Happy New Year!

We were practicing "cheers" with our cups today in honor of the holiday, but each attempt just resulted in us switching...

We did however master raising our cups for a toast...


So here are our wishes for a wonderful New Years and the best in 2010. We know ours will be pretty exciting!!! Much love, ME

Our 1st Christmas!

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,
We wanted to write you a letter following our visit on Friday to apologize for our behavior. We are sorry that one of us screamed loudly in your ear while one of us pulled your beard. We really have been good girls this past year (ask our Papa and Mama) and are looking forward to your first visit to our house. Please know we very much appreciated your willingness to hold us both at the same time and we hope next year when we visit you again we will share smiles instead. Safe travels!
Love, ME

P.S. Being our time on your lap was brief, we are not sure you were able to see what our shirts said (All Mommy wants for Christmas is a Silent Night). We think Mama had us wear these so she could secretly share this wish with you. We actually aren't too loud but still really enjoy sharing Papa and Mama's bed. Maybe you can help us out?

Finally some real snow!!!

So we haven't actually played in the white stuff yet being today was much too cold and windy, but we are ready when the opportunity arises...

Warm hugs to all!

Love, ME

Happy 11-months to ME!

We are in the middle of the wonderful holiday season and very much looking forward to ME's first Christmas. Our trees have always been sparsely decorated on the bottom due to the 2 cats but this year we have a very definitive line where decorations end due to the addition of 2 more sets of extremities!

ME is now pulling up at everything, transitioning between 2 stable objects placed close together, and beginning some cruising. Mama should know that in order to encourage walking we need to be barefoot or wear very flexible shoes, but she just couldn't resist buying these boots...how cute are these?!?! Besides, fashion is not always practical!

ME loves to display affection to each other and for the most part are great pals, even though we definitely have our moments and will be forced to learn early sharing!

The cold tundra air has arrived in MN so we are forced to go indoors for some swimming fun. We had our first chance with Papa along recently and had a great time!

Constant babble fills our home, including a lot of "hi" and "bye", and we really enjoy pretending to talk on the phone (we would prefer the real ones but get forced to use these play ones)!

We leave you with...

Madelaine the Mischevious

and Eleanor the Einstein

Hope all are enjoying the holiday season thus far!

Love, ME

Our Thanksgiving adventure!

Happy 1st Thanksgiving ME! Although we have much to be thankful for every day of the year, Thanksgiving day was extra special this year being it was our first with our little munchkins!

Madelaine awoke Thursday morning with a low grade fever and runny nose which progressed throughout the day...poor thing.

Being our 2nd celebration brought us into Rochester, we decided it made the most sense to make a stop at the ER versus come home and have to bring her back during the wee morning hours. So, ME got to experience their first trip to the ER and ate their 2nd turkey dinner of the day while sitting on the hospital bed.

Hey, this isn't too bad of place (note, this was pre-doctor examination and tests).

I don't get to watch movies at home yet...this is kind of fun!

Post-examination...need I say much more.

Yeah, we can go home now!

Thankfully it turned out to be just a viral illness and by Monday she was back to her normal spunky personality. However, you can probably guess who just came down with the same symptoms this week.


We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were able to celebrate with family and friends!
Love, ME

Our 1st trip to the MEtrodome!

ME spent Saturday afternoon showing their pride for our hometown K-M Komets football team at what is now called Mall of America Field but will always be the dome to us! We sported royal blue and white colors and of course looked just as cute as ever!

We got some much needed rest on the drive up to Minneapolis.

We were not quite sure about our arrival at this massive place but were happy it again was a beautiful day in MN to be out and about in our stroller.

I was content the whole time sitting on Papa's lap and studying everyone and everything around.

I had to take part in the excitement and enjoyed clapping, cheering, and bouncing on Mama's lap.
And even though our Komets lost, we still had a great time and were well behaved the whole game so maybe we can make a trip here again for another sporting event.

Congrats on a great season Komets!
Love, ME

November in Minnesota?!?!

ME took advantage of the wonderful weather we have had this past week by visiting a park and taking our first swing and slide rides!

We especially liked the fact we could fit in the swing together...And we enjoyed flying in the air.

Going down the slide was fun too being we had Papa's help.

After all the excitement and fresh, fall air we were exhausted!!!

Love, ME

Happy 10-months ME!!!

Life just keeps getting more exciting at the Gore household. ME is moving full speed ahead and is now attempting to master the pull to stand skill. It can be accomplished by ourselves at some lower, stable toys...

But we otherwise just enjoy being helped into stand at anything and especially like to be right by each other.

We very much enjoy our bath time...

And it is getting harder to just sit on our bumpers!


We are babbling non-stop with our favorites being baba, mama, dada, gaga, nighnigh, hi, and nana. We also like to wave, squeal, and giggle a lot too!

Thanks for checking in on us!

Love, ME

Luck be the Ladybugs tonight!

We had our 4th annual Halloween party at our house with family, but this year was extra special being it was the first with ME.

Eleanor with her pumpkin (this was right before she put the lid into her mouth...yum!)

Madelaine with her pumpkin.

Attempting to get a photo with cousins Breydin and Leela with all 4 looking at the camera...challenging!

Papa and his little ladies!

A family picture.

The 3 Ladybugs!

Do we both have these silly antennas on our heads?

Lets make a run for it...

...and we are off!

Hope everyone had a fun-filled night!

Love, ME