Happy 1st Birthday!

We had such a fun and crazy birthday weekend for the birthday boys. Mark and Jan were in town and they were such a big help...we had a pool party for the boys and let's just say that the party wouldn't have happened without them! Geoff and I had never done something like this with two kids before! We kind of forgot the fact that one person is fully tasked with the kiddos...anyway, it all worked out in the end. It did rain through the entire party...but the storms cooled down the temperature so it was at least bearable.

We know so many great people here and had so much help this past year...we are very blessed. Here are some special pictures...
Make a Wish!

We had "beach" and "shark" cupcakes

Geoff with the boys in the pool...

The next day....

One of my favorite pictures of Wyatt with Grammy and Grandpa:

*Be sure to check out the new videos...one is of the boys with tissue paper -- they don't like it! And one is just a funny video of J with his "ba" (ball)-it is hilarious!

Thank you everyone for thinking of the guys on their big day...here are some snapshots of them opening gifts and playing with some of their great new toys...

Cheers!!!

Video Link

Just wanted to let you know that I posted some videos to this blog...the videos were too large to e-mail. The only way I could figure out how to share them was to put them on YouTube and link them to this site.
Most recent videos will be at the top of the list.
Enjoy =)

Welcome home Daddy!

Hmmm...what's new? My parents were in town last week, Geoff returned home from a week out of town and the boys are so great! Here are a couple of pictures of the boys when they saw their daddy after his trip:




I am trying to come up with creative things to do this week-it is so hot outside it is hard to do anything after 7 a.m.! We manage to squeeze in an early a.m. walk on most days though. I skipped this morning though-with the humidity, it felt like 97 degrees before 9 a.m.! Uggggg

Both boys seem to have gotten a lot more hair-and teeth! I think all 4 upper center teeth have broken through on both guys...

Here are a couple of pictures from the park last week:
W leaning on a turtle:

J smiling from his swing:

Busy busy boys!

Holding onto daddy's hair

Hey J!

J giving W a kiss (or um a "bite")-how sweet!

The boys are climbing, crawling, scooting, kneeling, squating, you name it! They are quite into trying to get the baby gate open and escaping. Their grandparents are in town and as always, the boys looove the extra attention.

Here are the escape artists devising a breakout plan:

A day in the life...

Here are some pictures of what we do throughout our day....
Playtime:

Naptime:

.....or not....(see J above standing in his crib). As you can see below, they like to flatten their bumper and use it as a pillow.

And later...maybe we will go outside for more playtime (if it is not too hot).
Here is W in his swing.

The boys like to watch our other babies (Katy and Bear) while they are outside. Katy is so big and tall-she is at least 75 lbs and definetly not a puppy anymore. Bear is still adjusting to sharing "her" house. On one hand, she seems annoyed that we have the boys...but don't let her fool you...she is the biggest mama hen too. She barks at anyone who approaches their stroller on our walks (she never did that before). She gets up and looks around when she hears the boys wake up and she likes to accompany me to get them from their room.

Eating

They can now hold their own bottles which makes it easier for me to get their food ready while they drink their milk. We will start introducing whole milk when they are 11 1/2 months old. They still nurse twice a day, have formula twice a day, and eat oatmeal, fruit and vegetables. Oatmeal or rice cereal mixed with milk is their favorite right now.
Bathtime
I couldn't resist sharing tthese two pictures of W (check out that buddah belly) and J:

And then bedtime. They are finally sleeping through the night but early (5 a.m.) risers.

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!
Grandma and Grandpa are visiting us and we are having a great time. We went to a fair in the city and grilled out with our neighbors for the 4th...we were able to see some fireworks on our street and caught some off in the distance from our house.

Here is W playing a game of peek-a-boo with Grandma...

Here is W (with Grandpa) doing his new favorite thing....wrinkling his nose at everything....

And here is J with mommy and walking with daddy!
It was sooo hot outside that we couldn't stay long...both boys were getting bright red faces from getting so warm.

Papap Visit

My dad (a.k.a. Papap) just came for a quick visit since he had to go to Atlanta for work last week. J just started low crawling around the living room and W is transitioning from his low crawl to getting up on his hands and knees at the same time...the more efficient way of doing things! They both look like they are "growwllling" in the pictures above...W is in the top pic and J is in the bottom one.

We are looking forward to the 4th of July and a visit from the grandparents =)