ear infections and Clemson football

We spent the day inside today, due to rain, glorious rain. This caused all kinds of occasions for mischief, as evidenced by Will's somewhere in the range of 10-15 timeouts. John still doesn't feel well from his ear infection, and chose to spend most of his playtime either sitting in mommy and daddy's laps or chilling on the couch watching Clemson beat BC (see below).



Sorry for the grainy image. It was taken on a camera-phone.

Silly Saturday

Yesterday the boys spent most of the day in PJs. Hurray for PJ day!! Here are a few pix of our fun day:



Now THAT'S the look of a hungry, sleepy boy. No wonder - he took a 3-hour nap! Nice hair, Will!




John's ready for some serious fun!




John's channeling his inner Stevie Wonder. Ryan and I can't stop laughing at this one!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

We're still here.

It's been a busy summer, thus the recent absence from the blogging world. Ryan is taking 4 classes this summer, along with working at the 'bux. The boys are in daycare 3 days a week, which is a decision we made to help ease their transition to full-time daycare in August when Becky goes back to school. Becky is taking an online technology class along with a week-long seminar through Converse. We can't believe the summer is almost gone!

Here are some pix of our latest adventures:

The boys have decided they really like spaghetti...or is it the mess that they like???

Will's spaghetti face - if you look closely, you can see his handprint in the middle of his face!


John was going for the Two-Face look. But he's no villain!


We went garage saling yesterday, and we got some amazing finds! The church down the street had a TON of kids stuff, and we got a Lego table with Legos, two wooden kid chairs, a wooden kid rocker, and an old school toy - the cube that you drop the different-shaped blocks into. Grand total? $6.50!!!! We almost felt guilty for spending such a small amount of money.

The boys and the Lego table:


Will is REALLY excited!


John's pretty pumped too...it's just hard to get him to sit still long enough for a picture!

More firsts

Last night the boys had spaghetti for the (kinda) first time. John liked it better than Will, but that's not saying much:


John's all smiles...for now.


Will is NOT happy with trying new things.


Today, we tried coloring with crayons! Mommy helped us, but we were more interested in eating them. Thankfully, Crayola crayons are non-toxic!





John's perfecting his "look."



Will - a blooming Michelangelo? Don't let the picture deceive you...most of the markings are from Mommy!

First swim!

The weather was nice this past weekend at the lake, so we decided to put the boys in the water. They didn't like the lake too much:

Will



John




But they liked the nice, safe kiddie pool on Masie and Grampy's porch instead!

Will



John

at long last! and only 3 months late!

pictures from the boys' birthday!

Dinner time and ravioli head

Here are a couple of pictures from tonight's dinner time. The boys know how to say "oh no!" and they put both of their hands on their head. Hence, at dinner time, ravioli head! And Will's sad because we went to get more food and there wasn't anything on his tray.

Swinging!

Here's a couple of pictures of the boys in their swing from Kev and Em and John for the first time!

SNOW DAY!

Yesterday we got to play in the snow for the first time. We didn't like it too much, but we LOVED spending the day with Mommy and Daddy!

Walking!

Both boys are walking! John more so, but Will's trying to catch up! They've been doing so for a while now. We just haven't had a chance to post a video. So here's one of John walking from daddy to mommy (with Will getting in on the action at the end, or at least trying to).

Happy Birthday!

We're one year old! Yay! Here's a few pictures of our fun day with mommy and daddy. We got to have a fun morning bath, breakfast, Chick-Fil-A with mom and dad, a trip to Lowe's, playtime at Furman, playtime at home with our baseball (and daddy's hat!), and watching cars drive past the house! Man... we're pooped! Growing up's hard work! (P.S. You can see what we looked like this time last year here.)

11 Months!

Wow. I can't believe that we will be celebrating the boys' 1st birthday in a month. While on the one hand it seems like yesterday that Ryan and I were driving to the hospital to have the boys, on the other hand, it seems like FOREVER ago. As each day goes by, I enjoy the boys more and more. And I also get more and more terrified of the fact that we're in charge of two little people. And I STILL have those "Wow. These are MY kids" moments. Wonder if those will ever go away?

Some of my twin friends have blogs, and every month they list the different things their kids are doing at that moment. I wish I had started that earlier, but here's what the boys are up to:

Will
- has 6 teeth! His middle two front teeth just broke through the surface within the past 2 days
- is a champion crawler
- can stand and pull up and cruise the furniture
- can say "mama," "bwah" (whatever that is), "ga," "dada"
- loves to screech at the top of his lungs
- is looking more like his Daddy

John
- has 5 teeth, though I know there are more coming soon, judging by the way he's drooling and chewing on everything
- crawls like he has a motor attached to his rear
- likes to stand on his own
- is walking!!!! He can take 4-5 steps at a time, though Daddy has yet to see it
- can say "mama," "dada," "puh," and other things that I can't remember right now
- loves to blow raspberries
- is looking more like his Mommy


I'm sure I'll remember other things, but these are the things that come to mind right now. We have such fun, fun little boys.

Fun with Em!

Em took this picture last Friday while taking care of the boys.

First Christmas!

Well, we've had our first Christmas with the boys. As you can see, they got new dinosaurs. As you can also see, they're not daunted by the t-rex. They'll eat him too!