Meet castaway and see thier new beach

Castaway. This is one very busy crab.
Castaway and Hermie
The new home.

more twin love....

Fear and conquer the urchin ball-this will make you smile

wont touch it
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still apprehensive, but finally get it
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big boys

Logan in Orange and Connor in Aqua. 15 months old.

Finally!!! First tooth pictures

Connor- our little hillbilly with his top snaggletooth
Logan and his teeny tiny bottom tooth.

We are having a very hard time dealing with teething. The boys are miserable and so am I. They whine and cry constantly even with pain meds. I wish I could take it away for them. There are a bunch descending, but it is a slow and painful process.

I hope they hurry up.

Eye candy...(yes I know i am biased)

Connor
Logan
My sweet boy waiting for the rain to stop so he can play with his new friends. It never did.

my boys and I

We were at the City museum. Had a blast. I love the smiles!!!

Our new pet

Trevor has a new pet named Hermie. He is lots of fun. He is about the size of a medicine cup.

When he outgrows the shell he is in, he will have a new Batman shell to move into.

The Boys first swim

Diana and the girls are here, so we were able to steal away to their hotel for a swim. the babies went nuts over it!! Arent those swim diapers soooooo cute??

News flash!!!!!!!! We have teeth!!!!!

Connor broke his front top left tooth in and Logan his bottom front right tooth in. WOOOOOOOOOO! More are right behind those (this is hard on them fevers, pain, ect).

Well, will be a very busy week. Diana and the girls arrived today and Mom Deb and Jay come on Wednesday. WE have lots to do! Will post pix soon!

CURLS, CURLS and more CURLS!!!!!

The boys have started to get curls at the back of thier hair- which I absolutely love and will refuse to cut!Logan's delicate little curls :heartthrob:
Connor wouldnt hold still for me so i could take a pic of his curls. He has the thicker longer hair, so he has more defined curls.

I love it. I am on cloud 9. Who needs a girl?!

Oh and to update- both boys are showing signs of impending teeth on the top. Connor's are almost through and Logan is just getting the swollen gums, but you can feel them. They are both in misery. Connor is forever chewing on his fingers for relief-poor thing. they are really giving him fits!

pics of my babies!

My sweet little Connor just staring into the world.
Connor loves to defy the way things were meant to be used. That means climbing.

Gazing

The boys watching Trevor ride his bike outside. Connor is in the green.
Connor-one of his favorite past times is playing with the vertical blinds. Any bets on how long they will last?

New alternative to bathing

WE cant get a darn thing done around here without the twins first making thier mark.

My 3 men growing up...

Logan, Trevor, Connor

The St Louis Zoo!

The weather was a wonderful 75 degrees. Since Trevor has a.m. kindergarten, we were able to get out and explore the Zoo. Now, mind you, this is a FREE Zoo. It was gorgeous. Some animals were still off display and the water features were off until the risk of freeze is gone, but it just gives us an incentive to go back. It will be great to see the trees in full bloom and everything green. The Zoo was so big, that in 5 hours we saw about only a third of it. You must definately go for the whole day. Again this is a FREE zoo. We were in awe. Can't wait for everyone to come and visit and see the Zoo with us. It will be great.

Getting out and about...

Logan up Connor down
Logan

Our first big social event was on Saturday, March 10th. It was Savannah and Alexandra's first birthday and later was an open house at Jeanette's new house. Daddy was able to mingle with some big wigs from Annheuser Busch also. It si so different meeting up with new people who have twins also. The other girls Kearstin and Kailey are from another person I met on my message board, who also was pregnant at the samen time. Her name is Anita. Alex and Savannah were 29 weekers. K&K were 34 weekers. All of our preemies seem to be doing remarkably well.

Alexandra, Savannah, Connor, Logan, Kailey, Kearstin

Connor wasn't feeling well, so while he slept, the other 5 got into the beer bucket... Yep! When you are in AB territory, you teach them young.

My toddlers...we're not babies anymore!

Logan
Connor
Logan (left) Connor (right)

Trevor and Tiny

Learning to walk together.....

