Spring has sprung in 2021

We've already had some 90+ degree days, and the girls have been enjoying their little pool and other water toys. Some swimming at Papa and Mimi's can't be far off.

Dylan has mastered her scooter and Payton has just got into the action also. Pretty impressed with their skills at this age, can't wait until they get their first real bikes.

Dylan is a bit over 3 feet tall now, and Payton around 2.5. Payton just has a couple teeth left to come out, they are both healthy and mostly happy. Their favorite shows are Daniel Tiger and Sesame Street. Dylan loves Cocomelon too, Mom and Dad do not. Their favorite toys are blocks, babies, Little People, markers, crayons and bubbles! Anything to do with bubbles. And of course whatever the other one has.

Our biggest challenges are waking up too early and remembering our potty training. They play and share together pretty well most of the time, but things can get ugly pretty quick! Typical kid stuff I guess.

Well I think that catches us up for now, here's some pics from the first part of 2021.

Apr 2021

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2020 pics

The girls are doing great! Dylan is about 95% potty trained now, they are sleeping in the same room finally, and Payton has never slept better. She has a lot of words for a 19 month old too, at least compared to her sister at that age. But Dylan didn't have the benefit of an awesome big sister to teach her. It's definitely monkey see, monkey do time, Payton wants to do everything big sis does :)

Enjoy a look back at the year that tested us all...

2020

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Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a while since our last post, so we've got a bunch of photos and updates to share. To Dylan and Payton reading this sometime in the future, hopefully "coronavirus" and "pandemic" are foreign subjects to you. We're almost 9 months into this crap and everybody is ready to try and get back to normal.

Anyways, we've had some pretty cool milestones since June. Dylan had her first time on a big girl potty. That training lasted about a month or so before Mom and Dad threw in the towel and decided we'll give the whole potty training thing a 2nd try soon. She was doing great and then lost interest so we decided to stop torturing ourselves until she was ready again.

Dylan did start sleeping in a big girl bed several months ago though. She took to that like a duck to water, Payton was very happy to take over the big crib. Speaking of Payton, she's got a mouth full of teeth now, just a few more to go :). Both girls got their first haircuts this fall also. Their cousin Tina who came out with cousin Becca, Uncle Scott and Aunt Kathy did a great job!

Dylan is talking way more than she was in June (I'd be worried if she wasn't) and Payton has some words too. Up, Down, Elmo, Apple and Ball are some of her favorites. Not bad for a 15 month old and she gets a lot of help from her sister who she absolutely adores!

That's all we've got for now, hope to post again before the end of the year. Until then, enjoy the photos!

Nov 2020

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June 2020 update

Hello world, quick update here, wanted to share a pretty cool video that Google Photos made. Great quality for something put together by machines. Hopefully we'll get one for Payton soon.

Speaking of Payton, she has about 6 teeth now, 4 up top and I'll let you do the math of how many on the bottom 😊 She has been crawling for a month or two, and has been doing a lot of assisted standing over the past few weeks. She should be walking any day now!

Thanks to Mama and the girls for making it a great Father's Day weekend 👍

Bobcat video

Forgot to share this video of a Bobcat paying us a visit the other day. It's long but pretty interesting 🐈

    

May 2020

The world has gone quite topsy-turvy since our last post in early March 2020. Most of us have spent the past 2 months in relative lockdown trying to avoid or spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus which can lead to the COVID-19 disease. Somehow this thing has seemingly split the populace in half along political lines of how to handle such a thing. This isn't the place to opine or debate it, hopefully by the time Dylan and Payton read this blog somewhere in the future it will be very apparent how to deal with, avoid and eradicate this outbreak or anything similar in their futures.

ANYWAYS, we've spent a lot of time together over the past few months. Dad has been working from home most Mondays and Fridays for the past year or two, so it wasn't such a shock to our systems. But, still a pretty big shift in our day to day routine, but hopefully we're at the tail end of this thing, and we can regain some sense of normalcy.

Before we share the latest photo album, here's a little good news/bad news for you. Good News: Payton started pulling herself up to a standing position! Bad News: She immediately took a head first dive out of her crib and ending up fracturing her right fibula. It felt like we failed her, and I guess we did. But a wise man once said "Sh*t happens". And it does. She got out of her cast in a couple weeks and they said she is good to go with no effects on future development. Such a relief!

Enjoy some pictures and stay safe out there :)

March 2020

Payton is 7 months old today, and already has a bottom tooth poking out! It's funny, we thought Dylan was teething for months before we saw one, Payton cut a tooth without us even realizing it!

She is a really happy and chill baby (most of the time). In the past month or so she has really started to interact with us a lot more, and has been eating real people food :). She likes avocado, sweet and mashed potatoes, oatmeal and strawberries a lot right now. Also jalapeno peppers. Just kidding about that last one, just seeing if anybody actually reads these posts.

Dylan is doing really good too. We had a fun party in early February, she's 2 years old already! She is such a good big sister, always willing to share and help her little sis. Dylan gets so excited when Payton coos and caws at us, and then Payton gets geeked up to talk with her sister, they have a great back and forth. As for us adults, Dylan is not exactly speaking the Queen's English by any means, but still saying more and more. It's funny how she'll perfectly pronounce some words, then we get excited, ask her to repeat and she goes back to radio silence. But she let's her hips do the talking as she LOVES to dance, mama and her can cut a rug! I don't know why I don't have a video to share right now, next post I will.

Until then, hope you enjoy the latest photo album. Thanks for reading!

March 2020

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