Twinsanity

The twins have been pretty cute the last couple of weeks. Here they are dressed up for church. I thought these outfits were a good match. That's Aidric in blue and Lachlan in green.









Who wants to grab the phone instead of eating lunch? Meeeeeeeee says Lachie.



Meeeeeeeee says Dric.



I love the mischievous looks on their faces in this picture. I'm sure Lachlan is about ten seconds away from throwing something on the floor.


Lachlan and I agree that Dric is hilarious.


We went out as a family. Lachlan enjoyed the Bob the Builder truck at Toys r Us.








Hey, that looks fun! Let me try it.





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Lego Beckett Birthday

Last Saturday Beckett had his sixth birthday party. Dawnell did a great job of making it the perfect lego party.

Here's the big cake that Dawnell made.  Pretty cool Lego Dude Head.

Here's the top of the Lego head after we started cutting it up.  The birthday boy got to eat the top part.

Dawnell also made themed food for the party.  Here are lego dude and lego piece jello jigglers.

More jigglers, some apple legos, and cheese crackers shaped to look like legos.

We also made Lego Juice, which is just like apple juice, except it has paper on it.

Dawnell also made a cool banner for Beckett that we hung up...

In case you couldn't tell, this is the picture that is at the top.  It's a Lego Beckett.  And yes, there's an app for turning your son's head into a lego mosiac.  

Here's the only pictures that I have of the actual birthday boy.  Dawnell actually took quite a few of Beckett and Ciaran before the party started, but she hasn't emailed them to me yet, so for now they are stuck on her camera.  We didn't get any pictures of the twins because toddlers and legos are a bad combination, so we made sure the party happened during their nap time.

One of the activities at the party was making your own Lego (fake lego) car and then racing them down a table.  It was super lots of fun even if the cars ended up exploding a lot.  

Are you 6? Stop!

Six years ago today. Wow. Time flies.  Beckett had a great birthday.  He's super excited for his lego party scheduled for this Saturday.  Pictures to come of that fiesta later.

New Soccer Season

Saturday was a beautiful day. Time for the first game of the soccer season. Beckett was excited to see how good he could play now that he was one of the kids from the older grade in his age group.


Here's Beckett doing a good job of listening to the coaches.


Ciaran was there to cheer on our hero.


Here he is saying, yay Beckett! Good little brother.


Beckett wasn't really in the middle of any of the action shots I took, but here he is ready to pounce.


I got a new phone and put a cool camera app on it, so I played around with making pics fancy. Here is Beckett with Borders.


Here's Beckett in half sepia tone.


And here he is all rosy cheeked after the game. Not that it matters, since the kids are only 4-5 years old, but Beckett's team won 5-1. And my dude scored all five goals. Go Beckett!


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Some twinner pics

Here's a couple of quick excuses why we never have any pictures of the twins:

1. You don't want to choose favorites by only taking pictures of one baby.

2. But then you have to try to get both of them to smile at the same time.

3. But they both think the camera is a toy, so they end up whining and screaming every time you put the camera in front of them.

4. Which equals no cute pics.  

A couple of weeks ago I was alone with the boys for the morning on a Saturday while Dawnell did something, and I thought that the boys were looking cute, so we took a couple of pics.  For this set, the guy in the black jacket is Lachlan.  The orange and blue shirt is Aidric.   

 In case you can't tell, the one on the left is Beckett, the one on the right is Ciaran.  They were also cute and a little better at smiling on command.

 I thought these pics did a good job at showing off the pretty little blue eyes of the twins.  Yet, for happy babies they aren't very good at smiling on command.

D.C. Day 3

For the final day of our trip to Washington D.C. the Moon family took a trip to the National Zoo.  So, here are some interesting facts about the National Zoo:

• They have pandas!!!  Beckett's favorite animal is a panda.  He has a book about a panda named Beckett.  Pandas are pretty cool.
• The zoo is free.  I mean, parking isn't exactly cheap, but coming from New York it seemed like a pretty good deal.  
• The best time to visit D.C. is definitely during a national holiday.  No one is working, so traffic is manageable, but all of the tourist attractions are still open. 
• However, the best time to visit the zoo is not mid-February.  We stayed about as long as we could in 40 degree weather, but we eventually had to give in.  I guess Memorial Day or Labor Day would be the best days to visit.

The pandas only hang out in their grottos when it's nicer weather.  While we got to see them, it was in the inside.  Here's one of them eating his sweet bamboo.  

 Beckett and Ciaran were excited to see the bamboo dudes...

This is a red panda.  Apparently red pandas are not actually related to pandas, but are so named because of their facial resemblance.  (Or so I recall, that may not be accurate).

 Here's all of the dudes and their headless mommy.

 Since we couldn't get near the panda we took a picture near the panda cutout.

 It wasn't all pandas though. This was a howler monkey I think.  We enjoyed these guys who were hanging out in the small mammals area.  The large monkey building was not a favorite because it smelled very bad.

 Beckett doing his best Meerkat impersonation.

 Dawnell and Ciaran liked this monkey with her little baby monkey on the back.  Very precious.