We're TubaDad (laid-back taco-eating tuba-player from Texas) and M3 (excitable, artsy chocoholic from California). We adopted our beautiful twin girls from Hubei, China in Oct 2006 and this blog is about that adoption and our lives with the twinados, Ro and Ree. Cheers!
Q: How big are the girls now, they look taller all of a sudden. (Jul 2009)
A: Ro weighs 35 pounds and is 391/8 inches tall. Ree weighs 34 pounds and is 391/16 inches tall. Both girls wear 3T/4T tops and 3T bottoms (anything that I buy now I buy at a 4T so we'll get two years out of it) and were measured at a 9.5 size shoe, so we're supposed to buy size 10.
For more answers, see the archive of random questions.
If you're strolling along the beach and happen to find a huge pile of driftwood that someone has arranged in a circle, you should immediately scream "It's our house!!!" and claim it by putting all your stuff inside.
Figure out where the bedrooms are and if you have the right feng shui.
After you're done unpacking, have a little bite of lunch at the dining room table.
Then take a nice refreshing pretend nap in your beach palace.
Reminds me of my childhood! Lived in a house, but was always creating a new one! Perhaps my Mom's constant comments about "the kitchen in my NEXT house" brought about imaginary homes?
Too dang bad that we have to grow up. My paper dolls lived in a condo (the living room end table) and drove around in a snazzy station wagon (cardboard box).
My best friend and I went out on my front lawn every Saturday morning when I was a kid. Crack of dawn - freezing cold some times. We'd have a blanket and two cups of hot chocolate and some of my mom's banana bread. We were 'going on vacation'. Magical stuff.
Boy, the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was the children's book called Roxaboxen. Sure reminds me of that book! It's probably a book that's still over their heads, so I'd just check it out of the library and see what you think.
That is what the beach is for! Forget all that swimming with the man eating sharks stuff. My 10 year old and her sister still do this and we have to make reservations to join them for dinner or ELSE.
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28 comments:
Reminds me of my childhood! Lived in a house, but was always creating a new one! Perhaps my Mom's constant comments about "the kitchen in my NEXT house" brought about imaginary homes?
Too funny. Have you ever seen the comedian who talks about claiming a territory simply by raising a flag? Your story reminds me of his act.
lol
While the view is fantastic, I see the girls starting to gripe about the taxes and the people trespassing on their property to get to the beach.
Too funny!
A beautiful house it was! I only wish life didn't get in the way so I could have stayed longer! :)
Johnny just made me choke on my coffee....SO true!
That is awesome!
LOVE it!! That is better than any store bought playhouse I have ever seen!!
I love their creativity! Your life must be SO MUCH FUN with those girls!!!
that is the perfect home:)
My friends and I would do that too but ours would be with leaves in the front yard. :-)
i love it. being four is majic w/you as mom!
I like the open air quality of it :).
Oh....love it. The driftwood looks great and it looks like Ro and Ree set about making it their house quickly. :-)
Molly
It's the simple things... so cute!!
Adorable!
This is exactly why 4 is my favorite age :)
Playing at the beach in November with no jackets, while Catherine is snuggling into winter clothes and enduring winter snow. How strange our world is.
Must be a twin thing. I remember doing very similar things with my sister at whatever we could find to call a cave or nest or home.
Oh, the simple joy they have together. Just warms my heart.
Too dang bad that we have to grow up. My paper dolls lived in a condo (the living room end table) and drove around in a snazzy station wagon (cardboard box).
This is so cute. My kids create their own house right in the house with a tent.
Love it - isn't this what childhood is all about. I can just see my little girl doing the same thing, lol!
My best friend and I went out on my front lawn every Saturday morning when I was a kid. Crack of dawn - freezing cold some times. We'd have a blanket and two cups of hot chocolate and some of my mom's banana bread. We were 'going on vacation'. Magical stuff.
Boy, the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was the children's book called Roxaboxen. Sure reminds me of that book! It's probably a book that's still over their heads, so I'd just check it out of the library and see what you think.
I loved this post, it just made me plain happy.
Aww...how cute is that? :)
That is the life. I admire them and shall take their advice immediately!
That is what the beach is for! Forget all that swimming with the man eating sharks stuff. My 10 year old and her sister still do this and we have to make reservations to join them for dinner or ELSE.
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