Valentine’s Day

Our Three Valentines 2016

March 22, 2016 by Rebecca Whitehead

Valentine’s Day 2016 was filled with so much love!

Such a love bug.

Meredith is growing so fast that I have to make sure we take pictures of her in all her newborn outfits since she only wears most of them once. Between all the twins’ hand-me-downs and gifted hand-me-downs from her baby friend, Maple, Meredith has enough outfits to last weeks before having to wash anything!

Not feeling the love.

Our other funny valentines.

They are each other’s favorite valentines.

The twins constantly ask to hold Meredith and shower her with kisses.

Taking their job seriously.

Our hearts were bursting!

Lots of love,

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Piggies and Paws

February 18, 2015 by Rebecca Whitehead

S and A’s favorite part (ok, maybe mine) about any holiday is all the crafts that come with it. After receiving Valentines from some of their friends, the girls wanted to make their own. As much as the girls enjoyed the feeling of sticking their piggies and paws into paint, it was too messy/complicated to take pictures during the actual painting phase, so here are some of the final works of (he)art:

Samantha’s handprint flamingoes.

Amelia’s footprint ladybug.

Samantha inspects Amelia’s valentine from Parker.

Pulling every single sticker off.

We’ve had the Valentines the girls made/received hanging up in the family room this month and the girls loved seeing all handiwork.

I have no idea what this Valentine’s thing is all about…all I know is that it’s cool getting little pieces of paper with treats on them for no good reason.

LOVE: GAG ME!

Just when I was feeling overwhelmed with the amount of baby and toddler stuff we’ve accumulated, I now have folders of artwork from the girls that are quickly being filled. Watch me end up on Hoarders. Just watch.

What to keep? What not to keep? I know it’s only going to get worse in Elementary school!

Lots of love,

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My funny Valentine(s)

February 17, 2015 by Rebecca Whitehead

Valentine’s 2015 would not be complete without taking 683,719 pictures, give or take. I promise I tried to pare it back…

It’s a shame my girls have NO personality. NONE.

Give me some sugar.

Gotcha!

Tackle!

This is what they do when we start singing “Row, row, row your boat.”

(Not so) gently down the stream…

Finally! Green smoothie popsicles as promised.

Wait…there’s kale in this?

Whatevs. It’s tasty.

Samantha’s just getting started.

Hehe…successfully bribed mommy to get a popsicle…again.

The brains behind operation “I’ll let you take my picture if I get a treat.”

Just the girls.

Samantha makes a run for it.

Amelia (Mama’s Girl Extraordinaire) is always content to stay in my lap.

Try it, mommy, it’s good!

Samantha (a.k.a. Daddy’s Little Princess).

My three Valentines.

We love Daddy.

Kissing attack.

There’s something about Daddy that turns these girls into wild little monkeys. Same reason Jake can’t ever successfully get the girls to bed on time– he does not have a calming effect on them.

Singing in my microphone.

Just try and wipe my face off. I dare you.

Why does Amelia always have that mischievous glint in her eye? I feel bad for her future teachers.

Sillies.

Union contract is up. We’re taking our popsicles elsewhere.

Happiness= cold treats with my BFF.

How to tell the twins apart. (Relatively) clean face: Amelia.

How in the world does she get so messy? Samantha.

Happy Valentine’s!

Lots of love,

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Double the Fun on Valentine’s

February 16, 2015 by Rebecca Whitehead

Nothing could make my Valentine’s Day more sweet than spending it with my two sweet ladies and our amazing gent. Except for maybe an extra hour of sleep and breakfast in bed compliments of Jake and Samantha. Thanks, guys!

Yippee! It’s Valentine’s Day!

Because OF COURSE I like to wear my hat when it’s 80 degrees by 10 a.m. and refuse to wear it when it’s actually cold outside.

After Jake and Samantha’s artfully crafted pancake breakfast, we showed our love for all of our twin and triplet friends at our Saddleback Moms of Multiples Club Valentine’s event. It’s always funny hanging out with a group of twin and triplet moms because we can all commiserate with the twin potty training tales, sleepless nights, and twin toddler tantrums (except for the triplet moms– we all pretty much bow down to them and tell them they are our heroes).

An added bonus is that no one cares that I had several fingerprint-sized stains on my shirt and hadn’t washed my hair in a week. Been there. Get it.

Now that the girls are almost two, it’s fun to be on the other side of twin babyhood when talking with all the moms of newborn twins. It seems so long ago that I barely remember it, other than lots of crying (from all of us), some adorable outfits, lots of cuddles and utter exhaustion.

First t-ball lesson.

I wasn’t finished yet!

Amelia gives the ball a nice whacking.

Don’t ever trust Amelia with an oversized bat behind her sister.

Moving on to hula hoops.

And balls.

And chalk.

And crafting.

Samantha learned what Valentine’s is all about: chocolate and more chocolate.

The club had a Bingo/Scavenger Hunt game going on where some of us were asked to wear Valentine’s themed accessories which matched up with pictures on people’s Bingo cards. The object was to get to know new people by having to go up to them and ask their name in order to get the squares signed off for prizes. Hence my headband.

To my extreme annoyance, the weather decided to completely skip over spring and head straight to summer this week– we had several days in the upper eighties, including Saturday. Even after lathering them up with sunscreen, the girls were pretty flushed after our morning in the sun.

Samantha and Amelia’s first cake walk.

Walking around in circles to music? My kind of activity.

Amelia actually won one of the prizes in the cake walk– a gift certificate to a spa for me! Thanks, Amelia! I’ll have to use you as my good luck charm more often.

After a morning of sports, cake walks, crafts, food and friends, the girls spotted the playground on our way out and, although completely exhausted, mustered up enough energy for some twin playtime.