Our First Christmas

Our first Christmas was memorable, but only because our family was sick! Because of the illness, Claire ended up in the ER the night of Christmas! We recovered by the weekend.

Even though we didn't feel well, we still had fun opening presents with Mom and Dad!

Santa has a hard job!

We visited with Great Grandma Reinhardt ... her "puppy" kept giving Emma kisses!

11 Months Old!

A lot changed in Emma and Claire's 11th month. Although Claire had been scooting and rolling since she was 7 months, she started a very efficient three legged crawl shortly after Thanksgiving. We think Emma sat and watched Claire and other kids until she was able to perfect crawling. She was put on all fours one day by Lorilyn and Grandma Kennefick and off she went! They haven't stopped moving since. They pull themselves up and can walk around furniture. I think walking is in the very near future!

Sibling rivalry has already started. They get very jealous of whatever attention their sister is getting or whatever toy she has! But they also keep an eye on each other and are never a part for more than a minute.

Happy Halloween!

Although Halloween was a few months ago, we wanted show off our little princesses. The day before Halloween, Medtronic had a Halloween party where the girls dressed up and went trick or treating and met Michelle's co-workers.

Emma and Claire met some friends who are also twin sisters and had a lot of fun playing with them. They were born just a few months before them.

The next day, on Halloween, we got dressed up to see all of the kids come to our house trick or treating. The night started off okay...

and then slowly started going down hill...

until we experienced our first tantrum from Emma. The only way we could get Emma's costume off was to cut it off!

Boot Scooting Boogie

I know we don't have our Halloween pictures out here yet, but we just couldn't wait to show off our new moves!

9 Months Old!

We are growing big! At our 9 month doctor's visit here were our stats:

Emma:
- 19 lbs 13 oz (80th percentile)
- 28 inches (80th percentile)
- 4 teeth

Claire:
- 18 lbs 2 oz (50th percentile)
- 28 1/4 inches (88th percentile)
- 5 teeth

We scoot around on our belly...Claire is very efficient at going backwards and Emma is great at pivoting in a circle. We prefer finger food now. When mom and dad try to feed us that baby mush we push it away! We seem to eat better for Lorilyn. We have mom and dad wrapped around our fingers.

We play together now. Sometimes playing evolves into stealing each other's toys!

Rrrroar! I am a leopard!

Emma likes to show off her teeth!

On Sundays we transform into Viking's cheerleaders!

Go Vikings!

What is Claire trying to do?

Very proud to be with dad!
We can't figure out why those balls pop and go away!

Someone is up to no good...

Scooting around.

We were lucky to have some visitors. Here is our Great Great Aunt Betty from CA! We had fun hanging out with her.

Our Great Grandpa Peterson paid us a visit this summer too. He lives in Las Vegas.

Riley's First Birthday!

Our cousin Riley celebrated his first birthday in Minnesota last weekend. It was fun to play with him. After seeing Riley run around the house, Mom and Dad are a little worried about us walking! They have it pretty good right now.

Riley didn't know what to do with his teddy bear birthday cake that Grandma made. After a few smacks, he finally realized it tasted good!


Emma's standing on her own! She is quite proud of herself!

There were so many of "our kind" at the party!

It was a fun weekend with cousin Riley!

7 Months Old!

We celebrated 7 months in style! We rocked out with our nanny!

Which way to the beach??


The morning after we were still in a good mood!

7 months is a lot of fun. We can sit all by ourselves without falling over.



We love being outside. We dig holes in the grass...don't tell Dad...he thinks it's the squirrels!