Getting Ready For Bed

Audrey sporting her new "Faux-Hawk"


Audrey uses her 2 fingers in her mouth instead of a pacifier to help her go to sleep


Jackson is confused with 1 pacifier too many. Where does the second one go?

Videos

The kids love their plastic keys. Notice that Audrey is playing keep away with both sets of keys. She has one set on her arm and one set in her hand.

Duck Pond

We took the kids for their first trip to the duck pond across the street. They were not sure what to think about it. We were soon surrounded by ducks wanting some bread. One of the geese started getting aggressive when he realized that there was no more bread in the bag. Uh oh...

High Chairs

The kids got their brand new high chairs over the weekend. I was holding the kids on my lap and feeding them, but they were just getting too long to fit. Jackson and Audrey thought that it was hilarious to try to put their feet in my mouth. It was pretty funny until I got kicked a couple of times.


Feed me NOW woman!


What is going on?

The Inmates are Taking Over the Asylum

Evidence:












Violation #1: Legs between the bars
Violation #2: Chewing on the blanket
Violation #3: Utter disregard for the sleep positioner
Violation #4: Sleeping sideways with feet dangerously close to kicking sister in the head
Violation #5: Not playing quietly while Mom and Dad are trying to sleep

Fine: A long nap and no double meltdowns

Baby Fine Hair

Little Audrey is finally starting to grow hair. This is a little bittersweet because she has the cutest strawberry marks on the back of her head. I took a picture, but it is just not the same.



Jackson is still sporting an awesome bald spot on the back of his head. I hope it grows in so that I won't get blamed for it (it comes from the Mom's side).

Kids Are So Funny

Babies in the Bluebonnets

Surprise!

The kids, my Mom and I made a last minute quick trip to Houston this week. This is the first time the kids have been to Houston and the first time I have been back since Memorial Day last year. We surprised my Mother-In-Law, Linda (aka Mimi), at the bank where she works and boy was she surprised. The kids also got to see their Aunt Kristi, Aunt Dede and cousin Autumn. You wouldn't believe how much stuff we had to pack up to take babies out of town for 3 days.

Sleeping Babies

My kids sleep so funny. Both kids seem to slump forward in the swing. I have this great picture of Jackson all spread out in the swing and Audrey doing the slump. I don't know how this does not hurt her neck, but every time I move her back into a more "comfortable" position she returns to the slump.





Jackson woke up this morning and had the most awesome hairdo. He looks like he should join a punk rock band. Pete Wentz watch your back!

Public Service Announcement

Has anyone ever heard of a hair tourniquet? Neither had we, until Saturday after our Baptism. Apparently, it is pretty common. We were trimming the kids finger and toe nails Saturday evening. This was a good opportunity because we rarely ever see the kids' feet because they are always in footie pajamas. I went upstairs to get some socks for the kids and when I got back downstairs Jackson's 2nd and 3rd toes were bright red and swollen. We took him to Round Rock Medical Center ASAP. The emergency room doctor tried dissolving the hair with Nair 3 times with no luck and then got a scalpel and tried to cut the hair from between the toes. I am assuming that it was my hair because it was really hard to see and the children are always pulling out chunks of my hair. After several hours of trying to remove the hair, the doctor sent us to Dell Children's Hospital. Another doctor tried his hand at removing the hair, but he was not sure if he had succeeded. He decided that we needed to stay the night so that they could make sure that the swelling went down. If it did not go down, he said that we would have to have a plastic surgeon make a cut across the toes to make sure that that there was nothing left. We finally got into a room around 1 AM. The plastic surgeon met us in the room and said that he did not want to wait until morning and risk Jackson losing a toe. He tried poking around and thought that he still felt a hair. He decided that it would be best to do a closer examination in the operating room. So at 2 AM Jackson went into surgery. It was only a 10 minute procedure but Chris and I were worried sick. The surgeon was able to remove all of the hair. Jackson's little toes finally look like toes instead of cherries. They are still a little bruised and sore. We were very lucky that day in many ways. First, we caught the swelling toes in time. Second, Chris almost went to the grocery store around the time that we saw the toes. Third, Chris almost went home to let the dog out and would not have been there while Jackson was in surgery since we were not expecting the surgeon until the next day (Thanks Jess for letting Charlie out). Fourth, that the doctor at RR sent us to Dell instead of sending us home. We went to the surgeon on Monday and he was happy with the way the toes were healing. Chris and I were joking that Jackson is only 5 months old and has already had "work" done (got to keep that youthful glow). Having twins I think that this is just the first of many unusual experiences that are in store for us.