Zion the Lion and Cy says "Leave me Bee!"

I am telling you...the mobile twins of today is NOTHING like the twins of yester year! They are still the sweetest babies in the world. Of this I have NO doubt, but they are EVERYWHERE and into EVERYTHING times two.

We have completely gated off my family room from any other room in the house which is helping keep little hands and at times whole bodies out of the toilets, the dish washer, drawers, trash cans, eating out of the freshly swept dirt pile, climbing stairs, stalking and attacking the vaccum cleaner, swiping my valubles, finding and putting in their mouths whatever choking hazard happens to be left lying about (I can only police so many people and so many places) The only problem with the gate is that it is an eye sore, horribly inconvenient to lock and unlock hundreds of times a day, and Zion (Monkeyboy) is still scaling chairs, toys, his sister, whatever is around to climb the 1/2 wall in order to, I am assuming break out of prison. He has been caught many times on top of the half wall (Thank Goodness he has actually never made it over!) Because the other side of the wall is a tile floor which would surely cost me a trip to the ER. 90% of the time I am afraid to go to the bathroom for fear of what I will find when I get back or hear while I am gone. I swear these babies are meant to be here I have so many stories of the near death with these two daredevils and quite frankly they REALLY ARE well watched!
The other day Cy walked up to me coughed up a washer, spit it into her hand, handed it to me, and smiled at me the cutest little devious smile. I...shocked she had found, eaten and I had not noticed this DAMN washer...smiled and said "Thank you" and took the slimy washer. She giggled and walked away. I was grateful and impressed she had "told on herself" and a bit disgusted as I sat there holding the piece of warm, wet steel.

Our computer is in the gated room and when I sit down to the computer the twins will grab the mouse, bang on the keyboard, sit on my lap, climb on the desk, pull my hands off the keyboard, climb behind the printer and hard drive while getting stuck. Needless to stay...I barely even read e-mail anymore let alone take the time to blog. I could Blog during nap time but since they are running me ragged I either need to take the time to clean up or recoup during their down time. It is craziness! :) I believe it to be a simple stage which hopefully will either stabilize or give way to another less busy stage in life...Gimmie the love Linda!

I am starting to feel the need to take the Christmas card pictures, though you know if you get my card by the end of January I am happy...as I try not to stress myself out over something that I get such joy from. I dressed the babies for their pictures and feeling a little playful today, pulled out the camera for the first time in a long time. I took pictures of the twins in front of our Christmas tree (which if you read the Blog from last year about the tree...I broke out all "my old friends" as my mother calls them... and decorated with all of my favorite things and watch out kids...I WILL be yelling about for the next few weeks...so sorry in advance and you would do well to obey the rules and DO NOT TOUCH MY TREE!) After the ultra short photo shoot with the twins I was taking off their outfits and thought about the fact that I had not taken any pictures of them at Halloween and that they looked so dang cute in their little outfits. So I pulled out their Halloween costumes and dressed them up for a second photo shoot. It was so funny they were interacting with each other but Cy kept messing with Zion like she knew he was in there but she didn't quite like that he was dressed up differently. She kept trying to pull off his Lion hood and she was grunting or speaking to him in a more forceful tone than she normally does...she was not happy about it at first but about two minutes into it she got more comfortable and it became okay.

So in true Chris fashion I have procrastinated way too long and managed to kill two birds with one stone all with little fuss and on a low stress day. Imagine that! and except for the date stamp and my Blogged confession no one would have ever been the wiser that these pictures were not taken on that very Hallowed day in October.