they both love to watch daddy

Joshua & Zoe's new favorite video

He just pulled up a chair... um, potty... and his dinner and started chatting with Zoe. Too cute! He was reading to her and telling her all about the bobbies. She loves listening to him, as you can see.

He sat up and said "hand" and stuck his finger out for her to grab.

Here's the little man all by his sweet self

Joshua thought one of his 'bobbies' should take a nap in Zoe's bumbo. How do I know? He said "Bobby, bumbo, nap" and did this:

(I have more videos but since this one took over an hour to get on here, I'll just publish this now and start a new post with the other videos)

Joshua got a video in the mail of Craig reading a construction book, along with the book. All his favorite things rolled into one... daddy, trucks (aka "bobbies"), books and TV! No wonder we watch it about 18 times a day.

happy babies

this was this evening... they're having a little heart to heart. She loves to look at him, and he loves to give her kisses, say hi to her, hand her toys and, most recently, pet her hair and say "pet, pet"

and these was on Tuesday, I think...

sick little man

Here are some pictures from our day yesterday. We went to the doctor's office for a follow up to our appointment Wednesday, at which Joshua had a 103.5 fever (in addition to some off-the-charts crankiness that morning). The first time they found nothing an sent us home to take tylenol/motrin until Friday morning. I got Zoe an appointment too, just for good measure... why waste a trip. On Friday, Zoe had an ear infection (she's now on antibiotics and has still been her usual sweet self) and Joshua has pneumonia (we had to go to the hospital to confirm with a chest xray)

Well, I had been promising him "wies" and chick fil a all morning so after dragging him to the doctor, hospital and rite aid x 2, off we went (mostly so I could hide his antibiotics in a milkshake) This orange racecar was new so he liked it for about 5 seconds until he got all sicky and tired again. Notice in the last 3 pictures how his arms are just hanging limply by his side. I knew he was sick when he didn't protest about leaving without riding the helicopter. I also like how you can see Zoe in the background craning her neck to see what's going on and get in the picture.

Sleepy boy

Joshy isn't feeling too great tonight. He's keeping the good folks at Tylenol & Motrin in business. He was also keeping the animal cracker people in business earlier, since that was all he wanted to eat. He didn't even want juice or ice cream - he must not be feeling well!! He perked up a little after this picture was taken (6pm-ish) and played and took a bath but he was pretty much back to feeling miserable by 9 (I kept him up to give him his motrin). He woke back up at 10, just in time for some tylenol. See you at 2am, little man. Zoe's feeling OK so far.

Joshua wanted to wear my glasses yesterday. I thought it was funny how they look like they really fit him. Unfortunately, the camera was set wrong so the picture is all blurry, and by the time I fixed it, he was done wearing them. He's wearing his "cookie guy" (gingerbread man) pajamas.

Happy Day

Our twins...

Joshua got a Happy Day card in the mail today and loved it. Unfortunately, I didn't get him on video when he first opened it so this is only the very end of his excitement. We had to read it 5 more times before his nap too. There is a coloring portion of the card that I decided to wait until after naptime to talk about.

on vacation

As you may have noticed, we've been taking a little break from blogging. We should be back soon.

Spotlight on Miss Zoe

Mr Caterpillar is so funny!

such a big girl!!

whome?

oh, and go here today and here all day tomorrow to enter to win a $200 gift card to SAHM's 'R Us (aka Target :)

Big brother

he just loves being next to her (he's no dummy, he knows that's a foolproof way to get attention!)

Zoe thinks I'm funny. That's the bow that Joshua was wearing earlier, and she's in a 6-12 mos outfit!! he was playing a game with one of Candice's brothers

cutie pie!

Joshua loved this little puppy, and was trying to get in Candice's family photo. Hmmm.

cuddling with brother

so sweet

Joshua just brought my big heavy Bible over to me on the couch, crawled up and sat down next to me and said "weed Baboo Daddy sawmp" (read the Bible with Daddy, Psalms).

Zoe officially rolled over all the way, all by herself yesterday. I put her down on her blanket on the floor on her back, came back in and she was doing a little baby push-up. She did it several more times before the day was over so I have some videos to get on here when I have a minute. I have more pictures too. So check back tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

finally, a haircut

gosh, that really looks like Joshua, but that child appears to be voluntarily consuming a vegetable that isn't hidden in a smoothie. I'm perplexed.look how dapper he is with his hair all parted and combed. I like how the little bit on the right (his left) still sticks out over his ear...and... here he is this morning with his bedhead. You know it's time for a haircut when: your son's hair is longer than your daughter's. Is that one of her bows? Oh yes, yes it is. He just had to have it, so I humored him. For about 30 seconds while I went to get the clippers out.

How did it get this long, you might ask. Well, every time I said "Joshua, time for a haircut" he pointed to his head, made a cute little buzzing sound and said "nope... ma'am." When I actually got out the clippers, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, so I always relented. Until today. We actually started with scissors and he was fine with that. He colored away in his tonka book (thanks Johnsons!) and I did my thing. It was going fine, but he just wouldn't hold still and I couldn't get to the back of his head so we had to go with the clippers after all (he doesn't like them because he's "fade" of the noise - that's what I got from our pre-haircut convo)

Here's our handsome little man, post wrestling-meets-haircut. In case you are wondering, this was not an easy feat and yes, I was holding him. About 3 seconds after I said the magic words "all done" and unplugged the clippers, he was fine. He started pointing to the hair on the floor saying "twash," went to get the trash can and started picking up his hair and putting it in there.

(can you see the tears and running nose? mean mommy)

won't get any bows in that hair!! He always was cute bald!

here he is pointing to the Count in his Big Bird book, saying "Daddy"

He loves to dance and, I have to say, he's pretty good! I always look up and see him dancing in his carseat, and today he was dancing to some veggietales songs. I think it's all those videos of Masie he's been watching! Or he just gets his mad skills from Daddy.

Zoe slept all day. I thought about cutting her hair too but didn't think that would go over too well. We'll try to get some smiles out of her tomorrow - not too hard to do!

Happy Birthday Joshua!!

Here's the birthday boy with his new train set. He loved it! I really shouldn't have given it to him so close to bedtime though. It's hard to believe he's already 2 years old! Our Kenneth Joshua Tripp was born at 5:22am on November 21st, 2006 and weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 21 inches long. It's hard to believe he was once so tiny. It's even harder to believe we ever lived without him. Thank you, Lord, for blessing us with such a wonderful, marvelous little boy. Among other things, we pray for him to know you as his Lord and Savior, and to know that as much as we love him, he belongs to You and that You love him more than we could ever know

eating his first birthday cake

From "On the night you were born" by Nancy Tillman...

"On the night you were born the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, "Life will never be the same." Because there had never been anyone like you... ever in the world.

So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain that they whispered the sound of your wonderful name. It sailed through the farmland high on the breeze, over the ocean, and through the trees, until everyone heard it and everyone knew of the one and only ever you. Not once had there been such eyes, such a nose, such silly, wiggly, wonderful toes.

...Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born."

And here's the best baby advice I have received, and from my own mother (thanks, Mom)

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tommorow,
For babies grow up, we've learned, to our sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."

Happy 60th Birthday to Pa too!!! What a pair! Thank you for being such a wonderful Pa and Pappy!