Connor and Grace are ONE!

Please enjoy Connor and Grace's one year pictures! We had lots of fun taking them.

Connor and Grace Playing

Notice the number of pacifiers Grace is hoarding?

Playing with Daddy's Hat!

Connor and Grace found Tim's hat and after playing peek-a-boo together, I made them model for pictures.

Peek-a-Boo

Connor has learned a new game. Grace plays too, but she hides behind furniture and peeks around it, maybe he will teach her how to do it with her hands.

Long Time, No Post... Here You Go

Wow, it has been awhile since I have updated this thing. Let's just use the babies as an excuse again!! They are both crawling, pulling themselves up on everything including mommy and daddy, we are their favorite jungle gym and have started practicing their first steps. Connor now has 6 teeth and Grace has 2, with 3 more on the way, they have broke through, thank goodness...but are not that long yet.

There is so much more I could write but I am exhausted, time for bed :) I hope you enjoy the videos.

Playing

Grace

Crawling Around!

Connor and Grace have discovered new superhuman abilities this week. (At least that is what they think) They are crawling and lovin' it. They are so proud of themselves and have been extemely busy exploring every crook and cranny they can find. Connor has especially loved crawling underneath the coffee table and exersaucer. Grace has been chasing the dogs. She loves her puppies.

Grace Playing in a Box

Connor carving pumpkins!

7 months

The babies are now 7 months and we just had their 6 month pictures taken. Boy have they grown fast. They are both sitting up and attempting crawling. Connor gets up on all four's and rocks back and forth but only ends up moving backwards. He also has 2 teeth coming in, yikes. We think Grace will pull up to standing before she starts crawling she loves to stand up. She is working on getting up on all four's but can't figure out how to get both knees underneath her. No teeth for her yet. They are also doing better at sleeping, Grace slept through the night three times this week, Connor none, but at least only one of us had to get up. We are not used to getting this much sleep, it seems to be making us more tired. I have been a bad blogger lately and will try to post more soon.

OH-IO

The babies enjoyed their first Ohio State football game, although, Connor slept through most of it. They were very excited about their OH-IO fan shirts. Thanks, Melissa for the awesome gift.

Food Faces!

We have a turd!!!!

That was the exclamation I heard through the baby monitor the other day while Tim was changing Connor's diaper. Of course, I had to run in and check it out and there was in fact a little turd in his diaper. Has he graduated from the soft runny poop stage??? For all of you wondering, I did not take a picture. It took a some restraint, but I decided a simple documentation in the baby book would suffice. And while we have a solid turd in one diaper, we are still getting runny poop in the other, in fact, princess Grace blew out of her diaper everyday this week. She came home from day care in a new change of clothes everyday and even came home in Connor's clothes one day because we forgot to put another outfit in the bag for her, as seen in the picture above. Who would have thought she would have that many blow outs.

Enough about my favorite subject! The babies are doing great and slept through the night last night :), Yeah, can we get another please? Grace made it to 4:30 and Connor made it to 6:30. Tim and I both woke up to our alarms at 6:00 and were shocked and a little scared that we hadn't heard from Connor yet. I went in right away to make sure he was still breathing, all was good.

New Cousins

A lot has happened since my last post, I apologize to all of those who keep checking back. The last of the nephews were born in the last 3 weeks. My sister Marcy, had Colin (7.15 lbs) and Carter (7.3 lbs) on July 29 and my other sister, Courtney had Parker (10.7 lbs) on August 17. All of the boys were big and healthy. Tim and I made our last road trip for the summer up to Ohio to see everyone, unfortunately, we did not get to meet Parker. He decided to say hi to the world the day after we got home, little stinker. Connor and Grace got to meet their cousins Rollie, Lane and Brooklyn, as well as their great-grandma and several other family members. Grace had a great trip, while Connor developed a stomach virus before we left and therefore puked the entire week. What happened to the vacations where you used to relax and catch up on sleep? Oh yeah, that was before kids. Tim and I struggled with lack of sleep and were at each other's throats most of the week. We lovingly joked that if our nights continued to be that sleepless we may need to find lawyers :) All is well now, we are home, I started back to work and the babies are doing good, still no sleeping through the night, anyone have any tricks?

First Baseball Game - Rangers vs Mariners

We took the babies to their first baseball game Saturday night! We only made it to the sixth inning, but we still had lots of fun. Grace smiled the entire night and Connor did his zoned out stare because of course he hadn't napped much that day!

Suuuppper Grace!

No longer hungry, Grace found a new way to wear her bib!

Play Time!

Somebody found her feet!

Connor loving the exersaucer!

The Clean Plater!

Yummy!