PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

Well Mommy got all of our pictures loaded up on our webshots page but here are a couple of our favorites.

Mama and us

Mama helping Alex open his gift from Uncle Bryant

The Picture that Mama got so excited about she dropped the camera and broke it -
Us with Dada on Thanksgiving

Us with Aunt Helen and Grandma and Great Grandpap G

Us with Grandpap, Dada and Great Grandpap T

Dada asleep after opening his gifts

Alex going down our new slide

Opening our gifts from Santa

We're home!

We just pulled in from a 6 day-4 state tour celebrating Christmas. We will go into much more detail and post lots of pictures later. We saw Nana, Grandad, Aunt Courtney, Uncle Todd, Uncle Stephen and Pop-Pop in Virginia, spent Christmas Eve at Home in MD with Piccadilly and Ty (our Cats) and then went to PA and WV and saw Grandma, Grandpap, Aunt Heidi, Dave, Great Aunt Helen and Great Uncle Bill and we even got to meet both of our Great Grandpaps (Grandma and Grandpap's Dadas). We have tons of pictures but first we have to go unpack all of our toys. Hopefully tomorrow Mommy will show us how to unload pictures off of her new camera (Santa brought her a new one cause he heard she broke her last one on Thanksgiving).

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas! If this is your first time visiting our blog because you got our holiday card than please check out our older posts to see what we have been up to. We are going to post a year in review post in a few days and will include what Mommy and Daddy are up to as well. For now though we are going to go play w ith our new toys!


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a quick update

First off we just want to say that we are less than 48 hours to Christmas.. however supposed there is word that we could start receiving gifts tomorrow!


So last night was not fun... to start with... Mommy didn't play with us much yesterday, she was in the kitchen the whole day baking. Being the mean Mommy that she is, she didn't give us one bite of what she was making. She said something about having eggs and peanuts in them. Whatever. Maybe Nana or Grandma will give us something later this week. So after Mommy finished baking she was running around cleaning up the house, we still weren't happy with her, so we have her a hard time. Well now we know why she was so busy. Aunt Katie, Uncle Ben and Aunt Katie's sister came to visit us for dinner. OMG We had so much fun!!!!!!!! We didn't go to bed till 7:30! We were party animals.

Well lots to do to get ready for Christmas. If we don't get a chance to update before than. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Not much new

Things have been pretty normal around here... nothing new to report.... well... except Nate has been pooping like a champ today, however his butt is red again. Hopefully things will finally clear up and his but will be back to normal. We are both so excited about Christmas... though we have no idea what is coming, we can just feel the magic in the air... well we would if we went outside, but its been cold and yucky and Mommy doesn't do cold and yucky. Really we just wanted to post some pictures Mommy took of us the other day.. since she hasn't posted recent pictures in a while. We are going to have a busy week next week, lots of people to see, things to eat, gifts to open, toys to ignore so we can play with tissue paper and boxes, you know the drill. Enjoy the pictures and Happy Friday everyone!!!

Alex is all smiles

Nate sitting in the tube all packed up

Just because its closed doesn't mean I can't play with it still!

Blast from the past time

So we had an awesome weekend. Mommy and Daddy went on vacation.. without us. They went to the Ritz Carlton of Fort Lauderdale for a long weekend away. We bet they missed us the whole time and had absolutely no fun whatsoever. While they were gone we stayed at our own fancy hotel, Hotel Nana and Grandad's. Everyone came to visit. Uncle Todd, Aunt Courtney and her HUGE belly came over for dinner on Friday and Uncle Stephen came home from college for Christmas Break on Saturday. We saw cats and a dog. We ate like champs. We took nice long naps. Overall a great weekend away and a nice break from Mommy and Daddy.

We got home yesterday afternoon and hung out with Mommy and Daddy. Alex stood up for about 15 seconds on his own, not hanging on to anything. Mommy wants him standing completely on his own by Christmas... maybe even taking a few steps before New Years. We will see, Alex likes to do thing in his own time.

Mommy found some old photos of us from over the summer on the big camera she never uses but brought with her and Daddy to Florida since she broke the smaller new camera. So here are some cute pictures of us from July/August.

Nate and his favorite Monkey!

Alex (pre eye surgery)

Nate with more stuff in his mouth

Smile!!!! Nate trying to get in the picture too!

