Happy Halfsies!

It's Casey and Liam's half birthday today!  It's hard to believe six months has already past.  It has been an amazing experience thus far watching these guys grow...they have come a long way. 

My two little newborns (Casey left Liam right)



My two little superhero's. (Liam left Casey right)



The boys are doing great at six months.  They are such happy babies with lots of energy.  They're little inch worms these days...trying to crawl by sticking their bums up in the air and pushing off with their feet.  They've also been entertaining us with their new sounds as they explore their voices.  Just so much fun!

Lindsay



A Spoonful of Solids Helps The Twins Sleep At Night (sing like mary poppins)

Yes!  Finally the boys (and me!) got a full nights sleep last night.  And all it took was a tablespoon of rice cereal (each)...why didn't I try this sooner?  We were waiting until they turned 6 months to introduce solids, but 5 months 3 weeks and 4 days seemed just as good a time as any.   After talking to my Mom on the phone, telling her about the sleepless nights I've been having, she suggested trying some cereal.  They were definitely ready for it and gobbled it right up...
 

Food!



Casey opening wide.

Get in my belly.

 

What?  That's it?  I think Liam got more than me.



Liam chowing down.

That was good...I think I'm ready to lay down on the couch now.

This morning I celebrated our successful night of sleep with chocolate chip pancakes...my fav!

 I could really get used to this sleeping thing, it's pretty nice.

Lindsay

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!

The boys got to partake their first "Ugly Christmas Sweater" party last night (or in their case, "Ugly Christmas Sleeper").  Our friends Josh and Shanna did a great job hosting, it was a lot of fun...even the dogs wore ugly sweaters!  If only Jack would've known...

Josh and Shanna's dog Petey getting into the ugly sweater spirit.

Rob, Jordy and Casey

Having fun with beards and mustaches...Liam just wanted to eat his.

June and Shanna with Casey and Liam

Casey after too much eggnog...just kidding.

Liam giving Marley a test drive.

The whole family in our ugly christmas attire...I think Dad wins, hands down.

Thanks everyone for the baby holding.  And thanks to Josh and Shanna for a fun time!

Lindsay

Christmas Cookies

Over the weekend I baked a big batch of Christmas sugar cookies...so big that I needed to call in the professionals to help me decorate them.  My friends Shanna and Jordy were just the girls for the job.  They came equipped with all the right tools needed to make these cookies look good enough to eat...icing bags, an array of different fancy icing tips, and sprinkles galore.  We had some fun!

Casey making sure we were doing a good job.

The finished product.

Jordy and Shanna with Liam and Casey.

Happy Christmas baking!

Lindsay

December Already?

Christmas is just around the corner, time to fill up the ipod with Christmas tunes, dig out the decorations and watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation .  This time of year is always so busy, but even more so with twins!  There's so much sewing, crafting and baking to be done.  Oh yeah, and Christmas shopping of course.  We went to Calgary on Wednesday for that purpose...as well as to exchange the other snow suit, so now that little dilemma is over with and Casey will be toasty warm this winter too.



Yay I have a snow suit!

 While we were at the mall in Calgary, the boys got to meet Santa for the first time.  I wish I would have dressed them a little cuter (all the other children were decked out in there finest Christmas outfits).  But the timing was right, so joggers would have to do...Santa didn't judge.

I over heard them asking for their two front teeth.  Casey Left Liam Right.

While we were in line to see Santa we bumped into our friends Manny and Elaine who were getting pictures of their baby Cody.  So after Santa we all went out for a nice dinner.  We couldn't have planned a better evening if we tried.  It was a perfect random encounter.

Hope everyone is getting into the festive spirit.

Lindsay