Haircuts and visitors

So we had tons of fun yesterday. We went to Nana's House and ran around for a few minutes before we were loaded up in the car again and went to get haircuts with Miss Jane at Victoria's Station. We love getting our hair cut by her. Nate sat in the chair all by himself and did so well. Alex had to sit on Mommy's lap but didn't cry like he usually does, he wasn't HAPPY about getting his hair cut, but he was distracted with water bottles (the spray kind), books and magazines.

Nate getting his hair cut

Nate taking a picture of himself, Mama and Miss Jane

Alex sitting on Mama's lap

After our hair cuts Grandad got back from his boating trip with Great Uncle Bob so we hung out with them. Also Aunt Maureen stopped by to play for a little bit as well. We hadn't seen her in a good couple months! Mama even got Nate to say "Mo"

Us and Aunt Mo

Tonight Grandma and Grandpap came to visit as did Miss Ashley and her mommy Mrs. Link, Miss Ashley knitted us two awesome blankets (pictures later!) Grandma and Grandpap will be staying with us till Saturday... YAY!!!!!!!!! Ok bed time.

YAY CAFFEINE!

So Mommy came home with Starbucks and Alex couldn't get enough of it. His new drink of choice? Grande Skim No Whip Mocha with an extra shot of espresso!!!!! (don't worry he only had 2 or 3 small sips of the actual drink then Mommy pour her coffee into a cup and put a little water back in it and let Alex play with it!)

Mmmmmm Coffee!!!

Good to the last drop

The effects of caffeine on a 2 year old!

BIG update!

We have had such a busy week. Let's start with Sunday. We were still in Pittsburgh so we decided to go to Great Aunt Helen and Great Uncle Bill's house to celebrate Grandma and Uncle Bill's birthdays. We had tons of fun running literally around the house. We did sit still long enough to take some pictures with people.

The TwadSquad

Great Uncle Bill and Great Aunt Helen

Our Grandma and Grandpap

Mama and Dada

Us with Grandma and Grandpap

Monday morning mommy had a dentist appointment and we got to tag along, we thought it was fun an all until it was our turn to get our teeth checked out. Miss Merrie didn't clean them, but we didn't enjoy her looking around either. We are going to have to make an appointment with a pediatric dentist though since Miss Merrie thinks they will be a better fit for us, since we are so young.

Mommy and Alex on the big chair

Alex playing with some cool glasses

Mommy's turn!

Nate playing with teeth molds

Tuesday morning we went to our NICU follow up at St Agnes. Nate is pretty much right on track for a normal 2 year old. Alex is, not surprisingly, developing slower and is below average for a normal 2 year old. So he will be watched and get more extra help. Also he is going to see a specialist to check out his head cause it hasn't grown too much.

Wed we went to Nana's house! We had tons of fun, but we missed Grandad who went on a boating trip with Great Uncle Bob, but we will see both of them next week when we visit. YAY! Nana pulled out the little pool and we had fun splashing around in it... and climbing out and running away.

Us in the pool

Alex splashing away

Nate being modest

Birthday Shout Out

So we will update you about the rest of our weekend, our dentist appointment yesterday and our high risk developmental follow up at the hospital. But we are still waiting for mom to upload pictures. We just wanted to give a big shout out to someone very special who is celebrating her birthday today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More later!

Picture Update

Well we don't have time to give you a full update right now, but here are a few pictures to show you what we have been up to. Mommy will upload all of them onto webshots later next week after we get home and go to our doctors appointments. We will be home late tomorrow night and have our first dentist appointment Monday morning. Don't know what that is... but it sounds exciting. Tomorrow we are going to Grandma and Grandpap's church then off to Great Aunt Helen's house for dinner with G/G, M/D, Great Aunt Helen and Great Uncle Bill, Aunt Heidi and Dave and Great Uncle Andy.
Enjoy the photos

Daddy and Grandpap walking Nate down the steep driveway

Alex's face after eating a piece of cold Popsicle

Nate running to Mommy


Alex dumping out sidewalk chalk

Us with our second cousin Andrea... or is it cousin once removed? Either way, Daddy's cousin's daughter.

