Rebecca and Emily - part 4 - 2008 fashion show

There are a couple of schools of thought on how to dress identical twin girls:
- same, same (means no fighting over who gets which color)
- similar (but not everything comes in pink and purple)
-different (because everyone is different)

Birthday Princess Emily and Birthday Princess Becca

Wow these pants are tricky!



Girls just wanna have fun...



What good is a beautiful dress with out some mud?

It didn't stop at their hands this day...


Equal but opposite in our random snow storm.


Emily in her "favorite shirt...EVER!!!"

Of course, we'd run around naked ALL the time if we could.

Making waffles with Daddy!

Look, more mud!


Sweet Becca in my wedding dress.

Sweet Emily in half a dress.

Eating marshmallows toasted over an open BBQ.

Cute braids

I love these girls!

What does 2009 have in store for them?

Rebecca and Emily - part 3 - 2007 videos

Many of these you might have seen on youtube (back when I was posting them on a regular basis) ...but let's visit them again, shall we...

What would you do with your twin sister?



Thanks for clearing that up.



They know them better than I do.



Great Job, Becca



Good try, Emily

Lice

Guess who has lice?

Nope - not the birthday girls...well, I'll check them again tomorrow.

Not Jacob or Daddy ... not enough hair. Not ClaireBells either - same reason.

I know what your thinking... Katy. 10 year olds are just starting to figure out their own personal hygiene habits...but again no.

So who does that leave? Amanda

She's watching Bugs Bunny on youtube and eating tee tee candy (aka Skittles) while Darren and I are good primate parents ... well, all except eating the bugs you find.

Oh yeah - Mommy has them, too :(

But neither Darren nor I can fathom going through my long hair with a fine tooth comb...hhhmmm. What a to-do, what a to-do.

But I'm doing all the other parts.. washing hair, ALL bedding, her car seat, coats, all blankets from the blanket box, and vacuuming couches, rugs, my car seat... this might be worse than the bedbugs we fought a few years ago!

Well, there's one more thing I can add to my list of things I'd rather NOT do.

Now I'm off to wash my hair and go to bed. Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs (or lice) bite.

Rebecca and Emily - part 2

I've found a few pictures on my computer of the little ones.
I didn't have a digital camera back then...my sister did.

Wish I could tell you which sister is which...but I can't. Can you?
We did NOT get 2 of everything, we didn't have the room. They each had their own car seat and eventually their own high chairs...but they slept together in the crib, the pack n play, we put both girls in the bouncy seat or this portable swing - they were too small to fit by themselves anyway.Notice their arms are in the same posititions...

We also used the little video camera that was hooked up to our computer. So lots of pictures and videos were taken in the office...funny angles and bad lighting most of the time.

Lest you think we never take pictures of them alone...
Here is one of Rebecca

and one of Emily.Could you tell the difference?

look what I found

Apparently, we've always been this way... some of you may have thought it was a recent development. Nope.



Jenn and Darren circa 2003

Rebecca and Emily - part 1

Only a few more days until the big 6. Presents have been bought, cupcake plans have been made and sugar intake has been ramped up.

Hard to believe there was a time when they were not.

Could that really be my belly? Could it get any bigger?

Then the dynamic duo suited up...
4 out 5 births need an Aunt Amy, with her mad nursing skillz.
You will notice the bible in her hand...
During contractions there will be no laughing and cutting up - only the reading of the Word
(whichever one I choose or however many time I want you to read it over and over and over.)
Once this contraction passes, I don't care what you two do until the next one.

And soon there were 2 babies - 7 minutes apart.

Rebecca Dawn (5lbs 9oz) and Emily Delight (6 lbs 2 oz)
Don't know which one is which in this photo :)

Deep Thoughts by Emily

"Mom, one time Dad told me to get off the potty, and I had just gotten on. I hadn't been there a long time, just long enough to (insert Emily humming a little tune), for a minute or so. And he said get off, and I didn't even have time to talk to myself."