haircuts!

So yesterday was Uncle Stephens birthday.... which we slept through dinner and dessert...We got to spend the night at Nana and Grandad's house and we were awake from about 10pm till 1am.... Mommy loved us last night! This morning... after lacking in the sleep department... we were up again at 6:30..... again Mommy was loving us. This morning Mommy took us to the salon to get haircuts by Miss Jane... she gave us our very first haircuts. Nate did really well sitting still and holding his monkey... Alex... well he didn't want to sit still..... but Miss Jane and Mommy found a way to distract him long enough.... see below

Look Ma I'm a Greaser! ~Nate

Greaser Nate from behind

Nate all done!


So What did they use to distract Alex

They let him rip up a Parenting Magazine! There was more paper on the floor than hair!

Alex and Miss Jane!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

KISS US WE'RE IRISH!!!!!

So Mommy forgot about St. Patty's day till last night... so this is the only green she couldn't find that wasn't Christmas related... (forgive her she's not Irish) But here are pictures from today. Nothing new to report except Alex is walking more..... when he wants to and Nate is..... being Nate.... the red marks on Alex's cheeks are from Nate biting him...... allegedly! So we are going to post the pictures while Mommy is busy baking for Uncle Stephen's birthday tomorrow..... just think about it... if he was born a day earlier we would have had an Uncle Patrick..... you think we joke :)

Alex standing... not a good pic

I AM ADORABLE! ~Alex

Don't you just want to eat me up? ~Alex

Hey I am cute too! ~ Nate

But I really want to play with the camera! ~Nate

PLAY GROUND FUN!!!!

So it is a fabulous 68 degrees currently.... and everyone was up early and had some energy so at 9:00 Mommy and Daddy packed us up and took us to the neighborhood park. OMG We had so much fun. Alex loved going down the slides and Nate was very clingy of Mommy and Daddy to begin with and didn't want to go down the slides... but quickly got back to playing. Mommy and Daddy took tons of photos. Check them out HERE Alex walked a bit.. mainly hanging on but did do some steps by himself... We came home drank tons of water and milk and had a snack... now its time to get into some clean clothes and take a nap!

Video of the day

This is us this morning.... playing!

Picture of the Day

So Daddy is still home.. he just finished shoveling the driveway and digging out the cars... but he will be off to work soon. But after breakfast he was playing with us... and look how cute he and Nate are!

Nate and Dada lounging

It's snowing again

We are supposed to get about 4-8 inches of snow tonight.... and you know what that means... absolutely nothing to us cause we stay inside all day. However hopefully tomorrow we will get to go to the gym and play at the kids center while Mommy works out... providing it doesn't snow too much!

We had a fun weekend with Grandma and Grandpap while Mommy and Daddy had an adults night out with their friends.

Alex is walking more often... but not consistently. We are mainly over our colds, luckily they didn't turn into something worse.

So it's March 1st.... so that means we turn 2 NEXT MONTH!!!!!!! How did we get to be so big?

Thats about all new here. More later!

VIDEOS!

Mommy and Daddy finally got video of Alex walking.... enjoy!

Good news, Bad news

Bad news... we are sick.... just little colds right now, runny noses and lacking in sleep due to lacking in breathing ability in our noses. But no ear infections or anything, we went to the doctors yesterday morning. 

Good news. ALEX WALKS!!!!! He went 6 feet, measured distance... not steps, between Mommy and Daddy. He was so proud and confident. He has been doing it way more often now and even take initiative to do it himself. Everyone is hoping that he is a full time walker by our birthday... which is just a few weeks away! (April 4th for those of you who have forgotten already) 

Well we need to go play a little bit more before nap time. Just wanted to fill you all in on what has been going on. 

Hello

Hope everyone had a great valentine's day! We got lots of cards... which were immediately ripped to shreds. We had such a busy week this past week that we are just now getting around to updating about it.

