First time for sketti...

Cabers always takes about 3 or 4 bites to try things before he decides if he likes them. He had mixed feelings about the sketti at first, but then he LOVED it!
Matthew is obviously smitten with his bites of sketti!

He GRABBED my sketti finger and would not LET GO...!

Cabers and his evil eye look...watch out!

This is a video of the boys eating their spaghetti...

Pacifier Snatcher

I made this sugar free banana pudding with a whip cream topping the other night. We let the boys have a little taste and as you can see Matthew was NOT happy when we did not give him another! I guess it was kind of mean to tease him like that with just a few bites!

This is Caleb having a taste of his little treat.

Daddy on meal duty...the boys love it when he feeds them because he makes lots of funny faces while he is doing it...they just laugh...

This is a picture of the boys holding hands after they fell asleep on a walk with Tim. Sooo sweet! These are my favorite "twin" moments!

These two were konked out after their walk! Good work Tim!

This is Chooch with his stylin tennis shoes on!

These tennis shoes are so fun and they squeak when they touch the floor. The boys love it when we hold them up and let them bounce with them on! They will be great as they start to stand up more and walk...yikes, are we ready for that?!

Matthew probably crawls under this table at LEAST 5x a day. He loves it! I finally removed the lamp cord thinking that was what was so appealing to him. But, it didn't matter. He still crawled right back under. The problem is he has yet to figure out how to crawl back out without bonking his head, so most of the time Mommy helps him. :)

This is one of my favorites. I was reading Matthew this ducky book that he loves and Caleb just snuck right up behind us and rolled over right onto Matthew. I had the camera close and was able to catch the pacifier snatch in progress!

After Caleb snatched the paci, Matthew just snatched it right back and went right back to reading his ducky book!

Dangerous Territory :)

Well, it's official---the boys are into EVERYTHING...kitchen drawers, baskets, magazines, newspapers, dresser drawers, fake trees (with the fake grass that gets everywhere), Dad's trashbasket...you name it, they have discovered it! It's a crazy phase and I feel out of breath chasing them around most days! But, man is it a really fun phase. And at the end of the day, there is nothing better than Tim and I sitting on the floor and the boys seeing us from across the room and crawling right up into our laps to snuggle. We are so thankful that our kids are developing normally and from what we hear, this is all part of it!

The latest thing they have discovered are the stairs. They pull themselves up onto the first step, but have yet to do anything else. However, we will definitely be purchasing a gate within the next week before these two try to spur one another on to step #2! We can already see them "tag teaming" on so many occasions. Caleb is usually the instigator and usually the one who comes up with the ideas (i.e. let's pull that newspaper down from the couch and then we'll each take a piece and tear it up and then eat it). So, I'll see Caleb head over to the couch with Matthew following and they work together every step of the way to accomplish the task at hand. They both love lamp cords and pulling down books from a table in our living room. They now look at us as they commit the crime and just grin every step of the way. We are doing lots of "redirecting" these days! Let's pray that we will run this "marathon of parenting," as one of my friends put it, with lots of grace and patience. I think the marathon will look differently at different stages, but what a huge and wonderful responsibility God has given us to run with endurance.

Caleb says, "Brother, come on over...the stairs are REALLY fun!"

As soon as Matthew crawled over to join Caleb, Matthew looked back at me just to make sure he wasn't in too much trouble YET.

Big grin from Cabers...

Baseball or football? Which one will I choose?

A Sweet Easter...

This is a pic of the boys with Brett and Amanda...(Amanda is Jennifer's sister and Brett is her husband :))

Grandma and Matthew at lunch...

Caleb is staring down Matthew's toy...:)

Matthew loves the bunny while Tyler and Caleb are not very interested in smiling for the camera...

Our first Easter together with the boys...

Caleb was given "play" candy cigarettes in his Easter basket by his GranMary or Mere-Mere is her new name I think...anyway, Caleb looked way too natural with that cigarette! Mom yanked it away very quickly...ha..ha...

Caleb nibbling on a bagel at lunch...it is so nice now that they eat "table" food for the most part. It makes our dining out experiences so much easier!

Caleb is now sucking a pacifier...he has refused until now...so funny to me!

College of choice...

I can't believe I am reporting this on the blog, but I guess it's only fair. We put a TCU Horned Frog and a Texas Tech Red Raider in front of Matthew to see which one he would choose. The bad news is he chose the Horned Frog. So, we did it again to see if it was a fluke. It wasn't...even worse news, he chose the Horned Frog a SECOND time. So, then we tried Caleb and he went for that darn frog, too. I am going to have to do some serious persuasion to push Tech in this family, OBVIOUSLY!

Mr. Cool Caleb...


"The name's Chooch..."

Okay, this might be my favorite pic of Choochie so far...:) I know I am partial, but those eyes!!! He is SUCH a ladies man!

Sea Island Trip 2009...so much fun!!!

We went with Tim's parents to Sea Island in Georgia for the first time ever. The place was absolutely beautiful and it is very family oriented which made our vacation time relaxing and wonderful. The boys got in the pool and got to see the beach for the first time! Tim and I got to go on a really fun afternoon bike ride through the island and even had a date at the spa, which was wonderful! The boys adapted really well to being away from home and both did fabulous on the plane rides there and back. People just CRINGE when they see us coming onto the plane and everyone is very quick to swap seats to get away from 2 babies...but, the boys were troopers and did great! Matthew and GranMary just chillin...

Timily got to go out for a really fun bike ride all over Sea Island, twinkie free!

This was our view of the beach and the pool...it was absolutely beautiful to wake up to!


Mommy and Caleb and Matthew after a fun day at the pool!

Caleb was zonked after time in the water!

Matthew was very cautious of those UV rays and wore his sunglasses AND a hat to keep himself protected!

It is AMAZING how the sun and water wear kids out! This will be the key to victory this summer!

Matthew and Granpappy in the water...

GranMary is feeding Chooch his bottle...notice the sunglasses are still on! It was a BATTLE to take them off. The kid LOVED them!

This is a pic of our family in the pool with the twinkies for the FIRST TIME EVER! It was so much fun!

Momma and Matthew after a long day in the sun!

All four boys hanging out during lunch time!

GranMary and Caleb playing games!

Granpappy couldn't get enough of Choochie's kisses!!!