3 weeks later...

SO sorry we haven't written in a long time! You must be antsy waiting for pictures...
But you are patient, and patience is a virtue that always pays off :-)
In the last month or so we have done a LOT. We moved, which is always hectic, and we found new friends and play areas! We also had to say a sad "see you later!" to many friends.
Let's start where we left off - Hanukkah! Grandma, Zayde, Uncle Andrew, Aunt Hope, cousin Clayton, Doug and Aileen all came over for a Hanukkah celebration like no other! We sang songs, we lit candles - Grandma and Zayde even gave us our own super cool electric menorah so we didn't get hurt :-)
A few days later, we went to the temple in our neighborhood and had a special kids story and music time for Hanukkah. They gave us applesauce and latkes MMMMMMMMMMMM
We spent a lot of time not going out places because mommy was packing our stuff. We put everything into storage. Well, we put mommy and momma's stuff into storage and brought EVERYTHING WE LOVE. We have all our favorite toys here with us and we have our bedding that we love. We were good though, and we told mommy she could put our cribs into storage and we would sleep int he nice cribs that Grandma got us when we were born.
We moved to Grandma and Zayde's and that week was nutso! We went out for Christmas Eve to our family friends and they have a little boy, he's three and super cool. He knows ALL the animal sounds! We are going to see him more and he is going to teach us lots and lots and lots more. During the week, mommy went back to our old apartment to finish packing our stuff - like our play gates. We have a great big play area here - a whole room - but mommy and momma wanted to make sure we couldn't get to the stuff that we might get hurt on. We have a great big room to play in!
We did lots of fun stuff at Grandma and Zayde's in the first two weeks. We got to go to a whole bunch of new stores and even ride in the shopping cart car at Stop and Shop. Grandma has got us all our favorite foods - and even some new ones! We didn't know how good blackberry graham cereal bars were! MMMM
We started something that is super duper cool though. We started a music class! We get to sing, dance, play with instruments and see other kids our age and a little older. The teacher Juliana is so sweet and smiley.
Some other fun stuff we've done is we got library cards (our firsts! we even took out books!), we went to a new mall with a new super cool play area - its huuuuge and LOTS of fun-, we went to see Neomie in New Jersey, we got our 15 month checkups (she said "clean bill of health" before sticking us with sharp things and made us cry), we got to Skype with our friend Josephine & her mommy, we got to Skype with Grandma and Dale, we started coloring, and we got our first haircut! One of the most exciting things to happen is our friends Howie and John had twins!!! They are a boy and a girl just like us! They were born on Jan 5 in India and are named Ava and Aiden.
I'm sure there is SO much more that we did in the last month, but lets stop this chatting and get to the fun pictures!
But first...
At 15 months, Josephine is coming up as 30 inches and 20 lbs 8 oz. She is in the 50% percentile for height and 20% for weight. (She recently put herself on a diet and doesn't want to eat as much, so she didn't gain too much.) Dylan is a bit taller, at 30.5 inches and a whopping 22 lbs 2 oz. He is also 50% for height and 25% for weight. (He has put himself on a "see-food" diet, but also runs EVERYWHERE.)

Our Aunt Catalina, Uncle Jason and cousins
Isaac, Joshua, Elijah and Gabriel

Look what Grandma and Dale sent us!!!

Lighting the big menorah at the temple

Our stuff - not mommy and momma's - to bring
to Grandma and Zayde's!

They had toys for us, too

SO MANY TOYS

Hanging with Grandma

Grandma and Dale gave us this for our birthdays
It's super fun

Just chillin

Relaxin

That's a lot of candy cane boxes...

....and bags....

LOOK AT ALL THE LOOT!

Every year, around the holidays, momma gives her students at school a little special goodie bag. Mommy buys things on discount throughout the year. This year she forgot she bought stuff, so there was a LOT extra to give them. The kids at school have such big smiles when they get their goodie bags

Momma and Dylan playing piano

It's fun!

Josephine & Momma playing

Zayde, reading Josephine her favorite book

which happens to be Dylan's favorite too

Hey! Don't ship us away!

Hangin in my play room

This puzzle is so fun!
Thanks JC & her mommy!

Being a Florida Gator's fan, like my
great uncle Bob

It's a fun trampoline 

Even being next to it is fun 

A BOX (from Grandma & Dale)

Look Dylan, there are cards

I'll read the card first

What's in this bag?!

THERES MORE UNDER IT!

LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF

Spaghetti break

Yummy

I WANT TO OPEN IT

Open open open open!

WOW THIS IS SO COOL!!!! 

Our new mall play area

It's really big

It has a biiiig tunnel

First time coloring

First time coloring

Unsure what is happening

He knew to keep his head still around the scissors
Dylan was VERY well behaved, until the end of the haircut

Josephine wasn't as happy

A rare photo - both of us together

I'll read you this book!

Dylan misses his Uncle Matt SO much, he is turning
into him

Not sure how she managed to wiggle into this position

Relaxin' in my tutu

I'm on top of the world!

We got a special treat - breakfast in front of the TV -
since we were up all night sick with a stomach virus

Mommy thinks we are napping...

