HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!

So we may be 2 days late but Friday was Mommy's Birthday!!!!!!! We have good reason why we didn't update. The whole house has been sick with a bad cold. Alex currently has an eye infection and Nate has a slight cough. Mommy is finally feeling better and Daddy is getting there. So what did we get Mommy for her birthday??? A NEW CAMERA!!!! Here are some photos from it.

Alex on Mommy's Lap




Alex in the rocking chair all by himself


Nate


Nate going after Mommy's new camera


The boys reading Mommy's birthday card from them

PICTURES!!!

Miss Sheryl and Miss Lori came yesterday for some P/T fun. We are both looking very good and they are impressed with how we are growing and developing. But before they came we had a bit of a rough morning. Let us preface it by saying Mommy has been sick with a cold since Friday afternoon. So we do our morning routine as usual, Mommy puts us upstairs so we can take a nap before P/T. We were upstairs for maybe an hour and hadn't fallen asleep yet even though we were really tired when...... well we won't say exactly what happened but lets just say there was a blood curdelling scream and Mommy walked in to find us standing up and Alex's finger in Nate's mouth. Have we mentioned we have a lot of sharp teeth. Luckily no blood was spilled but Alex was so upset and crying so hard he threw-up a little bit and had milk coming out of his nose, which only made him more upset. And of course this was at 11:00 and Miss Sheryl comes at 11:30. So Mommy calmed Alex down and while she was doing that he threw-up again... luckily in the bathroom on the floor. So Alex got a bath to help calm him down and then everything was good. Lets just say that after p/t we passed out for a good 2 hours.

Grandma finally sent pictures that she took and we posted a few of them. Enjoy!


This is self explanatory. This is what we usually look like.


I am adorable




Laughing at Grandma


Still adorable


Nate is such a poser


"I am going to bite you"


Nate hanging out out side with Grandpap

Tramatized

We were told we were done with it, that it would be a loooooong time before we would have to go through it again, we were talking months... maybe years..... BUT YOU LIED!!!!!!! We had to go get blood drawn yesterday for our allergy tests. We went last month for our thyroid issue and was told that since that came back looking good we wouldn't have to go through the pain and agony of giving blood again. Alex went first and cried and cried and cried some more. It took about 5 minutes for Mommy to calm him down again. Even then he sat in the stroller whimpering. Nate cried and faught Mommy while she tried to hold him down to give blood, lucky for him this time they only had to poke him once. Mommy said when we were all done and calm again that it would be a while again before we have to give blood.... we will believe it when we see it.

Our newly married Aunt Katie (aka Miss Katie.... aka Nate's Godmama) came to visit on Tuesday. We showed her all of our neat tricks and she took us on a walk with Mommy to Subway for lunch. We did go in our cribs for a little bit to allow them to have some adult time while they looked at wedding pictures and talked about Costa Rica. But of course we knew when she was getting ready to leave and whined to come back down stairs..... and it worked.

We have been getting back to a normal schedule this week. Mommy goes to band camp for an hour after Daddy gets home, but other than that it has been pretty boring. On Saturday we are going to Nana and Grandad's house to hang out with them all day. YAY!

Nate's walking is improving he can take more steps now before falling down and Alex is just starting to figure out cruising.

We're home

We had a blast at the beach. We got back Sunday afternoon and after we got back Daddy unpacked while we took a nap and Mommy went to the grocery store and Home Depot to buy a brand new HUGE rug for our new baby jail area. Our rocking chair from our nursery also got brought downstairs into our baby jail. We are so excited about our new play area. Except our cats can't get into it, but M/D let Piccadilly whenever she wants to check it out. She also loves our new rug.

Grandma and Grandpap came on Sunday as well. They are going to the beach next week, but this week they are babysitting us while Daddy goes to work and Mommy is at band camp for her color guard. So we have been having fun so far this week taking walks, playing with bubbles outside, biting G/G and taking out all of our toys in our baby jail.

Nothing exciting planned.. we had a pretty crazy 2 weeks so a little down time is going to be nice.

We are still eating like champs though. YAY!!!!!!!!!

Beach Update

Sorry we haven't updated. We have been so busy lounging on the beach, eating sand, splashing in the pool, taking siestas, eating and drinking a few bottles a day... of formula.

We went down the beach for the first time on Wed. We played in the sand... ate the sand, sat in the ocean and we got carried into the ocean as well. We loved it!!!!!!!

We also have hung out in the pool every day... OMG so much fun!!!! We love to splash around, take every one's sunglasses off.

While we are on vacation we have been hard at work EATING!!!! Since Nana and Grandad watched us last weekend while Mommy and Daddy went off to Miss Katie's wedding we are eating 3 full meals a day!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! We both are kicking eatings booty!

However there is some bad news. Mommy and Daddy had to take Nate to urgent care Wed. night because he had a very crusty eye. Turns out he had an eye infection AND a DOUBLE ear infection. However no one knew about it because he was his normal self. So he is now on antibiotics.

We head home tomorrow. We are currently uploading all of our pictures onto our photo album. Check them out here - http://community.webshots.com/user/thetwaddles

Here is a sneak peek to wet your pallet

PICTURES!!!!!!

