Easter Egg Hunt

Our church hosted an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday- here are a few shots. Ethan hunts for eggs.

Ethan and his good buddy Charlie

The babies watch from the ever- helpful stroller.

Isaac up close and personal - don't you just want to pinch those cute chubby cheeks!

Our precious little princess. She is the cutest thing I have ever held or kissed or loved.

Soccer - Take Two!

Some of you may remember our blog entry last September about Ethan playing soccer. Well, little did I know that when we signed him up for Under 4 soccer in the fall we were also signing him up for under 4 in the spring. Anyway, even though last time was a complete disaster, full of tears, temper tantrums, and already tired parents. We decided to give it another shot (since we had already paid last Fall). So on Sunday afternoon our big boy went out for a second attempt and LOVED IT!! No tears, no temper tantrums, and two (only slightly) tired parents!! He participated, had fun with the other kids, and listened to the coach. He even wants to go back... last time he would not even go on the field. What a difference six months can make!!! We are not really pushing soccer at all- but are thrilled that he wants to enjoy it!! Here are a couple cute shots of our little pro!! Listening to the coach... isn't my big boy still adorable!!

Warming up.

Running around the field to warm up... Ethan is the one in the very back- tagging the flag pole.

A little friendly scrimmage.

(Really it just amounted to 10 kids chasing the ball back and forth)

The babes enjoyed watching and having an afternoon snack in the sun.

Almost time for Easter

Well we have pulled out the Easter decorations.. Easter sure is early this year!!

(It won't be this early again for over 200 years!!)

But I am ready for the return of flowers, sunshine, and weather that does not require a jacket!!

Here is Olivia with Ethan's Easter Basket. She is obsessed with the plastic eggs.

She like to crawl right in the basket and check each one out.

Also notice that she is only wearing one sock.. she will not leave two socks on. She nearly always pulls one off immediately (but never both).

Isaac checking out the hallway. He has finally started to crawl and pull himself up (in the last month). I am constantly amazed that two babies who spend every waking and sleeping moment together can be so different. They have the same family, schedule, food, stimuli, etc. Yet, they are alike in only a few ways... mainly they are both very social and generally happy babies. But, there is no end to the differences...

Livy is a great sleeper at night, Isaac is a great sleeper during the day.
Livy crawled at 7 months, Isaac crawled at 10.

Livy would eat Macaroni and Cheese for every meal, every day of the week. Isaac loves meat and bananas.

Livy is very vocal and very active. Most of the time Isaac is content just watching and is smiling at everyone.

Having twins has taught me a lot of things, but one I will share here is this: typical healthy babies develop when they are ready- not because of baby Einstein, baby gymnastics, or what food they eat. Wish I could have already believed this 4 years ago - when I was going through everything with Ethan. Oh well!

So happy together...

The babies are now 10 months old!!!

(Only 2 months left to go to meet our goal-

we decided if we can make it a whole year -

we will keep them!!! JK)

We are notorious for bathing the babies infrequently.

So this weekend my mom and I decided to bathe them together. They loved it and were absolutely adorable!!! We have been left wondering why we did nt try this sooner.

Happy Valentine's Day

We are so excited that it's Valentines Day!!!

We woke up on Thursday morning to 2.5 inches of snow.

We were excited to finally get some real snow instead of ice and sleet.

Ethan trotted outside for some winter fun - while the babies were napping of course.

He was disheartened that his car would not start- but he got it running eventually!

Baby Liam

Here are some more shots of our precious newborn nephew.

This is John's brother's second son (for those of you who are wondering).

We have not seen him really awake yet,

but so far we think he looks quite different from his big brother.

Also, I know many have been wondering who won the Lilly/ Hoots family baby pool...

Scarlett won the day (and will be receiving her reward shortly!) and

Dotty won the weight, guessing dead on at 6 lbs. 15 oz.

Baby Liam.. he was "born yesterday"

Rob, big- brother Gavin, and baby Liam.

Uncle John and baby Liam.

He looks so comfortable holding a baby... wonder why?

Could it be that he has had a double dose of practice :).