St. Patrick's Day

We had a blast celebrating St. Patrick's Day! We all dressed in green and headed uptown for the St. Patty's day parade. Note for next year- arrive EARLY to get a good seat! The babies loved the parade and I'm so glad we went! We came home for a quick pump break and then dropped the babies off with gigi and pop pops. Mommy and Daddy met up with Allie, Brett, and Bo and went back downtown for a little bar crawl. We had a crazy night and so much fun!

Park Date

We had so much fun hanging out with the babies this past weekend. We arrived home from Florida on Friday and spent much of Saturday recuperating and hanging at the house. By Sunday we decided to take advantage of the beautiful day and go to the park.

Sunday started off with another amazing church service followed by brunch at city tavern. The plan was to eat outside but the weather didn't cooperate.

Emma Cate is really into grabbing faces!

After afternoon naps we changed out of our church clothes and headed to Freedom park. The weather had warmed up nicely and the park was PACKED. We waited in line for 10 minutes to get into the park and then search everywhere for a parking spot!

The line of cars getting in

We walked around for a bit and then made a pit stop for bottles. We set up blankets and ate in the sunshine!  Both babies miraculously finished their bottles (they've not been so hungry recently) and then we were off again for a few laps around the lake before hitting the swings.

yes, we matched. 

We stopped by gigi's to see her newly landscaped fire pit. I wish I was as talented as my mom! I have two brown thumbs and have no clue where to place flowers. I'm hoping to get her to come by and help out our sad looking front yard!

Crib lowering and scenes from around the house

I've got a little time on my hands want to catch up on a lot of blog posts! Here we are a few days before Easter and getting ready to head to Florida. These are just some everyday shots from around the house.

It was definitely time to lower Holden's crib. He and Daddy worked on it together while I spied on them from the other room. Holden's crib is now as low as it goes but he still is able to stand up. This is making it very hard for us at bedtime. If Holden isn't tired enough (or overly tired) he stands up and plays in his crib. The problem is that he isn't quite as good at sitting down as he is at standing up so he will scream for us to come to his rescue and then 2 minutes later he is standing up again! 

The other day we walked in during naptime and he was standing up facing Emma Cate's crib and she was on her tummy pushing up to see over her bumpers and they were just laughing so hard at each other. I love having twins!

The following are Emma Cate's faces while trying on her new sunhat. She is definitely a character!

We love hanging out together in brother's new lowered crib! So fun to stand instead of nap!

I was cleaning their room and packing for Florida and had put both babies in Holden's crib to keep them contained. I turned around and found them like this. Better hope Holden keeps his gas to himself Emma Cate!

Playdate

Our spring break started out with a fun playdate with all our my teacher friends and their little ones! We've had 7 teacher babies born at our school within the last year and a half! All the mommies have come back to teaching after maternity leave and it's so nice to have other mommies around at work! Thanks so much to Allison for hosting! 

Emma Cate was going through a little phase and CRIED for most of the playdate. Holden sort of froze around the other kids. It was weird to see them act this way since they are normally so crazy around each other. 

9 Month Happenings

We went for our 9 month appointment the other day and the babies did great! They are allowed to eat solid food and I'm working on getting them to try new whole foods. I am making their nutrition a priority but it is HARD! Any tips or suggestions on what your babies eat? I know that they say just to feed them what we're eating but so often we don't always eat the most nutritious food and I don't want to give that stuff to the babies. They've started to eat trader joe's veggies burgers and seem to really enjoy them. Emma Cate is a GREAT eater and Holden is super picky! He is puffs or nothing. Also check out our full sleeve bibs. I am so tired of food ruining clothes and my mom picked these up at Shower Me With Love. They are so great at keeping babies clean!

Playtime!

The kids are in such a fun stage and we are just loving them soooo much! The spring weather is here and we're enjoying spending lots of time outside and with family.

We went for a little ihop breakfast the other week and we are at a point where the babies HATE being in their carseats during meals and much prefer these Phil & Ted's lobster chairs. Holden is quite the screecher but is easily silenced by puffs. He LOVES those things! I keep a bottle of them with us wherever we go.

Emma Cate has been pushing up like a CHAMP! I'm sure she will be crawling sometime soon. We spend a lot of our time outdoors playing around. 

The next few pictures are just some sweet ones that my mom sends me during the day while I'm at work. I LOVE getting baby pictures and hearing about what they are doing!

our new patio chairs!

modeling the Easter shirt Gigi made

Gigi spoils us rotten with TONS of toys.

practicing getting into crawling position and bearing weight on her arms

my little reader

I love not having cheerleading after work. I am able to get home around 3 and play with the babies while they are still up and happy! We've moved a lot of the toys down to the basement and the babies are loving their new space. It is so much easier for them to crawl around on the carpet and I don't have to worry about them hitting their heads on the hardwood.