Summer is HERE!

I know, I know...we are BIG giant slackers and haven't updated in almost a month. Ooops...what can I say...LIFE happened!

Our house has been total craziness for the last month or so!

We now have 1 mobile baby and another who IS mobile but chooses to not be so. I'll give you 2 guesses as to who the mobile one is and who the one is that doesn't move so well! :P Little Miss Livi has decided that talking is the way to go! She's also discovered singing, which she does so beautifully! Sydney well, she's our mobile, I can go ANYWHERE I want baby! :) She's recently discovered the wood floor and how cool it is to turn circles on it!

LEt's see..highlights of the last month!

Memorial Day weekend...a happy and sad weekend for us.

-Our 'cousin' Caroline came over to visit. Quite stupidly, we (the parents that is) got it into our head that we wanted to take pictures off all 3 babies together....let's just say taking pics of 2 is MUCH easier than 3. HEre are some pics from our impromptu Memorial Day bbq with the Fatzingers!

Sydney fell asleep in her bouncer while Daddy was 'watching' her!

Livi playing while waiting for the Fatzinger's to come over!

One of many attempts at pics of all 3 of the girls! Caroline was soon over it though and crawled away pretty fast!

Keepin' watch over 'her babies'!

Olivia...thinking....

Dad these kids are slow...

Olivia playing....
Sydney showing us what Caroline 'taught' her while she was over!

Cassius and SUgar...recovering from a day of babies!

-Nikki (our favorite nanny and now just a good friend) had a tragedy in her family. We are as always thinking of her and Gage (who calls the girls 1 and 2, it's so stinkin' cute).

School is out! My last day of work was Friday, May 29th. SOOOOO the girls came a visiting to work..they loved it! :)

Olivia...playing on the floor with Daddy!
Sydney playing with Daddy!

Caroline was baptized and Matt and I are her godparents along with her grandmas! It was such a beautiful day and so much fun! THe girls had such a great time there too!

NIce baby...I remember you..."I can take you, you know that! Right!?"

I'm taking off...these two are boring, they just sit here!




Livi...all tuckered out from the festivities of the day!


a rare family picture...complete with a sleeping baby and a babbling baby (not that you could hear her)!

My birthday...always a fun time and celebrated with some of my favorite people (besides my kids) and the McNabb family reunion, where everyone was so happy to finally meet the girls!

Livi playing around on Mommy's birthday in her pretty fish dress from Nana's friend Pat and her daughter Meredith!
Sydney hamming it up for the camera, as always!

The girls playing!

I hope you enjoy all the fabulous pictures of our beautiful, but growing babies! By the way, which one of you told them that they could get big!???????? :)

Hope all is well!

Love,

J

A 'Special' Anniversary....

Did you know that today is the anniversary of the day that a very special Dr. here in STL known to many as Dr. God, played God for Matt and I and saved the twins lives. It was also the start of my oh so fabulous Bedrest journey...that didn't last NEARLY as long as it should have, but long enough to give us 2 beautiful, amazing daughters.

Today also happens to be our friend's Brent and Laura's twin son's Collin and Cameron's birthday...Dr. God finished my surgery and then ATTEMPTED to leave the hospital, but one of her boys had a different idea...so they were born. So cute. Their 1st birthday was quite crazy! In our specific group of friends, we had 5 kids born last year...not counting their son Brandon who turned 3 this past November or other friends who often hang out with all of us. Add their family and friends and it was insanity. The good type! Sadly the girls were a little overwhelmed by their first party and got super crabby and therfore missed a lot of the festivities...so I don't have any pics to post. :( Stinkers. Oh well. I do have one last minute family photo, taken right before we left..and a few of the girls and Miss Caroline...so cute..love her purple bow! Can't wait for the girls to have hair for bows!

Since our last post...we've had several occassions take place! The first is Mother's day. Yes, I missed posting on Mother's day...Probably b/c I was busy enjoying the day and the NAP that I got to take (not that I can never take Naps... I know Matt will watch the girls any time...but I feel guilty doing that unless I have a migraine).

Back to Mother's Day...it was a beautiful day! On Mother's Day...while I was in the kitchen getting ready for our Mother's Day Brunch and Matt was in the Living room vacumming with Sydney, I hear this excited/freaked out yell from him for me to come here. It was hilarious. Apparently, little Miss Sydney had sat herself up in her pack in play (still in the bassinett) and then managed to pull herself up...you should have SEEN the look on her face...it was so cute! She was VERY obviously proud of herself and her accomplisments! Go Sydney! We had most of our mother's over for brunch..which was FABULOUS I Might add! WE actually still have one gift left to give to our Mothers, but it's not back yet from the printer! For my first Mother's day, the girls (and Daddy) gave me a very cute necklace that is a cherry (made of rubies and emeralds)..to symbolize the 2 girls and the fact that they were born in July. Both girls LOVE it...well, they try to eat it at least! :) Guess we'll have to give them some real cherries this summer sometime!

The second is that I stayed home alone with the girls, while Matt travelled away overnight. I survived, as did the girls. Yes, we've semi done this before...and it's going to get easier and easier as they get older...but there is always a fear that both babies will cry at the same time or go on a sleep strike..which they didn't so we were good!