We made it to the beach with only one major issue... we woke up in Williamsburg and weren't allowed out of our car seats so we started crying so much we threw up... so we had to make Aunt Courtney do an emergency pullover. The remainder of the car ride was uneventful.

Here are the haircut pics as promised



Nate punked out pre-haircut


Alex punked out pre-haircut


Jane cutting Nate's hair while Nana holds him


Alex getting his haircut by Jane in Nana's lap



Us and Jane after we survived our haircut

16 months

We are 16 months today and..... it's also Grandma's birthday today! Happy Birthday Grandma!

We had a blast at Nana's and Grandad's. We had an eye appointment this morning and Nate's eyes are fabulous however Alex's is going to need laser eye surgery to finish fixing his lazy eye.. that will happen at the exact same time as his other surgery scheduled for next month.

We are busy packing up our toys because tonight we head to the beach.

We will do a huge update once we get settled at the beach house and post lots of pictures!!

quick update

Well we got our hair cut today. Unfortunately we wont get pictures up till next week. We have been so busy this week we haven't updated. Course there isn't much to update about except Mommy and Daddy enlarged our baby jail area. We have new gates so we have the whole back section of the house... minus the kitchen... unfortunately.

We are going to be at Nana and Grandad's house till Sunday but we will post pictures Monday morning.

Have a great weekend!!!!

Wow what a week!

So we have been so busy we haven't had much time to update. So here is the reader's digest of our past week.
Monday morning Mommy went to something called the dentist, so Daddy stayed with us till she got home. While Daddy was watching us Alex figured out how to sit down from standing in his crib... he even now does it on command. Daddy left for work and we took a nap while Mommy cleaned up our play area for P/T time. Miss Sheryl and Miss Lori came and played with us. For whatever we were in a mellow mood and didn't climb over everyone. Miss Lori brought bubbles and Alex thought they were the funniest things. After P/T Mommy loaded us up in the car and took us to N/Gs house. Grandad came home a day early from his boating trip with Great Uncle Bob just to play with us and hang out. Mommy had to go help Miss Katie get some stuff ready for her wedding next Saturday so we hung out with N/G and Great Uncle Bob all day. We had way too much fun running around with them. We even got to spend the night there and play with them for most of Tuesday as well.

Wed. we ran a bunch of errands with Mommy.

Yesterday Nate wasn't wanting to take a nap and when Mommy went up to get him out of his crib Piccadilly was in the room so Mommy put Nate on the floor. He got up and hung on to Alex's crib and then let goed and stood there for a second... then he took two steps and stopped... still standing... then took another step and fell... so he is officially "walking".. instead of just taking a step and falling. He will be running in no time.

This weekend we don't have much planned. Mommy needs to get a lot of stuff ready, Next Thursday we are going to spend the weekend at N/G's house while M/D go to Miss Katie and Mr. Ben's wedding. Then on Monday we get our eyes checked out and then that night we are off to the beach for a week with N/G, Pop-Pop, Uncle Stephen, Aunt Courtney and possible Uncle Todd. YAY!!!!!!!!!

Well we are exhausted!!!!!!!!!!! time for our nap

weekend update

Not a huge weekend like last weekend. Yesterday M/D took us to the mall to get Daddy some new clothes, then we went to BJs to stock up on diapers and formula, then off to Safeway to get groceries for M/D. Lots of playing time.. oh yeah and Nate took his FIRST and SECOND step... talk about an over achiever!! Two steps right out of the gate. Without holding on to anything Nate can now take a step or two... YAY!!!!! However M/D are in no rush to get us walking.

Today was a cleaning day for M/D... we just played and didn't want to take naps. We have a few busy days a head of us so don't expect to hear anything from us till Wed. Tomorrow morning we have Ms. Sheryl and Ms. Lori coming for P/T. Then we have to head down to Nana's house and hang out with her while Mommy helps Miss Katie do stuff for her wedding... which is a week from Saturday. Then we are spending the night at Nana's and on Tuesday Grandad and our Great Uncle Bob are coming home from their big boating trip and we are going to spend a few hours with them before heading home. So lots to do.

Oh and Alex is doing a great job of pulling himself up to standing.... he just hasn't figured out how to go back down to sitting... Mommy is working on that with him.

Hope everyone else has a great weekend and stayed out of the heat!!

15 month update

Well Mommy kept us pretty busy yesterday so we weren't able to update about our doctors appointment. Yesterday we drove down to Virginia for Alex's helmet appointment, but Nana and Grandad were busy so Mommy just swung by there house to feed us and then off to the appointment and then we went straight home. Once home we got another snack and then off to the gym so mommy could work out and we could have some fun. We were so tired when she picked us up but we didn't go right home because Mommy had to pick up some stuff to make dessert. Now we know this is hard to believe... we are still amazed ourself... but life did exist before us and Mommy and Daddy have been married for 3 years... yesterday was their anniversary. So when we finally got home it was bed time so we didn't have time to update yesterday.

