5 month photoshoot

ta da! the 5 month photoshoot.

there's music on this one, fyi. it's from the barenaked ladies kids CD "Snacktime" which darren recently gave me. the first track is one of my favs, the second is just the one that was the right length to fit the video!

as usual, thanks to danielle for taking and editing these photo!

enjoy!

kaylee rolls too!

yesterday kaylee rolled over. it was pretty funny, she just had this look that was like, what's the big deal? I could always do this, I just didn't feel like it. I got a video, and will post that later, as we're headed to portland in a few minutes here.
also yesterday I broke out in a crazy rash which makes disease 5 since christmas around here. ridiculous. but I went to urgent care (I know, for a rash? but I was dying with rapid onset of itchyness and welts and hives and whatnot and it was 9pm so nobody was open and, like I said, we're leaving for portland here in a few, so I didn't want to delay that and yada yada.... anyways...) so now I'm drugged and all better. well, getting better. diseases 1-4 included an infection in my lips which took 3 doc visits, 3 different drugs, and 3 different cultures to diagnose and cure (worst part was the drug that made me have to pump and dump - frustrating!!!), a common cold for blake, a common cold for me, and a nice rash and fever for ethan.

what a crazy life!

9 years ago

today is 9 years since blake and my first date. (man, we're old.)

I told blake to find a pic of us from 2002 and this is what he chose. we're at an As vs Ms game in Oakland. :)

evidence of ethan rolling :)

a little ethan roll for your enjoyment (it brings me great enjoyment). he's so cute (and so is kaylee). this parenting thing is sorta fun. :) (read: they are only waking up once during the night now. okay, kaylee is only waking up once. but ethan is almost there, he wakes up 1-3 times, but that's better than 3-6 times).

ethan rolled over!

Ethan rolled over twice today! tummy to back. they're both a little behind on this milestone, so hurray - way to go ethan!

happy 5 months & happy 0 months?

Happy 5 months to Kaylee today, happy 5 months to Ethan tomorrow...
And hopefully, happy birthday to Morgan really, really soon (like today)!

food!

According to our doc and a few other sources, the latest on feeding your kiddos real food is that they can start between 4-6 months of age and you can feed them anything (except honey) as long as it's mashed enough. no need to start with rice cereal, although of course, you can if you want. I actually think it's all a little silly and that nobody knows what they're talking about but hey, it seems fun, and ethan was showing signs of being interested in food (watching us eat etc), so why not? (the poop is one answer to why not, but oh well).

anyways, we thought it would be fun to give them their first food on christmas. but... then we later decided that would be more stressful than fun (fitting it into an already packed day) so we decided to go for Dec 26. I think Blake might have wanted to start them with rice cereal, but I wanted to give them something "fun" and unusual for their first food, and different foods for each of them. I first proposed giving them a spoonful of ice cream but blake was appalled by the idea. :D just a spoonful, then they could have more healthful things later... wouldn't it be fun later in life to say that your first food was ice cream? anyways, that didn't fly. then we found our winner of an idea. every year for christmas my family has "red and green soup." I think it's actually called fireworks rainbow soup, but we call it red and green soup. anyways, it's a red soup (maybe bell pepper based?) that's all blended up and smooth, and a green soup (spicy pea soup) that's also blended up and smooth, and then you pour the two soups side by side in a bowl. part of christmas dinner is then to add your creme fresh (white) and use your various utensils to make interesting art with your soup. but I digress. the point is: they're blended, christmas-y, and there are two of them so we could give each kiddo something similar but different as their first food. So... uh... you'll see how that went over in the video. next was prunes, then sweet potatoes (no pics of that, sorry), then bananas.

anyways, enjoy the video!

christmas pics

a few pics taken around christmas time...

danielle swung by the morning after we got back to see the babies before she flew off to new jersey to see her fam for christmas. the babies were happy to see her, although all three of them refused to smile for the same pic...

 a few days later we had a little junior high reunion...

adrianne meeting her godson ethan

matthew hanging out w/ both kiddos

adrianne and both kiddos

the whole junior high group + spouses + babies that were able to hang out that morning.
blake, dave (representing jackie who had to work), me, brianne, adrianne and kiddos, aaron (adrianne's hubby), and matthew

merry christmas! aren't our jammies cute?

today we say goodbye to all the vacationing and go back to work - it's been fun!

see how much they've grown

pretend I wrote this post on new year's eve. because I mentally composed it and intended to write it then, I just couldn't find the file until later.

anyways, here's what the babies looked like last year on new year's eve. it was our first ultrasound in which we found out yes, we were indeed having twins.

yes, it's only 4 seconds long and yes, I can really only find one baby too, but the doc said she could see two, and apparently she was right! in my mind the baby you can see is kaylee because she likes space and ethan is the one you can't see because he likes to snuggle, so I think he's just snuggling the side of his little amniotic sac. of course, in this ultrasound the larger baby (by two days of size) is the one you can see which would suggest it's ethan you can see, but we'll never know and it doesn't matter, so I say pick your favorite and pretend you're right!

anyways, 2010 has been a very crazy year for us, but it has been fantastic. here's to 2011!