Alex's clown tears

Nate



Nate showing off his mad standing skills



Alex crawling around happy



Mama and Alex

here we go again...again

So um..... we are sick again.... still... We went to see nurse Jessica at the doctors office. We are back on nebulizers. We have been running fevers all weekend, including runny noses, coughs, and Nate has an ear infection. We are also on antibiotics and Tylenol. We go back to visit Nurse Jessica on Wed to see if we are getting better.

Grandma came in on Friday for the weekend (Grandpap stayed home sick) and she decided to stay till tomorrow morning to help out with us.

Even though we are sick events still happen. Alex was standing hanging on to baby jail and Mommy and Daddy went "YAY! *clap clap clap*" so Alex let go ed of the gate and clapped while standing.... before losing his balance and falling down. Nate has some news too... however his is not great. Nate was getting ready for a bath and was hanging on to the tub. Daddy bumped him on accident and Nate fell forward and hit his head on the edge of the tub and got a small cut and was bleeding (no one knows how he cut himself on a smooth tub). Luckily no ER run was necessary.

Thats all for now! Hopefully we will feel better soon!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!!!!!!!

So we know we haven't posted since Thanksgiving... but it's only been a week and we are busy little boys.... granted we have just been playing and napping.... it's hard work being this cute :) Things haven't been all roses anyways. We both have small colds.... we know who we got them from.... and they know who they are too, luckily right now its just a small cough and a runny nose... for now! Nate also has apparently been traumatized by his diaper rash. up until yesterday he was squeezing his butt and not wanting to poop for fear of what it was when he had a terrible butt rash a few weeks ago. The good news is since yesterday he has kept the poop coming continuously... the bad news..... he is starting to get a new ugly looking diaper rash... so its back in the bath tubs for long baking soda baths and tons of nystatin and butt paste. See... it is rough to be... 20 MONTHS TODAY!!!!!!!! Where is the time going?!?!? We will be 2 years old in 4 months! No big party this year for us, there is a lot going on this spring and Mommy and Daddy won't have the time to. Some of the things we can't talk about yet.. however there is one big thing that we are so excited to announce........





NO we are not going to be big brothers (Mommy has her hands full as is with the two of us) AUNT COURTNEY IS PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going to have a cousin! Don't know if it will be a boy or girl yet but we do know that there is only one! We are going to have so much fun teaching him/her all the tricks to being a baby... like throwing up right after you get clean clothes on, pooping right after a diaper change... waking up in the middle of the night for no reason what so ever.. .fun stuff like that.

Well we have to eat dinner and get ready for bed. Just had to spread the exciting news... and the not so good news as well.

OMG

Holy Cranberry Sauce Batman! Thanksgiving is THE BEST HOLIDAY EVER!!!!!!! Of course we have yet to sample the fare of ALL the holidays yet (27 days till Christmas!!) We spent the day playing with Mommy, Daddy, Nana, Grandad, Uncle Stephen, Great Uncles Greg and Chris and their daughters Megan and Rachel and Pop-Pop. We then took a nap and got ready for the big feast, we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread, gravy, cranberry sauce and for dessert we got our very first taste of dessert.... some cherry pie. Can we tell you how AWESOME cherry pie is. We kept signing for "more" and we did get some more. Mommy took some pictures of the table and a really great photo of Daddy and us.... but then she got so excited she dropped the camera and broke it. So until we get home and she can put the camera on the computer through the printer... here are some photos she made Grandad take towards the end of eating our fabulous dinner.

Hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving!


Alex



Alex



Nate



Nate



Nate being blinded by the auto focus light on the camera

Alex's reaction to the auto focus light on the camera

Alex

Goings Ons

While we would like to say that both of us a fabulous weekend visiting Grandma and Grandpap while they were here.... Nate unfortunately can't say that. He has had the worlds worst diaper rash since Thursday or Friday. It got really bad over the weekend. Everyone was giving him baking soda baths and putting so much stuff on his butt. He didn't want to poop so he has been prolonging it from healing.