So here is our update

Nate - 20lbs 9ozs, 30in long, 45.5 cm head - his butt is looking much better after Dr. L perscribed something for the yeast. He can stand up without holding on to anything for long periods of time, currently contimplating taking that first step without holding on to anything. Loves to throw toys and bottles over the side of his crib and the baby jail. Will climb over anything in his way. Has more energy than the enegizer bunny.

Alex - 18lbs 1oz, 29.5in long, 43cm head - pulls himself up into standing position all the time now, but hasn't figured out how to get down. Just learned big brother's trick of throwing toys over the baby jail. Loves to bite anything and anyone. Is now crawling like a champ. Loves to sit and look at books. Loves to give hugs and cuddles.

We have to make an appointment to see an ear specialist to get a hearing test done, just to make sure everything is alright. We also need to get more blood drawn to test for other food allergies.

Time for our morning nap.

Quick weekend recap

Just a quick weekend update. It was not a fun one. Even though G/G came to visit and play with us, Nate had a diaper rash that went from bad to worse to a yeast infection... ouchie! But Daddy and Grandma called Great Aunt Helen (Mommy went to a bachelorette party for the weekend for Miss Katie) and she told them what to do and its looking much better. Sunday morning Grandma and Daddy then decided that we needed to try eggs for the first time.... bad idea... turns out we are allgeric to eggs. Alex broke out worse than Nate, Daddy called the Drs office and was told to give us Benedryl. That helped a lot.

Mommy came home and everything has been fine since than. We have our 15 month appointment tomorrow so expect a big update tomorrow night or Wed. morning.

What do you get when you mix yogurt and twins??

A big mess!!!! Mommy was trying to give us yogurt for the first time today... we really just wanted to play with it... however Nate thought it was delicious. He was trying to drink it. Mommy gave up and let us make a mess and play with it... She took some video but will have to post it later because she has a lot to do.


Nate showing off his goatee


ROOOAAAR!!!!


Mommy said Alex reminder her about a scene from "There's something about Mary" we dont get it




Another shot of Alex's new-do

Big Update

So first and foremost. Our highlight this week was going back to the NICU where we spent 4 months hanging out. We visited our favorite nurses, Miss Celeste and Miss Kelly. We got there and neither of our nurses were in the NICU, Miss Kelly was getting lunch and Miss Celeste was helping another baby on a different floor. So we hung out with some of our other favorite nurses and waited. Finally Miss Kelly made it back and we got to climb all over her and play with her badge. We were there for about 40 minutes and no sign of Miss Celeste and we were getting hungry and tired. So we decided to head out and come back another day to visit with Miss Celeste. We were leaving and got to the elevator just as the doors were closing.. so we had to wait for it to come back. We were there a good couple minutes waiting.. but wouldn't you know it... Miss Celeste stepped off the elevator. So back into the NICU we went to spend a few minutes with all the nurses again. We had so much fun and Mommy took a few pictures of us.

Miss Celeste with her hands full


Miss Celeste holding Nate and a very tan Miss Kelly holding Alex



We have been to a bunch of doctors this week. So we will do a brief recap.

Tuesday we went back to High Risk Follow Up at the hospital so they could see how far we have come since our NICU days. We got to play with things while the doctor, her assistant and 3 med students looked on. We got to play with blocks, cups, crayons (Which we immediately tried to eat... and they were immediately taken away). We showed them our awesome crawling skills and found things they were covering with cloth. Nate almost took out a med student. He slipped by the 6 adults in the room and pulled on a cord and a small fan came flying off a shelf and just barely missed a med student. Nate is developing like a normal 12 month old baby... which is what old we should have been if we hadn't decided to arrive early. Alex is a little bit behind.. but no one seems worried... because its normal for twins to develop differently.

Wed. Alex got his 3rd new helmet. We don't know how long he will have to wear it... it looks just like his other 2 helmets.

We just got back from seeing Dr. Voit who is our surgeon. We had surgery in January to repair our hyperspasia and cordees. Alex's cordee is all better but he still has a hole under his man parts and that is apparently where most of his pee-pee comes out from... neat trick... but not good.. and Nate's cordee needs just a little fine tuning to make it straighter. So we both are going back in for surgery on our man parts on Wed. Sept 17. We really have no idea what that means because we weren't really paying attention we were flirting with the Dr's Assistant... she was funny.

We are exhausted.. so its time for our nap. Mommy is taking us on errand runs when we get up and then Grandma and Grandpap are coming in for the weekend. YAY!!!!!!!

New Video

So Mommy caught us playing together. Alex was attacking Nate who was attacking his Horton Elephant. Alex was getting so excited when he saw Mommy. Tomorrow Alex gets his 3rd new helmet and we get to visit with Nana and Aunt Courtney!!!

4th of July update

Well we finally have pictures of our new bathroom.. including the lion trashcan and elephant tissue holder than was back ordered online... but Mommy found it at target yesterday.. so she bought them and cancelled her order. YAY!!! our bathroom is complete!!!! (see pictures below).

