Surgery Update

Hi It's the twins's Mommy! They are currently sleeping and doing well. Surgeries went really well.

Alex went first and had his eye surgery... which was not laser surgery as previously mentioned... but actual cutting of eye muscles. We can already see a difference. His penis surgery went really well and already looks much better. He had trouble waking up from surgery and not wanting to drink juice, however after about 2 hours I got the brilliant idea of trying to get him to drink from a cup.. SUCCESS! He just wanted to show the nurses what a big boy he was.

Nate just had penis surgery and didn't take very long at all. He came out of surgery and slept for about 45 minutes and woke up ready to go. Guzzled 9ozs of juice and was ready to hit the ground running (he did all this while we were still trying to get Alex to wake up and drink!)

They came home and slept, woke up and played for a bit and are sleeping again. They are on lots of pain killers and we will probably keep them like that through tomorrow just to make sure. We have appointments next week to see both doctors and get surgeries checked out.

We have pictures and some hillarious videos of Nate on the pre-op medicine (he looks stoned) that I will post later.

Thanks for everyone's well wishes and happy thoughts/prayers today.

surgery

Just got back from seeing Dr Landrum. We are a go for surgery tomorrow.

Very excited though because Nana and Grandad are coming up to visit and help out with the surgery and we haven't seen them in almost a month... YAY!!!!!!!!! Then this weekend Grandma and Grandpap are coming to help out..... we don't know what this surgery thing is... but people come to visit us = YAY!!!!!!

nap time

BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On thursday we went to Alex's helmet appointment and we have some big news to report. On October 8th at 3pm the helmet is coming off for good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! Alex will have had it on for about 10 months by the time he gets it off.... that's over half of his life. Needless to say Mommy and Daddy are very excited. Mommy can't wait to cuddle Alex without the helmet whenever she wants to.

Grandma and Great Aunt Helen came to visit us yesterday. They took tons of pictures so once Mommy gets them she will post a couple. We had a lot of fun!

Today we are going to watch the Virginia Tech Hokies play Georgia Tech on TV... GO HOKIES!!!! However we kind of have to root for GTech too because Uncle Stephen is a senior there. But Daddy, Aunt Courtney, Uncle Todd, and most of Mommy's friends went there, so Mommy is an honorary Hokie.. especially since her colleges didn't have football teams.

Hopefully all goes well and we will still have our surgery on Wed. We have a doctors appointment on Tues. so we will keep you updated.

here we go again

This weekend was a lot of fun. There was tons of rain and we drove down to Aunt Courtney's for Mommy's birthday party, we saw all of our friends. We did have to go to bed about 1/2 way through... but since we weren't there we are pretty sure the party got pretty boring.

We are still coughing so Mommy took us to the doctors today. Our lungs sound great and Nate has a very slight fever, probably due to some more molars coming in. Alex doesn't have a fever but he has an ear infection. This.. as of now... will not postpone our surgery scheduled for next week Wed.

Mommy had to remove the chair in the video from our play area because she doesn't trust Nate to be left alone with it, so she is going to bring it in and out of the play area.

Miss Cheryl came for a visit with Miss Lori on Monday and they love what we are doing. Still need to work with Alex and sitting on his butt and cruising... but other than that not much else new.

We are going to go take naps and hopefully feel better!

Video update

This video is worth a thousand words.... look at Nate's new trick. Just so you know... he got up and did it again.

MORE PICTURES!!!!

So after we got back from the beach Mommy and Daddy upgrade our "baby jail" to give us more space and toys, plus since Mommy had to move our cribs to the center of the room so we couldn't play with the blinds the rocking chair came down to our jail as well. Not much new with us. Alex is babbling A LOT and cruises around in his crib and on the furniture but still not our new baby jail gate.. but it's higher than we are used to.. so that's probably it. Alex also knows how to give high five... he doesn't always do it... but he can when he wants to. Nate is walking a whole lot more and he can wave... he just doesn't know when to do it. Oh well!!!!

Enjoy the pictures!

Allergies

Well Mommy finally got a hold of our doctor with the results for our allergies. Alex has the good news. He is allergic to eggs, which is no surprise because he had a bad allergic reaction when he was fed eggs. That is all Alex is allergic to. Nate is allergic to eggs as well, not as bad though. However Nate is also allergic to wheat, but they don't think it is a serious allergy because it only showed up as "weak" on the test.. however he has a "significant" allergy to PEANUTS!!!!!

We both are getting scratch tests done next month to verify and what not.

We both are doing well. Still slight coughs, but Alex's eye looks much better.

Time for naps!!!!!

VIDEO!!!!

OMG 2 posts in one day????? This one has a video of Nate walking, sorry it's shaky Mommy was trying to back up while she was shooting to keep Nate walking. Enjoy!

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.