Good News

We took Dylan to the eye doctor today because at times his left eye looks like it crosses in. Good news, he is not cross eyed and we don't have to worry about him developing a lazy eye. Since Carter sat on his head while I was pregnant, it caused the symmetry of his eyes to be unbalanced (it's not too noticeable and will straighten out as he grows). So no baby glasses for us!!! They dilated his eyes and gave him these shades to wear:)) They didn't work too well.

Saturday

Dylan and Carter

Dylan

The Boy's Baptism

It took us a little while, but we finally had the boys baptized. This past year we joined Mt. Olivet church in Minneapolis. The church has several hundred members and we don't really know too many of them, so we decided to do a private baptism. This worked out really nice since we had a large group of family members joining us. The minister did such a nice job and took a little extra time with each boy, so I was really happy we did the private baptism.

Afterwards, we managed to cram about thirty people into our house for a little BBQ. Fortunately, the rain held off and some people were able to hang out outside.

Carter

Dylan

Keith's friend Justin attended and took all these great pictures!!!

Pictures

Carter

Dylan

Carter (left), Dylan (right)

More Pics

More Pics

Dylan

Carter

Carter and Dylan

Dylan

6 Months!

Where has the time gone??? The boys are six months old already. We took them in this week and here are their statistics. The boys had just gotten over the flu and had lost some weight before we took them in, so I think their percentiles are a little lower. I was a little surprised by them because I'm always hearing how "healthy" these boys are.

DYLAN:

Weight: 16 lbs 11 oz, 39%

Height: 26.5", 58%

CARTER:

Weight: 17 lbs 2 oz, 47%

Height: 27", 75%

Dylan and Carter

It was so nice out, we had to go and hang out on the deck and watch Dad grill.

Party in Carter's crib

Dylan eating the tablecloth

Check out my locks....

Because I don't have to wear my helmet anymore!!! We took the boys in for their cranial cap adjustment and PT on Wednesday. Both the boys have had great growth spurts and Carter no longer has to wear his! Dylan will still have his for at least three more weeks.

Carter sitting up like a big boy in his crib, he was all smiles!

Sitting and Crawling

Just this week the boys really seem to be grasping onto the concepts of sitting and crawling. Carter is our "sitter" and Dylan is our future "crawler." The first thing Dylan does when he is laying on the floor is roll over and tries to crawl. He can't quite keep his head up enough to crawl, but he does manage to scoot about 5 feet. Needless to say, changing Dylan's diapers have been a little bit difficult!

Carter

Dylan and Carter

Dylan

Playing, Sleeping, Eating

Carter & Dylan

Starting this week, the boys don't really want to fall asleep when I am holding them. They are preferring their Daddy.

Dylan is much more interested in playing with his bowl and eating his bowl, than eating the actual food!

It's hard to say goodbye......not really!

This is a Craig's List story with a happy ending.

Our house came with this lovely (I'm guessing) 1979 Amana refrigerator. Beautiful, I know many of you are jealous. We went ahead an replaced it when we moved in and this served as a pretty good garage "beer" fridge. Well, as you all know, the winters in Minnesota get pretty cold. I told Keith...."let's not leave the pop in the refrigerator, it will explode"....and Keith says "no, it will be fine." Yep, sure enough I walk out one day to the aftermath of a pop explosion within my fridge, split cans of pop everywhere, even one of the shelves on the door fell off. And I'm not sure how, but even the bottom of the freezer seemed to explode. So anyhow, you can see that this poor fridge has seen better days.

So lucky us, it turns out our friend Bob found this nice fridge on Craig's list for free and sold it to us for a $100! Win. Win......and there is another "Win" in this story.

So to get rid of this energy sucker, we decided to post it on Craig's list for free. We weren't sure if we would have any takers....sure enough about two hours goes by and GONE! This bad boy was a hot item! You should have seen the people coming buy our house hoping for a free fridge. My favorite was the two guys who rolled up in a Neon. (Because why wouldn't you try to put a refrigerator in a Dodge Neon) Then their car broke down in front of our house, they got out of the car, somehow fixed the car and then they were off. Unfortunately, without the fridge.

We're ready for the sun with these new hats!

How much fun are these new hats! As soon as we lose the helmets, we can wear all kinds of fun hats!

Dylan

Carter and Dylan

Dylan

Carter