Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas From the Rabon's!




This is our 6th Christmas Together!



We had a very exciting Christmas. The girls got so many fun toys. I am looking forward to watching them explore them all.


The girls did pretty well opening their gifts at home.They really got into holding on to big boxes and putting paper and bows in their mouths.

Our Christmas Morning started out with letting the girls open their Santa presents.


Christmas Morning walking down the hall coming into the living room letting the girls see their "Santa" presents for the 1st time.
Do they seem a little bit excited to you??!! :)


The girls love to jump and rock so much Santa brought the girls a Jumparoo!

Molly loves her new toy!


Emma observing her new toy!


The girls with their Stockings


Santa also left the girls a singing Frosty and Rudolph. :) Courtesy of their daddy who gets so very excited every year that Frosty and Rudolph come on Tv! haha


After we did "Santa" we all got dressed and headed over to my Inlaws to do our Christmas with them.

Christmas at Nannie and Papa's

The girls opening their Singing Kitchen from Aunt Stacey. Mommy was really excited about this present because she ALMOST bought it for them herself but decided against it because she had already spent too much.


Nannie helping Savannah open one of the presents Molly and Emma got her.
It was a Tinkerbell dinner set


Daddy helping Molly open her Book from Aunt Ashley


Emma trying to take her cousin Jackson's leapfrog. He was a good sport about it :) You can see the little smirk on Emma's face.


Molly getting some love from her Papa


After we left Nannie and Papa's house we came back to our house and I prepped dinner and we had my Mom, brothers,sisters, and some of my mom's extended family over.

After we ate, the girls got to open all their presents from Mommy, Daddy, and their Granny. We chose to wait until the evening to let the girls open their presents from Rick and I so that my mom could be apart of watching the girls open their presents on their 1st Christmas.

Christmas with Granny

This is the wrapping paper I used to wrap the girls presents from Rick and I! This paper is a little special because I found it after Christmas was over last year when I was pregnant with them. I remember buying it and telling Rick then " aww it has twin angels on it, I have to get this for our girls Christmas next year because they are our twin angels :) "
So that is the story behind the girls Christmas paper this year! I had bought enough of it that we will be able to use it again next year too!




Emma opening her 1st present from Granny. She had so much fun opening it and after my mom took it out the box for her she wanted nothing to do with anything else but that silly Gator!




The Girls opening more presents! These were some much needed bath toys from the Tams.
Love the Princess wrapping paper! :)


The Girls opening their very 1st set of twin dolls from their Aunt Tanna!



My mom has been telling my girls since they were in my belly that she is "Graaaanny and she has Caaaandy" I have yet to let her give my girls a taste of a lollipop and it is killing her. :) But I did tell her she could give them their 1st cookie. Gerber style of course :)

Here the girls are knawing on their 1st treat from their Granny!


Silly Molly is all about some wrapping paper!


Sweet Emma Grace!


My brothers and Sister



We put the girls in their pj's right before bed and Molly had to play just a little bit longer before we laid her down. She loves her new move and crawl ball from her Granny!


Silly Emma!



The girls with all of their toys for Christmas!



Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Goodnight!!

Emma


Molly



Many More Christmas Pictures in their 9 month album!

T'was the Night Before Christmas

Christmas Eve was almost as busy for us as Christmas Day will be!

It started out with our long time friends The Tams coming to visit us early today and bringing us lots of Christmas goodies!

I have babysat their little girl Mariah from the time she was 5 months old up until! She is 11 now, so they have been apart of our lives for quite sometime! They are so special to us!







After the Tams left, My dad, Kat, and their Aunt Sophie came to see us as well. They brought dinner and boy was it scrumptious! We had Ceasar Salad, Prime Rib, and Baked Potato! Oh, and I can't forget to mention dessert! It was oreo brownies. Oh yes, they were as good as they sound!

Emma with her Grumpaw


Me with my Little Family the Night before our 1st Christmas infront of our Tree!


I always love this Time of year because you get to see so many of the ones you love all at the same time! Or you get to see them all back to back :)

After my Dad left, we put the girls in their PJ's and got some pictures of them sitting infront of the Tree! I LOVE how cute some of these pictures are! Enjoy!







Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas with Aunt Kathy

Aunt Kathy came over today to give the girls their Christmas gifts. This is the very 1st present the girls have ever opened! I was so amazed by how excited they got over doing this! It really makes me anxious for Christmas all the more now!

They got so excited about putting the presents in their mouths and trying to tear the paper and then when the presents were opened...they sat all by themself the longest I had seen them do yet because they were so ammused by their new toys that they didn't realize no one was holding them :)

Here is Molly going for it first!



She is so serious about herself right now!




She really sat like this for about 20-30 minutes playing with her new toy! She loved it!