Sad News

So we finally found out what has been going on with all the phone calls to Grandma and Great Aunt Helen, and Mommy doing lots of packing, cleaning and ironing. We have the saddest of new yet. Our Great Aunt Donna, Grandma's brother's wife, died suddenly last weekend while on vacation with Great Uncle Andy in Mexico. We are so sad cause we never got the chance to meet her and we heard how fun and full of life she was.

Daddy is taking us up to Pittsburgh today so we can give everyone big hugs and Mommy will be joining us tomorrow after her baking class tonight.

Big hugs go out to the entire Gogal and Double Family.

http://paradisearabians.com/paradise-remembers-donna-gogal

Fun Day!

Yesterday was such a fun day, first we went to Target, but Mommy didn't buy anything and then we went to Toys r Us and Mommy picked out a cool new cash register toy. She said something about it being "old school" and she used to have one just like it. She picked up a couple other things that we didn't get good looks at, something about keeping us occupied later this week. We hung out inside after that most of the day, then Mommy filled up our water table and we were hanging out on the deck when we saw Sofie and Jacob playing outside, so we went downstairs and played with them, their water/sand tables, slide and ran around in circles after each other. Oh and Mommy and their nanny thought we were all adorable cause we were all just wearing our diapers. Needless to say we slept well last night.

Mmmmm baked goods!

So we didn't actually get to eat these due to our egg allergy but Mommy posted pictures and recipe of her Pate a Choux she made for Nana, Grandad, Uncle Steve, Aunt Courtney and Uncle Todd last night when we all hung out at Nana and Grandad's house. - http://bakingwithcaitlin.blogspot.com/, we had tons of fun over there... we didn't nap, but enjoyed the new books Nana bought us, including I Spy and some number and color books and a book all about cars. We got to visit with our cousin Kerrington and we both gave her kisses and patted her on her head... gently of course.

We just had PT, our new therapists Laura and Kathy, they are so impressed at how we are doing. Especially with our attention span and how well we point to things in books.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

WATER!

What to do on a saturday evening? Help Mommy wash her car of course! Enjoy the photos! Tomorrow we head to Nana and Grandad's house to visit everyone!!

Helping play with the soap

Alex catching Mommy with the camera

Nate's got a little bit of suds on his nose

All Wet!

Nate and Alex playing with the hose

Video and Photos!

Not much going on here. Grandma came to play yesterday while Mommy had her first baking class (don't forget to check out her blog - http://bakingwithcaitlin.blogspot.com/) and while what she made looks delicious, our stupid egg allergy is going to keep us from sampling her concoctions. Today Mommy's friend Samantha is coming over to play and have dinner with us and if the weather holds out this weekend we are sure a trip to the park will be scheduled. Here are two pictures of our favorite cousin as well as a video of us playing ring around the rosie with Grandma this morning.

Mama with her favorite Niece

Isn't Kerri Beautiful?

Happy Thursday!

We went to Grandad and Nana's yesterday, we had lots of fun playing with them and running around. We are still coughing a bit, and our cousin Kerrington didn't let her mommy (Aunt Courtney) sleep the night before (THAT'S OUR GIRL!) So Mama went over to visit with them with out us, since Aunt Courtney didn't feel up to driving to Nana's. Oh well, we will see you cousin later then.. .and give her more tips on how to be a baby. We heard that yesterday she did the peeing without a diaper trick when our Mommy was changing her diaper, so she gave her a bath while Aunt Courtney got some stuff done. She learns from the best! (us!)

Today Grandma is coming in to town because Mommy is starting a 20 week pastry arts class at L'Academie de Cuisine. She has started her own blog and will update with pictures and what she is learning to make as often as she can. Her classes are Thursday nights... so it depends on how busy we keep her on Fridays! Here is the link to her blog - http://bakingwithcaitlin.blogspot.com/

We will post some pictures of our cousin that Mommy took when we get a chance.

