Yeah for first birthdays!

Yeah! Miriam and Bethany turned one on Wednesday! We had a fairly low-key day. We all went to play group in the morning (even Daddy went with us since he had the day off, and I didn't want all the kids at the park by myself) We took cupcakes to share with everyone. The girls loved the cupcakes, but I think I ended up wearing more than they ate. they shoved as much as they could into their mouths and then came after me to get more. I came home with cupcake smeared all over both pantlegs and my shirt. LOVELY!

Later in the evening, after dinner (and another cupecake of course) we bathed the girls- it was an absolute necessity after crawling around at the park (gotta love black knees on white tights) and cupcake smeared everywhere. After their baths we opened our secret twin gift. I belong to a website for mothers of twins where I have some incredible friends. We drew names and sent a gift to our secret twin, then after the last birthday next month we'll all tell who we had.

The girls LOVED their secret twin gift!

It was a ball popper that plays music and blows the balls out a chute when you push the button. They had so much fun with it!

I also took some pictures for my benefit. Someone on my twin website suggest that we take kind of "before and after" pictures-- before the were born as we were going to the hospital, etc. and then a picture of what it takes to get us out the door now. So, my before is actually in my previous post, and here is the after- notice the LARGE diaper bag, the stroller, blankets, etc. Geez! I need a bigger car!!!

Then this one is the girls wearing the shirts they came home from the hospital with. They say "special delivery at St. Marks Hospital"