First I have to tell you one of the most hilarious things about having identical twins. We don't have many full length mirrors (or at least mirrors that the little people can see themselves in without a stool), so whenever we are up in my bathroom we play this game in the full length mirror: Charlie stands in front of the mirror, I ask him, who is that Charlie? He yells, 'BIN!' (Charlie-speak for Fin, which is a nickname Irby gave Griffin a while back). Whenever 'Bin' stands in front of the mirror, he gazes at himself and just says 'hi Charchee....bye bye Charchee....' When they are both in front of the mirror, well, that's just confusing. Imagine how confusing the concept of a mirror is for an identical twin!? It is adorable and hilarious and just so precious to see how close these two are.
We drove down to AL for the week for Thanksgiving and had an absolutely wonderful time. Papa took us on a boat ride...as if riding on a boat wasn't exciting enough, we went shrimping, got porpoises to follow us and fed them fish right out of our hands. The boys LOVED it and so did we. It was pretty incredible! (Nana, note the adequate supply of life jackets:)
Watching the porpoises.
Irby feeding the porpoise.
Picnic down on the beach.
Irby and Ahnie in an intense game of Bocce.
Riding the lion at Ahnie and Papa's after church.
Santa at the Wharf. The men took the boys to play while we girls did some shopping. Irby's family is VERY fun to shop with.
On the way back we stopped in Asheville. We stopped over at the Grove Park Inn to see the gingerbread houses, and got our picture in the sleigh.
Our Christmas card picture. I am all for the all family Christmas card, but I took the liberty of giving myself a pass this year. I was ruining the cuteness of the other 4 cuties, so maybe we'll try for that next year. Trust me, it is WAY cuter without me this year!
Santa's workshop by the White House. Last year we thought we started a great tradition of going up the Washington Monument at dusk, watching the sunset, going to Santa's workshop across the street, and then for pizza. This year the monument is still closed because of a big crack after the summer earthquake, so we just did Santa's workshop instead. We had a great time anyway. I think I'm the only one who missed the Washington Monument.
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