Thanksgiving......

Just to let you know, I'm working backwards as I am so behind on blogging.........again. These are pics of the boys eating their first Thanksgiving dinner and first "official" table food.........they had sweet potato casserole, dressing, cheesy pear casserole, and veg all casserole!

"Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree"....

On Sunday afternoon, I spent time erecting our Christmas tree and then adorned it with bright shiny ornaments!!!!!!!!!!!! While the entire time, the boys ever so lovingly watched their mother become the Christmas fairy and decorate away!

I will admit, they did very well as I placed the tree up and turned on the lights...............they were not too interested in it............Hayden just touched the limbs as you can see in the picture, and that was about it. Brady wasn't even that interested.

Then came the bright, shiny things..............and that got their attention. I have placed non-breakables on the bottom limbs as I don't want the boys to live in a world of "no" and I would like them to understand what they can touch and not touch. To date, then have broken three ornaments in some fashion or another, and love to pull the ornaments to pop the hanger tops off of the ornaments.

However, we have started "encouraging" them to only look not touch!!!!! And by encourage, I mean using NO and popping their little hand............which just makes them stop pulling on that one ornament and start pulling on the next closest one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 month checkup.....

Off to the doctor's office we went yesterday afternoon!!! It was time for their nine month checkup.........and I couldn't wait to see if Hayden out weighed Brady this time. I'm so tired of everyone saying oh he's the bigger one, meaning Brady. When actually if you look at them, Brady is just longer........and bless his heart, he's a little boney.............whereas, Hayden is shorter and if you actually look, he is chunky!!!!

Well, Brady weighed in at 16 lbs and 8 ozs and Hayden weighed in at 17 lbs and 6 ozs., of course Brady is still longer at 27+inches and Hayden at 26+inches (which I think is really stretching him).

They had to have two shots, which made them both cry as they stick the needle in their little legs!!! Then they had to have fingers pricked to draw blood to check for Anemia.................Brady cried-------as they price and then SQUEEZE and SQUEEZE to get enough blood..............but Hayden just looked at the nurse and never made a sound about it!!!!!!!

They both checked out great and we have the okay to hit the table foods for Thanksgiving!!!!!!! They are on schedule developmentally but we need to work on the waving bye bye as they don't have that one down pat yet..................

Behind AGAIN........

I am so behind on posting that I'm not sure I will catch up!!! So here's updating and documenting things, then I'll go back and add photos. The boys spent their first night away from us on Saturday evening. My Mom picked them up Saturday morning and returned them Sunday evening. This allowed Tony to work outside and me to work on painting in the kitchen....two items that we CANNOT do anymore now that we have children!!!! Surprisely I survived without them..........and of course, they survived supremely without me!

Brady said MaMa last night for the first time...............GO MOM!!!!! If only he would say it in reference to me in lieu of just randomly saying it..........either way, he clearly said it and it has MADE MY WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brady is also cutting a tooth on top, actually, this morning it appears that he might be cutting BOTH teeth on top. They haven't broken the skin yet, but you can see the whiteness thru the gums...................and now that he has discovered that he can crawl and go places, he's quite happy.....................and I can't say this enough, he looks like his Dad!!!!!!!!

Hayden, what can I say! Never did I know that a kid could find SO many things to pull up on, he constantly wants to be standing or pulling up to stand...................have a feeling, we could be walking by Christmas.............and need I say more, our Christmas tree this year, I feel sure it will never be the same again once he gets ahold of it! As I was getting ready this morning (I shouldn't be admitting to this) I noticed Hayden was being really quite (first sign of something not good) and I peek out of the bathroom to find him licking the dust off of the treadmill!!!!! First of all, there shouldn't be dust on the bottom of the treadmill if I had cleaned properly, and second, if we used the treadmill as we should, there wouldn't be any dust...................needless to say, I will be dusting it today when I get home from work!