Twins

Just reflecting for a minute and thought I'd share. It's been 11+ months, or should I say, it's just less than one month until Mike and I are the parents of two ONE year olds. WOW! They were so tiny when they were born, and now, they've not only caught up, but Nicole is on the larger side for her age. They both crawl now, and they pull up, and they're eating several people foods (still plenty of baby foods, but we're making the move). Kaitlyn says DaDa, and Nicole is on the verge of a real word any day now. She babbles babababa all the time now.

Anyway, what I reflect on the most is that we have twins. You all probably think that sounds crazy. Mike and I have had 11 months with them to get used to the idea, not to mention the 7 months we were pregnant with the knowledge that it was twins. However, you'd be surprised. There are still many days when we look at each other and say, "I can't believe we have twins." I wonder if/when the idea will finally sink in. :-) They're such a blessing, and we can't imagine life without them, but it's still a bit new to us (as is parenthood in general). No one in our circle of friends has twins. No one in our family has twins. It's just unique, and we're still getting used to it (so to speak).

Sesame Street

Kaitlyn and Nicole are 11 months old today!!!! So, you know what that means? Mommy only has one more month until the big FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY! I've had it planned in my head for a long while. Now I just have to execute. First step...invitations. I wanted to do a photo invitation, and since the party will be a Sesame Street theme, here are a few photos I took for the invitation.

Enjoy!

Mother's Day

First, here are some photos from a few days ago. The "Will Cry for Food" shirt fits Nicole perfectly. I had to buy it when I saw it. :-)




Next, here are some shots from Mother's Day yesterday. We had a very nice day. (I think Mike has his sights on Father's Day because he did a great job.) I got breakfast in bed, and he made us lunch and dinner. I also got a fun gift for the babies. He bought a picture frame where you stamp their hands and feet and put a photo at the bottom. He found a frame for twins too which was great. It was extremely funny to do this at 10 1/2 months old though...their hands and feet were enormous on this frame. :-) It's cute!!!

We also went down to the Silver Comet Trail for a nice walk. And I was able to sneak off while the babies were napping to get my hair cut. A very good first Mother's Day indeed.

We didn't mean to leave Daisy out...she just wouldn't pose individually.

What a Weekend! Swimming Lessons and the Zoo

We had our first swimming lesson on Saturday morning. The babies enjoyed it. We think they really liked the water (we weren't surprised given how much splashing goes on at bath time). They did well, and we're looking forward to it again next weekend.

Kaitlyn in on the left in the swimming pictures and Nicole is on the right.

Then, on Sunday we went to the zoo. I don't know that the babies were aware of the animals at all, but it was still a good time. I think people watching is just as interesting to them as animal watching.

What's Up?

First off, Nicole and Kaitlyn want to wish Gamma a very Happy Birthday!!!! I don't know if Gamma ever even reads this to keep up to date on us, but we sure hope so.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

The colds haven't completely left us, unfortunately. I think everyone is feeling just fine, but those pesky noses keep running. I should have bought stock in Kleenex.

On a fun note, we start swimming lessons this weekend. I'll have plenty of photos to share with the babies in their cute swim suits.

2 Babies + 2 Colds = A Long Week

Both Kaitlyn and Nicole have colds. Stinks!!! That has kept me very busy and probably why it's been a while since my last post. I've been washing their sheets every night, as well as PJs and sleep sacks. We have enough PJs that I wouldn't have to do laundry every day, but we currently only have one summer time sleep sack that fits and only one spare set of sheets, so laundry has been my life.

They first got sick Saturday night when they both woke up 2 times each, and of course not at the same time, so that was 4 trips down to the nursery Saturday night. What fun. It's been getting better, but they are still sick after 5 days.

Anyway, Kaitlyn did an official baby crawl tonight. I guess she's trying to move on from creeping. It wasn't much, but she did it. Hopefully she'll keep practicing and get even better. Nicole is showing much more interest in her tummy. These past few days, I've even found her sleeping on her tummy which was unheard of before. And when she's on her tummy playing with toys, it seems as if she's contemplating movement. A good start!

That's all for now. Busy, busy, busy...

Milestone Moments

The babies had a big week. I think I previously reported that Kaitlyn could pull up. We went ahead and lowered both cribs when that happened even though she couldn't get from laying down to sitting (and she couldn't pull up from laying down). We didn't want to find out the hard way in the middle of the night one evening that she had figured out how to sit up and then pulled up and fell out of the crib. So, anyway, we lowered the cribs. Good thing because this week she figured out how to go from laying to sitting. A big moment.

Nicole is getting better at standing unassisted. She doesn't pull up to get there, but if we stand her up and let go, she'll stand. It's great. I wanted to write down in the baby book that she did it for about 30 seconds (I don't think 3 seconds or anything counts for the baby book). Mike said it was more like 10 seconds. We're compromising on 20 seconds, so it will go in the book!!!

And back to Kaitlyn...she said her first word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DaDa of course. Darn it, but I hear that it truly is harder for a baby to say MaMa. And she even proved that to us herself. She's been babbling dadadadadadadadadadadada for about a week now. She just finally shortened it to just DaDa. We still get the babble too, but a word is a word. She does occassionally say just the DaDa part.

Oh, and Nicole is still not "happy" on her belly for long, but she has begun to tolerate it more than in the past which is good. Maybe she'll hit some milestones if she hangs out on her belly more. Who knows?

Now for the pictures....we went to Portrait Innovations this weekend. They give you a CD, so I was able to upload a few shots. Enjoy. (They give you a CD of the whole shoot, so these aren't all photos we bought, but they sure are cute.)





This next one was supposed to be a cute shot of her on her belly looking up, but she started to roll over as they were clicking the photo. So, instead (if you ask me) she looks like she's posing for some cheesy magazine photo shoot. Oh well. And Kaitlyn was supposed to be on her belly too, but she pushed herself to sitting. All in all, the belly photos didn't go over so well.

We're having a Sesame Street themed party for their first birthday which inspired this next round of photos. I thought I could incorporate them into the invite or the thank you notes or something. I brought our dancing Elmo doll to be in the photos too, but we didn't get that far. Good thing we have two months before their birthday.

And this is why....NOT a happy Nicole!!!