Wed. Aunt Katie met us at Nana and Grandad's house, Uncle Ben couldn't make it cause he had to work, but Aunt Katie read us stories and played with us. Then on Saturday Aunt Maureen came over to play and spend Valentine's Day with us. She brought us this fun Thomas the Train book with sounds and flaps that fold back... which we also have been working on ripping out.

More later... its time for dinner!

Hello!

So we had fun this weekend. We went for walks with Grandma and Grandpap and Daddy, and we went to the park. Mommy was at a cake class all day so she didn't get to come with us...but next time she will! 

Monday we had our hearing tests and Alex did superb! He sat nice and still and didn't want to get down and play so he was able to do the whole test by sitting on mommy's lap and looking at the different areas of the room the sound came from. Nate didn't want to sit still... imagine that.. so he got the abridged version, so she tested enough to make sure he had the right hearing levels for learning, talking, and hearing Mommy when he gets in trouble. Both of us were in the normal range.. YAY!!!!! So now Mommy knows that we CAN hear her... we are just choosing to ignore her. The also tested for liquids in our ears, Nate's was fine but Alex had a little... but we knew he would since on Friday he Dr L said he did. So he has to go  back in 2 months and get that checked out to make sure that is gone. But good news all around for the most part. 

We are so excited about today. First of all the weather is fabulous and going to be in the 60s. But this morning we are going to Nana and Grandad's house... maybe we can go play outside a little... that would be fun! Then Aunt Katie is coming over for dinner and Uncle Ben may stop by if his work allows. YAY WE GET TO PLAY WITH AUNT KATIE!!!!! And Aunt Maureen is going to come over on Saturday to play! What a fun week we are going to have. Ok we need to go get read to go to N/G's house! 

So we didn't get to visit Jacob and Sofie today cause they aren't feeling well AND their Mommy had to work :( So after our naps and lunch Mommy took us to get new monkeys (since the ones we got from Miss Ashley and her family were very well loved and started to actually smell like real monkeys) So we went to Build-a-Bear to make monkeys..... so shouldn't it then be called Build-A-Monkey???? Anyways... Then we got hair cuts and headed home. Mommy took some pictures today and here are a few below.

Alex standing up all by himself.

Nate crying.... but smiling for the camera

"Mr. Serious" - Alex

Nate reading

update!

First of all, earlier this week we lost our Great-Grandpap G. :( Daddy went to PA with out us or Mommy to say his bye-byes. Daddy should be home tonight and we may get to see Grandma and Grandpap this weekend.

On to happier news. We just got back from Alex's doctor's appointment to check-up on his ear infection. The infection is gone, but there are still some fluids... which means he has to stay healthy for a few more weeks so the fluid can go away with out getting infected again. He didn't get officially weighed in.. but Mommy did sneak him onto the scale while waiting and fully clothed he was over 20lbs 8ozs. Also Alex has been taking more steps and yesterday walked for Miss Cheryl. Last night he took a few steps all on his own without any coaching. He just let go of the chair and took a few steps... Mommy was barely paying attention and almost missed the whole thing. So it may be finally time for Alex to be a full time walker... YAY!!!

Nate has added a few more words to his vocabulary. Yesterday he did the sign for "fish" while pointing to fish in a book... we also use the sign for goldfish snacks... yummy.. our favorite! Nate also this morning said "Kitty" and "Car"... Kitty was while pointing at Piccadilly and Car was while Mommy was pointing to a car and he mimicked what she said. Nate also is almost running and also tip-toes around.

If all goes well, after nap and lunch we may get to go over to Jacob and Sofie's and play with them at their house. If so we will make Mommy bring her camera and take pictures of us and our friends and post them. Ok time to play!

March of Dimes

So we are doing the March for Babies again this year... well we aren't actually walking.. we are getting pushed in our stroller while Mommy walks the 4 miles. Its on Sunday May 3rd at Camden Yards. Mommy is looking for people to join her team and also to donate money to help all babies be born healthy. For more info or to sign up to walk with Mommy on her team visit the website at http://www.marchforbabies.org/teams/554631 to donate to Mommy click on the link to the left of this post.

