Room to Grow

I wasn't going to write a post about having to lower the kids' crib mattresses but it was just so funny the way it happened...I had to take pictures. Timothy started standing in his crib yesterday afternoon and I told Young this morning that we needed to move his mattress down. We were going do it tonight...well, Timo fell out of his crib this afternoon. That's not the funny part...he is OK, but gave me/us a big scare. He was lucky he landed on his back. I can't believe he went from standing to climbing out in 24hr!!

So tonight we lowered his mattress and decided to do Cameron's this weekend b/c she isn't really getting up in her crib yet. Just as we were discussing when to lower her's, Young turned around and she was climbing up on her knees, holding onto the bars! We had our answer, we're not taking any chances. We pulled her out and put her in with Timothy and went to work on her crib. The kids had the best time in the same crib for about 20mins. Timo was standing and Cameron was trying to match him.
Now they are both safe and sound about 2feet lower than before!

2008 Ornament Party

We had our 7th Annual Ornament Party this past weekend. Young started the tradition before we got married as a way to get his tree decorated...and we still continue it to spend time with our friends and get some really great ornaments!! This year was a little trying because of having two babies nipping at our heels the whole time. But we pulled everything together, were a little behind in getting the food out, and got some really special ornaments. Even though this years theme was "O Holy Night", it seemed homemade ornaments took the majority. It was tough picking the winner but it had to go to the "Twin's First Christmas" ornament from Liz and Salvador Rossa.
The runner up...Alex playing to my soft side of UNC and Marge trying to use the cuteness of our kids...it almost worked!

Liz and Annelise were the real stars of the evening. They spent the whole party chasing after the kids, entertaining them, feeding them and helping get ready for bed. What troopers!


All in all we had a great evening and it was so special to have all our friends around us celebrating the start of the Christmas season!Jeff, Sarah, Vivi feeding Jessica. And Doug, Joaquin and Wilnye hangin' in the kitchen.

The kids with their new shoes from Liz...and Keis was visiting from Japan, hanging with Cameron.

The 2008 Christmas Tree!

We headed out Saturday to get our Christmas tree. We went to our local nursery and picked out a spectacular tree that was tall, nicely shaped and enough gaps to fit some of our big ornaments. Little did we know, once we got it home, the trunk of the tree was extremely crooked. We got it home and placed it in the stand only to find out it leaned about 20degress to side. How did we miss this at the tree lot?? So there was alot of trimming, alot of sawing and about two feet cut off the bottom to try and get it straight in the stand. Ugh! But an hour and half later we had it! (Don't touch the tree too hard, it might fall back over.)
Young picking out the perfect one and me holding the tree...not noticing the trunk we crooked!
Another 12inces off the tree but we got it! Time to put the lights on...

Little trees just the perfect size for the kids!!

Mischief

It seems as soon as I turn my back these days the kids are into something or playing somewhere they shouldn't be. It's somewhat my fault because I'm forget and leave things out that they can easily get into. I left the sales catalogs on the couch, forgetting that Timothy can climb up to it now. He and Cameron completely tore them all apart. The same with the Sunday paper earlier this week, I had it by the door for recycling...Timo attacked it!
And how did they figure out how to pull the mouse down from the computer, get it unplugged and start playing with it?? Everything has to be put up high now.
I feel like I need to have a cleaning service come clean our place now...and get all the nooks and crannies I miss each week. Timothy ends up in the most unlikely places, like behind the sofa. I don't even want to think about how dirty it must be back there!

Cameron's New Moves

Check out the video of Cameron's new moves. She wants to crawls so bad but just can't get going in the right direction...you can here Timothy cheering the the back ground at the end...

Timothy's Dump Truck

As Timothy started to crawl more and more I wanted to get him a toy on wheels that he could play with that would move with him. I picked this dump truck up at a yard sale for a $1 and Timo absolutely loves it. He is always playing with his dump truck. I'm constantly hearing the wheels roll across the floor and Timo trying to ram it into the walls. He gets really upset when it gets turned over and doesn't roll...he hasn't figured out how to turn in back on it's wheels yet.

