The Frei'sThe Journey of Parents with Twins

I know I am getting pretty bad at this updating of this site. It’s just easier on Facebook so that is where I normally post things. But don’t worry, I wont forget about this site.

First we will start with some videos

Here we had some balloons left over from my 30th Birthday Party so we had a little fun with them and Alexis.

Next we star Alexis again. When the girls were younger even up until now, I will speak to them in a scary low tone voice. Well Alexis has picked up on that voice and can now do it herself.

Alexis makes yet another appearance in this next video. She shows off a new word she has been using. Mama. She will say it when Jackie enters the room, she will repeat it after us and will repeat it when she hears it on the TV.

I know, a lot right. well there’s more. At this point, Samantha is starting to be interested in walking. She has been using her walker toy to help her get around. This is at roughly 9.5 months. Alexis makes another appearance as our background singer.

And if that wasn’t good enough, I was at the end of my seat laughing at what these girls started doing. They enjoy going to the basement door and hit their head against it. My little head bangers.

Next the girls are at it again in the same location. Except this time they are playing it a little safer. They went on and did this for roughly 10 min. About 4 min in I grabbed my phone and started recording. If I make any sudden movements, they always stop what they are doing. This time, they didn’t stop. I edited the video and made it into 3 min of girly giggles

And to top it off. Samantha is now walking. Here is a quick video of some of the attempts I tried to capture of her taking her first steps.

Well there you have it. We’ve had a lot going on. This covers us through the first 10 months. Lets go month 11!

This Christmas was unlike any other Christmas. It’s obvious why. My kids! Samantha and Alexis had a blast going to Christmas parties with the families, being out and about instead of just inside the house and of course, opening presents. They were so good too. We received 3 comments at Church about how good our girls were Christmas Day. And they weren’t just good then, they were good all weekend. They had a blast opening up all their presents and are still having a blast playing with them. The presents couldn’t of come soon enough. The day prior to Christmas Eve Jackie and I were talking about just how board they were with the rattles and blocks. They would either lay there or ignore the toys completely. Now they have a full set of toys. So much so that we have introduced a rotation of the toys, so things stay “new”. All in all, successful holiday!

		Christmas 2010 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

I normally dedicate the weekend after Thanksgiving as the weekend Christmas stuff is allowed to start happening. I finally start to listening to Christmas music, as well, the lights go up! We decorated the tree with the girls and put up our Christmas knick-knacks.

Happy Thanksgiving! Today I started Thanksgiving in a way I have never done. For the past 10 years I had played Football Thanksgiving with family and friends. We would get all bundled up, run about 3 plays of exciting football, then start calling time outs and running short passes. This year, we woke up, watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade with Jackie, Samantha and Alexis. It was a fun new tradition I intend on keep up with for longer than my football tradition.

After the parade we headed off to Grandma and Grandpa Tober’s house. The entire family was there and everyone was excited to see the girls. John, Steve, Michael and Grace all kept the girls very well entertained. We watched the Lions put together their usual Thanksgiving Day loss! We even got a family photo in.

Later we left to Grandma and Grandpa Pabst house. We were trying to get there before Aunt Aletha, Uncle Craig and Norah took off. This would be our last chance to see them this year before they headed back to Peoria. We made it! The girls got to spend some more time with their cousin, and they had fun climbing all over Grandpa!

Thanksgiving was great at both houses, the girls were happy and all in all, we had a great Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family early this year because my sister was in town for the Thanksgiving holiday and would not be in town for the Christmas holiday. Samantha and Alexis got their first stab at opening presents. They also got to see their Aunt Aletha, Uncle Craig and Norah for the first time since out trip to Peoria. For the first time, we had ALL the cousins in the same house/room all at once!

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We took the girls on a little adventure today. We were taking the girls up to celebrate Great Grandma Windy’s birthday. Since the party was in the evening, we decided to make a day out of it. We set off at about 12:30 and started with Great Grandma Frei. The girls were happy to see Great Grandma Frei and I am sure Great Grandma Frei was happy to see them too.

After that, we headed to Bronners Christmas Store. The last time I was in there was…. geez. I don’t even remember. I was probably 5 or 6 years old. We walked around and showed the girls all the Christmas ornaments. We even had one personalized with all of our names on a Christmas 2010 bulb.

Then we headed to my Aunt Sarah’s house for Great Grandma Windy’s surprise birthday party. When we walked in, everyone was so excited to see the girls that they came running to the door screaming. This scared them but they soon calmed down. The girls got to wish Great Grandma Windy a Happy Birthday and we headed home. The girls has a busy day but they sure had fun!

		Bronners and Great Grandparents. VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

It started over the weekend when Jackie put a little padded piano in front of her. She started lunging forward going after things. Before this, she was only going side to side and backwards. Well last night she put together a lunge with a forward movement and it turned into a crawl. She caught up to the ball and grabbed it. Today I took out the video camera and we tried to reenact the crawl and on our first try, she did it again! Here’s the video. 

We had our first Halloween. We decided to dress them up like little bugs. Samantha was a Lady Bug and Alexis was a Bumble Bee. Grandpa Tober came to visit as well as Grandma and Grandpa Pabst. We went to only a couple of houses because…. well.. the girls can’t eat candy, don’t need to be eating candy, Jackie and I don’t need to be eating candy and well, they really won’t remember it anyways. None the less, we had fun. And of course.. Pictures!

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Today we took our little girls on an adventure to the pumpkin patch. Since Grandpa Pabst was by himself this weekend, Samantha and Alexis wanted to invite him to come along. We bought some cider and donuts, walked around, then went on a hayride with the girls to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkin. Well we got a couple. Now we just need to carve them up. Anyways.. We had a lot of fun!. Thank you Grandpa for tagging along!

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Today was Jackie/Mommy’s 28th birthday party. The first birthday with the girls. What did we do?? We kept it small. Mommy just wanted to spend time with her family. Well she got her wish. Happy Birthday Jackie! We love you!