We had a fun 4th of July. We went to M/D's new gym they joined last week and for the first time got left in a day care setting. They did warn the first lady taking care of us that we like to bite and she took note... but apparently forgot to tell the other lady who came and played with us... Alex bit her shoulder. Nate also attempted to take a binky from another baby there... and when the lady asked Daddy if we had binkys we liked Daddy said that it wasnt a binky he wanted... he just wants what every one else has. We had fun and then we went to Nana's and Grandad's for lunch. We slept through half of it and headed home to get ready for our BBQ on Saturday.

Saturday a few of our friends came over and played with us. It's amazing how many big people can fit into our baby jail. There was at least 3 in there with us at a time. We were the center of attention.... like anyone doubted we would be.... not many pictures were taken.... Mommy was too busy not paying attention to us and hanging out with other people when they weren't paying attention to us (the nerve) but she did take one really cute picture of Nate wearing Jacob's hat.

yesterday we just played all day and had a normal day. Today we have P/T with Miss Sheryl and then we have to give blood for some tests. We have lots of doctors appointments in the next two week. Enjoy the photos!

Nate being cute... as ususal

Our new bathroom



Elephant tissue holder


Lion rug and trash can

New Tricks

So We have a couple new tricks this week. The biggest and best one so far is that Alex figured out how to stand up on his own... well pulling himself up. He hasn't quite figured out how to take steps forward so he stands straight up.. but for just figuring it out yesterday thats not bad.



Nate also has a new trick. Today he figured out how to play basketball. See the video below... NBA here we come!



Also as promised here is (FINALLY!) the video from us eating out.


We will have pictures of our new bathroom up soon... Daddy still hasn't hung the medicine cabinet yet!

P/T Update

We promise pictures of our newly painted bathroom are coming. M/D are taking their sweet time putting it back together. They will be posted as soon as we can get them.

In other news Today our favorite P/Ter came and worked with us. We made a lot of progress. Nate decided he needed to show off and stood up for over 30 seconds at a time without hanging on to anything. Alex is getting better about sitting up from the laying down position, he just doesn't understand why he needs to do that if he is perfectly comfortable playing on his tummy, back and knees. He is however getting much better at really crawling.

Alex threw up on Mommy today. So they both had to shower and get a fresh change of clothes.. than Mommy had to do the floors in our play area and some of our toys. But he felt much better... he just ate a little too much.

That's about all for now. Time to go do some more playing!

Big Day Today! Part 2

So we had a "first" moment. Mommy and Daddy took us out to dinner!!!!! We went to Carrabba's Italian Restraunt. We were on our best behavor and LOVED looking around at everyone. We got to sit right up at the table and eat puffs and bang on the table while M/D ate their food... which looked yummy.. but we didn't get to try any. Mommy took pictures and a video... but she is having trouble uploading it so it will have to be posted on our blog when she figures it out. The waitress said we were the best babies she has served, and we didn't even make much of a mess. Nate got excited and babbled loudly, Alex just sat there smiling. M/D said they would take us out to dinner again because we were so well behaved! YAY!!!! but next time they might not be so lucky!!


Alex


Nate

Big Day Today! Part 1

This is going to be a 2 part post. The first part is all about the beginning part of our day with some pictures and then the second part will be in the next post.

So today started like any other day. We woke up, ate, played and napped. After our morning nap Mommy started to take our bathroom apart. She even took off wall fixtures like the towel rack and the cabinet. Mommy has done some pretty crazy stuff... but this takes the cake! Then she put blue tape all over the bathroom. Then she made the walls change color just by touching the walls with this big rolling toy thing. We will post pictures of what she did once she puts the bathroom back together.

However while Mommy was working her magic in the bathroom Daddy took some pictures of us. We didn't take our afternoon naps today we were so excited about what Mommy was doing to our bathroom.



Nate


Nate laughing at Mommy who was covered in paint


Our favorite toy.. Piccadilly, trying to help Mommy paint


Alex smiling so big


Alex and his monkey!

Picture

Here is a picture of us with Miss Maureen... as promised

Guess what we did today......

Well before we get to the funny part... today was hot so we didn't do much. However Mommy is going to be painting our bathroom this weekend so she brought us to Home Depot to look at colors.

It started to pour and we started to get fussy so Mommy joined us in Baby Jail and we both decided we needed to attack her. Nate tried climibing up her back and Alex tried going up her front. Mommy finally surrendered to our attacks and laid down. She grabbed Nate first and started making him fly on her knees. While Mommy was destracted with Nate, Alex came up and attacked her face. He had his mouth wide open and tried to bite whatever he could get, he didn't get a bite in.. but Mommy's face was covered in his saliva. Mommy put her guard up and continued playing with us keeping an especially close eye on Alex. About15 minutes later of rough housing with us Mommy apparently had put her guard down and while she was paying attention to Nate... who was infatuated with her belly, Alex climbed on to Mommy and bite her chin. Alex thought it was hilarious but Mommy apparently didn't think it was funny, so she strapped us into our high chairs and we got dinner... Bananas and Apples... yum... Alex ate about 10 good bites before deciding he didn't want to eat anymore, and Nate didn't eat very much. But we are both so tired, so now we are going to get ready for bed.

