Thank you!!!

Just wanted to post a quick THANK YOU to all of you who donated to our March of Dimes March for Babies walk!! Next year I hope to drum up even more support and have even more walkers and donations! We had a HUGE turnout and I heard that Houston had the largest number of walkers in the country and raised over 3 MILLION DOLLARS to help fight premature births!! Amazing!! We had a FABULOUS time and the weather was absolutely perfect for the walk! The girls were so excited to get out of the house and do something different that they laughed and giggled almost the whole way through! They rode in their stroller most of the time, but we carried them part of the way too and they would wave to all the walkers and smile at everyone. Just a great day all around! Here are a couple of pics our friend Ben took from the walk. (I just LOVE Kayla's smile in this picture!!)
Me and Kayla
Kiko and Kamryn

More pics and the latest...

I'll get to the pics in a second. Last week was very sad here...we had to say goodbye to our sweet "Bri-Bri". Brianna was the girls nanny for almost nine months and she had to return home to Utah to help take care of some family issues. The girls miss her I can tell. We all miss her. She really took care of them and had this place running pretty smoothly! I secretly hope that she will come back very soon, if nothing else to visit! We have a new summer nanny until August, her name is Kim...yes, we have an entire house FULL of K-names. LOL. She's been here a week and so far the girls seem to have adjusted and she hasn't run off crying yet so I think she'll be ok for the rest of the summer! It's always hard having to train a new person into the routine and fitting them into our family, but she's always got a smile on her face and ready and eager to do whatever it takes! And she can put up with my crazy requirements...so she's doing great so far!!
Besides that, it's been pretty quiet around here...well, except for Kayla. She has developed quite the set of lungs and is eager to show us how well they work. She's also got quite the temper!! I didn't think tantrums were supposed to start this early...but BOY...payback's a...well, you know. You can't really get mad at her, kicking and screaming and turning beet red while clinching her fists...she's just too darn cute while she does it. Funny story...last night, Kay was pitching a FIT and I wasn't having it, so I left her to do her screaming and fit throwing, when I came back in the room, Kamryn was sitting next to her on the floor patting Kayla on the back and talking to her as if to say it was going to be ok. Didn't seem to console Kay too much...but it made me stop and smile. I remembered back to being a little kid and being really upset with my parents and crying in my room and wishing I had a sister there to hug me and let me just "vent"!! It made me smile that Kamryn was trying to console her sister in her own way and I know that they will be the best of friends...once they figure out how to quit biting and hitting each other :). LOL. Now...on to some more pics!! These are the continuation shots from their 15 month shoot with Christy. These aren't all of them, but they still don't smile on command, so these are the cutest ones anyway!

Giggling Babies!

I forgot to post this a while back! This is kind of a long video, but I think it's pretty cute (I'm biased though). Make sure your speakers are up, so you can hear all the giggling! This was about two weeks ago...they are now walking everywhere now and prefer not to crawl at all! Kayla gets so excited walking that she tries to run and then falls down but they are just too stinking cute to watch!! Will be posting some new pics in the next few weeks too so stay tuned!

15 months!!

Wow! I can't believe my little girls are 15 months old today!!! It's all just going by so FAST!! They are walking up a storm now and have their own little twin language going on. LOL. We are also seeing a lot more of their personalities and some baby temper tantrums happening! It's pretty funny actually...at least until the hitting starts. Kamryn is my more mellow child, but definitely the DRAMA QUEEN!!! She bumps her head and it's like the end of the world!! Kayla has the temper but is my more rough and tumble baby. They are starting to fight over toys more now and hit/pull hair...which I expected to start happening!! They BOTH will throw little tantrums and clench their fists and turn bright red screaming...which is pretty humorous but REALLY LOUD!!! Not so sure I'm looking forward to the terrible 2's and 3's!!

We had some photos taken yesterday of the girls since it's been a while! I don't have all of them yet, but stay tuned!! Here are some FANTASTIC ones we got for our annual Crawfish Boil invitations!! I stole the idea from a friend, but they turned out GREAT!! If you need another great photographer in the Houston area, call Christy Scheeler (www.photographyMOM.com)!! I just have to smile everytime I look at these!

Baby Pinata!

I just have to post this picture because it's just too funny not too. We were at an Easter party this weekend and our friend had a pinata. Kayla saw all the kids around it and she made a bee-line for the thing. I mean, she grabbed my hands and started walking/pulling me over there. She marched right past the kids and wanted the stick! It was so funny! I couldn't believe that she not only held onto this stick...which was like, twice the size of her...but she tried to swing at the pinata!! Then she fell...which she didn't like very much...poor baby!

Dancing Kam!

I've had an inkling since the day they were born that Kam would be my musical/dancer baby and Kay would be my rough and tumble/gymnastics baby. They are starting to prove me right! Kamryn LOVES music...she will stop whatever she is doing if she hears a song she likes and we finally caught her on tape! Too cute! (Make sure you've got the volume up!)

TWO walking babies!!!

Well...it's official! Kayla is a TODDLER!! And she's not just two-stepping at a time...she's walking the full length of the house...unassisted!! Her sister can't even do that! Of course, Kamryn, not to be outdone, is able to get from crawling to standing on her own in the middle of the room now, which Kayla can't do yet. So I'm so proud of my two little girls!!! And in true TWIN fashion...I stood them both up, pointed in the same direction and said GO...and they went in opposite directions. Yes, I believe this is a sign of things to come for the Novilla girls!! But I love every second of it!!!