My favorite part of having twins...

Don't you want to come over for cupcakes at our house?

One of our favorite past times is making cupcakes. While I clean up the enormous mess made from baking, icing and decorating cupcakes, Kate (right) and Lily get to lick the bowl. As you can see, no drop of batter is wasted.

A portrait of Mommy by Kate

Kate loves to draw. Kate has a lot of patience. She will work on a piece until it is perfect. She erases many times until she gets what she wants. Here is her portrait of Mommy. Don't you love my hair? Those are my glasses, by the way. I'm really excited about this desire of hers since I'm a "wanna be artist." Interestingly, Lily's art talent is very similar, but she enjoys other things more (like dominating airspace by chatting while Kate is busy drawing).

A Candid Interview with Lily and Kate

"Didder (sister)...I love you"

Hadley's finally home

We've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of our sweet Hadley. She is the newest addition to the Eddins' family and only 8 months younger than Lily and Kate. We are hoping they will be the best of friends! The girls have been praying for Hadley for almost a year and were excited to finally meet her!

She came home from China on her 2 year old birthday. We didn't want to overwhelm her, but wanted her to have some pictures to look back on to know that we had celebrated her birthday. So our two families got together for a low key birthday dinner at an isolated park a few days later. Kate and Lily have been talking about making cupcakes for Hadley's birthday for a month now. They were beside themselves that they finally got to make them with their Mammaw and Granddaddy.

Below is Hadley with her new siblings.

Many days later, she got to meet a few other friends from church. Hadley, Hudson, Kate and Lily will all be in the same Sunday School along with 3 other children who joined their families through adoption. We are hoping they will be a support to each other as they grow up together!

More beach fun

We are so thankful that Sarah could come spend a few days with us at the beach!

Kate on left



















Lily on left












Lily on right

Kate's "I can see that I've got you wrapped around my littlest finger" grin.

More beach fun

Sunday, June 17, 2007 My dancing Kate Kate loves to dance. The girl's got some rhythm! Here's a sampling. Friday, June 15, 2007 Beach pictures! Above is my favorite! I captures Kate's love of the rough and tumble of Daddy play. Sarah came with us to the beach and took a lot of these pictures. Lily Kate Lily Lily Friday, May 11, 2007 Girls night in I am way behind in my blog because we went to the beach. It takes us weeks to recover from vacations because the girls don't sleep during these times and weeks afterwards. Hopefully, I can get caught up and post some beach pictures soon. In the meantime...here are some fun photos from a night that Phil and I babysat for our twin friends, Ella and Emma. It was loads of fun and a great foreshadowing of slumber parties to come! Below, they are pretending to sleep. Yeah, RIGHT! We are always amazed at how well the four of them play together in this tiny sandbox. Monday, May 07, 2007 What is Lily like these days... Here's my sweet Lily. She is a watcher and a listener. There is not much that passes by her unnoticed and she has a great memory. She is very talented verbally and, at 2 1/2 years old, speaks in 5-6 word sentences. (I find that knowing what is on the mind of a 2 1/2 year old is rather interesting :) ) She is very adventurous and fun loving. ...but she is slow to warm up to people she doesn't know. Here she is clinging to Daddy checking out the new people around her. Lily LOVES dresses. For two months straight, "dress" was the first word out of her mouth in the mornings. Now, I hardly put her in anything else. As I mentioned before, when I walk in a toy store, I see so many things that Kate would like. In the same manner, when I walk in a clothing store, I'm constantly seeing things that Lily would like. Lily likes to do anything that involves being a helper. She especially likes cooking. When we are waiting for Kate to wake up from nap, she helps me cook supper (above). She acts like a big sister to Kate. She is a good sharer when her sister is upset. Below she is teaching Kate to use the potty. She is saying, "I hold your hand, Sister...OK? She really enjoys the fact that Kate thinks she is funny. Here she is putting on a silly show for Kate. She likes to pretend that she is a caterpillar, worm or kitty cat. Her new pretend play is to call all the princesses she knows on the phone and ask them to come to her princess party. "Princess Cinderella? What you doin'? Come to my princess party?" Lily likes to be HELD. I am constantly trying to make sure I give Kate equal hold time since Lily is much more vocal about this desire than Kate even though Kate loves it just as much. She wants to be an adult. Lily loves playdoh. She can sit for an hour and not get bored with it. She loves her kitty, Zack (but it may have more to do with fact that she can boss him around). She is happiest when you are just sitting down across from her talking one on one. Saturday, April 14, 2007 What is Kate like these days... These are the faces Kate most commonly makes... These next two are her "Stop with the comedy routine, Sister, I can't breathe!" She thinks Lily is really hilarious! Lily can make her laugh until there is no sound but little gasps of air coming out. Her "playing dress-up" consists of some sort of hat and heels or boots. A pretty dress rarely makes it into the equation. The only shirt she'll sleep in right now is this Mickey Mouse shirt or her panda bear shirt. She has always been a puzzle queen. At 2 1/2, she is up to 25 piece puzzles. Sometimes she will sit down and do the same one 15-20 times in a row. Here she is teaching Doggybear how to put together the Dora puzzle. Here is Kate in some boxing gloves. Until this month, I really thought Kate was the sweetest baby ever created. She hardly ever pitched a fit. She seemed to defer to Lily in arguements. If you even looked at her with disapproval, she would stop what she was doing. I was always feeling the need to protect her. Well, this month, she finally became a normal 2 year old with LOTS of opinions and an ability to fight back. Weighing in at only a half pound less than her sister, she is still a pokey eater and not much for sweets. Here she is sticking a sucker in her hair. She'll keep the same sucker for a week. Of course, this drives Lily crazy since she eats hers immediately and then wonders why her sister still has one and she doesn't. She gets stuck on one subject and STAYS there. Below is a photo from the Veggie Tales stage and a more current one from the Cinderella stage. I think I listened to that Veggie Tales CD 5,754 times and the Princess one 4,678 times. When I go to a toy store, I find a ton of things that Kate would love. She is so easy to buy for since she has such strong passions. This is one of the most interesting differences between the girls to me. Kate is a "player." She finds all games and toys really fun. She is always ready for a good laugh. Lily would rather you sit and talk to her like a little adult...as if she is 2 going on 12. Kate makes 2 years old really funny and seems to enjoy every part of being 2. 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