Our First Family Trip to the Zoo!

Yesterday we met our favorite friends who happen to have twins, the Lettenbergers, at the zoo. We were so excited but also hoped the heat wouldn't get us down. We started early in the day and finished by noon-ish - just before it got busy. Then we headed over to the Lettenbergers for a Memorial Day gathering - beating the late afternoon heat with some cold beers! Now hopefully the weather will stay nice so I don't have to wish for it in order to get the babies out of the house.

Craig took the babies to the country club pool he manages (so I could have an hour to myself). These are their future baby-sitters! -whenever you are ready ladies:)

Ok,Ok

So I decided to post a couple pics because the babies are still sleeping peacefully (I'll kick myself later for jinxing my quiet afternoon). These are from late morning, after the photographer left (yep, that's right - she came to us. we didn't have to pack up or worry about hungry babies!). They are still wearing their plain onesies and I was too tired to go get "real" clothes, so I just wrapped them in their cozy blankets and put slippers on their feet! Too precious.

Gosh, No Pics Again!

On Thursday we met with the babies' sitter. She only takes care of her own grandchildren, has a great backyard, and is fluent in "baby" - although her youngest grandchild is 2.5 years old. She was very eager to hold the babies and seemed okay with the 'twins' thing. We weren't worried that we wouldn't get along with her but that taking on 2 at one time would be overwhelming to the sitter. But it sounds like it's all going to work out! She is located a little out of our way but Craig and I are willing to work it out, knowing we have a reliable, trustworthy sitter.

This morning we had pictures taken. I considered them 'newborn' pics, even tho they are 2 months old. But it seems that just because they are newborn size, they don't act like one. They were much more awake and that whole laying still because babies are too tired to much else did not apply to our kids. Oh well, I am absolutely positive that photos will be perfect and can't wait to share them! We even jumped outside for a couple - the foliage was so green but the weather was craptastic:)

We will most likely spend Memorial weekend indoors; it doesn't look like the weather will cooperate until Monday. And then it's supposed to be HOT and HUMID! Yuck - guess we can't get warmth in this area without that gosh darn humidity:) Hope everyone else enjoys a bit of the weekend!

Two Months Old

Happy day to our babies! I've been *telling* Craig and my mom that there is still a pretty big difference in weight between Kelsey and Drew and today proved right. Craig says he doesn't notice a difference and my mom thinks Drew is "catching up". Well, chubby Kelsey is 7lbs 12.5oz and squirty Drew is 7lbs 5oz. For their adjusted age Kelsey is doing good according to the growth charts, besides Drew's large head size he is falling fairly low on the charts. But no worries; the doc says they look good and have both gained over 2.5lbs in a month.

Last night Kelsey rolled over from tummy to back 4 times. She's such a strong little girl! Drew seems to be ticklish - Craig's been trying to get them to exhibit voluntary responses to us. It was also shot day - 3 (!!) of them and a drinkable one. They screamed and got really red right after the first one but quickly calmed down when we dressed and held them. Drew has an umbilical hernia, which will likely heal itself by one year and Kelsey has 2 hemangiomas, which may eventually go away. Otherwise I'm trying to decide if I want to get them eating at the same times during the day, each day to be in a routine before I go back to work  - so that I know I will/can feed them every morning before I leave for work.

Another craptastic day - hope you all get to take a rainy nap!

Good Times

Well something happened yesterday that hasn't happened since the babies were in the NICU...I took a nap! It was actually an all-family nap after we got home from Craig's softball game. We had been outside for 3 hours and the night before we were all up late because Craig played softball until almost midnight and the twins weren't sleeping yet. So needless to say "mom and dad" were pretty tired and I had to bring Drew on to the couch with me to sleep because he was so restless in his bouncy chair. But Kelsey had just finished eating so she crashed as soon as I put her down, just like her dad:)

We have a *busy* week - 2month appt, going to meet the baby-sitter, and "newborn" pictures. And next weekend the whole fam is doing a crohns/colitis walk (if you look down the right side of the blog there is a link) in honor of "Uncle" Derek's best friend, who passed away a week before the babies were born. We feel grateful to be a part of this cause. It's a guarantee that Uncle Derek's friend Kyle would have been one of the kids' favorite! We will all be in matching "Team Kylage" shirts - the pictures will be adorable:)

Hope everyone enjoyed the super weather yesterday - I may have enjoyed it too much, as evidenced by my red arms, neck, and chest. Oh yeah, real cute. I'll have to make sure it's less obvious by Saturday for pictures.

Apocalypse

Today is Judgement Day - hope everyone is doing something special on this day of rapture. Apparently, God is going to *take* those who are worthy and leave the rest of us to endure hell on earth. What a bummer. So if this is it....it's been a good run! I think judgement day really started yesterday - when I heard that "Macho Man" Randy Savage had died in a car accident. Now that is a true WWF tragedy. I broke my brother's arm 23 years ago when we were wrestling WWF-style, pretending to be our favorite wrestlers.

Soooooooooo...I didn't get too many more photos from yesterday. The visit to school was quick and we spend most of it "showing" the kids off to the other teachers AND keeping the students from *touching* the babies! We were able to go out to eat. It's so nice not having to worry about smoke in restaurants anymore.

It's perfectly crappy outside today. Good thing my new camera came today so I can spend the day learning how to use it:)

This is a *movie* of Drew doing his "chewing" thing while he sleeps. I think it's the cutest:)

Kelsey and Craig watching "Wheel of Fortune". A new evening tradition.

Shhhh....it's a SURPRISE!

Today is Craig's birthday. And for as long as we've been together, I have brought a birthday treat to his classroom - as long as his birthday fell on a school day. The first couple years I surprised him and showed up unannounced to his class. Then we would talk about it ahead of time because I would bring lunch in for him too. Last year I think I went on a field trip with his class and brought a treat during movie time.

Well, this year I made a last minute decision to bake 40 some cupcakes and bring the babies in to his school. Usually I plan things like this weeks in advance. I secretly bought his favorite funfetti cake Wednesday and ALL DAY yesterday I baked. I also bought the kids Brewers' onesies to wear, altho they are little big yet. So I thought I'd let you all know before we go to see Craig in an hour. He always calls on his lunch to see how we are doing and I hope I time it right that when he calls we will be parking at the school and he can meet us at the door! Here's the first pic of the twins all geared up waiting...

I'll be sure to get more pics of them with their daddy on his birthday and post more later! And it couldn't have been a nicer day to take the babies out:)