The Bates' Men

Tim's grandfather (Papa) was in town a few weeks ago. The men got together and had a great time watching football and hanging out. The kid's great grandfather (Papa) is world famous for his cooking and the boys are not far away from getting to try a few bites here and there!!

Tyler (the Twinker's cousin) was catching some Z's on grandpa's lap

Papa is so sweet with these boys...he would hold them for hours on end and shower them with kisses. Which twin is this????

Getting Matthew and Caleb to look at the camera was the easy part...the hard part was getting their 82 year old Papa to look!!!

FYI - Caleb was in the first picture with Papa and Matthew was in the second one. Also, these may be the last pictures you see of Matthew without a helmet for a while. He was diagnosed with flat-head-a-sitis (really it is called plagiocephally - a flat spot on your head). This is a pretty common outcome when you combine a twin pregnancy and premature babies. They are typically born with it and sometimes it will correct itself within a few months, but other times it won't. Unfortunately, we are in the "other times" category. We already have some ideas of how to decorate his helmet so we will have to post pictures of the new head gear. He should only have to wear it for between 8-12 weeks.

This could spice things up because Matthew is already a little more challenging (read: fussy) and I am sure that sporting a helmet 23 hours a day will not mitigate this. Either way, we are excited to get his head whipped into shape (literally).