Now it's Gracie's turn! She's just a little bit excited after watching how much fun Molly was having. You can see Molly to the side still all about her new toy.




So curious!


Love the little grin on her face when she saw her toy!


The Girls with their new toys!


Thank you Aunt Kathy for our presents! We love them and we love you!

Pawpaw Comes to Town!

Pawpaw came to visit us on Dec 17 and he stayed until Today the 22nd.

This is shortly after Pawpaw got to SC. We all ate at Ryans before going to see This Man Called Jesus. Ms Deborah and Jessica kept the girls for us. I really wanted them to go but I know that they would not have enjoyed themselves being away from home that long plus it was cold and wet out.
 

Here is all of us after the play was over. Pawpaw said it was the best play He had ever seen. This show has always been a tradition for my family. We see it every year together. This year I cried more tears through out the play then I ever imagined possible. So much about Jesus's Life hit home with me. Especially the part where he was healing the sick. It really pains me that My Grandma never got her miracle on earth to be able to walk again and at the same time I am crying tears of sadness over how much I miss her and how sad it makes me that she had to leave us to be able to be made whole again, I am also crying tears of joy that my baby girls DID get their miracle and I am forever thankful to God for that. They light up my life!
 

Pawpaw and my Molly
 

Molly and Pawpaw in front of our Christmas tree. Love her sweet face!
 

My precious Emma and Pawpaw infront of our Tree
 

Silly Em and Pawpaw
 

Pawpaw and His great grandbabies!
 

My big girl Molly with her Pawpaw!
 
This picture is so hilarious to me. Emma insisted that Pawpaw could not wear his glasses when he was holding her! She never snatches my glasses off, but she sure kept taking Pawpaw's off.
 
Pawpaw feeding Molly her night night bottle ;)
 

Pawpaw giving Emma her night night bottle
 

We sure did enjoy having Pawpaw come stay with us! We can't wait until the spring when He will be back again!
 

9 Months Old

 

I can not believe that in 3 short months, my beautiful little girls will be celebrating their very first birthday!
It does not seem like it has been almost a year and a half since I found out I was pregnant!

2 days before the girls 9 month birthday they weighed as follows:

Emma- 15lbs 8.8oz
Molly-14lbs 5.5oz

Every day I am more and more amazed by how wonderful these girls are. I have never once had a day where I felt I wanted a break from them.

There have been times I may have needed a break...lol...but I never really want to be away from them. They are my pride and joy!

Lets see, what are some new things I can share with you?

They have been roly poly's for a couple months now, but now they have discovered their ability to roll also aids them in their ability to get into things!

They LOVE getting up to the TV stand and pulling down all of Daddy's toys.
It is so hard for me to tell them No when they do this, cause they are just so darn cute doing it! LOL
However, daddy has NO Problemo telling them to get outta there! haha

They also love to scoot themselves up under their bouncy seats. Lol I am not sure why they do this because once they are under there they get mad cause they dont know how to get out. lol

They also have this portable swing that sits on the floor kinda like the bouncy set does and the girls love to scoot up to it and push it back and forth and watch it swing. They have also figured out how to scoot underneath this and get stuck too! lol

A couple times they have discovered that there is life outside of our living room where we spend most of our time. They have rolled to the kitchen, the hallway, and behind the couch! :)

They can pick up their big heavy toys off the floor now (singing ball, singing turtle, etc..) and hold it in their hands and play with it.
They are having such a good time discovering all of their musical fun toys. They are just at that age where toys actually mean something to them! For this reason, I am very excited about what Christmas has in store for them! They are going to have such a wider variety of toys to play with now!

The girls love to hold the spoon when it is time to eat. Sometimes they make their mouth other times they make a mess instead, haha

Speaking of mouths, Emma has discovered her vocal cords. She loves to listen to her self scream different types of high pitched tunes when she is playing on the floor.
It is the cutest thing to me, to listen to her make different types of sounds!

She also loves to scrunch up hers nose, pucker up her lips and blow! She loves doing this with her mouth! I have seen Molly do it a couple times but Emma does it often.

The girls are already fighting over toys. They will sit there and go back and forth playing tug a war with eachother. It seems whatever toy one has the other wants. And as long as there are no tears involved, I let them work it out on their own. But when one starts crying cause her feelings are hurt, mommy has to step in lol


Emma cracks me up when it is time to eat. She can be playing and perfectly happy, and if Molly is fussing I will make a bottle to feed her 1st. If Emma happens to glance up and see the bottle in my hand, she will get real excited and kick her arms and feet but if that bottle goes into any other mouth besides her she starts pitching a fit! Crying real tears! The girl is for real, when it is time to eat! She doesnt miss a meal! :)

Both girls are learning how to throw tantrums, and usually they do this when it is time to change their clothes or diaper. They do not want to lay there with patience, they want mommy to hurry so they make lots of movement and lots of noise to ensure that I do NOT take my time. :)

They are getting a little too heavy for mommy in their carseats. I am thinking in the next couple months we will be upgrading to big girl carseats. I am not sure what I will do when I do not have the convenience of taking them in and out of places using their carseats. All I can say is, if they dont start sitting up on their own pretty soon it is going to make life a little diffifult for me! If they cant use their carseats in the store, and they cant sit up on their own for me to stick one in the buggy whatever will I do?

