Splash!!

Aunt Keena invited us to go over for a swim today. It was just Keena and I with the 5 boys -- a little out numbered, but they were so good! Thanks for such a great time!

Fraternal Twins

I have been receiving more and more comments about how the boys look so different. First of all, I agree. And their personalities can be totally opposite as well. They are definitely fraternal twins (not identical), as are 2/3 of all twins. All boy/girl twins are fraternal and many same sex twins are fraternal. Only fraternal twins can be attributed to heredity. Identical twins are a fluke. So, I came across this poll at twinsmagazine.com that I thought was very interesting. MoT (Moms of Twins) were asked if their fraternal twins look alike. Here are the results:



View Poll Results: How much do your fraternal twins look alike?
1. My fraternal twins don't look alike at all. 40 (35.40%)
2. My fraternal twins look like siblings. 54 (47.79%)
3. My fraternal twins look a lot alike. 17 (15.04%)
4. My fraternal twins look like identical twins - but science says they aren't. 2 (1.77%)
Voters: 113.



I would say that Alex and Aiden definitely look like siblings, but they do not look alike. What do you think?

PawPaw and His Boys

The boys (all three) are always wanting to ride the four wheeler. As soon as we get to Mom's, they grab PawPaw's hand and pull him to the shed. BUT it is hard to ride 3 little ones at one time. Granted, we have become quite good at it, but last night we used the wagon. We hooked the handle of the wagon over the hitch of the bike. We then added a pad to the bottom of the wagon to make it comfortable. The boys went crazy.

Pig Out

Everyone came over Saturday night for BBQ. Heidi brought the dessert -- too perfect!

Nora and Heidi

The "Kids' Table"

Abby fell in love with the ribs -- she is sooo part of this family!

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing a very Happy Mother's Day to all the very special MOMS in our lives! We love you!

Making Friends

OK, the title could be deciving. The boys were trying to make friends with a pile of ants. Aiden ran to me right away and I took a couple off his hands and feet. Then I pulled Alex inside and took 2 off his feet. They looked fine and were crying only because I had them inside. I gave then a little Tylenol for the discomfort. They wanted to go back outside to play. I cleaned where the ants were and then let them go out on the other side of the yard. All was well until I said "bath time." When I got Alex undressed, this is what I saw:
(It is hard to see how much red covered his body with the pictures on the computer, but you can see how he was still so happy.)


He never cried once!!!! I have not clue what happened other than to say they got him before I could get to him, and then they all went off. It looks now that it was not as many bites as we thought. He just got really red from some of them. Granted, he did have 30-50 bites, but that night we would have thought it was over 100. Oh and I was home alone with the twins!!! I put them in the tub (Aiden had none other than his fingers). I called my mom. When she got here we called the doctor. Everything we had done was perfect so far -- cool bath, Tylenol, and now he told me how much Benadryl. I think the bath made it look a little worse -- the reddness came out more with the warmth from the water. But he never missed a beat. He played like nothing had happened. Of course, everyone had to come check on him that night, but he was interested in playing. I cannot get over how he did not even really scratch (only in the tub with the warm water). Well, never a dull moment with twin toddler boys, right?

UPDATE: Alex is doing great. He slept the night well and looked much better Thursday morning.

Kelci's Recital

We went to Kelci's dance recital last weekend. She did a wonderful job. Wes and Abby could not keep their eyes open. She did a beautiful job!

Bathtime 2

Welcome Home

Aunt Kristen is back in the United States! She has been deployed for 6 months and is now home - in San Antonio. She has to stay there for 2 weeks then plans on visiting. She sent the boys a present right before she left. Thank you!

N. O. Children's Museum

Wesley's class went on a field trip to the Children's Museum Thursday. I took off and went with them. He had a wonderful time. We are definately planning to go back this summer!

Live Feed Sidebar

You may have noticed, we have added a live feed sidebar on the blog. We never really know who checks the blog. We update it frequently for those near and far to see what is happening in our everyday lives, but we also are using it as a journal through the boys' young years (and maybe beyond). It is interesting to know, though, who "out there" is reading about the boys. OR I guess more accurately is where it is being read since the live feed gives a city and state the blog is being read from. All of the other links are listed below this sidebar.

Our Weekend Away

For Christmas, mom and dad gave us a weekend at the Royal Sonesta in New Orleans. We had a French Quarter Balcony room. It was so nice. Mom babysat my three boys and baby Glenn. We went with Kirby and Shannon and met another couple in New Orleans.

Me and Shannon on the balcony of our rooms.

Me and Daniel

Kirby and Shannon

OK this is not typically me, but I had to post it so some would know I at least tried it. We had a really great time of going out. I don't do this very often, but it was lots of fun.

We went to Cats Meow and Kirby made Shannon get up on stage for karaoke. (and a surprise)

He actually did it -- down on one knee and all! Congrats you 2!

And we finished the weekend with a nice stroll Sunday ALL around the French Quarter. We actually walked the whole quarter this weekend - from Harrah's to the French Market. And quite a few times. It was only bad walking back, but that was also after we tried riding the bull at one of the country bars the night before (that is harder than you could imagine - sorry I won't post the pics for that.)

Again, thank you Mom and Dad for such a nice weekend! I am glad the boys were so well behaved for you!

Camp

We went to the camp this past weekend. It was really nice to get away for a couple of days. The boys could not get enough of the 4 wheeler.Here are a few pictures from our weekend.

Alex had barely walked in the camp and got a big bruise on his forhead. He ran through the camp to the back porch where PawPaw was with the truck and 4Wheeler. He tried "running" down the steps, but did not make it.

Wes enjoyed gathering logs to have a campfire. A few months ago, part of the land was logged, so there is plenty of logs and twigs just the right size for him to gather.

The flyswatter was not really to kill bugs, just a toy for Aiden.

The boys enjoy playing in bed with PawPaw.

The twins would not sleep in the room by themselves. They both slept in the bed with me. We are not really sure why, except to say a differnet place and they were really exhausted.I guess to make me not get upset, Aiden sat up in the middle of the night, felt around on my face, and then started giving me kisses. It was the sweetest thing. I had to keep that in mind when my back was hurting the next morning from sleeping with the boys.
Aiden's wild hair -- he was running toward me at the time. Wes loves his coffee milk in the morning. This is a tradition at the camp - his special thing with Aunt Gerry.

I don't want to leave!!!

Wesley's First T-ball Practice

Wes catching a ground ball.

Team meeting with Coach Aimee

Wes played first base today.

Rounding third

Ethan making a good hit

Wes up to bat

It was a good hit!