Playing Dress Up

Some photos from the last day of our visit to Maryland and we got to spend a little extra time with our family from across the ocean.  It was a day of wardrobe changes!

First, mini marines just like Uncle Nicu.  But I do not think they found the uniforms to be very comfortable.  They were mini uniforms made out of the real actual uniforms complete with itchy wool and super stuff collar.  But they looked super cute.

 And next, some traditional Romanian outfits!

DE Children's Museum

The boys had a lot of energy to burn off after being so good for their baptism, so we visited the Delaware Children's Museum in Wilmington, DE with Grandma and Grandpa and followed that up with a visit to Mr. & Mrs. A's house for a run through their lawn sprinklers!

Baptism

We were very late with baptizing the boys...but I really had my heart set on having the baptism ceremony performed at St. Mary Anne's, in the church where I grew up and where we were married, so we held out until there was a good time when we were back East...so they were already 2 years old by the time that happened.  But we found out they still make baptism outfits for toddlers!  The day was a super hot one, but the ceremony went really well.  Father Hartman did a wonderful job.  He has quite a bit of patience to deal with two toddlers in a baptism ceremony, since that is definitely not the norm.  It was a great day and was so wonderful to have family from near and far (even our Romanian family!) there for the occasion.  And of course Little Muzz put together a very nice lunch for after the ceremony.

 

Rolling Cars

One of the first ways they started acknowledging each other as someone to play with instead of just someone else in the room they were playing next to was by rolling cars/trucks back and forth.  We caught some on video here...

Potties

No....not potty training yet. Ethan regularly likes to say "pee-pee in the potty" but I am not going there quite yet. 3 years old suits me just fine if it doesn't mean everyone has to get more frustrated than necessary along the way.

That being said, I did get a great deal on these potties from a fellow twin mom that I couldn't pass up. She sold me 2 potties she received as a gifts and didn't need because her kids preferred going straight to the big potty instead (if we can only be so lucky...), so I had to seize the moment and take them off her hands since they were 50% off the regular price (and they were still brand new and the same kind I would have gotten anyway!) Can't pass up a 2 for 1 deal when you have twins :)

But before I could hide them away for a later date, they saw them and wanted to sit on them. So here are some pics. We'll see if they look this happy when we pull them back out again for the real thing...

New Deck

The boys enjoying the new deck!  They love to run back and forth between the benches and up and down the stairs.  Lots of fun ahead on this new play surface.

1st Film in a Movie Theater - Cars 2

Today we went to see Disney/Pixar Cars 2 on the big screen. We made it a whole 40 minutes before we had to leave...but good attempt for our very first film in a real movie theater.

Here we are getting ready for the show in our Cars shirts...