I am trying to be patient with the not sitting up thing. I know they will do it in their own time. I am just anxious to know that they can do it. Kids their age seem to be doing so much more, and every mom wants their child to be just as advanced as the next child is. I keep reminding myself that my girls didnt get to bake as long as other kids their age did.
They can sit independently for a few seconds, and Emma can actually go a couple minutes. They just cant do it long and they cant get into sitting position on their own. Hopefully it wont be much longer and they will have this mastered too.

Molly is finally starting to catch up with Emma as far as her hair goes! I am excited about this! The more hair the better! :)

For me my proud mommy moments are when the girls are laying on the floor looking eachother in the eyes and taking turns laughing back and forth. I love to see them enjoy eachother. I pray that they will always be the best of friends!

The girls have recently learned to reach for you when they want you. They dont do this everytime you go to pick them up, (my theory is cause they know they dont have too..ha)but there are times where they will put their arms out reaching for you. And it melts my heart everytime!

One thing about my girls that hasnt changed is their big ole smiles! They light up a room everywhere we go and when we are in the store they draw so much attention to themselves by grinning ear to ear at all the old people that stop to tell them how pretty they are!

They are also becoming very observant. If there is a lot going on in the room, they love to just watch and stare.

When the girls were just a couple weeks old Rick started calling Emma by her middle name..well sorta...he calls her Gracie. And over the past 9 months it just kinda stuck. Almost everytime we are talking to her we mainly say Gracie or sometimes
Emma Grace. But when we are talking about her to someone we just say Emma. She's the girl of many names,haha and she will look when you call her by any of them.

Molly is just Molly :) Sometimes Mollard or Molly Polly haha when we are having fun with her but we do just refer to her as Molly. But there is nothing "just" about it. Molly is a very special name to me, so I am proud to call her that!

In the next few days I will be creating the girls 9 month picture album. So you can be sure to stay up to date with them there. You know, as long as there is a breath in me I will have plenty of pictures of my girls to share! I am one proud momma!

Have a good week everyone!

The Girls Meet Santa!

On December 4th,I took the girls to visit Santa. Miss Deborah went with us and boy did I appreciate her help!

I wish the little elf with Santa would not have insisted on taking the pictures because my girls do not smile for strangers with a camera. They just wont!
But anyhow, here is them with Santa!

So sweet how they are looking at him, trying to check out why he looks so strange :)




They just cant keep their eyes off of him!





They did well, they did not cry from being scared until the very last picture when Santa asked mommy to get in it. When I walked behind Santa where the girls couldnt see me, Emma got scared and started crying.

You can see in the picture of the 3 of us with him that she was looking for me and it was literally a second after that picture was made that she had her meltdown. :(






I had told myself I was going to take them back but we have just been so busy we havent made it. I mean, I hate to confess this but we havent even put up our tree yet! We always put it up before December and it just hasnt happened this year.

I am hoping we can make it to the Christmas Lights at the zoo this year. We will see!

I appreciate all of you who have been bugging me for updates! I love knowing my girls are adored so much :)

Sorry it has taken me so long to update, there are plenty of new pictures for you to enjoy under their 8 month album.

Rock-a-Bye

Last night, when putting my sweet baby girls to bed tears wanted to fill my eyes as I rocked them back and forth.

At the time, I was holding Molly and when I looked down at her little body all snuggled in Mommy's arms, I realized that her little feet that used to not even touch my waist line, are now hanging over my lap as I rock her!

Seriously, where in the world does all this time go? One minute they are so itty bitty in your belly and you are so anxious to meet them for the 1st time,and before you know it the precious time with your newborn is forever gone, because now they are "big babies" and then they will be toddlers, and then they will be off to kindergarten, then seniors in highschool, and oh gosh, I just cant imagine. I look at them and want them to be my itty bitty sweet baby girls forever!

But I know, that no matter how much they grow they will ALWAYS be my babies.

I love them SO much.

To me, being a Mommy has honestly defined the meaning of True Love.

There is no greater love, than the love I have for my baby girls.

They are truly my heart and soul.

So very very thankful for them!


This is us snuggling together last Saturday at bed time, while watching TV.
Rick came home and brought me some dessert and I didnt want to put them down long enough to eat it, so I just did what I do best...I mutlitasked! :)