A Couple Videos Of My Really Cute Kids

         

The boys love brushing their teeth!

              

Trying to catch a cricket!

             

Foxx saying "Judah"

             

"Hit that rock!"

              

My kids are the best.

Walking (and Cute Videos)

The boys are fully walking now.  and oh my goodness they are so fun!!  They love that they can walk, and are so excited to do it everyday.  They just run around the house with huge smiles on their face all the time.  It's fantastic.  They officially started walking about a month or so ago, around 13 months.  The 2 videos below are from when they very first started walking.  They are much better at it now, although Foxx still walks with his hands straight up in the air!  

Sorry the videos are sideways...Not sure how to fix that.

And this one is just another cute videos of the boys.  It was taken a couple of months ago.  We tried to teach them to respond to play peekaboo and say "Tada!" instead of peekaboo, so you can see them try and say it here.  It's super cute.  

These boys are soooo much fun.  I can't help but think that if I had just had one kid, I'd be bored.  And he/she'd be bored.  right?  I mean, who would they play with, or push around or steal things from?  Who would they talk to in their beds each night and morning?  Who would they sit next to and laugh with in the double stroller?  

Twins are the BEST!!

Happens Every Time...

Big Bang Theory is one of our favorite tv shows.  Our boys have all of a sudden found the opening theme song for the show extremely interesting.  No matter what the boys are doing at any given time, when this song comes on, they will stop, and pay attention.  It happens every time.  We decided to catch in on video a few times.  Judah usually just stares in awe the whole time, and Foxx usually gets a little excited about it.  As soon as the song ends, they resume their activity.

Crazy babies!  Pausing life to watch the Big Bang Theory opener.  

Thanks² Day 16

I'm thankful for the season of fall and all that comes with it.  The leaves, the perfect temperatures, the food and the holidays.  I'm thankful that we can take drives and hikes with our boys, enjoying nature with them!

Dear babies; 3 months

Judah and Foxx,

You are now 3 months old.  Time has gone by super fast you and you both change everyday.  You have grown soooo much since you were born!

This is you when you were teeny tiny:

And this is you now:

You are each just a little over 12 lbs.  You have started to develop your own little personalities.  You have lost almost all of the hair you were born with, and are now starting to grow some new fuzz on your little heads.  You both still have blue eyes.  You looked quite different from each other when you were first born, but you are starting to look more and more alike as you grow.

You both sleep in the same crib, and when we lay you down to sleep, we lay you on opposite ends of the crib.  When we go back in your room to check on you, you guys are right next to each other.  I don't know how you scoot over to each other like you do, but it's super cute.  You have liked to sleep close to each other ever since you first came home from the hospital.

(First nap together at home.)

You both also love to sleep on me and your daddy.  You loved to sleep on us when you were little,

And you love to sleep on us now.

I love how you both wake up in the morning with huge smiles on your face.  Your little smiles are totally worth getting up super early for.  You both fight naps during the day.  You fight them  so ridiculously hard.  Most days, the only way you will fall asleep is on me or on your dad, and then when we try to lay you down, you wake up.  It's frustrating, but it's also so dang cute.

Neither of you like cloudy and rainy days.  You get super fussy when the weather is not nice and we can't go for a stroller ride, because you love stroller rides!  I have an awesome jogging stroller and you enjoy looking around and cooing at everything during my runs.

Car rides are another favorite activity of yours.   You usually fall asleep the minute we start driving, and sometimes you are just awake and talking.  If we stop, even for a minute at a red-light, you get upset.  But as soon as we start moving again, you are happy.

Any and every ceiling fan will immediately catch your attention and make you smile.

You both seem to notice me and your dad more and more.  Dad can make you smile and laugh with his yoda voice.  The mobile in your crib will also make you both laugh and smile like crazy.  Neither of you mind getting your diapers changed, and you usually smile while we change you (although that very well may be because of the ceiling fan that is over your changing area).

This is a video of Foxx talking and smiling at dad after his bath.


This is a video of Foxx laughing at the crib mobile



(***I know these videos are both of Foxx, but Judah does laugh and smile also, he's just a little camera shy.  We'll catch him on camera sometime soon hopefully!)

When I have you guys by myself and you won't let me put you down, I put you in my sling or wrap, and I get things done that way.

You both love to be out in nature.  We have taken you to Radnor Lake and Percy Warner Park.  You guys just look around at all the trees and enjoy the walk.

Dear Judah:

You are amazing.  You have the biggest blue eyes that are so cute.  Some people say that you look like your dad.  You have a huge gummy smile that you greet me with every morning, and I absolutely love it.  Every time you smile during the day, it makes me super happy, and I can't think about anything else except trying to make you do it again. You like to talk to us during your diaper changes, and you also like to pee all over everything during them.  (You would think that we would have learned by now to watch out, but no.  You continue to pee on us.)  You are our little observer.  You love to look around at everything and smile at things you like.  You have a colorful toy lion that you like and you also like to sit up in your boppy seat to look around.  You like tummy time and are very good at holding your head up high.  You rolled over just the other day, on accident.  You are a very good snuggler, and you especially like to snuggle with mom in bed early in the morning.  You like to ride around in my sling when we go places.  You love to lay under your play mat and kick your legs like crazy.  You are the one that moves the most during sleep.  You have flipped completely upside down a few time during the night.  You're a tad smaller than your brother still, but you are quickly catching up.  You are pretty chill most of the time, unless you are tired.  You love to fly around the house like an airplane, and you like the bear mobile on your swing.  You smile and laugh at those bears almost as much as the ceiling fan.  I think you are going to be the one who crawls first.  Whenever you are on your tummy, you seem like you are ready to go, you just don't know exactly what to do to get going.

