Just THREE Snaps

I titled this post "just three snaps" because that is what I am constantly thinking while I chase the guys around attempting to snap up their onesies. They do NOT want to stop playing for a minute for a diaper change let alone for me to re-snap their onesie. Sometimes I have to resort to putting my feet on their shoulders to get the diaper done...then they take off (with me crawling after them) in an attempt to get "just one snap" on their onesie. So if you see pictures or videos with their onesies unsnapped, snapped crooked, with just one snap snapped, or no onesie at all...you know why.

The boys were especially SILLY during lunch today...check out those teeth!

Speaking of lunch, if my little guys could hold a conversation with me about food, I think it would go something like this:

Mommy: Why don't you like to try new foods?

Boys: We are selective eaters.

Mommy: Try some pasta...

Boys: Gross

Mommy: Please try some chicken or all natural chicken nuggets..

Boys: What the?!!!?

Mommy: How about some waffles?

Boys: Nasty

Mommy: Chicken with stars?

Boys: We don't want chunks....

Mommy: Cheddar crackers? Yum!

Boys: Yuck

Mommy: Cheese?

Boys: Nope...N O...No

Mommy: Please drink your milk

Boys: Too cold

Mommy: Look! I made you healthy mashed potatoes!

Boys: Are you crazy!?

Mommy: Deli meat?

Boys: Eww Eww Eww eww

This is not at one meal of course. They are pretty much all about fruit and cheerios right now. Breakfast is their best meal...they love cantaloupe, watermelon, fresh peaches, nectarines, bananas, pears...oatmeal...etc. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining...I know that soon they will be eating everything in sight. It will be nice when we can go out somewhere and pack something easy or share what we are eating though.

They are going to have allergy testing in a couple of weeks because certain foods make their legs break out in a rash and something (I think eggs) makes them both vomit! No kidding...it has happened four times so far. That is why we are so careful with what we feed them. We don't try anything new for dinner so we don't have to pull an all-nighter if it makes them sick.

Anyway, back to lunch...check out some funny videos from lunch today...and yesterday in the video link section. The videos are "J fun"-"W fun"-"J say papap".

Road Trip!

We finally took a mini trip to a nearby mall to start getting the boys accustomed to longer car rides. It went well! They only had two 30 minute naps all day and were SO tired when we fed them dinner, but other than that...it was perfect. Not to mention that they took two 2-hour naps the next day which I can count on one hand the number of times that has ever happened before! The outlet mall we went to is very fancy. It has a great playground and those surprize pop-up sprinklers that kids can play in. They were much more into it than I thought they would be. They were crawling around the playground that has a foam-type floor while the bigger kids were jumping all around them. Here are some pictures....

Daddy and W

Desperately wanting to crawl through the sprinklers...

I took this picture of my boys...and had a "they are growing up too fast!" moment seeing how big they looked in their stroller.

Making his silly face when I pull out my camera...

On the playground...

Mommy with the boys

Early morning ViSiToR

Geoff discovered a baby snake..yes, I said a SNAKE on our front sidewalk just steps away from our front door-ewwwwwhhh!!!

I guess I should be grateful it wasn't a gator!

If you know me well, I am quite the animal lover but I just don't feel the same about reptiles. Geoff carried it down to a conservation area and set it free.

BIG day

Funny bathtime picture of W

Ok...today started with me laying on the living room floor at the crack of dawn with the boys playing around me. This is nothing unusual...just that this morning I could NOT wake up. I would doze off, then one of them would scream and I would wake up, doze off again, one would bang a toy on the window, I would wake up, doze off and so on.....well I looked because I heard a squeal. And there was J...standing up holding onto his walker and basically telling me to "get out of the way." I moved and he just tottered right by....I started clapping and cheering and he stopped, let go, clapped, and took a few more steps - all the while never losing his balance. It was so cool. I captured a little bit of it later on video (of course) and I posted it under their video section.

Well, not to be outdone, W managed to take a couple of steps too - this I caught on video and it is hysterical because he is on his toes and his legs are as stiff as boards.

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: