5 year check up

Sisters, you are growing!!

Riley                                                                      Vivian
38 lbs. 9.6 oz        36%                                           38 lbs. 12.8 oz       37%
43 inches              46%                                           43.25 inches           54%
BMI    14.7           35%                                           BMI  14.6              32%

It always makes me chuckle that Vivian is 'bigger'.  I feel like Riley is but she's not.  And Riley was 'bigger' at birth so it's just funny to me.

They were big, brave girls talking to the doctor.  They answered all the questions, passed their hearing and vision tests, and survived their 2 shots they needed.  A lot of tears for a few minutes, but nothing stickers couldn't fix.

Summer camp is already almost half way over.  We are going to WV for Weaver Family vacation next Friday July 5th (Ruby's 7th birthday).

When my thoughts are more clear I'll write of Grandma Fellure's passing. It still doesn't seem real and just can't even think about her without crying. I miss her so much.

I say this everytime...

But where did the time go?

All of a sudden it's mid April and I've registered the girls for kindergarten, Luke is 6 weeks away from being a 2nd grader, we are on full baseball schedule, and I don't see us slowing down anytime soon.

Class of 2032 

                                                             Mother-Son Kickball night

October

We had an awesome October with so many fun Fall activities!  Class parties, Trunk or Treat at Venture church, hayrides at the Weaver Pumpkin party, Dull's Farm fun with the Twins group, neighborhood parties and of course, trick or treating! 
These kids really figured out how fun Halloween was this year and all the candy you can get!! Just by wearing a costume.  I admit, Halloween is not a big favorite of mine, but the kids were super excited. I even got in on the action as Justin Timberlake's 'Bring it on down to Omletteville' character.  Silly.

 

Slow down time!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly cannot believe it's October!!
Kids are back in the swing of things for school.  We have their fall parties tomorrow.  Saturday we are going to Dull's Farm for our twins group Pumpkin Party. We went there in spring for the Easter party and it was amazing.  Looking forward to all the fun. 
And then the next 2 weeks we are off for fall break.  But I don't know how much a break it will be!!
There are birthday parties, school events, trying to work out, TKD, work, Purdue football, basketball season around the corner, neighborhood parties and just feels like we are constantly on the go.  Between GDC, Twins group,neighbors, my 'friends', there is always something going on.  Which is nice but sometimes can feel a little overwhelming.

But here are their cute school pics!! First Grade and Pre-K.  We had the girls' parent-teacher conferences yesterday, tonight we have Luke's.  Nothing but good things for the girls.  They started speech last month (Dem are dood dirls) and working with them stopping their thumb sucking and controlling emotions.  All and all very sweet but can be very feisty. 

1st day of 1st grade!!

Luke had a great first day of first grade!  He got Mrs. Wood this year and from all accounts, sounds like she is fantastic.  And she's a Boilermaker...even better! A couple of girls from his K class are in there, but other than that, it's all new.  I have no doubt he'll do great. 
On the night of the Ice Cream Social it was great to have a mini reunion with all his former classmates (though we see a majority of them regularly over the summer)  and Mr. Dicken, but also exciting to see the new fun and excitement 1st grade will bring.
Such a big boy!! So proud of his sweetness, eagerness to perform, and way his little brain thinks.

Luke's last day of camp!

He's so excited to be starting 1st grade on Wednesday!  Although he had good friends and Goddard was great, I think he was bored and is excited to get back to 'real' school.  Today was carnival day and can tell how excited he is.  And today he tests for yellow belt for TKD. Big Day!

Wordless Water Wednesday!

Schools out for summer!

Hello Springtime!

The school year is coming to an end. Only a couple of weeks left. It's amazing to see how much Luke has matured/ grown/ learned/ throughout kindergarten.  He had his spring musical last week "Peter Rabbit" and it was adorable.  Trip to Freddy's afterwards.  We had a Farm to Table field trip at the state fair grounds which was so fun to go to what him in action with his teacher and classmates.  He really is the sweetest, rule follower, explorer, Bey Blade playing boy I know.  And to top it off, he loves his sisters and is really a cutie :)


The girls will be finishing up LMP for the year and all of them will be going to Goddard for summer camp.  We are signed up for VBS at the Hazel Dell Christian Church they went to last year and loved it. Planning my parent's 45th wedding anniversary, a trip to Holiday World, concerts at Dillon Park & Deer Creek and just hanging with neighbors and friends already has our summer feeling like it's over before it's even started.  Memorial Day weekend is only 2 weeks away.  And this is the first time in a while I missed doing the Indy Mini.  Maybe next year??

4 year check up

We had the sisters' 4 year appointment.


Riley is 33.2 lbs    33%
39.75 inches          44%
BMI  14.8              33%


Vivian is 34 lbs       40%
40 inches                 57%
BMI  14.9                36%  


It's always so funny to me because I feel like Riley is 'bigger'.  But they are pretty much the same, with the slight edge to Vivian.


They were the cutest and sweetest girls.  Blabbing with the doc and nurses.  They did such a good job.  It helped that Vivian had a slight fever so they didn't have a shot.  But now we have to go back next week to get it.  We will see how sweet they will be then.  :( 

In like a lion, out like a lamb

Tomorrow is March 1st!

At the end of March my girls turn 4! Amazing.  How in the world can they be four years old?  They are so cute, so feisty, so funny, so amazing, so sweet, so mean, so so so..... I can't get over them.
I'm writing in all hopes of a Final 4 birthday party theme/weekend!  meaning, they turn 4 during Final 4 weekend and I would love for my beloved Boilers to be playing in San Antonio.  Man, that would be awesome.

