Crib Problem

The girls are now 81/2 months. They are so cute. I keep debating if its time to put them in separate cribs

The sleep well together most of the night. They can also cry all they want and the other doesn't wake up. But they are now in the crawling phase and if one wakes up, she'll start crawling all over her sister waking her up and then I have two awake babies. Those of you out there who have twins- at what point did you make them sleep in different beds?
This last week we were at my parents. I put them in different play pens, each play pen seemed a little small to put both babies in. Every time they slept apart was miserable! By morning I was in the bed with two babies. I finally gave in and put them in the same bed and it was so much better. So which is the lesser of the two bads?- Having babies wake each other up by crawling on the other, OR having them not sleep well because they are by themselves? 
The other crib problem I've been having, is more of a bed time problem. Every night there is one baby who goes to bed with complete ease, while the other baby refuses to go to sleep and I have I can't get them to go to sleep for the life of me. Then eventually the awake baby will crash and I can put them into bed. Its not always the same baby. Its the same thing every night. 
How to solve this problems?

Nellie's Solid Food

Nellie loves solid food. When she gets to feed herself she grabs a whole handful of cereal at a time. The girls are so funny when you put the cereal in front of them, they start squealing and smiling so big.

Arizona Evening

The glow Sunday April 29th, behind the hill was beautiful.  I ran outside and snapped this photo. So regularly I'm reminded that I live in an absolutely beautiful place.

Post-Wide Yard Sale

My mom and sister (with her children) came down to visit this weekend. I completely forgot to take any photos the whole weekend. I'm totally bummed about that.
The reason they came down was the this weekend was the Post-Wide Yard Sale. What is a Post-Wide Yard sale? Once a year the local Military post has a Saturday that those who live on post in military housing to have a yard sale. Since Military families are restricted to weight limits when they PCS (are reassigned duty stations) they have to purge their belongs to just the essential. There is always a lot of great stuff. Especially a lot of baby and children's items- many of the families are young families with little children. We found all sorts of treasures and great clothes.
A funny story:
My son found this "Spencer" train at one of the yard sales and begged me for it. The owner knew what it was and had a lot of the train sets. Everything was priced individually. I paid them $2 for that train. Everywhere we went that morning he took it with him. Its easier to have your child carry their own toy at yard sales- they are less likely to get attached to a toy at the yard sale. I went to go feed the babies and my mom and sister kept going to yard sales. My mom didn't know I had already purchased the train. She offered and paid 25 cents. She said that the father at that yard sale turned to his wife and said "Was that one of Rusty's toys". Neither my mom or the father who sold the toy that wasn't his, had any idea what it was nor how expensive those little trains are new to purchase. We laughed all day at how my mom bought an item that we already owned.
A second funny story:
AL- "Spencer is a bad train"
Me- "Spencer isn't a bad train, he's just a misunderstood train"
AL- "no Spencer's a bad train"
Me- "I guess misunderstood might not be the best description, Spencer's just a really prideful train"
AL- "no Spencer's bad 

Chocolate Covered Rose

Rose found chocolate that AL left out. She really enjoyed it. It had washed it off of her arms when I realized that I should take a photo. So you only get a photo of the chocolate cover Rose face.

Pulling Weeds

 I had been waiting for it to rain to try pulling the vast number of weeds around my house. But the clouds came, rained on the Mountains, rained up in the Phoenix area, but no rain on us in Sierra Vista. So I brought my children, some gloves, and a rubbish bin outside.

This is about a quarter of the way done. The right side of the walk way was as bad as the left side. There were so many weeds to be pulled.

 I put the girls in the play pen while I worked. I didn't want them trying to eat a bug, a weed, or a rock. Al played with the girls and with his dump truck. 

I pulled about 3/4 of the area that needs to be pulled (in the front yard only). I worked out there for about an hour. I would have worked longer except my children had had enough of being outside. I feel good that I accomplished something.

Growing all Along

My girls are starting to pull themselves up. It makes them happy to be standing and looking at the whole world. Al loves his sisters, and they love Al. He loves to play and make them smile. Its so cute as he gets them laughing, it makes him laugh too. Too much silliness.

8 1/2 months old

Kermit "DRAGON"

I found this shirt in the clearance at Target. It was $2.40. I love the Muppets and I thought this was cute. When I checked out the tag after pulling it off the description on the tag read "DRAGON". Since when is Kermit a dragon. I look at this as a FAIL. 

Reindeer Poop

I am slowly learning that I need to be more careful about what I say in front of my son. On Christmas my son was given a PEZ reindeer in his stocking. When he started playing with it I said "Its reindeer poop". Now all he ever does is call it "poop". He is always asking for "more poop" to put in his reindeer. I guess that serves me right.