Happy Birthday Mark and Derek!

Today we went to a twin birthday party for Mark and Derek, our neighbors up the street (just in case you are wondering, there are 4 sets of twins in our neighborhood-including us)

Mark and Derek are two, just a few months behind Lucas and Liliana.

Mark and Derek had these motorized ride on toys....a HUGE hit with our kids.

Lots of kids...lots of presents.

Liliana enjoyed the rain when it arrived...

Friday afternoon

We feel lucky to live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of kids and friendly neighbors. This afternoon, we just hung out on the driveway and played and our neighbors came by and hung out with us.

Lucas loves the air pump..

Lucas pushing Liliana and Matthew...our neighbor.

Two years ago...

We have nothing new to report, but I was looking through pics and this is where they were exactly two years ago today. How time flies!

Helmets!

With the coming of Spring, comes the exploring of all that is in the garage, including bike helmets. They are all the rage these days!

Even while watching tv....

5K

We took the kids to the beach on Saturday. There was a 5K for cancer research going on...lots of music, people and things to see.

Liliana at the water throwing rocks...

Stew's at the beach was open for the first time this season...so we had lunch there.

Liliana taking in the walkers as we left the beach.

We spent the evening on LI at Josh and Marika's house. We had a nice dinner and the kids had a ball playing together. Sadly, we forgot the camera. :-(

The twins and Christina went with the other set of twins (Lucas and Josephine) to a play hour type of thing at the local neighborhood program.

Twins x2!

This is Lucas and Liliana with Lucas and Josephine, our neighbors three houses over. They were all at the museum together. Our sets of twins are three months apart, no doubt they will be spending a lot of time together.

Carvel cake.

The twins seem to have inherited my love of ice cream cake. Nice bonus of hosting Mother's Day? Plenty of cake the next day! Yum!

Mothers Day 2011

After church on Sunday we had my family and Felix's family over for a little mother's day celebration.

Camilla opening her belated birthday gift.

Even Aba got in on the action with jumping rope!

At the movies....

We went to a birthday party on Saturday for Taiga (the son of my friend Mike). The movie was Rio and it was a good test to see if the twins are "movie ready". They lasted forty minutes, and therefore, not ready...but it was a great morning, topped off by a fabulous lunch at Friendly's with Aiko and Ko.

Jump!

We were in Walmart the other day and all their Easter stuff was on sale for less than a dollar. They had these jump ropes for sale and so we got the twins each one. I don't think they realize that they are supposed to jump OVER the rope....in time.

Gardening

After picking out our azaleas last weekend, Felix and I planted them before lunch. The twins were out playing and they made a game out of picking all the dandelions and putting them in a sand pail.

The animals are back!

Each spring when Stew's brings their animals back they have a little celebration. We went on Saturday and they even let the kids in the pens with the animals..closely supervised of course.

They gave away these free animal hats...real cute.

Well at least one of them is happy.

That's better.

Looking at the baby animals.

Meeting the animal characters.

They twins then came with us as we picked out new azaela bushes....

Happy Birthday Connie!

Last week was Connie's birthday, so we headed down to Cos Cob after dinner to surprise her and say hi!

The twins were fascinated with one of her toys...

Happy Birthday Connie!