Guess what?!?!?!

WE'RE GOING TO BE 2 ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!

We don't have much to update. We were going to post 2 new pictures this weekend... but Mommy went out of town to a baby shower in Va Beach (we are supposed to send a shout out to all the nice ladies she met down there!) for Aunt Courtney so we had to wait till she got home. So two pictures below are of us at N&G's house last week and our first birthday present... BEAN BAG CHAIRS!!!!!!! We love climbing all over them and sitting on them.... Mommy and Daddy have enjoyed having something to lean against while sitting in our baby jail.... which possibly has a new name thanks to Uncle Stephen... since we are no longer babies... have we mentioned our 2nd birthday is on Saturday? Uncle Stephen came up with the name "Play Penitentiary"... get it?? It's like a big play pen/jail.... we thought it was funny. Anyways... G&G came down to help daddy take care of us this weekend... and it was a yucky weekend to go out and play, though we did get a nice walk in with Daddy yesterday. Hopefully next weekend is nice for our birthday.... have we mentioned Saturday is our birthday??

Now we know....

.. what swings are.... after we posted the pictures last night Mommy and Daddy took us out and gave us our birthday presents early... WE LOVED THEM.... They pushed us so high and we laughed! Here is a video....

IT'S SPRING

Well.... sort of spring.... its nicer outside so Mommy brought us out while daddy was doing something..... we don't know what... but we got the feeling it has to do something with our birthday... and Mommy keeps talking about swings.... anyone know what these "swing" things are they keep talking about??? So we ran around outside... and by we... we mean Nate ran around and Alex stood hanging on to Mommy for dear life... but explored a little bit.. especially the tree that is starting to bloom. Mommy took pictures... they are HERE

Here is a preview picture though!

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.