I haven't had a lot of time to update the blog although I did pretty good this month anyways. Its a good thing I was busy the last couple weeks because I had a very sad day and had a miscarriage. I can honestly say I never want to experience that again. Not that anyone would, but I love my babies so much and even losing them at this early stage still breaks my heart. On a lighter note we had a very busy Christmas! My little girlies are getting sooo BIG and Kimi is even trying to potty train herself. She's 17 months right now so it seems really early since Takara was so stubborn and wouldn't cooperate until she was 2 years and 5 months old. But Kimi wants to be just like big sissy so it works out for us...for the most part. We wrestle around trying to keep her diaper on but she just doesn't want to deal with it. Anyways after Christmas we celebrated Takaras 3rd Birthday!! I can't believe I have a 3 year old! We had a great turnout with lots of people food...and of course presents. Here are some pictures of the festivities.

My little doll Kimi!!

My little BIG princess Takara!!

Here we are at Great Grandma Allreds house...they aren't shy.

Christmas morning playing with their new babies. I originally got these to prepare the girls for another baby in the house. I wanted them to love and cuddle and get to know what a baby really is. Takara probably doesn't rememeber what it was like when we first had Kimi. Actually it really feels like she's always been here, I can't even remember what its like without them!

The girls with all their loot. It was a rough night since we spent the night at Grandmas so the girls were still pretty tired even while opening all the presents.

Here's Takara's birthday cake. Kai Lan theme if anyone didn't know. I actually really like this cartoon. I think its so cute, and I love listening to the girls interact with it.

Another angle with Rintoo the tiger.




and heres Kia lan

The dessert table. I was pooped after making all this. I made it all from scratch except for the green square cake up front. We had over 30 people come so I didn't think we'd have enough with just the cake I made. BUT we did anyways. I really didn't need to buy it because a lot of people were so stuff on the awesome chinese food.

Here we've got candy sushi and fried rice cupcakes.

More candy sushi and Lo Mein cupcakes

Takara did not like being sung to. In fact it took a good while before we could convince her she was having fun at her birthday party. She kept whining and saying I want to go home. Then after the whole shindig she decided she didn't want to go home.

Here are a few of the guests. From right to left we've got Grandma Allred, Great Aunt Judy, Grandpa Kawano, Grandma Kawano, Amanda Shuler, Darci Shuler, Great Uncle Lenny, and Charlie Kawano.

Here is the birthday girl showing some of her presents

We had such a great time and I have to remember to make a HUGE thank you card for Chinatown! They made (on their day off!) all the food and delivered it for Takara's gift! Its been good to wind down after a week like this but it will all start up again here soon. We'll celebrate New Years Eve and my birthday in a couple days...Party on.