(please excuse Timo's drool...he has another tooth coming in...)

Black Friday

We're such bad parents...we woke the kids up at 5:30am on Friday to head out shopping!! My family used to go out every year the day after Thanksgiving, so it's tradition I had growing up. I haven't been able to do it for the past 10 some years b/c I always had to work. Not this year!! I made sure we were out among the crowds, lost in the hustle and exchanging elbow punches with the best of them. We got the kids up and headed to Target for their 6am opening. We got there 30min after they opened the everything we wanted was already gone!! Can you believe it? I've never seen Target that crowded. Then we went from there to Sears around 7am and hit more crowds. Craziness. The day wasn't a total bust, we got some good deals at Sears and Macy's. We were home by 11am...everyone ready for a nap.

We all relaxed for the rest of the day and then bundled the kids up to go out to Ghirardelli Square for the lighting of the Christmas tree. Normally Young and I go downtown to Union Square for the really big tree lighting but we figured it might be way too hard to maneuver the double stroller though thousands of people. Ghirardelli was nice and the kids enjoyed seeing their first Christmas tree. The kids had another first...hot dogs and french fries! We stopped and had dinner at a 50s diner but I didn't pack any food for them. So they got tiny bits of hot dogs and smashed up french fries...yummy!!

Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for this year. First and for most, our beautiful children. We are so thankful the Lord has blessed us with Timothy and Cameron and made us a family. We had such a great Thanksgiving, spending time with friends and cookin' up a storm! This was the first year we hosted dinner at our house...of which we are also thankful for...and boy did we have some delicious food. Young volunteered at church in the morning, feeding the homeless, then our friends Liz and Salvador came over for lunch. We snacked on crab legs, smoked sturgeon deviled eggs, caviar and champagne. Then it was on to our main meal of turkey and all the trimmings. The Busbee family joined us a little later (when they finished up at church) and we had such a wonderful evening being in the company of good friends. Since Young and I live far away from our families, we are so thankful for the blessing of the friendships we have here in San Francisco. Everyone played with the twins, freeing up Young and me for a while so we could just relax...soooo Thankful for that!!! Then the boys turned on the playstation and the ladies went through the sales paper! What a great Thanksgiving!!

Making music

I had the kids in the kitchen yesterday while I was working on their dinner and Cameron started her own little band!

All Smiles

The kids are all smiles again! Timothy is back to his old self with renewed energy. He is crawling all over now and climbing up into everything. This makes me so happy considering how much he has slept the past week and how little energy he had when he was awake. And Cameron still has a stuffy nose but is basically back to her old self. She and her brother are all over the place now, getting into any and everything they can find. Nothing like crawling babies to let you know how dirty your floors are!!

On the Rebound

The kids are finally feeling better, Mommy and Daddy are fighting their colds and things are on the upswing. It's been a rough time with everyone being sick but it's also been great family time at home. Young worked from home the rest of last week so I could have extra hands to help with two sick babies. I was so grateful to have him at home! But after about 10 days of being couped up in the house, we were all going a little stir crazy! We all stayed home from church on Sunday and by Sunday evening we were trying to get really creative to entertain the kids...

Cameron thought she would help Daddy solve some crises at work. And Daddy built a fort for the kids out of pillows. Timothy had a blast trying to figure out how to get out!

Timothy taking a ride in the laundry basket...and putting away the dishes. Such helpful hands!

Update on Timothy

Thank you all for your prayers. Timothy is doing much better and we managed to escape a hospital stay. As I mentioned before, Timothy has bronciolities...as result of the RSV virus. He has been really sick for about 7 days now but seems to doing much better as of today. Our doctor wanted to admit him to the hospital earlier in the week because of high temperature, wheezing and low oxygen in his blood. But Young was out of town and I felt like I had no one really that could watch Cameron for me. So Young caught the next flight home and we were able to monitor him at home overnight. Our doctor also wanted someone else to watch/entertain Cameron so I could give Timothy my full attention, watching for any signs of difficult breathing. We saw the doctor again yesterday and he was showing signs of improvement. Praise God!!