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The boys do so much these days. Aside from driving us nuts, they are becoming little communicators too. When Connor is doing something naughty, when I tell him "NO" he hides his face or looks away-kind of like an ostrich that hides it's head. So funny! Both will shake their heads "no' before I even get the chance to say it and then look at me like they are proud of themselves for knowing they were doing something they shouldn't.
Both are waving too. It is so cute. I will try to get more video of them doing thier little antics.

Trevor likes his new school a lot. He especially loves riding the bus. The whole Tornado thing has him a little scared and he is having a lot of anxiety of a tornado coming. Every night we have to watch The Weather Channel to show him what the weather is going to be like. He even acquired a new protector "tiny" the T-Rex. He is the defender at night time. I feel bad for Trevor that his first experience witht he weather here was a bad one. Kind of reminds me of how Korrie and I used to pack up our pillow cases with our worldly goods everytime it would storm- just incase we had to run for the basement. This is because a tornado went down Washington Center road when we were about 8 or 9 and Dad woke us up in the night screaming "Tornado, Go to the basement" !!! We were so scared and you could hear it go over the house. Luckily that did damage only to the tree tops and never really touched down. I can truely see where Trevor is coming from.

Meet "seek" and "destroy"- the Dynamic Duo!

Logan and the TP
No, the cabinet doesn't have legs. That would be Connor.
ooooohhhhh.....what's in here?

Looks like we are getting back 2-fold what we did to Mom and Dad as toddlers. They are into EVERYTHING!!!! Every time I turn around, a new discovery is happening at the expense of our belongings. Luckily, nothing has broken, but geez...how much babyproofing do we need to do? We have gates in front of the TV, computer, shelves (so books cannot be pulled off) at the stairs, in front of the bathroom......ect. And it is not just one, but both of them, conspiring against mommy and daddy.

Weathering our first storm

Living out my storm chaser fantasies.... WEll, this was yesterday and it was Trevor's first day riding the bus. His bus stop is right outside our door, so I sent him out. Nasty storms were off to the west and were supposedly heading our way at 60 mph. This storm had already produced one Tornado which touched down in Japan, MO. Well, It supposedly was headed right for us, but ended up taking more of a northern turn, so it missed us. We ended up with a few sprinkles and sunshine. Well, I sent Trevor out to the bus stop when all of a sudden all (and i mean ALL) of the tornado warning sirens started to go off. It was so loud out! Trevor glanced me a look so I had to go out and stand with him. The clouds were really billowing off to the west and I was able to snap these pictures. This is the tower that produced several tornados. It was the southern most tip of the storm line. I was quite prepared with my camera in hand to catch a tornado, then run like hell for the basement.

new experiences

You got it! That would be Khalua in Connor's hands.....

Having the new apartment lends the babies to explore territories they werent allowed to at our old house. The newest fascination is the fridge- and yes, they can open it! YIKES. I am wondering if they make enough childproofing equipment.....

We made it! New to the St Louis area!

We arrived finally. Of course knowing the Gilbert's, nothing could really go smoothly. We left about 8 hours off schedule and this was late. WE decided to stop in Terre Haute, IN to rest in a hotel, but it began to snow very hard so we ended up in Cloverdale, IN just off of I-70. We stayed at a dive of an EconoLodge and I wouldn't even let the twins crawl on the floor (gross!). WE slept all of 3 hours and then got back out on the road. I in the van with the twins and 2 cats, and John driving the 26 foot Uhaul. It was snowing and sleeting very hard. We got back out on the road and John and I were conversing on the cell phone and were discussing on whether or not we should really be driving. We had already passed several vehicles that spun off the road. We were talking to each other and just passed a rolled-over van and another stranded vehicle when I said to John "I sure hope that isnt one of us". I no sooner got the words off of my tongue when the van began doing a series of 360 turns before landing backwards in the median ditch. I was screaming in the phone and John watched us spin in his rearview. I began crying. We were all OK. Babies never knew what happened and the cats were meowing loudly. John went on to the next exit (which was a one-gas station town) to call for help. He got ahold of a wrecker, but they had shut the freeway down due to the # of accidents and were not allowing any tows. Luckily I had a full tank of gas. We sat for 45 minutes and an Illinois state trooper came to rescue. He asked how many were in the vehicle and I told him, myself, my twin infants and 2 cats. He looked and me and said "I'm not taking the cats, ma'am". this cracked me up. I stuffed blankets around them to keep them warm and we headed to join John. 2 hours later, they opened up the freeway again and allowed the wrecker to pull me out of the ditch. The van was OK and we got back on our Journey. It was scary and the wind was very strong and snow still blowing. We drove slower than the speed limit, so the final leg took us about 4 1/2 hours. We finally made it and there was blue sky and sunshine.
Korrie, Mom Deb, Diana, Jor, Alanna and Trevor were all behind us by about 3 hours. Our movers had cancelled, so we stayed in a hotel that night and I was relieved to stay somewhere with a soft bed and a nice shower.
We got up the next morning and the movers came about 1pm. They were done by around 6pm.
We have been here a week now. All 5 of us have been ill with a cold or the flu or something nasty. We are recovering. It has flown by. I just cannot believe how quickly it has happened- us moving here and all. We went exploring today and are in shock and awe at the amount of shopping around us. All of these new malls and shops to venture to. It is exciting!

