Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips

As a mom of twin toddlers I have learned that many things that sound fun at first turn out to be not fun at all. Taking said toddlers to a tulip field on a rainy windy day and actually try to get decent pictures would be one of them. They had fun, I guess, running around, looking at the flowers and trying to walk through every. single. mud puddle while we were just trying to get to the field and back in time to make lunch and stay half-way clean and hopefully get some cute pictures. Ha. I don't know how other people do it--I see cute pictures of kids the girls' age all the time on Facebook or what-not and they are looking at the camera AND smiling...what the @#$! is their (the parents) secret? I can't get a decent picture of one, let alone both, of the girls where they are looking at the camera, let alone smiling, let alone both of them together! Ugh. Maybe we'll try again next year. Meanwhile, here's what we ended up with:

Olivia

Kayley

At least the tulips know how to pose for pictures!

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Transfer Anniversary

Today is the 5-year anniversary of my embryo transfer! 5 years ago today I became pregnant with my girls (I wrote about it in more detail a few years ago). It was a Saturday that year, also. Olivia and Kayley at 3 days post conception (wish I knew which one was which): And Olivia and Kayley 5 years later: That photo is actually a few weeks old. I tried to take one for today and this is what I ended up with: {Sigh}

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