Kerri and Maddi with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

Playing puzzles on their phones

Fun at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

Puppet Master

Sesame street here I come!

Madison can drive

It's taken me a couple of weeks to finally post it, but here it is... on October 25th, I told Madison "drive the jeep like your tricycle", and off she went! This video was shot as soon as she started driving away. She's figuring out how to turn as you watch.

Minibike is not far away...

Correct video--Kerri with the ABCs and 123s

This has the right video uploaded...
Not to be outdone... Kerri with her ABCs and counting (more or less) to 20.

Twinkle Twinkle my little Maddi-Star!

They say that 4 year olds who can recite an entire nursery rhyme are more likely to ourperform their peers...

Kerri says "It's delicious!"

2 Year Old Photos

Kerrington and Madison posed today for their 2-year-old photos. They are growing up so fast!!!

Sesame Street with my girls

Hide and Seek

Kerri and Maddi are still trying to learn  rhe rules...

They grow up so fast...

Sunday morning

A gorgeous Sunday morning and the playground is our oyster!

Kerri with a nursery rhyme...

Also with warm wishes and a current status on Uncle Matt...

Guess who are big girls now?

Kerri and Maddi have given up their high chairs for their table.

Guess who can ride her tricycle?

Maddi can pedal and steer her tricycle now!

Kerri and Maddi at play

Kerri and Maddi having fun on a Friday night.

Love to watch Dad mow the yard!

Like Father Like Daughters

Happy Father's Day! Thanks to my wonderful wife for this great picture!

Happy Mother's Day! The Girls' First Year in Video!

Happy Mother's Day to pretty much my entire audience of Moms, Grandmas, and Great Grandma to our children! Here's a special Mother's Day Treat -- the girls' first year in 10 minutes! Also see below the video we made of when they were born! Click the square at the bottom-right of the video controls to make the video full screen!

Kerri really likes animals!

Our trip to the Baltimore Zoo last weekend...

Videos from the Smithsonian/Discovery Event

See the post below for pictures as well as a description of the day.

Two Space Shuttles Passing on a Thursday Morning...

Holly was a good sport as we took a day off work, sent the girls off to daycare early, and trekked down to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum outside of Dulles Airport outside of Washington, DC. We got there early for an up-front view of the unveiling of Discovery and the transfer ceremony of Discovery from NASA to the Smithsonian. As a part of the transfer, the Space Shuttle Enterprise (an atmospheric test shuttle) is leaving the possession of the Smithsonian to fly to New York's Intrepid Air and Space Museum on Monday. After remarks from the NASA Administrator and an unbelievably spry and sharp John Glenn and for a few hours this afternoon, the Space Shuttles stood nose-to-nose under a wonderfully sunny Spring sky for public displays. Also seated on the stage with Glenn and NASA Administrator Bolden (who himself flew on Discovery), were many former Space Shuttle Discovery Commanders. What an amazing experience--well worth the trip! Enjoy the pictures below!

Kerri and Maddi visit Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

It's taken me a month to finally post this video, but here it is. Kerri and Maddi playing around with their Great Grandparents and Grandparents. They are bundles of energy--the video is 5 minutes long, and they probably played 20 different little "games"--exploring the house, everything and everyone around them. A month later, they still haven't slowed down--if anything they are into even more things!

Happy Easter -- and Half Birthday!

Happy Easter! It was also the girls' half-birthday!

The girls are now 1 1/2, and are growing by-the-day! Please click the pictures below to see our fun weekend of birthdays, Easter Baskets, a petting zoo, and an Easter Bunny!

Passed out at the wheel...

Who's going to win tonight?

Starting young!

Maddi loves all of Daddy's lawn equipment! Especially the tractor!!!

Repost of counting video

Problems seem to be solved...

Repost of hand-holding video

We were having technical issues before. Hopefully this works!

Zoo!

Maddi was a litle skeptical of the animals but she loved running around the zoo.

Zoo!

We had an amazing time at the zoo with Aunt Jill and cousin Cooper!

Commissioned Artwork

We hired an artist to do a watercolor of our girls... or not... an app on our phones converts pictures to watercolors. Pretty neat!

Lawnmower rides!

Maddi loves to push Kerri on the lawnmower. Yes, they are wearing bibs and backpacks. They love to dress up in anything!

65 degrees in February...

So global warming is good for something... the girls got outside a bit after we got home from daycare tonight.

Hippo Chair

Maddi and Kerri get to watch Elmo while I make their dinner. Maddi always claims the hippo chair to relax after a hard day.

Backpack!

Grandma Chalk got us backpacks for Valentine's day. Kerri loves to wear hers around the house!

The Pig Says...

Dinner at the Chalks this evening...

Gotcha!

Kerri & Maddi always enjoy a good tickle and laugh after a meal.

Her father's daugher

Maddi loves playing with her pocket pc!

Port Discovery Childrens Museum

Kerri has an excellent time dancing at the Tots Trails exhibit at the museum.

Yeah for Maddi!

Maddi was very pleased that she could work the pegs at the childrens museum!

Aquarium Pictures

The girls made their first trip to the Aquarium this past Sunday with their Grandma and Grandpa Chalk, Aunt Jenn, and Uncle Matt (Buttons). Aunt Jenn did a fantastic job taking pictures! She uploaded them to Shutterfly, so I figured I'd post a link for anyone interested.

Click "Play Slideshow" to see the pictures full-screen.

CLICK HERE.

Jellyfish!!!!

Kerri & Maddi had a great time at the aquarium with Grandma & Grandpa Chalk, Aunt Jenn, and Uncle Buttons.

I Love You

Kerri was very talkative this morning.

Start 'em young!

She is like Roomba but way cuter!

One more picture for the evening

At least tomorrow is Saturday!

Do we have to go to school today?

Maddi -- Our Little daredevil

We're in NC for New Years. Aunt Jill brought us to a park.Maddi LOVED the slides at the playground. Kerri went down the slide with daddy!