But we are too excited to nap!
Mommy wanted you to be surprised but we can't contain our excitement anymore. We are moving! THIS WEEKEND!!!
We are moving to live with....... GRANDMA AND ZAYDE!!!!!
Tiny will be there too! I'm (Josephine) very excited that we will still get to share a room. I don't want to be separated from Dylan. Dylan is excited to chase the dog around. Everytime he sees Tiny he says "bow wow wow wow wow" We are both looking forward to getting lots and lots of Grandma/Zayde time.
Mommy has been busy packing us up. It looks like a maze in here (well, that's what she keeps saying, I've never done a maze before!). We've been a little scared because of all these big brown boxes, because I just know our stuff is in there and it looks different here now. We've been really good though about it. We are just so excited to spend extra time with them!
Our Grandma and Dale in North Carolina were going to come up for New Years Eve, but they are going to wait and let us be all unpacked and then come up for a fun fun trip to see us in February. I hope it snows lots so they can't go home! WE CAN ALL LIVE THERE TOGETHER!!!! That would be so fun.

Uh oh. Mommy is out of the shower... I better sneak back into my crib before she sees I'm not napping...

The past month...

We have been SO busy since Halloween! Mommy figured out how to get our photos back on the blog, so we are here to show you what we've been up to.

Our new favorite play area!

THERE'S A TUNNEL!

There is a food court near the play area and they have apples!
YUM!

We really like rolls!

Yum yum yum

 We went to the NY Hall of Science with our friend's Benjamin and Pheobe. Pheobe is just a little little baby, but Benjamin is a BIG BOY - HES TWO! They brought one of their moms, Julie. We had so much fun, especially in their kiddie play area

Theres a mirror

And lots of space to crawl around

Our friend Josephine came to visit us!
We miss her, so we Skype whenever our moms let us

Dylan likes to look out the window

Josephine does too

Here is what we were looking at! SNOW

"It's so cool to look at snow" 

When it is nice out, mommy takes us to the swings!

/Other times we just stay home and tumble

Sometimes she wraps us up in super warm stuff and we go for walks

and she gives us cookies

Dylan, in his first time-out

 Of course, we had our twins meet up. It was after Halloween, but we dressed up. Graham was scary - a vampire!!

This is the best picture our mommy got of all the twins

AND NEOMIE CAME TO VISIT

She makes silly faces

I love my farm house

I love to walk around my play area

Our friend Henry came over (with his mommy and daddy)
 and momma read us a book!

We saw food.

Mommy made cheez-its. They were super tasty!

Then it was time for Thanksgiving!

We got plates just like everyone else

Zayde gave a toast!

Stacy came :)

And Aunt Hope

Zayde and Dylan, discussing the persimmon place settings

 After Thanksgiving, we went to our cousins' house and visited with some people we know and some new people

This is Lisa, Ninoska's sister. She's super cool.

This is Leah, she let me play with her phone.
She is my bestestest friend EVER

Josephine & Meryl

 Then we asked our mommy to ask our friend Jayde's mommy if they would come with us to our fun super cool play area

SHE DID 

This week, mommy promised to take us to the aquarium. Someone we don't like, named Sandy, destroyed our aquarium so mommy said we have to wait. We don't like Sandy. Mommy promised us two things: 1) it wasn't our cousin Sandy in Florida and 2) as soon as they fix it up and we can go back, we will! So, she took us to the Queens Zoo.

Dylan got to look at the Elk

The Elk were really cool looking - BIG

We spent a lot of time with the sea lions - they came right up
to the edge of their pool to say hi!

As you can see, we have been busy in this past month! We've also learned a lot of new things. 

 

Josephine is able to - Mommy. Let me pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. Hi! It's Josephine! I'm so happy! I've been playing and playing and playing! I dance with mommy, we sing, we read, and mommy makes me special foods that I really super love (like nuggets). I can say moo, baa, la la la, (did you see my video? I am so great) duck, bow wow wow, this and that. I can snort like a rhino. I really love to sing and scream. I've been in trouble only a few times, for biting my brothers head but he deserved it! He steals my toys. I never ever ever steal his toys (ok......sometimes). I really love tunnels. I really love music. I really really love music IN tunnels. I can crawl REALLY fast and know my way around my apartment. I love to read books - I can open them and turn the pages. I love Elmo. I love my farm house. I have 4 teeth. I love my wash-n-go toy (mommy said I should show you what that is http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-Fridge-Wash-Magnetic-Vehicle/dp/B00134V4L6) I'm tired of typing and I want to go play! Bye!

Hi, its Dylan. I don't want to type. I WANT TO RUN!

OK Dylan, Mommy will finish. Dylan is running a lot. He can stand up without holding onto anything, crouch and play in a squatting position, and likes to carry things around. He can reach all the books in the apartment, so naturally he pulls them down until he is in a pool of books and then he reads them all. He often walks to the car instead of being in the stroller. He can say duck, bow wow wow, diaper, this, that, yes, he can snort, moo, la la la. He can find nearly any object in the play area. He loves to chase and be chased  in and out of tunnels. He has 6 teeth and uses them to eat absolutely everything we have. 

Info!

Just wanted to let you all know that we are a-okay and have been taking a LOT of photos. We've had a little problem lately with storage space on Blogger, and are having trouble uploading photos. We are working on getting them back up and running.
In the meantime, the kids want to say hi!