Like An Atom Bomb...

Well hello there! Can I interest you in some peanut butter?

Or maybe you feel like some jelly?

Looks can be deceiving! These little yummy concoctions are evil! Good thing we did this at home and not at the mall!

Maybe yogurt will be better...

A' using her spoon like a "big girl!"

B' would rather drink her yogurt...

Green beans and some yogurt...goes together like peanut and....oh...forget it!

What can I say? The girlz got skillz (see the Z there!?) Lurkers and bloggers alike...how you feeling right now? Because YOU JUST GOT SERVED!!

American Pride...

Hello, I have something to admit to you lurkers! I LOVE THE OLYMPIC GAMES. I am an addict. I will eat, sleep and breathe the 2008 Summer games for the next 17 days. NBC coverage, HD programming...I might just gain 25 lbs. just sitting on my couch watching elite athletes...yes, I see the irony...China looks like a formidable "foe" this time around. Lets hope that the the NBA Ballers can bring back honor to the US program. Our gymnasts have it cut out. Swimmers should whoop that international tail...US Soccer...let the world have their football...I'll take soccer! BMX...yes bicycle racing...USA USA USA! But without trying to sound to cheesy, I get filled with hope when I see whole countries put aside differences and meet every four years on the athletic field rather than the battlefield. To see an American and a North Korean hug and high five one another after their swim...pretty cool and NO WHERE else!

Go get em America!!!

As a boy that grew up playing football, baseball and hockey I don't know much about the game of Soccer...er, um...football?...I can't go on about the offsides rule and I can't even fathom the idea of coaching 6 year old girls in "bunch ball" but I would be a very proud father if the my girls took the pitch during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games!

Summertime...

We might not be in school anymore, but we here at A Vs. B get the summertime blues like everyone else. You know the symptoms: longing for a vacation, dreading getting up on Monday mornings, willing to anywhere just because it has A/C but not wanting to get in car that is 150 degrees to go to said place. Sorry for the delay in posts. The surface of the sun heat really zaps any and all energy to do anything other than survive...

enjoy some movies:

Allie saying hello...with a fly-by appearance by Brooke!

Look at her face when she finds out how to open it...I wish I still had "Child Eyes!"

Walk Like an Egyptian...

BIG NEWS EVERYONE! We have a major announcement to make! A great, GREAT, great thing happened this week! Are you ready? Here goes: Allie took her first steps!!!!!! You have no idea how excited we were. This is a really big deal for her. She has been in physical therapy for over a year now, and the progress has been really slow. She even got braces for her feet, which didn't seem to help much. But, she finally got the courage this week to try it all on her own. She took about 5-6 steps and did it several times. She has done it a few times since then, but she's still a little unsure of herself. We are really looking forward to her taking more steps and getting more sure of being able to walk. We hope she'll be chasing her sister around in no time! Here are some pictures and videos to enjoy:

Daddy and his girls. It's hard to tell who is who in this picture (just in case you are wondering, Brooke is left and Allie is right)

Allie taking time from playing to smile for the camera

Brooke is being camera shy

Allie taking a few steps

The girls showing off their awesome skills with a spoon

Allie's close up :)

Okay, I just realized that the girls are half naked in all these videos. I promise our girls wear clothes!

Stop, In The Name of Love...

I am not used to any female telling me no...This is new territory for me. And when did Brooke become British? HONEY!!??? Did anyone hear the defeat in my voice at the very end?

M-I-C, See You Real Soon....

The girls enjoying the spoils of Dad's immediate family's visit to Disney.

This was "Honey-Do" #1,021: The New landscaping...

Picking up a few feet in the backyard was a blessing for the property line but develish for Dad and the fact that I was going to have to dig 12 holes in the Texas soil made 100% of clay. Put it this way...I would have rather stripped down, dove into a vat of honey, then rolled around in a fireant mound rather than dig one more hole. Look good peeps?

Before...

...During...

...After!

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem...

Sorry it has been some time...I am sure all 3 of you are waiting patiently...

I wanted to fill you in on some of the things the girls are doing/saying now-a-days:

Both girls will "raise the roof" with Dad...even though Allie didn't much want to participate in this video.

Twin dictionary:
"Cookoo" - Any form of cookie, cracker, graham stick or anything resembling as such
"Kool" - Where they go every weekday morning. You might remember it as "School"
"Gu-real" - Cereal. Mixed apple sauce and whole grain oatmeal.
"No, No!" - The answer to "Do you want to get out of the bath?"
"Ny, Ny" - Where they go when it is time to go to bed!
"Cup" - anything that you can drink out of. Sippy, 1 gallon milk jug, Dad's Red Bull...
"Off" - Shirts and shoes...off...no problem. Kenny Chesney would love them!
"Poo-Poo" So far just a verbal warning! No physical specimen has appeared on fingers...yet...
"MINE" Allie's favorite word! "Mine Sissy", "Mine Dadda", "Mine Momma", "Mine, Mine!"
"Bye, Bye" - the sweetest...and saddest thing the girls say to me each morning before leaving
"Hi" - "As in hello, look at me...you see me, I'm right here! HERE! Here I am! Look how cute!"

We also get a morning roll call from Allie. "Momma, Dadda, Sissy, Alyeee"

Spirit of Aggieland...

Does it scare Y'all that an Aggie is flying the Space Shuttle? WHOOOP! "Hey y'all watch this..."

by the way...the terrible two have offically have begun...video at 11!

Everything Comes Down to Poo...

Winding down the day with Mom. Dad gets to wind them up and mom calms them down!

Good thing there isn't any water in there yet, huh Brooke?

Faces are priceless. Either they are real excited or about to go doo doo!

enjoying the great outdoors and the 95 degree heat! They had so much fun trying to grab the sprinkler spray!

This is about 3 minutes before all heck broke lose in what we are now referring to as simply, "Brown Sunday!"

So you see the pics of the frog pool, right? See the girls enjoying themselves in said pool? See the panic as Mom n' Dad notice that the water goes from clear to murky with one fail squeeze of Brooke's buttocks? Nope? Look harder! After about 30 minutes of playing in the pool, Brooke decided that it was time for Froggy to become a toilet and let poo fly! Not to mention the couple of minutes that M N' D were curious as to why the water was turning into lake water right before out eyes...the girls were pouring sewage water over themselves and...get this...drinking it! Didn't we just get cured from rotavirus which is cause by poo to mouth transmission? I promise we are not dirty...

In case you were wondering about this post title..

Just Another Manic Monday...

Mom here. I think we are all back to the land of the living again. Talk about a house full sickies - mom and dad included! We did find out that the girls both had rotavirus. Nasty, nasty stomach bug! Poor miss Allie stayed in the hospital for a day to get some fluids in her, and then we were sent home with Allie being black and blue in pretty much any vein that you can see. They blew out 8 veins before finally getting one to stay. Talk about torture! We still have to take her back next week to have her liver rechecked since the doctor said it took quite a hit from being dehydrated. But, both girls are eating normal food again as of yesterday, so that is definitely good news. Thanks for your prayers and well wishes - I know they helped!

Allie

Brooke - not feeling too good here :(
Much better!