Saturday, April 2, 2011

Just pictures

I'm feeling lazy, so here are some pictures of the big girls taken just the other morning.  I need to do some more picture taking.  With the sickness that ran through the house, there was a full two weeks where I didn't take a single picture!!

I wonder what she's thinking.

All done with breakfast.

Addi looks scared.  And Livi is simply not interested.

As per usual, they didn't want to cooperate.

Oh heck, I couldn't leave out Elli.  Here are a couple recent pictures of her as well.
 So many toys to choose from!

Such a happy girl.

2 comments:

Cee said...

Absolutely GORGEOUS girls; as usual! :)
Quick question? Do you always dress Addi and Livi somewhat alike, or is it just a coincidence that most of their pictures (from birth, lmao) are of them in similar clothing? I don't see anything wrong with it, but I like to hear what other moms of multiples have to say about it :)
I typically do not match my girls. Their names don't match either... I just always thought that if I was a twin I'd want my own identity. But lately they've been picking out clothes that are the same so I go with it a lot more. It's really interesting to watch them interact with eachother; still amazes me to this day :)

Jess said...

Hey Cee, good to hear from you again! And thanks for the compliments!

To answer your question, the girls are dressed in coordinating clothes more often than not. Sometimes they are matchy-matchy. Rarely are they wearing something completely different.

Most of the clothes we have are gifts. So if we receive coordinating clothes or identical clothes, we usually just roll with it. ;) I've never been for or against dressing them alike. Sometimes I do like to have them match...like for professional pictures, Easter, Christmas, etc. Other times I don't care. That's usually when they are in coordinating shirts/outfits.

I think my deal with having them coordinate most of the time is because I don't want someone to think that one of the girls is always the "better dressed" twin. What if I inadvertently put one of the girls in the "cuter" outfit all the time? Therefore, if I dress them alike (i.e. same shirt but different colors or different pattern), I'm keeping things equal! Yeah, sounds crazy. Sounds even crazier writing it out!

Anyway, besides the girls' clothes being gifts, that's probably my other motivatiion...ensuring that one of the twins isn't always the better dressed one!!

Oh yeah, and regarding their names. We didn't fully intend on having them match AT ALL!! When we found out we were expecting twins, I was asked alot about whether we were going to give them rhyming names or names that started with the same letter. We answered with an emphatic NO!! Just so happens that the two girls names we agreed on started with the letter A. Our two boys names we picked out (we didn't know what we were having) would likely have been B and J. And if the twins would've been one of each, they probably would've been A and B or B and A depending on the order in which they came out.

Please keep reading! I enjoy hearing from you!!