You may think I'd forgotten that our family had a blog...that needed to be updated, but I didn't forget. Life busyness...what can I say.

I want to let everyone know - we are all doing great. Sydney and Abigail are talking more now - of course, we cannot understand what they are saying half of the time. These are fun time to be a parent, because we can ask them very complex or very simple questions and received the same answer every time..."No." This is the girls' favorite word - "Do you want more fruit?", "No", "Can we change your clothes", "No", "Do you want a snack?", "[silence with affirmative head nod]". So they do know the concept of "Yes"!

We have had a busy past month, but I cannot recall what we have been busy with. The girls have be on-again, off-again with runny nose/fever-type sicknesses. But they seem to be great today.I know that we had a great time with Brad's immediate family during the weekend of April 14th in the Smoky Mountains. We were able to explore a few trails with the girls on our backs, and we experienced the dynamic mountain weather, first hand. On one of the trails, the weather was sunny and 60 degrees at the trailhead, and less than an hour into our hike, it turned cold and began to rain. With the health of our daughters and their 7-month old cousin (Jack) in mind, we quickly turned around. The kids slept through it all and had no idea what had happened.

Sydney and Abigail are getting used to their toddler beds and are really enjoying the freedom the beds provide. At night, we will put them to bed and for the next 30 minutes to an hour, they will play, talk, sing, beat on their door, and jump on their beds. When the room gets dark, they will finally crawl into their beds and go to sleep. As long as they are not screaming, crying, or hitting each other, we don't mind one bit. Also, they have officially switched beds (sometimes) - Sydney will sleep in the bed to the right and Abigail in the bed to the right - who knows why...

We are coming up on the girls two year-old birthdays, and folks have mentioned the "Terrible Twos" to us. I think that we may have seen the willful, can't make me happy, do thinks to spite the parents stage already. Hopefully so - we realize everyday that we have been truly blessed with two wonderful daughters.