Double Bubble Trouble!



Kellen and Lorelai had their first bath in the big bath tub last week. I thought it would save me time to wash them together, but it took longer because they were having so much fun and I had to take pictures of my bathing babes. They enjoyed kicking and splashing the water next to each other. It was incredible cuteness!
Here's a mini photo essay:



Splish Splash



Bathing Beauty



Lorelai helps Kellen wash his hair.



Zestfully clean!



Don't cry little brother, we'll take a bath together again soon.



Bath Gnomes

5 Months!



My babies are five months old today! I can hardly believe it. Time definitely seems to go by so much faster being a parent. We can slow down now thank you very much. I must cling onto these baby moments just a little while longer. = )

Sweet Boy

O Pumpkin, Pumpkin! Wherefore art thou Pumpkin?



On our fifth wedding anniversary we went to the pumpkin patch with our little pumpkins. It was a lot of fun hanging out with friends and picking out pumpkins for the kid's first Halloween. Sights and flavors of the day: yummy barbeque roasted corn slathered with melted butter, fresh sweet and salty kettle popped popcorn, succulent pomegranites, squash in all shapes and sizes, and a field of pumpkins(*) in all the hues of orange you can imagine.
Later in the evening we rented a movie and snuggled up while listening to the rain. Sweet rain, it has been too long indeed!
It was such a wonderful day, a refreshing change after the hard week we had. Kellen is most likely going through a growth spurt that has made his disposition less than cheery. It's hard being small!

Here's a few more pictures from our pumpkin hunt:



Lorelai, with a little help from mom, camps the pumpkin she wants!



Daddy takes a self portrait of Kellen and himself.



Kangaroo Family


*While technically pumpkins such as Cucurbita pepo are members of the squash family (Cucurbitaceae), I chose to take some poetic license here. = )

Tummy Time Togetherness!

Shiny Happy People



You wouldn't know from this picture, but yesterday was black Monday! This was taken in the morning and was the last time I would see smiles from either Kellen or Lorelai for the rest of the day. What was wrong? I am still not sure. Kellen wasn't having a good day, which rubbed off on Lorelai eventually (twin synergy activate!). Hopefully, it was just one of those extreme fussiness things. Needless to say I was a wilted teary mess by the time Daddy came home. It was definitely hard on all of us! Here's to a new day and a fresh start. = )

What a difference a year makes!

October 9, 2003 thawing and implantation day...



October 9, 2004 our little miracles!



***Warning sappy post to follow***

I remember how I felt a year ago today so scared and yet so very excited. We had waited a long time for this chance and had so much riding on it. In the end we were the fortunate ones indeed. I am incredibly grateful that the technology exists to allow us to be blessed with not just one, but two beautiful and healthy children. So many others are still waiting for that chance that may or may not come. We don't know why we ended up one of the lucky ones. We cherish every day we have with them (even the hard ones and whoa boy there have been some hard ones). They will always know how very much they are wanted and loved!

Look ma no hands!



Well, no mom's hands that is. Yep that's a picture of Kellen sitting up all by himself! No hand or propping support. He can't do it for long, but it's a huge milestone that I just had to post. :)

Sweet Lamby, how we love you so!


Kellen LOVES to hug his lamb and smoosh his face next to it.



Feeling jealous Lorelai casts "summon lamb"



Lamb lubbins




Thank you Keturah & Jeremy!

Hey little fishy


A reflection of Lorelai and her daddy checking out an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific

Sunday we loaded up the mothership and went to the Aquarium of the Pacific! They were having a Pacific Islander festival with dancing, food, and arts and crafts. Since we honeymooned in Tahiti we thought this was the perfect chance to finally go to the aquarium (something we have been meaning to do for the last couple of years).
Well, it wasn't an original idea and the aquarium was quite crowded, but despite the crowds we did get to show Kellen and Lorelai: jellyfish, seahorses, seadragons, sea otters, and lots of very cool fish!
They both seemed to enjoy looking at everything even if they didn't know what we were showing them. We look forward to one day teaching them all about the world around them!

A cool mommy moment...
Earlier today I had to run an errand for dinner stuff and in the backseat Kellen and Lorelai were cooing and chattering like crazy (music to my ears). I looked in the rear view mirror and there was Kellen looking out the window checking out the view, while Lorelai (our little reflux girl) was delicately lifting the edge of her bib and smiling at her ladybug that we hung from her car seat. It's times like these that I realize how lucky I am to have them in my life! *gush*

Our day in a nutshell




2 kids
2 shots for each leg
2 long hours
2 many tears to count
2 very tired parents

4 months today!



Where else to celebrate four months since the birth of our little miracles than Disneyland? It was a beautiful day for a stroll on Main Street USA! We took in a Billy Hill and the Hillbillies show, did a little shopping (Lorelai loves her Minnie Mouse!), and grabbed a carmel apple from the candy shoppe on the way out. A wonderful day indeed!




4 month mommy notes upcoming soon, but now I am off to feed a hungry little boy. ; )

Lil Cutie

Just another reminder of how precious life is...

Allie

Sharing is twice as nice!

In an effort to provide new and interesting things to read here at the cove, I am starting a new feature called...you guessed it Weird Science!
Occasionally, I will offer a link to something scientifically interesting. My first weird science offering is this story:
The jaw bone's connected to the???

Enjoy!

Sand, Sun, & Fun!



Lorelai and her mommy by the sea


This past Saturday we went on our annual friends beach trip. It was a beautiful day and despite fears that I was insane for trying to take three month old twins to the beach, it was relaxing.

Here are some pictures from our day:



Beach babes hanging out in the shade.



Mike and Paul playing the appropriately named game Abalone.



'Nise drying her little surfer guy's hair.



Kellen and I tested the water temperature... can we just say Brrrr



Lorelai hanging out with her God Daddy.



Although a book and sun hat are close at hand Lorelai decides a nap would be perfect!



Our handsome beach boy is content just hanging out.



The wind picked up as the sun went down which was our signal to head home with our sleepy beach babes.

Kellen & Lorelai are 3 months old today!

Picture, picture show me some pictures!
The daddy requests some new pictures for the journal so here they are!


Grinning Girl



All tucked in and bear at hand



What?? The Easter Beagle doesn't come in August?



Our sweeties

Random Ramblings

Last Saturday 'Nise bravely offered to watch the kids alone, so that we could go see The Village with Mike. I really liked it, but after reading some of the reviews out there it makes me wonder if my good movie o'meter is working. There have certainly been some critically panned movies that I have still secretly enjoyed, but I usually know in the back of my mind that they really are not very good. Don't we all have those? Movies that you secretly like, but don't want anyone to know. Like the guy that is a huge action adventure movie fan, but also secretly enjoys a good Streisand flick now and again. Ok maybe not that extreme!
Honestly, I don't understand why so many dislike The Village except that maybe expectations of what a M. Night movie should be weren't met somehow in their minds. Ah well... we had a great time. Thank you Denise and Mike!

Speaking of Mr. Shyamalan, he is making a movie based on the book Life of Pi. Very curious am I! It will be his first adaptation of a novel and his first non-Disney movie as well. I have not read the book yet, but have been curious about it for a while now. I finally picked it up to read (in all my free time of course heh). The annual friends beach trip is coming up, maybe I will get a chance to sneak in a page here and there then!

In keeping with our family motto "Better Late than Never" *note to self find out how to say this in Latin, everything sounds better in Latin* I got Kellen and Lorelai's birth annoucements out in the mail. We absolutely love them, they are really cute. A big, huge gigantic thank you goes out to Adrienne for creating them for us. You are awesome woman!!