Flashback Friday

This flashback Friday isn't really flashing back so far. Since I started this blog too late for Mother's Day, I thought I would flashback to my first Mother's Day. Dan really wanted to make my first Mother's Day very special for me. He wanted to know if I wanted to be by myself and do something like go shopping or get a pedicure or if I wanted too spend time together as a family. I chose to spend the day us all together. Since we would be spending the actual Mother's Day with our own moms we decided to hit the zoo the day before to have our little Mother's Day to ourselves and then we went a Mexican hole that we love called Lonestar (not the bankrupt chain) where the babies had their first cheese quesadilla and LOVED it. The next day Dan gave me a white gold and diamond ring with three small diamonds that he said represented me and the babies. My first official Mother's Day was fantastic!!!

Christian's trademark tongue. Rivaled only by Gene Simmons.

Cutie Patootie

Memorial Day

So I am just getting around to posting our Memorial Day happenings a little late I know. The Tuesday after Memorial Day it was my turn to host the twinmom group I get together with every month. I called a babysitter and ran around all day doing this and that , trying to be the Hostess with the mostest with Dan's help. Dan finished some projects around the house we have been meaning to get to for about ummm 3 years. This twinmom group and the upcoming birthday party have inspired us to get those projects done. Wednesday I recovered from the craziness in Tues and then Thursday was crazy in itself...more about that later.

So we packed up the car on Monday and headed off to one of Dan and I's favorite (and as we discussed on the way) few traditions. We went to the Memorial Day parade in Rush where my mom grew up.

My grandpa who is going strong in his 80's still marches in the parade which is probably one of the shortest parades on record.

So after the parade passes us by we walk to the Pinehill cemetery where my Grandma is buried and they have a little ceremony. We were sure that when the gunfire came around Kamryn would be louder than the guns, but just the opposite-she thought it was pretty funny. We then went to Perkins and then back to Buffalo where Dan's brother TJ and wife Marianne hosted their annual Memorial Day Picnic. I love that we can see both families in a day but at the end after working the night before I was whipped -as my mom says"like a whipped piece of candy".

Flashback Friday

This is our first family photo after leaving the hospital. We are at my Cousin Chris and Jennifer's wedding reception held at Crescent Beach. The babies are three weeks old here. They are swimming in their newborn outfits. I brought these outfits as coming home from the hospital gear but we had to downsize to even smaller ones. It is fascinating how they look so different when they were born but somehow look so much the same. So teeny tiny. So sleepy.

Welcome to our blog

I have been wanting to start this blog for awhile now for two reasons. The first, to keep our friends and family up to speed on what is going on in our daily life raising our twins Kamryn and Christian. And the second and most important, I wanted to do it for myself to chronicle our family life and be able to look back and "remember when..." I had always intended to start the kids scrapbooks as most first moms do. I have diligently saved this date and this picture and will put them together eventually...This just seemed more in the now and really what I needed. The count down has begun to our babies first birthday. In one month they will turn a year old. One year ago I was washing newborn clothes and wondering -because twins sometimes come early-Is today going to be the day we will welcome our babies into the world? Will today be the day that finally we will have to decide on some names? Will today be the day that Dan frantically runs around making arrangements for Cooper, packing up the car, making phone calls and leaves for the hospital in such a frenzy he doesnt realize that I am not in the passenger seat like we laughed about so many times?

Today as I am working on planning their birthday party I realize that I have forgotten things I thought I would NEVER forget. So here I am with so many milestones ahead and things to document and discover. I guess its never too late.

Christian started occupational therapy today. He was evaluated almost two months ago. The therapist was thrilled with the progress he has made on his own since the evaluation. He is cruising along and I think we can call today his first official day that he started crawling. Before she got to our house today I was thinking to myself-wow he really has his tummy off the floor and his knees are goin.

He is so confident that he pulls himself up to stand and he thinks that's pretty cool. Today he fell forward right on his face though and low and behold -he got a bloody nose -poor buddy. He also is doing physical therapy and part of that is using an exercise ball like the kind an adult would use to do crunches. The mere sight of the ball sends Kamryn into hysterics. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the ball and will only calm down if it is far removed from the room. And we thought the bathtub was bad.