We have been thinking we may post all the old emails Mommy sent out when we were first born and during her pregnancy just so all of our history is at one spot, and you all can look back and see how we have grown. They would be back posted so as not to confuse you with old info.

Fun Day!

Yesterday was such a fun day. We did our usual morning routine, wake up, eat, play, eat, sleep. We woke up, got baths, and drove down to N/G's house. We always have fun there. Mommy took Alex to his helmet appointment, while N/G watched Nate. Alex got his photos taken for measurements for his new helmet. In case you haven't heard M/D decided to give Alex a 3rd helmet, with no guarentees it will do anything, but they have hopes since an O/T is going to come visit us soon that she will get Alex to eat and he will fatten up.

Later yesterday evening Miss. Maureen came over, she just had her birthday on Monday (Happy Belated Birthday Miss Maureen!) and she played with us, and had dinner with us, and we tried to eat her dessert (brownies and ice cream) but she was too fast for us. Even though we were dead tired we still ran around and played. Then Mommy packed up the car and before she could hit the beltway we were passed out in our car seats.

There is talk of going to the grocery store today with Mommy... which is always fun. We will post pictures of our play date with Miss Maureen when she emails them to our Mommy!

Weekend Update

So we spent the weekend with Daddy while Mommy was in NoVa for Miss Katie's bridal shower. We went for walks, to the grocery store and we played, we also picked G/G up in Baltimore from their cruise.

Miss Cheryl came this morning for P/T. She likes how Alex is doing better on his knees and he is getting the hang of crawling on all fours, but she really want to see him relax his legs and also sit up by himself. So she worked with Alex on a big rubber ball. She also is going to send her friend the O/T out to visit us and help us with our eating, since we have decided to be difficult about it.

Alex is also getting a 3rd helmet, M/D want to give it a go and see if it will improve his head a little bit more.

Nate is getting into trouble as usual.

That's all for now. We are exhausted... time for a nap!

Big News

So we woke up from our nap not too long ago. Nate was being fussy so Mommy changed his diaper, but Alex needed his bath and helmet cleaning so she put Nate in Alex's crib because Nate likes to play with the mobile music box (she and Daddy had to take the actual mobile away... its for the better... says them) so we were both hanging out in Alex's crib, Mommy had to run down to the laundry room for a towel and clean outfit. when she left Alex was on his hands and knees and Nate was standing up. When she came back up Alex was sitting!!!! Now we won't say how he did it because Mommy has never seen him get into the sitting position before and we don't want to spill the beans before she gets a chance to see it for herself. But Mommy was very excited!!

We are looking forward to this weekend. Mommy has to go to N/G's for Miss Katie's bridal shower so we get to spend the weekend with Daddy doing manly stuff. On Sunday we are picking G/G up from Baltimore after their 10 day cruise. Monday Ms. Cheryl is coming to play with us again.

We'll let you know how our man weekend goes on Monday after P/T

Laughing Video

Back by popular demand... our laughing video

Happy Birthday

We just wanted to wish our Aunt Courtney a very Happy Birthday today!!! We love you!!!!

Pictures

We don't really have too much to update. Except Mommy took some pictures of us yesterday while we were attacking Daddy when he got home from work. Alex was wearing his eye patch, and the picture of Nate is Green was from a couple days ago. Enjoy!

Happy Father's Day

Yesterday was Father's Day (hope all the daddies out there had a fabulous day) We started the weekend off hanging with Daddy while Mommy went to a baby shower for Miss Sara. Daddy gave us our baths and drove us down to N/G's house, were we had tons of fun waiting for Mommy to get there. We got to spend the evening with M/D, N/G, Pop-Pop, Aunt Courtney and Uncle Todd and their puppy Felix. Aunt Courtney's birthday is on Wed. so we celebrated her birthday as well as fathers day with cake and presents, no cake for us :(

Yesterday we got up and went to church and we had way too much energy. Mommy put Nate down on the pew and he turned around and started to flirt with the older couple sitting behind us. He reached up for the lady to pick him up, she asked Mommy's permission and Mommy said yes. Nate had too much fun, the guy also held him too. After church the couple came up and said that we made their Father's Day, I guess their grandkids don't live near by. After church we hang out in the social hall and everyone said how big we have gotten and how cute we are (yeah... we know). Nate crawled all around and especially liked the glass doors. Alex was tired so stayed close to Daddy.

We spent a good part of the afternoon sleeping because we didn't get our morning nap in. But after we woke up we played with Mommy and Daddy and got our baths. While Daddy's was grilling dinner we got to go outside and visit with Miss Erika and Mr Michael and their twins Sofie and Jacob.

We don't have too much going on this week. Mommy says we are going to do errands after our nap today. Oh and we got new car seats!!! We are now in our big boy car seats. Daddy installed them on Saturday. Alex was sleeping while Daddy was playing with them so Nate got to help Daddy adjust the straps. Look at what a big boy he looks like!

