Finally!

Drew and Lana have taken their sweet time learning how to walk. It has been killing my back carrying around the both of them. I still have to do a lot of carrying but I see the end in sight. They are both walking. Drew trys to walk everywhere, but sometimes gets to excited and starts crawling. Lana is still not sure about walking everywhere and instead screams, cries or finds someway to get my attention and then begs for me to pick her up. I did notice a big difference yesterday though. She has realized Drew is walking everywhere and she isn't, so, she has decided to try a little more.

I can not be happier! Taylor started walking at 10 months so this has been crazy for me to have to wait until 16 months. If they didn't start walking in 1 more month the doctors would get concerned. They made it, YEAH!!!!!!!!

Healthy Food vs. Ice Cream!

Taylor and Dave worked very hard on our small garden this year. We had some new obstacles to deal with, like deer and rabbits. They ate our sunflowers and pepper plants but left the rest. We had beans, peas, tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, lettuce, and one pumpkin. We love having a garden and I am getting better at cooking and storing all of it.

After picking all the yummy produce from the garden we decided to have ice cream :) The kids loved it, especially Drew. We also tried the watermelon but it was not quite ripe, oh well.

Visitors

We had visitors mid August and we had so much fun. My mom, my sister Amy, Kace and Kassidy all came for a week. My mom got here a little later than expected cause she had an allergic reaction to something on the airplane and had to be taken off by paramedics at her lay over and then she got stuck at the hospital over night in Chicago. Anyway, we had so much fun with everyone. Dave entertained the kids outside doing dangerous activities on Sunday and that night we went to a pond and caught frogs. Monday we went to the Danbury mall. Tuesday most of the crew went to New York City, I stayed back with the twins. Wednesday we went to Candlewood lake and Thursday we headed down to Philadelphia. There we met up with my dad and Casey. We helped Casey, Lindsay, and Jack move into their new apartment on Friday and Saturday we toured Philly.

We miss all of you. Kace we miss hearing about the Mac book Pro and Kassidy Taylor misses you buying him toys. Thanks to everyone for coming and helping with the kids. We had so much fun.

Taylor is so Fast!

Everyday Taylor tells me how fast he is and he is constantly running around the house and racing me everywhere we go. He loves to run. He is not the fastest but definitely has endurance. He ran with Dave for a mile on the beach in NJ this summer.

When I found out that our fair days had a race for children 4 and under, I had to get him signed up. I unfortunately forgot the camera that day, I would have liked to have recorded the race, oh well. Lucky for us he was in the newspaper.

He has such determination on his face. To his right is one of his friends Isabelle, her and her sister Sybene ran in the race with him. He was so fun to watch. He was so confident that he was the fastest and ran with that confidence. He stayed in the middle of the pack and kept his eyes on everyone around him. We are so proud of him for doing this. He is really shy and does not like to adventure far from his parents, this was a big step for him. Everyone received a medal and a water bottle for finishing.