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.

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