Happy Friday the 13th

Yesterday was fun. We slept in, since we didn't nap at all on Wed. Mommy made a cake for Miss Sara's baby shower which is tomorrow. We behaved ourselves for the most part while she did that. However we were tired and didn't want to go to sleep. We got wind that Grandma and Grandpap were coming into town! Mommy tried so hard to get us to take a nap before they got here... but it was no use! We had tons of fun playing with G/G. Grandpap was trying to help Nate escape baby jail by letting him climb all over him giving Nate a boost higher so he could grab onto the changing table. We finally took a nap, but woke up to eat some dinner with everyone. We didn't stay up too much longer after that.

Nate was up this morning to see G/G off onto their 10 day cruise to celebrate their retirement, but Alex slept in, since he got up in the middle of the night. We had a pretty uneventful day today. However Alex has been a difficult eater recently, so M/D tried eating dinner with us, since Alex likes to eat at big family meals. He wasn't eating and Mommy pointed at him and he opened his mouth... silly Mommy put her finger in Alex's mouth and he bit down HARD! She let him play with her finger while cringing in pain.. but than Daddy got the idea to put the baby food on her finger and feed him that way. GENIUS! He ate off of Mommy's finger with no problem. She was even able to slide a couple spoonfuls in before he would close his mouth... but would open back up for the finger. Apparently he has something against spoons.

Oh well.. off to bed. Tomorrow we are going to N/G's house to celebrate Aunt Courtney's B-Day and Father's Day!

Happy Mother's Day

We know you are all probably like "What?!?!? Mother's Day was last month" We know that, but first thing in the morning it's really fun to confuse Mommy. So we know Mother's Day was last month and we sent Mommy a dozen pink roses (very sweet of us we know!) then yesterday we sent Mommy 2 dozen red roses. We signed our favorite Mommy up for 3 months of roses!! How fabulous are we?? So every second Wed. (May, June and July) Mommy is going to get flowers. She only has one more shipment coming, but the next time... like what happened yesterday. Mommy wont be home to receive the flowers. We were at Nana's and Grandad's all day and didn't get home till almost 10pm, Daddy had brought in the box of flowers (We always go ProFlowers, they are the best) but didn't set them up, so this morning Mommy was no quite awake and Daddy pointed out the box. Mommy was so confused.. she opened them and there was a card that said "Happy Mother's Day".. now she was even more confused. Daddy had to explain she was getting 3 months of roses. We aren't saying what kind of flowers are going to appear next month because Mommy doesn't know.

Alright lets get a real update going. So Alex had his helmet appointment, the technicians really aren't sure that a 3rd helmet will do much, but he has probably only one more adjustment left so on July 9th he should be getting his second helmet off. M/D don't know yet if they will do a 3rd helmet or not.

We didn't sleep yesterday, we usually take a morning nap shortly after waking up, but we knew we were going to N/G's house so we were really excited and didn't take a nap, but Mommy thought it would be ok because we would sleep the hour it takes to get to their house... but we didn't... ok well maybe for about 20-30 minutes, but we usually sleep for 2 hours! Then Alex slept a bit on his way back for his helmet appointment but Nate didn't sleep a wink... even though Grandad was running around with him and trying to waste his energy. Mommy went out with Miss Katie to look at her wedding dress and pick up dinner, and Nana went out to a girls night with some of her friends, so Grandad said he would watch us for a few hours. Since we hadn't napped all day Mommy told Grandad that we would probably pass out and be asleep the whole time... WRONG!!!!! Nate took a brief nap, but Alex didn't sleep at all. When Mommy and Miss Katie got back with dinner they sat in baby jail with us and we attacked them and tried to get their food, we eventually slowed down, and Mommy packed up our things and we headed home, Alex was asleep by the time we dropped Miss Katie off at her house and Nate was asleep by the time we hit the Dulles Toll Road. We woke up only to get a diaper change and a bottle when we got home and we actually slept in this morning. Alex woke up at 6:30 and Nate woke up at 7:30. Mommy is hoping for a day of naps to make up for yesterday... we will see.

Grandma and Grandpap are coming, so we may not sleep again today. They just retired and are going on a cruise. They leave tomorrow so they are stopping here for the day before they head off for 10 days.

Alright... Play time!!!!!

Who turned up the heat?

So we have been cooped up inside for a few days now, no walks, or running errands. We couldn't figure out why, but today we found out. It is hot as heck outside! Mommy had to run to the high school where she coaches guard to pick up some flags for the summer practice, lets just say we were happy about being outside, the car wasn't terrible once the air finally kicked on, but boy was it hot walking to and from the car.

P/T went fine yesterday, Ms Sheryl and Ms Lori came and played with us. We had soooo much fun. We both kept climbing over both of them. However whenever Ms Sheryl comes she always makes us work. Alex did a real crawl for the very first time, he was on his hands and knees and went forward a little bit before reverting back to his combat style crawl. He also stood up on his own for like 5 seconds. Nate is getting better about standing on his own, but only does it once a day for about 10 seconds. However today he tried to stand up by himself, however he was hold a toy in his mouth with both hands so he didn't get the extra support that he needed. Oh well he will figure it out. Ms. Sheryl says that Alex is doing fabulously! He is only slightly behind where he should be developmentally, where as when she first started to visit us Alex was really far behind. Nate is right where he should be, possibly even a little ahead of what an 11 month old is doing. Everyone says he is going to be walking on his own very soon. Maybe by next month when he really should be 12 months.... M/D can't believe we are going to be 15 months on the 4th of July and on August 8th we will have been home a full year. Talk about craziness.

