We miss you

We had a long vacation in Arizona to visit Grammy and Papa.
The twins had a great time spending time with their family.
Every day we did something fun, we went to the choo choo train park three times, the pool, playground, zoo, children's museum, great Mexican food, Japanese Hibachi, boat ride on a lake. The twins expected this routine to continue when they got home, so they get really excited to wear their shoes and put on their coats at the mention of "el parque?"
What is really new are the things the kids are saying. We are starting to get sentences now.
"Where Orli go?"
"Dada silly"
"look, moon"
"thankyou, Bubba"
"Orli crying?"
"What Grammy doing?"
"Where Papa go?"
"No crying Bubba"
Mostly it is from Zev that we hear these sentences, but Orli has been putting her own string of words together. It is amazing.
Zev can count to about 14, and up to 5 in Spanish. Orli can get pretty far as well. Zev can do his A-B-C's rather clearly now. Each of them sing along to "Jacks Big music show". They also sing songs in the back seat of the van. They talk to each other and answer "yeah" to the babble questions they ask eachother. They are plotting something we are sure of it.
Orli missed her cat Moxie, she kissed the cat and hugged her and in return Moxie hopped in her crib. The cat missed her too since she is the only one that pets her all day. Zev was a little scared of the cats when he first saw them, but he's back to petting them and kissing them.
Zev loves motorcycles "cycycle" and guitarrs "geetar", in Scottsdale he heard a band playing a block away and told Daddy to go to the geetar, when we got there he said "geetar mama!" and pointed to the open windows where two people were singing in a restaurant. The lady gave Zev their business card with a picture of a guitar, Zev clung onto it for the rest of the night and fell asleep with it in his little fist.
Orli has offically decided to call Zev "Bubba", if you ask her who he is she says "Bubba", when he gives her something she says "tantu Bubba!", when he was crying in his highchair she quietly said "no cying Bubba". It is cute, we think she is using one of her first words for "baby" she said "bubba", but other babies now are "baby" and Zev is "Bubba". We'll post pictures soon.

Let the festivities begin...4 days to 1 year

First birthday cards for the twins arrived on Monday. Thanks Auntie Jen!! There was a package of peg puzzles. We opened the "1-2-3" puzzle because the parts looked large enough. Zev and Orli proceeded to put them in their mouths and try to walk off with the puzzle piece in their mouths. They seemed to taste really good because the twins would not keep them out of their little bocas. We took some pictures of this enjoyment that we'll post later.

Wow 4 days until the big first birthday. Just three days until the big party. Grammy and Pappa arrive tomorrow and our favorite GG, Aunt Louise, Uncle Stanley and Cousin Donna arrive on Friday afternoon. The twins can't wait to see everyone!!

The Vacation ends, And The twins are 11 months old

Orli and Zev turned 11 months old yesterday!!

We had a wonderful trip to see Grammy, Pa pa and Uncle Todd in Arizona. The weather was just beautiful and the views of the mountains, Saguaros, Arroyo and humming birds were amazing. The twins played in the pool, we went to see the natural land bridge at Tonto forest. They saw their big cousin Autumn on Friday and their cousin Dustin and Elena. Orli loved Autumn, she found a big sister, Autumn let Orli and Zev ride her tricycle. We saw these pig like animals called javalinias a herd of them walked by then Daddy nearly hit one in the road on the way home. The babies went to the Phoenix Zoo and saw tons of animals and a few big kitties and a girrafe. Here are some photos.