Imagine this:

Two two-year olds:












Two one-year-olds:


Two less than one-year-olds:












Plus all their parents (Ray and Meg not pictured):














All in one house.

It was an interesting afternoon. It was also a lot of fun. I think the kids enjoyed running around the yard. I attempted to get a picture of them all together, it was impossible. This was the stillest I could get any group:









Hunter was almost impossible to catch up with. Most of my pictures of him came out blurry. Tucker was the easiest to photo, he doesn't move too far, too fast, yet.

A new place to hang out

The Zoo

On my birthday (which was over a month ago) Ray surprised me by taking the day off. We took the girls to the zoo. It wasn't a very big zoo. We were the only visitors there (at least we didn't see anyone else). It had snowed a lot just a few days before. Several of the animals weren't out because of the snow. But we had a lot of fun anyway.

Cora spotted animals:









Ruby played in the snow:









The tiger was the coolest animal there:












They also had a barn area with farm animals. That was fun, too.










A few of the animals we saw:

Guess who picked the hats?

If you guessed Mommy, try again.

Random Assortment of Photos

Cora has advanced to getting shoes on her feet instead of her hands. She can also put shoes on Ruby, about this well:

Who needs toys? We've got TONS of rocks.

My wonderful neighbor made these bibs for the girls as a thank you for Ray pushing her snow all winter. I love these bibs. They are big. They wrap all the way around so the girls can't pull them up and get stuff all over their clothes.

Remember the cookie incident? When I found them they were both lounged on the pillow.

The neighborhood cat. The girls love him.

Cora put her hat on by herself. I love how her ears are poking out. It reminds me of Roy when he was little and always pulled his cap down so far that his ears poked out.

The girls were not happy to be sitting on Mommy's lap. They only came to Mommy because Mommy had the camera. They no longer wanted Mommy when Daddy took the camera to take this picture.
But they were plenty happy to sit with Daddy, even when he didn't have the camera:
Life isn't fair.

Climbers

Easter Outifits

Ray's mom sent the girls these darling outfits for Easter. The capris are still a little too big, as you can see from the pictures below. Ruby was not happy in this picture, but it was the best I got with the girls together.

I did get some cute individual pictures of them:


















I love this picture of Ruby. It almost looks like she was posing. I also love Cora's picture. She was watching herself in the mirror.