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We had several activities for Halloween. First, we carved pumpkins. We had our friends, Owen and Paige over for pumpkin carving. This was Emilie's first pumpkin she's ever carved. Then we baked the seeds, umm, good. For the toddler class, Alex and Julie dressed up along with all the other little toddlers. They had a toddler parade and it was adroable. Later in the week, we went to Microsoft for the annual Trick or Treating. We mostly just wanted to see people and their kids rather than get candy. We went to Susan's building and then to Marc's building. A lot of people left candy outside of their offices and left for the day because traffic gets horrible with all the extra people on campus. It was still fun though to walk around and see the kids get candy. On Halloween, we dressed Julie and Alex up again and they went Trick or Treating in the neighborhood. This was true Trick or Treating with going up to houses and getting candy from people. We went to about 6 houses overall, but that was fun. At Microsoft and in the neighborhood the Octopus costumes were a big hit.

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October 25

Forts and pumpkins

The past two weeks have been busy and we have a bunch of pictures of the twins to prove it. The two big events were the EMOMs sale last weekend that Susan was in charge of running, so she was able to get some really great stuff. The best item by far from the sale was the Kangaroo Climber, which is a plastic fort with a slide that Julie and Alex absolutely adore. We also took the twins to a farm to pick pumpkins, but the farm had a bunch of other activities that the twins really enjoyed like going down a big slide, petting animals, and eating ice cream.

Video of the Kangaroo Climber: Link to video

Video of the twins nodding and making sounds: Link to video

Video of the twins going down the slide: Link to video

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October 18

Baby Pictures - The first year of growth

As Julie and Alex were growing up, we took pictures of them every month on the same day and on the same big brown chair. I thought it would be fun to put together a collage of pictures from each month so you can watch them grow up right before your eyes. By their first birthday it became really difficult getting them both to sit still for the picture, so we decided to stop the monthly picture taking. Hopefully we'll remember to take their picture in the chair every birthday (for as long as we have the chair).

The first set of pictures were with the whole chair in view, to help demonstrate how much they had grown. Unfortunately the chair is pretty plush so the twins would just sink into the chair making it harder to tell how much bigger they had grown. The second set of pictures are zoomed in so you can see how their faces changed, losing their baby cheeks, getting hair on their heads, and growing teeth. Enjoy!

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October 17

Petting Zoo Birthday

Our friends Mike and Audrey also have two twins (Mathew and Bella) who celebrated their 2nd birthday this week. They had a great birthday party for the kids at a local park that is also a farm/petting zoo. Alex and Julie had a blast, from petting the bunnies, goats and sheep, to eating cupcakes and making a huge mess. We took some cute pictures of the event and here is a video of the twins around the animals.

Link to Video

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October 06