The third is that we had our 9 month Appointment...our pediatrician had great things to say..she was super happy with their weight gain in particular! Go Us...the girls LOVE LOVE LOVE solids...still not so hot on bottles, but they love them some food. :) We did switch their formula...well, what little they get...from the high cal preemie formula b/c I think they hate the taste of it..and I think I'm right b/c they appear to already be doing better with it!

The fourth thing that happend, actually happened on Mother's day...as the girls turned 10 months old. I cannot believe it. WHERE has time gone...and sadly my little babies are no longer little and they are starting to do more and more tricks. It's craziness.

In other news...let's talk babies and fun 'tricks' they can do! :)

Sydney has proved her self to be extremely determined and driven. If she wants it these days, she's going to get it or figure out how to do it! Recently she's figured out how to sit up on her own (still not doing this consistantly though), pull herself up in her crib and her pack n' play (which is why we took out the bassinet part), and is ALMOST crawling...she now says a lot of mamma and dadda and babba...so still babbling, but it's cool..sometimes it seems directed at Matt or I or deliberate, but we'll see. SHe's also discovered Cassius and Sugar (as you will see in a picture on the blog)...she loves to pet them, play with their skin and fur, and cheeks/ears. It's so cute. They tolerate her or just lick her b/c they want to return the love! :)

Sydney Playing with Sugar's Tail!

Sydney Standing in her crib...

Olivia has continued to prove herself to be our laidback baby, but when she's ticked off, man does her little temper come out! SHe really could give a care about going places, unless it involves a toy. She does love to play with her toys and will go anywhere/do anything to get them...but she does allow her sister to steal her toys and paci all the time. WHen she realizes that SYdney has something she wants, she just reaches over and grabs it back! SHe too has discovered the dogs and my glasses, and anything she can get her hands on! So so cute!

Livi playing with her toys...in Daddy's Hat (Daddy was playing with HIS toys!) :)

Olivia and Sugar...Sugar moved by Olivia after Sydney was playing with her...little did she knew she wasn't safe here either! :)

The girls in their March of Dimes hats...they cost the Earth and are a little big, but they are so cute!

Olivia....





Sydney....

The girls in their Hawaiian Dresses from GrandDude and Grandma Carol!

School is ALMOST out...so close I can taste it...only 9 1/2 days of school left. YAY. I C.A.N.N.O.T. wait! It's going to be fun and tiring to stay home with the girls all summer! Sadly however, summer is never as long as it was when I was a kid. :( I'm excited for the year to be over, but already stressing about what challenges the new school year is going to bring me. We also have our trip to Vegas this summer, which is pretty exciting, I can''t wait for that. Hopefully the girls don't make Matt's mom and Stepdad crazy and I don't obsess too much over how they are doing and eating and adjusting to being somehwere else while we are gone. :(

We've also started planning for the girl's 1st Birthday this summer..I cannot even believe that it's almost been a year..what in the heck is going on. I'm getting old. :(

Hope all is well!

J

Out & About....and Cuteness

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...we were given the tenative, it's okay to start taking the girls places, which we have been slowly and gradually doing. NOW however, we have this fabulous outbreak of the flu. SO, I'm not quite sure what we are going to do! :( I do have to say that IF you are someone who is going to come into contact with the twins anytime in the next couple months, to prepare yourself for the HAND SANITIZER conversation. ALL who touch the girls have to sanitize their hands and cannot be sick...regardless of the end of RSV season, we still need to be super careful about getting the girls sick. So, it's not that we think you are dirty or that we don't like you...it's just best for the girls.

Last weekend we had our March of Dimes walk...which was great. Next year I am declaring that we are having a team for the girls...complete with donations and cute PURPLE or TEAL t-shirts! :) The walk was interesting...you'd have sworn that NO ONE had ever in their entire life had see twins before...of course it didn't help that as always they were stinkin' adorable!

Both Matt and I are eagerly anticipating the arrival of summer..as demonstrated by the many cute pictures you will be seeing, we anticipate that the girls will continue to look super cute...as long as they are wearing HATS. :) Going to the pool, zoo, Grant's Farm, picnics, parks...you name it..we're looking forward to LOTS of firsts with the girls! We've actually started planning the girls FIRST Birthday party...it seems soooo far away, but it will be here sooner rather than later.

The girls are quickly becoming VERY interactive...and are gaining weight fast...it appears that we'll be soon out of our 6 month clothes and into our 9 months clothing...craziness how fast they are growing now that they can eat solids! Soon, we shall see some teeth and then the slow slow slow introduction of table food.

Eating our Puffs....

Olivia.......

Sydney......

The girls....

Goin' on a walk with our Mommy....

Sydney...

Olivia...

Mommy messing with the camera...
A Friend of mine commented how sad she was that she doesn't have a lot of pictures with her and her children when they were younger...sooooooooo I've started taking pics with me in them! :) One of these days we'll post some pics with Daddy too! :)

WEll, if you can't tell...we're not too exciting these days..so..........I'm off!

Hope all is well!

J