What if they were sextuplets?

That's what I think to myself when I look at these pics.  Yesterday I had two twin mom friends over.  You've all met both of them: E and her boys A and G star in my blog quite often, and M and her girls H and B appeared just last week.  Every now and then I get the unction to have a half dozen babies squeezed into my house so that after they leave I think, my goodness, my house is so spacious and huge!

The four boys are totally diggin' having two girls over!

Ready to roll!

 The two guys in orange are E's boys: G in front, A in back.  M is front and center (again with the binky - still cutting that molar and pretty crabby) and my little ham and cheese in the back, N.  H is pretty in pink and B is binky girl in the back (sorry if I got them mixed up, M!)

What's amazing is that my guys are totally cool with having friends over.  Toys that were boring yesterday are fun today when someone else shows interest!  They share their toys and their food.  N was munching on half an apple and gave it to G, who clearly had never had an apple halved like that.  N, my sweet boy, then tried to put the whole thing in G's mouth, you know, to show him how to take a bite!  Of course, he swiped one of G's ravioli's in trade...but we're working on it.

On a side note, N has also learned how to hug!  On his own, he approached his brother and wrapped his arms around him yesterday!  It was so sweet, I would have cried, except M thought he was being attacked and got very upset, crying.  So I laughed instead, and tried to explain that N was hugging him.  N tried it again today, but M just walked away, N following him a bit like Frankenstein.  We'll keep trying.  I can't wait to snag a pic of the two of them hugging it out.

So what if they were sextuplets?  I could handle it for two hours, maybe, like yesterday, but the truth is, I'm happy with just twins.

14 Month Olds' To-Do List

• ride in the shopping cart and buy lotsa diapers. 
• laugh at the little boy ahead of us in the Target checkout who hollers, "Whoa, that's a lotta diapers!" and reply, "Yeah, I have a lotta kids!" (Wait, that was me)
• WALK!
• climb up onto the furniture
• climb off the furniture, going down backward, and keep walking
• fall off the sides of the furniture headfirst (whaaa!)
• cut teeth: N has 14, M has 8, but he's working hard on those molars!
• push our toy trucks around the house making "rrrrrrrrrrr" sounds
• point at tiny airplanes flying far overhead
• dance to the "Veggietales" songs on DVD
• play by ourselves, but only occasionally, when we think Mom's not looking , and only for a few minutes until we see her looking

14 Month Birthday Picnic

We celebrated the boys' 14 month birthday yesterday with a goose poop deck scrubbing party picnic in the park because it was a beautiful sunny afternoon.  Both boys are WALKING!  They've been up and at 'em for a week now, exhausting their parents every waking minute of the day. 

They invented a game, pushing the wagon round and round in circles.  If they were both on the same side, like this, it worked pretty well.  One on each side didn't work well at all!

We finished our picnic with some soft-serve ice cream from our local Dairy DeLite.  For the first time, we bought the boys their own cup to share:

Stellar Day!

Despite this week's ominous beginning and subsequent disappointments, Thursday turned out to be a stellar day, not only because Daddy came home, but that:

NATHAN CUT THREE MOLARS IN 24 HOURS!

Yes, that's right.  He's just 12 months old, and the 4th one is about to erupt like Mt. Vesuvius!  Yikes!


And..............................................

MATTHEW TOOK HIS FIRST REAL STEPS YESTERDAY!  It's blurry because he was moving so fast, but I assure you, no one is holding that other hand. 

Lots of stuff has gone wrong this week, but we're keeping a positive attitude and being rewarded with lots of baby smiles (some with 10 teeth!), hugs and steps. 

Spring Has Sprung!

At least it feels like it.  Yesterday the Twin Cities hit a high temp we haven't seen in 3 months: 42 degrees!  I was so excited, I piled the guys in the stroller and we took a spin around the neighborhood.

 

The sunshine makes Matthew smile and squint

 

This is Nathan's "riding the bus" pose: he rips the toy off the rings and hold onto them while we ride. 

 

There's still some snow, but if the temps keep rising like this, it won't be around long.

Come on, spring!