Today however Alex had an eye appointment to check on how his eye is doing post-surgery. Dr W was so excited with how well everything looks, however his right eye is still stronger than his left so on weekends Alex has to go back to getting drops put into his right eye to help strengthen up his left. While we were there we ran into Dr L (our pediatrician) who was taking her kids to see Dr W. She chatted with Mommy who went into detail about Nate's butt and Dr L suggested giving him prune stuff and some oil to help move things along and make him poop so everything could heal. Since then some poop has come out but Mommy is convinced that there will be more coming out soon.

Tomorrow we are off to Nana and Grandad's for Thanksgiving. We are going down ahead of Daddy so Mommy can visit with Uncle Stephen, and Great Uncles Greg and Chris and her cousins Megan and Rachel. Rachel is about our age and Megan is almost 4, so it should be fun to play with them. Plus tomorrow Aunt Courtney and Uncle Todd are stopping by for an over night visit before they go visit Uncle Todd's family. We hope they bring their dog Felix with them.

If we don't get to update before Thursday. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!!!

SNOW and PICS!!!!!!!!

So Mommy put us upstairs for a nap, Nate slept and Alex didn't... that's another story... but after Nate woke up we looked outside and it was WHITE!!!!!! What the????? snow was everywhere??? So Mommy spent well over 10 minutes getting us bundled up and then took us out on the deck for probably about 5 minutes. We saw Miss Erika and Jacob and Sofie in their house.. nice and warm. Anyways here are some pictures from earlier this month/today's snow.. which was the first time we actually went outside and got to play in it.. though Alex was not liking the cold outside so he hung on to Mommy's legs the whole time... which made it difficult for Mommy to get pictures of him. Nate however was walking everywhere and loving it!!!!!

Nate pushing the chair around


Alex being cold

Nate running around

Nate by the grill

Alex hanging on to Mommy

How Pathetic am I??

Alex crawling around the deck a little

Nate stomping around the deck

Our cats

Alex Nov. 8

Alex is so big! Nov. 8th

Us in the big chair Nov 8th

Please sign!

It's Snowing!!!!!!!!

So we guess this is our first actual snow fall that we can appreciate. Given that our first official snow fall was the first few days of our lives while we were in incubators and couldn't see out the window (even though it was 80 degrees the day we were born.... yeah figure that one out!) And last winter we pretty much slept through and weren't focusing on anything. So.. YAY snow!!!!!! Its not really sticking, but it is fun to watch falling down outside. Course we are seriously easy to amuse right now due to lack of sleep.... thanks to Nate!

So last night at about 1030 Nate woke up crying. Not unusual. A diaper change and some water and he is back asleep. However, for whatever reason he didn't want to be in his crib last night, he didn't want to go to sleep either... but he was so tired. It was the epitome of pathetic. Mommy and Daddy were awake past midnight and he finally went to his crib with a bottle of milk and fell asleep at God knows what time. We were of course both up at 7am and a mess. Mommy pretty much marched us back upstairs at 8 with bottles of milk and we were both out by 9. So today has been an off day, and we are getting tired again. Hopefully its not another crazy night tonight.

Happy Monday!

Sorry we haven't been able to update in about a week. We would have loved to, but Mommy was working hard on the computer all week. Don't know what she was up to, but she wouldn't let us on to update our friends on what has been going on with us.

We have enjoyed being healthy again. Lots of running around baby jail and throwing toys down the basement stairs. Wed. was our last play group/Mommy's last class. It was fun. Some of the other kids who are a little older than us were pretending to be dinosaurs and climbing under the table and we watched them and they were growling at us and stomping around. We thought it was HILARIOUS!

Thursday we went to Nana's and Grandad's we hadn't seen them in a while. We had tons of fun running all around their house. Nana took us to her piano and we had so much fun banging on it. We may be the next Mozart or Bach.

So this weekend Mommy went to Miss Laura's baby shower (Miss Laura is Alex's Goddada's wife) She is having a little boy after Christmas. So it was boys day in the house, we had tons of fun with Daddy. We went to the post office to drop off a big package for Mommy... it had something to do with her being at the computer all week. Yesterday Mommy brought up this HUGE thing. It turned out to be Dada's old keyboard. Mommy put it on the floor and we went nuts! Alex LOVED rocking out to the music that magically came out of it with out even touching it. Nate was all about the volume controls and buttons that controlled the rhythms and melodies, which involved sitting in the middle of the keyboard... but hey it's Nate... would we expect any less from him.