But so far the girls are loving Little Millers Preschool.  We just had the school's big fund raiser "Winter Carnival" - chaotic but fun.  Luke won a goldfish! And shockingly it is still alive....
They have so many friends and so cute to hear them all call out 'Vivian!  Riley'  or "Hi Twins!" Talking to Mr. Dicken at school today he was like he just realized the girls were twins.  He thought there was only 1 of them because he had never seen both of them at the same time.  Ha!

We booked a trip to Gulf Shores for Spring Break- so looking forward to that! It will be here before we know it. 

We hope Spring weather gets here soon and stays!!!

What a fun birthday party!

2018

18 days into 2018. 


Getting ready to celebrate this little buddy (and his January birthday buddies) birthday.  Hard to believe SIX short (kinda long, kinda scary) years ago this baby was in my belly and I had no clue who or what he/she would be!!  And now that he's been here it's still hard to imagine what he'll be like in the next 6 years and beyond. I love this boy.  He is so sweet.  Such a good student.  A great brother.  Good friend.  I just love him.  Thank God I'm yours is the Russell Dickens song and reminds me of my sweet Luke Russell.

Seriously it's almost 2018

I can't believe my last post was September. I guess that means we've just chugging along. 
Girls in October started Little Millers Preschool and it's been awesome.  Now our mornings can still be a struggle, but love having them all there at one place and the program rocks. 
I hated to say good bye to Goddard but it's been great watching them learn, going to the school every day.  And now I'm back full time.
Typical morning.
I get up 6:45, hit snooze, and get myself ready.  7:30ish  I wake up Luke and he starts getting ready.  Sometimes the girls get up on their own, sometimes they don't.  But he has his waffles or toaster strudels, brush teeth, wash face, and heads to the bus stop 8:06 ish.  Then I come back and the girls have either started to get ready or are just watching TV so we get ready as well.  Waffles are a staple, some morning wrestle them to do their teeth & face,  and then out the door we go.  We try to get to school by 8:30 but it's been cold and slo mo lately so it's been 8:45.  Riley at first had a rough start, but now she's so excited and is pretty good (typically) getting in and going to circle time.
These girls are becoming less and less baby and more and more big girl every day.  Their personalities are so similar but so different.  Riley loves all things princess and will wear her Elsa nightgown daily if allowed so.  Vivian is a little less girly and so good at coloring pictures.  They love to play babies, make forts, get silly. 
They had their first mani-pedi and it was so cute! We went to celebrate Raya's 7th birthday and wasn't sure if they'd like it or want to do it, but they did and they were sooooo good.
Luke finished 8 weeks of basketball at the RAM.  So fun.  Reid and Roman played.  It was good times! He is growing in kindergarten and love to hear and see his enthusiasm about school.
Getting ready for Christmas and love looking for Elfvis Shelfley everyday.  'Tis the season!
This year has flown by.  Next month I'll have a 6 year old!! That's a big boy!!! And girls are that much closer to 4, which I think was a super fun age with Luke (not so many tantrums), doing more activities, etc. So fingers crossed.  And fingers crossed they get to sleeping in their beds all night again! 
Right now they come into our bed and I'm too tired to take them back or deal with it. Here's hoping 2018 is a good, healthy, happy, and fun year!

Wordless Wednesday- Somebody better call the doctor! She's a little heart stopper!

 

3 year old check up- just now posting

This was done 03/31/17 @ Northpoint with Dr. Moore
Riley
Weight: 30 lbs 8 oz      46%
Height: 37.50 inches    63%
BMI:  15.2                    33%

Vivian
Weight:  30lbs 11.2 oz   55%
Height:  37.75 inches     69%
BMI  15.1                      30%

Wordless Wednesday: That face!

DNA confirmed: Identical

And let me tell you, I'm seriously shocked.  They look so different to me.  But the more I talked to the twins moms in my group who did the DNA testing kit, I thought I might as well try it.  That way I would know if they were fraternal or identical. I'm amazed by how many randoms will stop me and be like 'they must be identical' and I'd be like, no they are fraternal.  2 sacs/ 2 placentas di/di. about a less than 20% chance they would be identical.  Both girls are O+ .   But then I was like ....well...maybe....so what the heck.  We ordered the kit, it came, we sent it back and found out results today.  It's funny how it makes me feel.  Like whoa.

 

Dear Mrs. Weaver:

 

Our laboratory has successfully completed your zygosity test and your test results have been mailed. Thank you for your interest in our zygosity testing services. As requested when you placed your order, we have included a copy of your test results in this email.

 

Regards,

Robert Jackson, Business Manager

 

---- COPY OF TEST RESULTS #23293-170810 ----

 

We are pleased to report to you the results of the twin zygosity test that you requested. Analysis of the DNA indicates that Riley Adaline Weaver and Vivian Rose  Weaver  are monozygotic, or more commonly referred to as identical twins.

 

We first isolated DNA from cheek cells from the swab kits that were returned to our lab. We amplified the DNA using a technique called PCR. Next, we analyzed 15 standard DNA markers used in human identity (D3S1358, TH01, D21S11, D18S51, Penta-E, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820, D16S539, CSF1PO, Penta-D, vWA, D8S1179, TPOX and FGA) and determined that the highly variable DNA markers were the same for both twins. Thus, there is greater than a 99.9% probability that the twins are monozygotic.

 

As stated in our testing Terms and Conditions, these test results are not qualified for any medical or legal purpose. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about these test results.

 

Thank you for choosing Proactive Genetics.

 

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Augusta, GA 30907

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Wordless Wednesday- look at that smile!

Wordless Wednesday- Vivian!