GOOOOO STEELERS!!!!

We are so excited.. the Steelers won the super bowl!!!!!!! Granted we were fast asleep when all the excitement happened.... but still... YAY!!!!

It's snowing again... which is weird cause on Sunday it go up to like 60 degrees.

Nothing else really new to report. Miss Lori is coming to play later today. Tomorrow we go to Nana and Grandad's for the day.

That's about it. We are tired... NAP TIME!

Happy Friday!

So this week was a very boring week. It snowed Tuesday and iced over on Wed. so we didn't get to go anywhere and Miss Lori didn't come visit us because she didn't have to work on Tuesday since the schools were closed..... we find it interesting that some people would consider playing with two adorable little boys work... but whatever!

Yesterday we went to Nana and Grandad's and they watched us again for a couple hours while Mommy escaped to "reclaim her sanity"... yeah we don't get it either. But we had fun. We love playing on our big slide that they got us for Christmas. We chase each other around it, climb all over it and play peek-a-boo. We also watched tons of Elmo's world and ran all over the house.

We didn't sleep well last night, Alex didn't take a nap yesterday and we were both up around 2am for a good bit. On Sunday Mommy and Daddy are going to Aunt Courtney's and Uncle Todd's to watch the STEELERS BEAT THE CARDINALS... or at least hopefully that's how that plays out. We are going to Nana's and Grandad's since the game is on during our bed time. Maybe next year we will get to stay up and go to all these fun parties!

Enjoy the pictures!

Alex with Aunt Courtney's dog Felix

Dada and Nate

Alex goes WEEEE down the slide


Look what Alex did!

ALEX SO PROUD!!!!!!

Update!

So we know we haven't updated since Obama because president. There hasn't been too much going on here. Wed. we went to Nana and Grandad's house and had tons of fun running around their basement playing with toys and climbing on their stairs... as usual.

Thursday Miss Ashley (a friend of Mommy's who gave us our favorite monkeys for our 1st birthday) came over and played with us. Then we napped. Then Miss Cheryl came to play with us. Alex hasn't walked since last Tuesday, just being difficult like that. But he has been standing and hanging out like that for longer periods of time.

We haven't been up to too much the last two days. We are currently blogging from Nana and Grandad's house waiting for Aunt Courtney and Uncle Todd to arrive... oh we almost forgot... our baby cousin-to-be is a.... GIRL!!!!!!!!!! Everyone is so excited, we can't wait to meet her... however we are going to talk to her today about staying in for a long time, since we are expert NICU babies... and while we LOVE our nurses and all the attention we received.... she would have more fun going right home where she will be spoiled by both sets of her grandparents and all her aunts and uncles... since she is the 1st girl baby on both sides of the family. Wait... does that mean attention won't be on us anymore.... hmmmm... this may not be as fun as it sounds.

Alright... well gotta go play with all of our toys... Mommy is taking pictures so we will post them later this week!

YAY!

Happy Inauguration Day!!!!!!! While we will probably be asleep while history is being made, Mommy is going to record it so we can watch it later. We had a fun weekend with Grandma and Grandpap, they stayed till yesterday and made it home safe and sound... they just barely missed that big 35 car 5 truck pile up on 70 W on their way home.

Today Miss Lori comes to play... YAY!!! It snowed yesterday... YAY!!! Tomorrow we are going to Nana's and Grandad's... YAY!!! Tomorrow we also should find out if our new cousin will be a boy or a girl... YAY!!!!

Also BIG congrats to Uncle Bryant and Aunt Laura ( Alex Godfather and his wife) on the birth of our newest playmate Carter. He was born on Friday. YAY!!!!!!

Alright... gotta go play.

BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG NEWS!