Today we are running some errands and getting showers.... we no longer take baths... unless Daddy does it. Mommy just sits us on our alligator shower pad and hoses us off. We are very good........... usually :)

Well time to go play and bang on things.

oh and

we're better!!!!!

We are back to normal finally!!!!! Not even a little cough any more. YAY!!!!!!!!

We had a fun weekend with Daddy and Grandma and Grandpap. Mommy was gone for most of the weekend at a marching band competition. But we got to go for walks and they read us stories and played with us.

Recently Alex has been working on his first word (minus mama and dada which neither of us say any more) "Cat". We love our kitty, she comes to play with us and doesn't mind us too much. We think she is so silly when she rubs up on our toys and scratches at the carpet.

Nothing really new to report. Since we have been feeling better we don't want to sit still for very long..... so off we go!!!

later!!!!

sick.... but worse

So we went to the doctors twice within about 16 hours. Nate got pretty bad yesterday... he was breathing very heavy and he didn't even want to play... which if you know Nate.... that's not like him. He would just curl up in the play area with a monkey or a boppy and just layed there. So Mommy knew something was up, so we both got checked up and Nate has some sort of virus and is on a breathing machine every few hours to help clear out his lungs. We also are on a new antibotic to help finish clearing up our ear infections.

Today we went back in to get checked-up again and to see if Nate was improving. He apparently sounds much better. The nurse was checking us with the fun cold thing she puts to our chest and the other part she puts in her ears... she is so silly! So Nate is going to be on the breathing machine tomorrow only if he needs it and we may have to go back on Friday if we still aren't feeling well. Hopefully Alex won't get worse!

Oh and yesterday was November 4th... you know what that means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We turned 19 months old!!!! Oh and we got a new president. We wish we were a little more older so we can remember this very exciting and historical election. We followed it very closely all year long, especially since Grandad's 2nd favorite thing (after playing with us) is politics. Grandad's a little sad though because he liked the older guy with the grey hair, that and Nana says he is sick too :( We hope you feel better soon Grandad!!!! We got to go with Mommy to the polls and we ran into Mr. Ellis and his wife and kids (Mr. Ellis is the band director at the high school Mommy coaches guard at). We chatted with them for a bit and then breezed through. There were no lines and we were in and out within 5 minutes. We saw who Mommy voted for and the amendments she voted for... and while it is inappropriate to discuss that because it's no one's business..... well let's just say Mommy was very happy when we woke her up at 1am (we all went to bed early!) and she saw on the news who won.

So minus being sick and going to the doctors... yesterday was a fun day. Today everyone was feeling better. Nate wasn't 100% running around. But he did actually play with toys and walk around the play area. He even smiled and laughed. Alex is about the same. Hopefully tomorrow everyone will be much better... at least for Mommy's sake!

Oh and in case anyone was wondering!

Happy November!

Well we were big party poopers last night. We were in bed at 5:30 and didn't wake up till about midnight and then went back to sleep... all while Mommy and Daddy were at Aunt Courtney's and Uncle Todd's Halloween party. But let's back up and update everyone on our doctor's appointment.

Alex - 19lbs 4oz, 32in long. Yeah we know he dropped a little weight.. but to be fair last time he got weighed when he was sick he was fully dressed and on Monday they made him butt naked! As it turns out he has an ear infection in his left ear, his weight could be a little better but not too terribly worried yet because at least he is growing!

Nate - 21lbs 9oz, 31.5in long. Turns out he has a DOUBLE ear infection!!

Overall Doctor L was pleased with how we are doing... so much so that we are technically off formula... we say technically because Mommy and Daddy still has a ton of formula left so Dr. L said they can give us bottles of 1/2 formula and 1/2 whole milk... which we enjoy very much. YAY!!!!!! We also have been eating nothing but solid foods... YUM! We don't eat as much as we probably should, but we are getting better at it. We love cantaloupe.. oh and before bed we also get a bottle of Pediasure to give us extra extra calories.

So we have been busy. Miss Sheryl still comes every other Monday for P/T and one Weds we go to play group while Mommy learns how to help us talk. Miss Lori started coming every week to help fine tune some skills as well. We are very popular with the ladies.