We have a big day planned for tomorrow. Mommy is driving us down to Nana and Grandad's house for the day. Alex has a helmet appointment and is going to get pictures taken of how his head is shaping up. Daddy is going to be there too, which he is never there, but because Alex may get a 3rd helmet they have lots of questions to ask. Nate is going to be running around N/G's house while Alex and M/D are at the helmet doctors place. Then afterwards we are going to hang out with Miss Katie for a little bit. YAY what fun! Oh and looking through Mommy's pictures I found some of a few weeks ago at Great Aunt Helen's and Great Uncle Bill's. And also pictures of us playing in N/G's pool. Enjoy!

Us in the baby pool



Alex splashing


Nate doing what Nate does best.... Eating things


Daddy and Nate in the big pool

Alex

Nate's favorite new face

Us with M/D

Weekend Update

Hey Everyone!!!
We hope you had a great weekend. We certainly did! Friday Dada got home from work and he and Mommy packed up the car, they had put us in our cribs with some dinner and we fell asleep. After loading up the car M/D decided to wait till morning to leave for Grandma and Grandpap's house. Dada was tired from working all day and Mommy was exhusted from making a 3 tiered cake for the retirement party. It looked awesome... we wanted to play with it... that didn't happen. So Saturday morning we left for West Virginia, Nate slept the first half and Alex slept the second half. It was really foggy when we first started out on the road, but cleared up about an hour later. Lots of cops on the road too... but we didn't get pulled over. It would have been cool though.

Got to Grandma and Grandpaps house, we got to hang out with them and we tried to help set up for the party, but they wouldn't let us. Nate found a piece of onion on the floor and tried to eat it, Grandma and Daddy noticed before he got to swallow it. It was YUCKY! Great Aunt Helen and Great Uncle Bill and Aunt Heidi and Dave showed up and played with us as well. We got bathed and put into our cute outfits (Seriously though... any outfit is cute on us... we are THAT cute!) Then a ton of people showed up. Alex fell asleep and missed the first part of the party, so Nate worked the crowed and got them warmed up. Alex finally joined us and was a little shy at first, but he did just wake up and after a nap there is nothing better than being held by Mommy. After a couple minutes we were tag teaming the crowed, Nate was pulling magazines out of the stand and Alex would lay there reading them, everyone loved it. We got passed around to so many cool people, most of them were teachers. We did go to bed at one point... but that didn't last long. We are true party animals and stayed up till that last person left.

We woke up on Sunday at 6am, we ate breakfast and then fell back asleep. M/D woke us up at 9 and put us in the car to go home. Nate slept for the second half of the drive but Alex didn't fall asleep till we got home and put in his crib. We had a fun weekend!

Last night while Dada was playing with Nate and Alex was napping, Nate stood up on his own for 10 seconds. M/D thinks he will be walking on his own by next month!

Today our physical therapist, Miss Sheryl is coming to check on us, and we will probably be going to the grocery store at some point as well.

Alright, time for a nap before Miss Sheryl gets here.

It's a twister, It's a twister!

Boy you guys... there was a storm brewing last night. Nana called because there were tornadoes down by her and very strong winds (so strong that our Mommy's good friend Miss Becca's mommy's house had a tree fall on it and land on their bed... luckily everyone was at work!) We were sleeping through most of it, but when we woke up we got to play in the basement and watch Sesame Street and try to get into Mommy's baking supplies. What fun! Yesterday was Daddy's birthday, he is 29.... That's OLD!!!!! We got him a shaved ice machine and lots of flavors of syrup, M/D were enjoying their ice.. but we didn't get any... too bad they waited till we were asleep... they always do the fun things after we go to bed. We also got him cards, they tasted pretty good.

Today Mommy has a lot of stuff she needs to do, so we started the day off right. We woke her up early with lots of whining and fussing downstairs instead of letting her sleep in. Then while she was trying to get some important emails out Nate stood at the gate and threw up breakfast.... yay for gag reflexes!! Then the first time this morning we went into our cribs Alex threw up and needed a bath and new sheet. He probably drank too much milk too fast. We are getting tired now, time for our morning nap... this baby thing is hard work!

We have a busy weekend coming up. Today Mommy is starting to make the cake for Grandma and Grandpap's retirement party this weekend (she showed us the picture... it's going to be SWEEEET! ) plus she has some guard auditions, and tomorrow Miss Katie and Mr. Ben are stopping by the morning to play with us before the head up to Hershey to do some wedding stuff, then its of to Grandma and Grandpap's house for the weekend for the retirement party. We are debating still if we are going to sleep in the car, we will let you know when we get back from the weekend.

Mommy's coming to take us upstairs... gotta go!
~Nate and Alex

Welcome!

Hey you found us. Awesome! Don't tell our Mom but we hacked into her laptop and set up this totally cool blog so we can tell you what's going on in our world. Most of you know our story but lets reminisce shall we.