I want to Especially thank MomDeb, Korrie, Diana, Jordan, and Alanna for making the journey here to help us move and unpack. We couldn't have done it without you! (well, we could have, but we would not be alive to tell it).
Pictures and updates to come. This is the first day we have had internet.

Our new custom T-shirts

A friend of mine on my message board made these custom t-shirts for the boys. I just love them. They are so cute and she did a great job!

Well, It has beena crazy week and the boys were quite ill at the beginning. they each went to the DR last Friday and had horrible ear infections and bronchilitis. We had to do steroids again and do breathing treatments. Now we have to do a breathing treatment daily until April. On Monday, we got RSV shots to keep the RSV bug away. Sofar, they have been spared, but manage to get bronchiolitis from other viruses. One virus caused them to get hives everywhere. This time they had red dots all over, but we think it is a side effect of the chicken pox vaccine they got Jan 22. Since they were sick, it is a possibility.

We are on the mend and have a follow-up appt at the pediatrician tomorrow morning. this will be our last visit with her. WE lOVE YOU DR SMITH!!!!! She is truely the best!

Bys last weights are still hovering in the 18 lb range. Not much growth occuring. Funny, we are still in the infant carriers. Can't do the new seats until 20 lbs.

Gotta go pack!

soon to be our new home

Here is the town home we will soon occupy when we move to St Louis, MO. Actually our address will be in Manchester, one of the many little suburbs of St Louis. We are very excited about this move, but nervous just the same. The countdown started yesterday. We are now less than 2 weeks away from our move on Feb 17th!

Logan is a cruisin' machine!

Yep! Yesterday Logan realized he could pull himself up and he naturally took to cruising the furniture! WooHoo!
Funny, Mom Deb was over tonight and she said that it was really getting difficult to tell the twinks apart. They even had me confused at one point! AS Logan continues to fatten up, he and Connor look so much alike!

The long overdue one-year update.

In big boy outfits. Lo and Co were trying to look thier biggest for their one-year birthday
I love these photos. Their party was at aunt Korries house who so willingly hosted the party for us. We thank her immensely!! I cought these photos of the boys, who were looking out her sunny patio window. I love the lighting and that Logan would not look at the camera. I was able to catch his sweet smile in his reflection.

WE went to the pediatrician for our 1 year check up.

STATS: Logan- 18 lb 5 oz , 27 in long

Connor 18lb 14 oz, 26 3/4 long (though I think he is just as long as Logan)

They are still obviously small for their age, but are doing so well. Logan will have another early intervention evaluation for his wobbliness and tremor. The pediatrician thinks this is due more in part to hypotonia (low muscle tone) than to a cerebral palsey type. She thinks Logan would benefit from some physical therapy to help build his truncal muscles and help him keep up more with Connor. Connor has met almost all of his developmental milestones for his chronilogical age. He is pulling up and cruising with only one hand holding on most of the time. Lo will pull up to his knees, but he gets pretty wobbly.

There are no teeth in sight. I asked if it was an old wives tale about the enamel being stronger in teeth that erupt late, and she told us that it was not. It has been proven. So hopefully we will have very healthy teeth too. This does not stop the boys though. They are eating table food and use those gums just like teeth. WE will continue on formula until they are 15 months old and then can make the switch to whole milk. They love the toast and pasta pick-ups the most.

We want to thank everyone who has helped us through this first year of twindom.