Hanging Out

The boys are constantly looking at or for each other and laughing or talking. I finally caught one of these sweet moments on camera during their breakfast one morning...

Happy 8 Month Birthday!!!

Our baby boys are 8 months old today! They are growing by leaps and bounds! Here are a few of our big boy stats:

~Coleman has 2 bottom teeth in and Carter's are breaking the surface
~ We are wearing size 9-12 month clothing (!) big change from our preemie days!
~ We are in size 3 diapers
~ The boys are eating protein filled foods and combination foods in the Stage 2 organic jars
~ They had their first "puff" which is a glorified cheerio that dissolves easily and did okay with it
~ Coleman is becoming quite the talker and says "dadadada" ALL the time (which of course Jared thinks is all about him!)
~ The boys are "talking" and smiling at each other and really play together now
~ They both are sitting up like champions and are definitely getting ready to crawl!

Brotherly Love

These pictures just make me smile!

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town...

Okay, so I can definitely be a little OCD sometimes (all the time, really), and when I found out that Santa was taking reservations at Phipps Plaza I jumped on it! He was completely booked within 48 hours last year and I dreaded the thought of having to wait in a huge line at the mall with two little munchkins so this sounded right up our alley. Of course I scheduled our appointment for the very first day that Santa was at Phipps and for the very first time slot (I told you I was OCD). The boys did GREAT and looked adorable in cute new outfits that their Lovey had mailed them! I think I was more excited to see Santa than the boys were but what a fun memory it was and it made my heart smile as a mommy to see our two sweet babies sitting in Santa's lap and thinking of all of the fun filled Christmases that have yet to come!

Waiting in line to see Santa...


Yay! Our first picture with Santa Claus! Don't we look excited?!


Santa telling us what good boys we are :o)


Carter really wanted to hear everything that Santa had to say...


Fun pictures after seeing Santa...




We spent the rest of the day just hanging out and having fun in the freezing weather! Even though Christmas is almost two months away seeing Santa today has definitely got me in the Christmas spirit!

Busy bodies

The boys have worked themselves into a two longer naps a day and it is great but when they are up and at 'em they sure are busy little guys!



But when they are sleepy they crash...

Some Fun Updates

Okay, so I was in serious need of updating our blog and uploading pictures of our sweet boys! It has been a busy week and everyone came down with a pretty bad cold that took us out of our regular routine but at least the weather was cooling down which made it seem appropriate to lay around in pj's and eat chicken noodle soup. ;o)

We have become great independent sitters and are getting closer to crawling every day which is both exciting and scary!



Carter LOVES to take off his right sock (only the right one!) every time he gets in the car. I typically find it soggy and on the floor of the car wherever I stop, so I have learned to keep a spare pair in our diaper bag for my sockless little boy.