"Babies" turn 3!

happy Birthday sweet babies!!!

Alex and Lilly turned 3 yesterday! I still call them the babies, and at some point someone is going to tell me they aren't babies anymore, but I can't help it. I will always call all my kids my babies, no matter how old they get. I think it's fitting that they were born on the first day of spring. Spring brings life to everything around us and things start to look up after a bleak winter. That's exactly what they are to me. They brought more life to our family. They were born to start fresh and grow just like the flowers of spring. They had had a rough winter and needed to come see us. I can't believe it's been 3 years since that day. Things are definitely much more hopeful and future brighter than that day 3 years ago. The babies are doing wonderful. They are very active, healthy, smart children that continue to thrive and develop. Their speech is improving dramatically. They can definitely communicate their wants and needs. They continue to have some twin talk and have conversations between each other that I don't understand. It's great watching them interact and to see their personalities continue to grow and define themselves.

Lilly is a girly girl. She loves jewelry, shoes, clothes, makeup, dolls, and is the social one of the 2.

Alex loves all things trucks, balls, curious George, and is a HUGE mommy boy. If he could be permanently attached to me, i think he would love it.

We had to move out our 3 year old check ups due to some recent colds. (it's been the story of my life this winter) So we will see how that goes in a couple weeks, but I don't foresee any problems, They are developmentally right on target. The only issue we still have is Lilly's weight. She remains under the curve, but always grows. She is still a little birdy eater, and doesn't usually put eating on a high priority level. She eats a great variety of food, just hard to get lots of calories in her. Alex still loves to eat, and eats most things I give him. Alex still has one preemie side effect. When he gets cold, they always end up in his lungs. His little runny noses typically end up with a very congested cough and antibiotics. You can tell his little lungs needed more time to develop, and have some lasting consequences but other than that he is a wonderful, loving, little boy.

Birthday day was pretty quiet but still turned out to be a nice day. It was just myself and the kids here to celebrate. Chris was traveling this week. Having the kids birthday so close to each other it's hard for everyone to come for both days, another downside to living far away from family. I feel like I have to pick and choose which child's birthday I want family to come visit for, and the twins are still pretty young and i don't think understand yet. So, next year they are due a big birthday party. i hope I managed to give the babies a great day.

The babies got the biggest smile when they got to blow out their own candle on their own cake. And they loved it when people sang happy birthday to them. You could tell they felt really special and soaked in the attention.

The cakes turned out really cute. They did the princess and the prince look to decorate.

both sticking their fingers in the icing to get a little taste.

Another treat in the day- Dee Dee and Papa sent them each a balloon bouquet with a stuffed animal. They love balloons and this also helped make their day.

Our day ended up at the park while Julian had his first baseball practice for the season. Their other love is to swing and thats what they did. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed one of our few days in a long time that we've been able to play outside.

Big smiles for mommy. That doesn't happen much anymore. They are getting to the age where they don't like to take their pictures.

And this is my 3 babies. The loves of my life. they are so special.

This is the other major thing that we having going on (as if our life wasn't crazy enough). We are in the process of moving soon. I can't believe how fast this is going. We are set to close May 15 on our PA house and close May 18 on our CT house. It will be so nice to be in CT and be together again. Chris has been traveling a lot, and I will have my family close by. A luxury we have never had and will be so thankful to be able to have our kids be so close with my parents. The house is moving right along, and everything is picked out and in the works. Lots to do until that time. We like to keep things lively.