Not So Bad

Well the good news is we aren't really that sick. Alex has a bit of fluid in his left ear so he is on some medicine to help that out. We both are getting nebulizer treatments before bed to help us breath a little better, we aren't congested, but it will help us sleep better (hopefully) as well.

Before dinner we were out playing in the back yard and we saw Jacob and Sofie in their basement (our best friends and next door neighbor twins who are about 8 months younger than us). So their mommy Miss Erika opened the window and we chatted through the screen. When it was time to go in for dinner Sofie gave us both kisses through the screen. Nate got multiple kisses from Sofie... and even a few from Jacob, Alex just got one kiss from each. It was too cute. Unfortunately Mama and Miss Erika didn't have cameras available to capture our first kisses with someone about our age, but next time!

That's about all for now. We need to get back up to speed with this blog, our cousin Kerri is putting us to shame!

How can you get a cold when its 80 degrees outside?

So here we are coughing and runny nosed in the middle of July.... what's up with that? We have an appointment at 1pm to see our favorite Dr. who we haven't seen since our 2 year check-up. So we will probably get weighed today and will have some stats for you when we get back. Hopefully it's nothing terrible like an ear infection. We haven't slept well the last 2 nights.... which in turn means Mama and Dada haven't slept well the last 2 nights. So Mama wants to make sure we are ok and made an appointment this afternoon to check us out.

Here are some pictures Great Aunt Helen took that Mama copied off the internet... so sorry for the not so great quality.

Alex

Us playing with our neighbors sand box

Alex on the left and Nate on the right

Mommy... and her new hair color.... helping Nate put on his shoes

Upside down Alex

Mama made a reference to Monty Python's Holy Grail.....and a french taunting..... we don't get it

Nate and Grandma

Grandma reading a book to us

New Video!

So if you haven't seen what happens when Alex gets excited you are in for a treat..... the more excited he gets the more he waves his arms and the bigger his mouth gets. This was taken the 4th of July at Nana and Grandad's beach house. Nothing new going on right now. Grandma and Grandpap came down for the weekend and we went to church this morning and were fairly well behaved.

4 years???

Wow Mommy and Daddy have been married for 4 years! That's twice our age.

Happy Anniversary Mama and Dada!

More Beach Pictures

So we have been back from the beach for a week... yeah we know... we have just been having too much fun and trying to get back onto a normal schedule. Thursday Miss Cheryl came by and evaluated Alex's walking abilities. She is so proud of him, he is walking for longer periods of time and is really getting his balance together. GO ALEX! Then this weekend there was drama was Ty... our more unsociable cat.... apparently he ate one too many hair elastics and got a massive tummy ache and had to have surgery... he is home now and doing much better... hopefully he learned his lesson. Yesterday Grandma and Great-Aunt Helen came for a visit. That was fun too! And tomorrow we are off to Nana and Grandad's. Here are more pictures from the beach.

You know Nate isn't up to any good with that smile!

Nate and his bucket

Alex's favorite beach activity - playing with shells

All smiles Alex

Alex was so tired he fell asleep on his monkey.... and later in his high chair!

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes we are still around... getting into trouble as usual. We have just been so busy on vacation at the beach. Our typical day consists of waking up at about 7, playing in a mini version of baby jail, breakfast, baby jailing it while Mama and Dada get their breakfast, hit the beach for about an hour, lunch, big nap, beach/pool plus baby jail and at least one episode of Elmo's world, and bed.
We got in last Thursday after spending the night at Aunt Katie and Uncle Ben's place... we LOVE their puppy Sasha... she gave us tons of kisses. Our car trip down was fun. We slept the first half and then stopped in Williamsburg and ran around for about an hour and then we hopped back in our car and drove all the way down to OBX... we did really well! When we got there we saw Nana and Grandad and on Sunday Dada, Uncle Stephen, Miss Becca and Mr Chris and Mr Will all came down to play with us! We have had soooo much fun. Enjoy some of our pictures!

Grandad and Nate on the beach

Nana Helping Alex

Us and Nana and Grandad

Alex playing in the sand


Nate and his sand toys

Alex

Us playing

Alex's excited face