I can't wait to watch you grow and learn new things.  So far I have watched you learn to smile, laugh, play, roll over, and coo at us.  I have loved every single moment I have spent with you, and I can't wait to have many more!

 Dear Foxx:

You are awesome, kid.  You're my wild child.  You have such an excitement in your eyes.  Most people say that you resemble me, with your skin tone and eyes.  You are also my stubborn child, and you are exactly how I was when I was little.  You fight sleep every. single. day.  You get so tired but you want to stay up so that you don't miss anything.  You love to be awake and be loud and talk to everyone.  You have a great appetite, and you will eat a whole lot, anytime it is offered to you.  Your smiles and laughs are huge and so fun to watch.  You get super excited when we change your diaper, during bath time and under your playmat.  You kick your legs and scream like crazy during those things.  It's hilarious!  You love to sit back with dad in his recliner chair and rock, just looking around at everyone, throwing in some coos and screams here and there.  You love the stroller, just like your brother, and you like to go on runs with me.  You love to be facing outward in my carriers/wraps so that you can watch everything going on when we go out places.  Whenever I rock you to sleep, you always have to have a little hand up on my neck that moves back and forth.  It's super cute.  You especially love to ride in the car.  You either immediately fall asleep, or you will sit back there and grunt and talk the entire ride.  And you get really upset when we stop at red lights.  A sure fire way to get you to stop crying is to fly you like an airplane, on your stomach close to us.  You love it.  You love dad's yoda voice, but you're scared of his chewbacca voice. 

You have been so fun to watch grow, and you get bigger everyday.  I can't wait to see what your feisty little personality will develop into!  Every little smile, laugh, and coo from you has made my days awesome.  I look forward to them everyday, and many more to come as you grow.

         

Thanks² Day 05, & 06

I was a slacker and missed the post yesterday, so today is 2-in-1.

I'm thankful for friends with babies the same age as my babies so they can have playmates!  

My friend Rachel had her little boy, Reiter just 2 days after my guys were born.  I'm excited that they will have at least one other little boy their same age to play with growing up!  We went over to her house the other day and had a great time hanging out.

I'm thankful for this.

2 (of 3) of my awesome boys.

Gender Reveal Party

After many awaited weeks and ultrasounds, we finally found out the sex of our twin babies.  At first we just thought that we would find out in the little ultrasound room like most people do, and didn't think much more about it other than how excited we were for it to finally be that day.  Well, after talking at dinner with some friends one night a few weeks before our big scheduled ultrasound, we decided to do something a little more fun.  I started doing some research online of different ways to reveal genders to family and friends.  While googling many different sites and ideas that included cake pops, cookies, balloons, cards, etc., I saw one couple that had a cake that was iced a neutral color, and the batter was pink/blue inside.  This is what we decided to do. But instead of us knowing the sexes ahead of time and making the cake ourselves, we decided to find out the results at the same time as all of our friends.  We video'd the cake slicing, which you can watch at the bottom of this post.

This is how it all went down.  We had our ultrasound on Tuesday, at 1:00 in the afternoon.  When we first walked in, we told the tech that we wanted her to write down the gender of the twins on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope instead of telling us what they are.  The ultrasound took forever because the twins would not hold still for long enough for her to do all her measurements and what not.  When she came to the point of looking between their legs, she told us and we turned our heads.  It was soooo hard not to look!!!  Right after the ultrasound we drove straight to our friend Jessie's house and handed her the still-sealed envelope.  That 10 minute drive was awful!  The envelope was just sitting in my purse, screaming to be opened.  But we did not open it.

That night we went to the US soccer game, trying to not think about whats inside of that envelope, and knowing that our friends in fact DO know the results.  We could hardly sleep that night, and the next day we decorated and baked and cooked all day to get ready for the party.  The party did not start until 730 pm.  My friend Jessie (the one who made the cake) decided to come over early to help us get ready for the party.  Well that was great and all, except she brought the cake with her!!!

So not only have we had to wait a day and half already not knowing, but now we had the cake sitting in front of us, and we STILL cannot touch it for 5 more hours!!!

The party was really fun.  We had little cards that had 2 babies on them and people had to color them either pink or blue according to their vote on the gender.  We also had people vote on what the twins' middle names should be.  The other thing that people voted on was to try and guess the exact date and time that the twins would be here.  The person who is the closest without going over will win a $50 gift card to a restaurant of their choice!  We had lots of food also.  Cookies, cake batter rice krispy treats, cheese straws, chocolate chip cinnamon scones, fruit and veggie trays, mini oreo cheesecakes, chips and salsa, homemade pizza rolls, and of course the cake.  We had pink and blue plates/napkins/straws and pink and blue drinks.

Alright FINALLY time to slice open the cake.

We had someone video us cutting it open so that we could send the video to our families who could not come to the party.

 The color?

BLUE!!!!!   We were sooo excited!

Jeremy apparently felt the need to feed me the cake.

After the party, we went to Walmart (only because it was the only store open that late) and bought our first baby boy clothes.  We found some really cute onesies.  We still can't believe it.  We were sure that we were going to get 2 girls just because we wanted boys so badly.  The boys names will be Judah Samuel and Foxx Thomas.

YAY for my baby boys!!!!

(This is what was inside the envelope.)

and here is the video!