Hey everyone, Nate here. I have a huge announcement to make. My baby brother, yeah I know it's only by a minute, but I am still older and I will never let him live it down... anyways... my baby brother Alex, and let me tell you how proud I am of him... I mean not as proud as I am of myself, I mean come on lets face it... I am AWESOME! But I think you all knew that. Anyways, my baby brother was playing with Miss Lori, who brought her friend an O/T and Miss Lori got Alex to stand up perfectly, which I really don't know what the big deal is because I have been doing it for MONTHS!, anyways so he was standing there a little ways away from Mommy and he from a standing all by himself position he too 5 steps to her. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Previously he had been falling gracefully while taking steps... but it's officially ALEX IS WALKING!!!!!!!!

He was so proud of himself he did his excited thing where he waves his arms like he is going to fly away, opens his mouth really big and screams for like 5 minutes. Mommy was so proud too, she called Daddy and he got proud to..... hmm maybe this isn't a good thing... now I wont get all the attention..... and that mean soon he will start being able to chase me back or worse... out run me.... hmmmm.... maybe we should rethink this whole Alex walking thing..... this isn't going to be good news for me.

Oh well. We are off to Nana's and Grandad's for the day, maybe today Mommy will bring home the rest of our Christmas toys.

Bigger News!

So on Monday Alex took his first unassisted step... today he took 3 steps towards Mommy all by himself.... Daddy help steady him before letting go. ...... speaking of Daddy..... Mommy spent the night at Aunt Katie and Uncle Ben's again and when she came home Nate had a new hair cut thanks to Daddy..... she is less than pleased... but its not as bad as what she did to Alex.

Lots going on this week, P/T, Visiting Nana and Grandad, Grandma and Grandpap are coming down ..... and a weigh-in for Alex with Dr. L. on Tuesday. Stay tuned!

Oops!!

We forgot some very important news. Alex too his first step from standing perfectly by him self... he took a beautiful step towards Miss Cheryl on Monday. Mommy was so excited. YAY!!!!! Hopefully Alex will be walking soon so we can run circles around Mommy all day long.

Nothing new to report, no big plans for the weekend. Mommy and Daddy are exhausted from lack of sleep this week because someone has decided he wants to get up in the middle of the night for no reason (THANKS NATE!!)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

rainy yucky day!

So we were sleeping so peacefully this morning when Mommy rudely woke us up at 7:30am. The nerve! She had some doctors appointment or something. I mean really... how rude to wake us up.. I mean granted last night we woke up the whole house screaming at about 1:30am... but that's our job!

Oh well. Nothing really new to report here. We still have minor colds... but our noses aren't as runny as this weekend. We have nothing else planned till next week when we get weighed in with Dr. L, hopefully Alex has put some meat on his bones. He is feeling heavier to Mommy.

That's about it. Hopefully everyone keeps warm and dry today.

GOOD NEWS!!!!!

Nate's but is back to normal. Just a touch red but he is pooping without issue!!!! YAY!!!

We had a fun weekend, Grandma and Grandpap babysat us while Mommy and Daddy had a sleep over at Aunt Katie and Uncle Ben's. Saturday Daddy and Grandma and Grandpap took us for a quick walk in our new wagon that Great Aunt Helen gave us. It was cold but we had fun.

Well we got to go get ready for Miss Cheryl to come, Alex is debating whether he will show her his new trick or now. He can stand up completely on his own for quite some time. We will see.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!

We hope everyone had a fabulous new years eve. Alex slept threw it, and Nate woke up just in time to see the ball drop in times square and then it was back off to bed. We know we owe you all a big update on what has been going on this past year... we have just been too busy playing with our new toys... plus Aunt Katie and Miss Becca came over yesterday to play for a little bit... YAY!!!!!!!

Now we gotta get ready to go to Nana's and Grandad's cause they are going to watch us while Mommy and Daddy go to Aunt Courtney and Uncle Todd's to watch the Hokies play in the Orange Bowl... GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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!!!!!!!