Sunday, December 20, 2009

1st flight!

Here we are on the morning of our first flight before we left the house - if you look closely you might even be able to see the airplane shirts they wore for the occasion. And you can see them in their new car seats!




However, these are the only photos of the day! We were too busy and too frazzled to take any others as we had major flight delays and other chaos that made the trip not so fun and made photo taking the last thing on our minds. The boys actually did amazingly well on the flight, but the craziness of the day was a bit much for everyone. It took us about 12 1/2 hours total, which is a lot for two babies (and two parents too) since it should not have taken nearly that long. But we made it!!!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Cookies with Santa

No cookies actually because we arrived to the neighborhood event too late and the cookies were gone already! You would think that living directly across the street from such an event would give us an advantage, but it took place during most of afternoon nap, so what could we do?

But we did have our first encounter with Santa! And lesson learned: taking two babies who have just woken up from their naps and making them wait for their bottles because we didn't want them to puke all over Santa, was not such a great idea...

These two usually love ALL people (so far anyway, we haven't really hit that stranger anxiety stage), but not when they haven't had their bottles, and in Mason's case - even though I gave Santa a bottle to feed him to try to turn that frown upside down, Mason was beyond hungry and too freaked out by then to warm up to Santa. If you look really close, you'll see that even in the photo where Santa is trying to give him a bottle he still has huge tears in those eyes and needed mom to immediately rescue him to give him the rest of that bottle. Ethan took it fairly in stride except when his brother first started crying and then he cried too, but otherwise he didn't mind the big man in red so much.





Saturday, December 12, 2009

Infant Carriers - a sad farewell

Today was the last trip in the Infant Carriers and our trusty Snap-n-Go double stroller. These were incredibly useful baby items and ones that we will sorely miss. Now we will have to buckle and unbuckle babies every time we take them somewhere and that is really a task as they are incredibly squirmy these days. But the Infant Carrier is borderline too small for Mr. Mason, so we have decided to move both of them along to their big boy car seats. Here are some photos of their last trip with mom and dad in their infant seats. The next time you see them in the car they will look all grown up (sniff, sniff).

What?!! You say I am too big for my infant carrier? What exactly are you implying?...


Gabby and the boys in front of the tree





Last car ride in our infant carriers



Friday, December 11, 2009

E Tooth #4

Tooth #4 and still waiting for Mason's 1st. This one was not a lot of fun and now that Ethan has two teeth that can touch, he is grinding them together as he gets used to these new foreign objects. And oooooohhh it's like nails on a chalkboard! I hope he gets used to those new teeth soon!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Any Requests?

We love our music!!





Ethan composing a solo piece



Mason with a serious case of the sillies

Friday, December 4, 2009

Snow Day!

Our first snow day!

Okay, so we live in Texas now and a snow day means that everyone got all in a tizzy and it flurried for 20 minutes and nothing stuck to the ground - but still! There was fluffy stuff coming out of the sky so it counts! (and boy was it nice to leave our snow shovel behind!)

The boys decided to wear their snowman pjs the night before in anticipation of the big event :)


Sunday, November 29, 2009

A Visit from Auntie Meg!

Auntie Meg stopped in the day after Thanksgiving and stayed for the weekend!




We had lots of fun with her and she brought us a fun project - kits to make Christmas ornaments with hand or foot impressions! Thank you Auntie Meg!!

The hands turned out to be a bit more challenging then expected because they kept wanting to grab the molding material to play with it, so footprints ended up being the way to go! In order to remember whose was whose, we did Mason's left foot and Ethan's right foot. I always think of Mason left and Ethan right because that is how they slept in their bassinet in the hospital and that is how we have the cribs set up in their room!



She also helped us decorate our Christmas tree and snapped a family photo of us in front. We are pretty much completely blocking the tree here though, so I'll have to remember to get a picture of just the tree (and babies of course) at a later time.