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

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

Zoo pics and a quick update

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

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

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


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


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

Alexs photos

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

12/07

10/08

quick update

Hey all! We are at Nana's about to take a nap so we are fresh and ready to go for our photo shoot this afternoon. Yesterday was AWESOME! We went to the National Zoo in Washington DC with M/D and Aunt Katie and her nephew Julian. We saw tons of animals... and people... and pigeons. We will give more details and post pictures later this week.
It was so much fun though!

All about Alex... well almost

So we are still waiting for the official pictures of Alex's head, so Mommy took some of him... they aren't the best of the progress... but you people are so demanding. They do not do him justice!

Also we got to go to St. Agnes today and visit our favorite NICU nurses, Miss Celeste and Miss Kelly. We also got our hair cut afterwards. Nate was awesome and sat perfectly still and watched Dora while the nice lady was cutting his hair... Alex on the other hand wanted nothing to do with it. Oh well... we all survived!

Big weekend coming up and we are kicking it off tomorrow when Grandma and Grandpap come to play with us. YAY!!!! There will be tons of pictures of the zoo posted later next week as well other pictures taken from this weekend... until then.. ENJOY!

Our favorite NICU nurses holding us!


Alex take 1


Alex take 2

Ding Dong the helmets gone!!!!!

YAY!!! Alex got his helmet off today. Pictures will be posted once Mommy gets the emailed from the fabulous ladies at Cranial Technologies!!!

He hasn't realized it's gone yet... tomorrow should be a rude awakening!!!!!

Today's the day!!!!

We are T-7 and 1/2 hours till the helmet is gone for ever!!!! Nate was so excited he woke up at 5am this morning!! We have such a busy day today though. We get to go to play group while Mommy sits has her play group with the adults (she calls it a class.... I bet we have more fun then the adults) then we are driving down to Nana's and Grandad's house and grabbing lunch before Mommy and Alex run out to the helmet place for the last time, then back to N/G till dinner. Alex will post his before and after pictures tomorrow when we get a chance... probably after our visit to the NICU to see our favorite nurses.

BREAKFAST TIME!!!!!!!

We are still here

We know its been over a week since our last update. But we have been busy little babies.

On Monday we went to Nana's house because Dada left for Seattle on Sunday for a conference and Mama said that no way was she going to take us on by herself for a week, so she packed up our stuff and off we went. We had so much fun! We were there till Friday morning and got to see Dada when he got home from work. We missed him so much.

Nate learned to wave "bye bye" and to blow kisses, Mommy has been trying to get video of that... however someone would rather play with the camera rather than perform for it. He is also walking around everywhere, very quickly!

Alex now babbles more and says "Dada", he is on the verge of standing up by himself, he can do it for a second... maybe two before he freaks out and sits down.

This past weekend we went to the bookstore with Mommy and to Target to get a new lamp for the living room, plus some new clothes because we don't have much for winter clothes, so Mommy picked out a few long sleeve shirts, and some socks as well.

This coming weekend will be a lot of fun, on Saturday Mommy's color guard is going to be in the homecoming parade which goes right by our house, so Daddy will probably take us to watch that. Sunday we are going to the Zoo with Aunt Katie and Uncle Ben and their nephew Julian, we've never been to a zoo before, lots of pictures will be taken, and on Monday we our getting our family portraits taken by the lady who did Mommy and Daddy's wedding photographs. BUSY WEEKEND!!!!!!!

Tomorrow we see the allergist... right at our nap time.. so lets all wish Mommy and Daddy good luck with that one!!! :)

More later!!!

rainy day yesterday!

Yesterday was a rainy day so we didn't get to go outside and play and today Daddy left for a conference outside of Seattle, so no fun time for us :( But we did get some cute pictures yesterday while we were playing inside. Alex officially gets his helmet off NEXT WEEK!!!! Everyone is so excited, we will post before and after photos up after Mommy takes them... which won't be till next week anyways. For now enjoy these photos.

Alex with a big goofy smile


Close up of Nate


Daddy trying to hold us... but Nate is having a temper tantrum!

YAY!

Alex is T - 2 weeks (and 30 minutes) till his helmet comes off for good... YAY!!!

Nothing new with us, just doing lots of playing. Nate is doing LOTS of walking and we are both enjoying this beauituful weather. Mommy has the windows open and we love hearing the birds.

Alex had a follow up eye appointment yesterday and Dr. W. say his eyes are now "dead on" and she is thrilled with how he is doing. YAY... in two weeks he will be a new man!!!!!

There is talk that we may go to the farm or a park this weekend... we will definitely post pictures.

pictures and video

Here is one of the videos and some of the photos taken the day of surgery. We are doing really well! Nothing new to update you on!





Alex checking out his ID Band


Alex pre-surgery


Nate not wanting to sit still



Nate with the relaxing stuff pre-surgery


Nate pre-relaxing stuff

surgery update take 2

Hey Everyone... Alex here... got some news

So everything was going really well until Mommy took off my diaper for his sponge bath and noticed his stent was coming out. So she called Dr. Voit's office and the nurse said to make sure I am still peeing and come in in the morning and they will fix it... however if I don't pee because the stent is blocking it we have to go to the ER, so Mommy called Daddy to update him and then went to bath me. When she took off my diaper afterwards (she left it on and just washed my hair) it was completely out.... the good news is it definitely won't block my pee now.... however first think in the morning we are off to Downtown Baltimore for it to get unstitched from me. Mommy is super excited!!!!

After all that funess.... someone.... and I am not naming names..... but it wasn't me... decided it would be fun to climb onto the shelves in our play area. Luckily Mommy and Daddy were watching and pulled Nate.... I mean the person who shall remain nameless off the shelves and immediately took the shelves out of the play area. However this does mean we now have access to all 3 windows to bang on endlessly!!!

Alright... I am exhausted! Night!!!

Surgery? What Surgery?

WE'RE BAAAAACK!!!!!

We woke up this morning bright and early... since we had been asleep since about 5pm. So around 5am we were ready to play. We slept through the night with no pain killers or feedings needed. Today we are 100% back to our old selves, running around, eating, playing with everything. You wouldn't even know yesterday we had surgery. We are still getting children's Motrin every 6 hours... but we haven had the good stuff with the codine in it since yesterday. Alex's eyes are looking great... minus looking slightly demonic because they are bloody, he is focusing better with both eyes together. YAY!!!!!! Once he gets his helmet off in 3 weeks he will be a new man! (And it will be harder to tell us apart!)

We will post the pictures and video soon. We are just too busy making up for missing out on playing yesterday.

Nana and Grandad were here for 2 days and just left and tomorrow Grandma and Grandpap come. We are going to get lots of loving this week.

Time for sponge baths!!!!!

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!!!!!