes. The next night she chose to leave the lashes in the case.

On Halloween, Sage wanted to be sure she got to pass out candy this year, so we trick-or-treated just to a few of our neighbors early in the evening. The babies had fun toddling in opposite directions on our little street (see video below). Sage stayed up extra late peering out the front window as she waited for trick-or-treaters to come to our door.

Sage went to the pumpkin patch earlier in October with our dear friends the Lees. I thought this picture really captured all of Sage's sweetness.

"Strolling" to the park...

One day in the first week of February, I decided to take Reese and Mira to the park just down the street from our house. My mom tried this (brave woman) a couple previous when she watched them for me and said they absolutely loved it. The thought of chasing two "free" 1 1/2 year olds in different directions was a little scary, but my mom said the strollers gave the girls a sense of purpose and direction, so they didn't wander. Indeed they did. The twins were so tickled with the rush from the little incline of our driveway, I couldn't keep from chuckling a bit myself.

1st Birthday Party

The birthday party was fun - for the babies too, I think! Tasha and the Davidson crew, and our dear adopted Aunt Stacy from next door joined us for the celebration. The babies really never cease to amaze or surprise me. They have such different personalities, and just when I think I've got them pegged, they flip flop. Birthday Cake was one such situation...

Mira, my picky eater who puts everything to her nose or her lips before she tries it (if she tries it), dug right in to her first taste of the chocolaty deliciousness, no reservations.

Reese actually picked at the cream on her yummy cake with her little thumb and forfinger for what seemed like five minutes - boy were we surprised. We thought she'd be the one to go at the cake double fisted, since that's how she eats everything else. I think with all those eyes on her, Reese's stranger anxiety won out over her love of eating. Who'd a thought? This picture is after Coby broke the cake into more manageable pieces - she still didn't much go for it.
Video of the first bites...

Getting sprayed off in the sink by daddy...

Happy 1st Birthday Reese and Mira!

Reese and Mira, 1 year old today!

Grandma and Grandpa Tippetts came over with balloons at lunch.

We'll be celebrating with chocolate cake on Saturday afternoon.