So now Cameron has it...UGH! We took her along with us for Timothy's visit so our doctor could check her out and yes, she has the RSV virus too. I tried so hard to keep her from getting sick but it was impossible. I would put them on opposite ends of the room to play but just end up right next to each other every time. Let's hope Cameron doesn't have as severe case as Timothy. She hasn't started a fever yet and still seems in good spirits, just a lot of coughing.

The bright side is they should both be doing much better by Thanksgiving!! Thank you again for all your prayers!!!

Timothy

I would ask that you all please pray for Timothy. He has developed Bronchiolitis, an infection of the airways, causing him to have trouble breathing. It's a severe case, causing us to monitor his breathing 24/hr. And the oxygen in his blood is low as a result of his shallow breathing. But despite his difficulties and fever, he is still a smiley boy. Please pray that the Lord would strengthen him and heal his little body. And pray that Cameron feels comforted during this time of all attention on Timothy. Thanks for all your prayers!!

9 Months Old!

We have made it 9 months, Woo Hoo!!

I remember, when my kids were 3mo old, meeting mom who had 9mo old twins...and thinking they were so cute, I couldn't wait until mine were 9mo old. They were sitting up, crawling, had some teeth and actually played together. It felt like we would never get to that point...and here we are!

We just had our 9mo appointment and everything looks good with the kids. They are growing so much and learning so fast. And what is more fun, they are developing in much different ways. Timothy is much more physical and forward focused. And Cameron is more intellectual and very aware of her surroundings. They both barely fit in the rocking chair anymore...much less stay put. It took forever to get these pictures because timothy kept trying to get down.

So here are the stats...
Timothy is 20lb 6oz
Cameron is 18lb 15oz

-Our biggest accomplishment is the kids now sleep unswaddled!!! Timothy always flips over to his tummy...Cameron still doesn't roll over.
-Timothy is crawling on all fours now...he was crawling walrus style for a while.
-Cameron is scooting on her butt and spends much more time on her tummy now...almost like she enjoys it. She'll be crawling soon.
-Timothy is sporting two teeth! Cameron has one on the way.
-Their new favorite game is peek-a-boo. Cameron is so smart, she leans over to try and find you.
-They love picking up food to eat...Cheerios and toast are at the top of their favorite list.
-We've met so many new friend through play dates, lots of other twin friends!
-Cameron has really come out of her shell the past month or so. She stays in the nursery without me and she smiles and laughs more with strangers.

I'm so proud of all their little accomplishment...which are big accomplishment to them!! I can't wait to see what the next holds in store for us...

Busy, Busy, Busy

Sorry I haven't posted in a while...Young was traveling most of last week and all this week. When I'm alone with the kids I don't get much done outside of feeding, diaper change and baths. And the weather has been beautiful and warm so we've been spending a lot of time outside in the park. Timothy also caught a nasty chest cold over the weekend so we've been nursing him back to health. I'll try to get their 9mo update done this week but that might be all I get around to....

Conspiracy Theory

The kids have their own language to each other. They "talk" to each other more and more these days...and it gets pretty loud! I caught them conspiring the other day...I'm sure some how plotting on how to get more Cheerios at lunch! I couldn't say anything while I was taping because they would have stopped...as you will see...

I think I can, I think I can....

Little Cameron wants to crawl so bad! But she hates being on her tummy, which is problem for crawling and hasn't figured out how to get up on her hands and knees yet. She leans all the way over, trying to reach something and scoots on her butt to move. She gets down and can't get back up so she just lays her head down. She's like the little Engine That Could...I think I can, I think I can...
Her brother offering tips on how to get up on her hands..."just do it sis, come on, we have to go exploring behind the sofa and drive mommy crazy!"