Audrey and Aiden turn 1!

Friday, September 5, marked the twins one year birthday. We can hardly believe an entire year has passed by...and our little babies are 1! The time has gone so fast at times, and so slowly on those hard days with sleepless nights. We celebrated with a small party at home (with Nana and Papa joining us from Georgia via the web cam), with a home-made number 1 shaped cake that Lauren and I managed to create the day before. Audrey, was a cake eating machiene, not waiting a second after the cake was in front of her to dive in. She knew right where that chocolate cake belonged, a girl after my own heart! :) She even took the time to lick her tray clean afterwards. By the time she was done, she had cake to her elbows and beyond! Aiden was more careful, ripping his cake to a hundred little pieces, then only after mom popped a piece in his mouth, did he realize that it actually tasted good. They both took the same approach when opening gifts...taking pleasure in ripping the wrapping paper to shreads rather than noticing the gifts, which annoyed older sister Lauren who just wanted to see what was in the packages! It was a great night! And when I snuggled my one year olds before laying them in bed, they still smelled of sweet chocolate cake...Happy Birthday Audrey and Aiden, Love Mama.

First Day of Preschool

Lauren's first day of preschool was on Wednesday. She is again attending a Spanish Immersion program through Zeeland Christian. Her teachers this year are Maestra Garcia and Maestra Jiminez (a difficult one for a 4 year old to pronounce!). Both teachers are very nice and extremely mothering with lots of hugs and kisses. Her class is exactly opposite from last year with all boys and very few girls. Lauren is one of 3, and after the first day had made friends with all of them. We are hoping that she will use the knowledge she gained in her spanish class last year to have more confidence and use her spanish in the class more often this year, and maybe even help her classmates to learn. She already seems more comfortable and willing to go into class and start her day. I had to ask her several times on the first day if she was ok, more to make myself feel better about leaving her! She quickly kissed me, and walked into class, saying 'adios mom!' Oh, they grow up too fast!