Lady of Lourdes

We celebrated Our Lady of Lourdes after the twins' birthday by making lovely cocoa krispie grottos and using playmobil figures for Mary and St. Bernadette.  The girls loved the roses in the story and were so impressed by the fact that St. Bernadette found the spring.  In Girl Scouts there has been a focus on water conservation so this story tied right in with their learning.

Building Blocks Birthday- a few days later

Finally we reach the end of the twins' 3rd birthday celebrations.  Building Blocks insisted the twins come for one last hurrah.  The teachers had prepared a sweet little party with Maisy and the Roadrunner decorations.  We had our local cupcake bakers, Cupcakes Now, prepare "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" cupcakes and the girls came for a final good-bye to Building Blocks.  We will never forget the love and kindness these teachers poured forth for our little twinners (or angels as the teachers always called them).

Bath Birthday- Later on That Night

And then later that night we celebrated some more with our new bath toys!

Now Eben has a wipie he can chew on in the bath- Eben loves chewing on wipies- especially at dinner where he prefers chewing on a wipie to eating most nights.

Eben received the sweet "Little Cowboy" books for his birthday and has insisted they go to bed with him every night since.  He even got a two-holster belt like the cowboy in the story and uses the guns like wands to "turn!" 

I did not pose these pictures, he really falls asleep reading these little books.

Hansel and Gretel

As I wrote in an earlier post, the twins' party theme was "Hansel and Gretel."  Ever since this summer both have been loving a game we call "Bruja" where someone hides (the Bruja) and the others go find that person and get scared.  They love the story of Hansel and Gretel and since it has a Bruja, we decided to make the story the theme for the party.  The girls helped decorate with candies (colored paper plates wrapped in clear plastic wrap) and Casey and I made each twin a Gingerbread House.  We actually ate the houses at two different outside locations here in KAUST, the stadium and a rec center that has not opened yet.  On the night of the party we had little Hansel and Gretel Gingerbread cookies for the kids to decorate.  In a few of the following pictures we even have Skype guests from Texas!