We are Nate and Alex and we were born.... hang on lets go further back because it is funny. So M/D found out they were pregnant and went to the doctors to get their first ultrasound. We decided to play a little prank on them and one of us (we aren't saying who) hid behind the other one, so they thought they were pregnant with just one of us (suckers!) We were pretty nice to Mom, she didn't have much morning sickness, though she was incredibly tired all of the time. About 16 weeks into her pregnancy she got some sort of blood work done. The results freaked them out and Mom got sent to the hospital to get an emergency sonogram done. During said sonogram the technician was confused between what she was reading and what she was seeing, after a couple minutes of silence she finally asked Mom "How many babies did they say you were carrying?"... Our gig was up. However we did nearly give Dad a heart attack when the technician said "is that a 3rd one... never mind". Again we won't say who.. but somebody stuck their foot up twice while she was counting limbs. So the cat was out of the bag, there were two of us in there... we are just so awesome that the world needs two of us! A few weeks later they found our man parts and plastered our picture all over the Internet announcing they were having identical twin boys. We decided not to be too easy on Mom, so she started to get some serious pre-eclampsia. She was admitted into the hospital at 26 weeks, thinking she was going to spend the next 3 months stuck in a hospital bed. Boy was she wrong! On April 4th Alex went into distress and his heart rate plummeted (probably from the thought of eating that nasty hospital food for the next 3 months... YUCKY!) So about 6 minutes after that we came into the world, 14 weeks too early! We won't bore you with the details but lets just say we worried M/D, our grandparents, aunts and uncles, and all of our friends for the first few weeks. Finally after a 4 months stay at St. Agnes Hospital, a couple surgeries and lots of flirting with the nurses, we escaped the NICU.

Fast forward 10 months from that, we are now 14 months old, and still cute as can be. We have been in and out of doctors offices since we left the hospital but have never gotten sick, we even survived our first RSV/Cold and Flu season without even a sniffle. Lets update you shall we.

Alex -still has a helmet on to help shape his head and now he wears a funny eye patch to help his left eye get a little stronger, it's only for an hour a day. He just figured out how to get on his hands and knees and climb up on toys, cribs and gates. He has decided he doesn't like to eat solid foods and keeps his lips closed tightly, though if you trick him and he opens his mouth he eats it without a fuss (just being difficult and driving M/D crazy) however he drinks his bottles like a champ! Alex loves bath time, eating a good book and playing with plastic balls and rings, banging on his piano, styling his hair with food and cuddling with whomever holds him. Alex also loves to clap... especially when the Penguins score! He hates his vitamins, his eye patch, being tired or hungry (being both is the worst) and being put down in the play area right after getting up from a nap

Nate - is on the verge of standing on his own and walking. He also is being difficult in the eating solid foods department, but isn't as bad as his brother. Nate cruises along "baby jail" (our play area surrounded by a huge baby gate). He enjoys throwing toys on the floor, stalking our cat Piccadilly, taking toys from Alex, scrunching up his nose and snorting, climbing over whomever/whatever is in his way, standing on toys (or little brothers), and making messes. Nate hates not being the center of attention, when his brother wakes him up with his crying, being asleep when something is going on, sitting still when you want to change his diaper.

Oh and we are both massive flirts, we love anyone who will give us the time of day. We are true ladies men, chicks dig us, especially when we flash them our smiles, they go crazy over that stuff. We both also have a new found love of swimming pools.

We have a busy summer coming up, we can't wait to go to the beach and play in the sand... and get sand EVERYWHERE we can... we will probably eat some too.

Thanks for visiting, stop by often... we have plans on updating this as often as we can about our day to day activities.

Love
Nate & Alex

On April 4 our twins were born. Nathaniel Schubert was the first one out, followe by his brother Alexander Jeffrey. Both are in NICU putting up a good fight right now. Here is what happene to get to the birth of our beuatiful boys.

On Tuesday I had some vaginal discharge that was disturbing to me so I called the doctor's office. They said it was nothing but I said I want to come in anyways just to calm my nerves. They checked my vital signs, and since I was already having some sympotms of pre-e before Tuesday they were very worried when they found protien in my urine. They sent me to the hospital just to get some lab work done since it only takes an hour to get results here, but a couple days thru the office. My labs came back not normal so I knew I was going to be in the hospital for a while. They started me on Steriods on Tuesday to help with the boys developing lungs, since things happen so fast we didn't know how much time we would have before I worsened and they had to get the boys out to save me. Wednsday morning Dr. Yates came in to check everything out and Alexander (aka Baby B, Alex or AJ)'s heart beat was severly low, below 100. All I know is it took 6 minutes from the time they started pushing me to the OR to the time both boys were out. I was put under general anestisia and the next thing I woke up very disoriented. Alex and Nate were born at 26 weeks 3 days. They both have a very long and hard battle. As of now things are looking good. Everyday it's going to be a dance of two steps forward and one step back or two steps back and one forward. I am going to be discharged on Sunday, but coming back every day to visit my two little angel boys. They are getting the best care at a level 3 NICU at St. Agnes in Baltimore.

Thank you to everyone who extended their thoughts and prayer.

26 weeks