Fall Time!

A few days ago Nicholas got some kind of tummy bug and it was pretty gross. On the upside this made the normally crazy destructo child who is too busy to cuddle, cuddly as heck and we spent a lot of time sitting on the couch watching tv, nice and cozy in our blankies. Well you know...when I wasn't being puked on anyway...Despite all the sickies, he still looked pretty cute, so I took his picture.The next couple days he was still a little off, but he has fully recovered! Yay! So on Saturday we went to a pumpkin patch and it was tons of fun.








Also, not too long ago Liam took some first real walking steps and it looked like this :

A couple days ago I decided that he was much better at it and he deserved another video to show off his mad skillz:

Last night Ryan informed me that he had made an appointment for the kids check ups today at 9:45 am...you know don't panic maren...you only have to go all alone on short notice to a place you've never been...anywho...It went surprisingly well, even if it was exhausting. Here are the stats:

Nicholas
Height: 37 and a quarter inches (I think he is taller...but whatever) 97th percentile
Weight: 28lbs - 50th percentile


Eric
Height: 37 and a quarter inches (that's why i think they are wrong about nick...he just has to be taller than eric, i just know it) 97th percentile
Weight: 30lbs - 75th percentile


Liam
Height: 30 inches - 65th Percentile
Weight- 23 lbs! 75th Percentile
and his head is practically the same size as the twins! 97th percentile

After that I felt like Lucifer and held their arms down while they got poked like 10 times (it was absolutely terrible) and now they are caught up on immunizations. The only other news is that Nick is delayed in speech and we have to take him to a hearing specialist. I think his hearing is just fine but the doctor wanted to be sure. If the hearing checks out, we just have to read him tons of books (which we do) and sing lots of songs (which we do) and just keep working with him on it. He said that taking him to a speech therapy class at this age would be pointless.

So there you have it! Night everybody!

Liam turns 11 months and the Twins Smiling on Command...

Yup, he's gettin' bigger and better all the time! He walks...very short distances, and says "Uh oh" and probably other things that we don't understand yet. He loves Sesame Street and wants to eat everything, unless it's a vegetable. However tonight I successfully got him to eat peas and carrots. Like he really ate them, I'm thinking it's the first time he hasn't spit them out all over the place. He wants to do everything Nick and Eric do, and therefore we haven't had to teach him to drink from a sippy cup or push cars around on the floor or talk on pretend phones. He's done all of that much earlier than them, just so he can fit in. Eric thinks he's great and Nick wants him to just go away. Occasionally though, Nick will laugh at Liam...and I'm hoping that he's laughing with him...not at him.

On a sidenote, Eric and Nick are starting to smile when you say, "Smile, I'm taking your picture!" Sometimes it turns out great, but most of them you get crazy crazy smiles, like some of these.

Ok so in this next one Nick doesn't look crazy...I just had to show everyone that he isn't really a devil child.


wow.

P.S.
I am now caught up on posting...leaving you all in anticipation of the fantastic Halloween pictures. All I'm going to say is...I am SO EXCITED. Costumes are turning out GREAT!

The Zooooooooo

Not long after their bday we went to the zoo. Kind of our last Hurrah of the summer. It went pretty great! Except for that (something ALWAYS happens) I couldn't find the sunscreen ANYWHERE and ended up asking to borrow some from a random family in the parking lot. Of course, last weekend I found it in the van. It had been with us all along.

Twins turn 2!!!!!!!

First things first when I got them out of bed that morning I had to take the, "I'm 2 now!" pictures...and they are pretty cute 2 year olds I must say.





Then there was an entire cake saga...I made one, then left it at our apartment and didn't realize this until we were 30 minutes away at Ryan's parent's house. We bought one at the store (store bought cakes make me cry...) and decorated it ourselves...but the extreme heat took it's toll on the icing which had started out really nice looking...but turned into a nice...collection of...lakes? hmm


We did spaghetti for the birthday dinner...I don't know if it's their favorite...but they definitely always eat it.


We played outside and they could not sit still for pictures.







If that doesn't say "Happy Birthday!!" I don't know what does.





They were gifted many fantastic gifts which they are still enjoying. Then Liam polished off some cake himself...and he looked pretty awesome after he was done.

Liam turns 10 months!