The Tolberts

We can hardly wait for our 5 month State of the Tolberts Address! This has been our fastest and most exciting month yet. Aaron and Audrey are growing and doing all sorts of fun new baby things that you'll hear about soon. Till then, Nana made a fantastic mistake- she left her camera here after her visit last week. So that means more pictures to share!

As our regular camera is still broken, here's another cute video.  (Well, WE think it's cute, because we're the parents, and we think everything is cute (except mad screaming, which is never cute)).   Audrey has developed a new habit of making squealing cat noises.  She does it when she's happy, and just the same when she'd mad.  Here's her being happy.  This was actually taped just 5 minutes after the basketball video of Aaron.

And speaking of our camera, I want to throw out a glowing recommendation for Canon -- we bought our camera three years ago, second-hand.  It's completely out of warranty.  But Canon is fixing it for free anyway.  And they even payed for shipping for us to send it back to them.  Wow.

No camera! No baby pictures! I guess I'll have to talk about something else...

So about 7 years ago I did what I considered my duty as an educator- I read the first Harry Potter book to see if this mysterious magical world was as evil as some would say. Reading with a critical eye soon turned into reading for fun, and I became a fan, read all the books, saw the movies when they came out, and even went to the bookstore release party for the final book.

Which is similar to what happened to me with facebook. I'd heard of this internet fad that was getting college kids in trouble and keeping them from getting jobs. So when my 14 year old niece joined, I got right in there so I could make sure she wasn't being stalked upon by internet scaries. At first I was just "friends" with my niece and few people in my small group. I only checked it about once a month and couldn't understand why someone would email my facebook account instead of the trusty email I always use and check.

Somewhere along the way all the Social Networking began to click. I started being found by a few of Nathan's college friends that it was pleasant to be in limited touch with. Then a few more people started adding me as friends and I checked my account a little more often. Soon I had gotten back in contact with other people- friends from high school, at least half of my 8th grade lunch table, people that rode my bus in the 5th grade... I definitely don't talk to these people every day (I'm a twin mommy with many other things to do), but it's fun to log on and find that my youth group leader's best friend from college is living in Texas and waiting for the AC repairman, or that Nathan's cousin in Indiana takes really amazing photos.

I hadn't expected to enjoy Harry Potter or Facebook, but I'm having fun with them. Soon I'll have to keep informed because my own kids will be in the world and I'll want to know and approve of what they're reading and doing.  They're already growing and changing, though. As of last week they're in separate cribs!

The other morning I accidentally discovered something new that Aaron thinks is hilarious:  when I pretend to play basketball with his dirty diapers.  Observe:

Nathan said you wouldn't get any new pictures, but luckily I take dozens of pictures a week, and have a fun new one from a couple of weeks ago. 

To preface this picture, I find myself saying fairly often, "I'm sorry babies, this is just life as a twin..." and then I explain to them why they have to wait when they get their diaper changed or why Aaron has to wear a flowery bib (because all of his are dirty and he happens to have a sister the same size that he can borrow from),  or even:  why Audrey can be happily playing in her gym, and end up with her brother's spit-up all over her head.  So that's the picture that I'm sharing today.

As you might have noticed from the picture of Great Grandpa in the last post, our camera is messed up.  It takes weird, stretched out pictures half the time, and other times it's just discolored.  So alas, you might have to suffer through having a few less pictures until we get it fixed or replaced.  But the video camera is still working great, so maybe I'll just have to post more video.

In other news, Audrey woke up yesterday and decided it was time to start rolling.  Aaron has been trying for a couple weeks now to roll, but doesn't usually have a lot of luck.  But Audrey hadn't really shown any interest at all.  But yesterday she woke up, and pretty much the first thing she did that morning was roll onto her tummy.  From that point on, she kept rolling over.  But the funny part is that she hates being on her tummy.  So she'd roll over and then get mad and start crying.  We'd eventually flip her back over (she can't figure out yet how to roll BACK onto her back), at which point she'd roll over again, and be mad.  It might get rather funny, over the next few weeks or days, until she learns to not mind being on her tummy....