Happy 13-months to ME!

We are behind in posting this but moving fast ahead in all other things!!! The biggest and best thing around our house these days is our new way of moving upright! This allows us to have a lot of fun which includes dancing!

We also are very into using signs and words to communicate our wants and needs and some of our most frequently used include:

Signs & Words - more, milk, please, bath, all done, play, my turn (mine), your turn, thank you, Papa, Mama, book, yes, no, kitty, dog, ball. Words only - back, belly, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, arm, fingers, toes.

These are our favorite shirts at the moment and we get very excited when we can wear them and then can pretend we are a kitty or puppy!

Much love, ME

Eleanor is moving upright!

So the walking races have started in the Gore household! Eleanor has been taking some very nice steps this past week and both girls have walking styles which entertain in their own way. Eleanor is extremely calculated in when and where she walks and rarely takes a spill, typically lowering herself to the floor. Madelaine gets up wherever and whenever and just goes, resulting in a few bumps now and then. Yeah Eleanor!

Lots of Love from ME to you!

We've had a fun-filled weekend which included cheering Papa on doing his first Polar Plunge on Saturday (a fundraiser for MN Special Olympics).

Sorry for the lack of photos together! It is difficult enough getting pictures of us still, let alone sitting by each other...we seem to like to either chase each other or go in opposite directions.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Love, ME

Madelaine's first steps!

As I was getting Eleanor into her chair for dinner and calling to Madelaine to come over, all of the sudden I realized she had gotten up midfloor and had walked a good 5 feet before landing on her bumper. I grabbed the camera ASAP and we tried to convince her to try it again. Of course not the A+ performance I had just witnessed but still adorable and exciting! Looks like more fun times are around the corner. Never a dull moment in the Gore household! Yeah Madelaine!

Just because!

While one of us likes to help with the laundry...


The other one likes to pretend she is a cat...

Aren't we cute? Happy February!

Love, ME