We didn't go trick or treating since Mommy and Daddy went to the party, plus we can't eat the candy anyways, so we didn't wear costumes but we did get special shirts for Halloween. Next year we get to really go trick or treating and possibly eat some candy. Besides we haven't been feeling well so sleep was much needed to help us get 100% better. Our coughs are still minor and our ear infections don't seem to bug us.

Today everyone went to Aunt Courtney's and Uncle Todd's to celebrate Nana's birthday. We had so much fun running around and touching their dog Felix.

We should probably update you on what words we can "say"... we don't clearly say our words yet.. and we both know one word in sign language which is "more". We also can wave

Nate's words - light, cat, dog, in
Alex - cat & dog

We are currently uploading pictures from the farm and Mommy and Daddy's big night out.
Check out our webshots page later and look under the "Fall 2008" folder

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

We know, we know... we have so much to update you on. It has been a busy busy week for us, we have had doctors appointments, Mommy has had doctors appointments, Mommy dragged us to the mall, we have been getting beetter and we have just been too busy playing to update you. But a huge update is coming. We just have to run around and pack right now because we are going to Nana's and Grandad's this morning to spend the night cause tomorrow is Nana's birthday. They also will babysit us while Mommy and Daddy go to Aunt Courtney's Halloween party.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!

getting better

well our noses are drying up (and fairly crusty) and our cough has suppress nicely. We should be back to healthy in another day or two. Tomorrow is our 18 month check up with Dr. L. Granted we are closer to 19 months now... but that's when we could fit in to her busy schedule (since she has to make us an extra long appointment because we are so cute.... oh yeah and cause there are two of us!)

Nothing really new here, Mommy has some cute videos and pictures to upload when she gets a chance. One involves eating beef and macaroni with a tomato sauce (it was baby food) and the other watching the Hokie's game last night (which we would rather not talk about today). They should be up later this week when Mommy gets them uploaded on to the lap top.

Speaking of pictures. We got our proofs back from the photographer. YAY!!! Can we tell you how cute we are!!!!!! Oh and Mommy and Daddy looked OK too. To see them go to www.pictage.com and search our last name.

Ok nap and bottle time for us!

still sick

We are no congested. Mommy called the doctor's office and the nurse said to give us benadryl, use a humidifier and lots of fluids. She also mentioned something about using saline solution and sucking out or noses... but we are hoping she forgot about that part because we HATE getting our noses sucked out.

We have tons of energy though. We went to Nana's house yesterday and ran around like mad men. Aunt Courtney even came over for dinner since Uncle Todd is out of town on business.

Today will probably be a very quiet day for us since that stuff Mommy gives us makes us very drowsy. I would what Mommy will do all day if we aren't around to entertain her. She probably just sits on the couch not knowing what to do when we are napping!

:cough: :cough: time for our nap!

:cough: :cough:

So we have been miserably sick since last week. Alex started it! Luckily today we are feeling much better, but on Thursday night Nate wouldn't sleep more then about 40 minutes at a time so no one except Alex really got any sleep. Since Thursday up till about Sunday we were very clingy and needed Mommy around us at all times.. occasionally when Daddy got home we would let her out of baby jail to go to the bathroom (we don't know why she just doesn't use a diaper) Grandma and Grandpap came to hang out with us all weekend long too.

We are feeling better today, and sleeping better, and eating better. So hopefully tomorrow we will be almost good as new.

Zoo pics and a quick update

Well before we get to the goods (pictures from this weekend) we have some more very exciting news from Alex. Unfortunately he has a small cold, but Mommy took him to the doctors yesterday just to make sure there wasn't an ear infection. Good news... no ear infection... Better news.... Alex has officially hit 20lbs!! YAY!!!!! He has gained over a pound in less than them month since our surgery. WAY TO GO ALEX! Nate didn't get weighed since he wasn't showing symptoms... at the time. However we both woke up this morning with runny noses and feeling a little warm. It will be a quiet day in baby jail!

Alright here are only 3 pictures from the zoo... the rest you will have to check out HERE

The fam at the zoo, Mommy is holding Nate (nice tongue) and Dada is holding Alex


Alex was fascinated by this guy, he tried to pat him through the glass


All the boys. (l-r) Nate, Alex, our new friend Jules (Aunt Katie's nephew)

Alexs photos

Alright, here are Alex's before and after photos from his helmet! Zoo pictures will be up later today/tomorrow.

12/07

10/08