Two Squeezes

Time is flying.. and it's hard to catch up

2009-12-02T19:44:00.002-05:00

I just logged on and saw that my last post was on June 22. Not a day goes by when I think to myself "I really need to catch up on the blog".. but for some reason I don't sit down and do it. My lack of posting I see as a good thing, instead of sitting down in front of the computer and spending an hour or so working on the blog.. I am spending that time taking care of and playing with my family. When I am not playing with the kids.. I am running around making sure that when they are all awake.. that my slate is clean of responsibilities and I can focus on them.. so needless to say.. I have been neglecting the blog. .but all for very very very good reasons.

Stay tuned for a year in the life of Ava and Ronan Tullis.. and perspectives from big brother Jack.. who I think will be allowed to type his own message. We will be sure to include lots of photos because this year has surely been an adventure and then some.

Two squeezes to all of you.

My Dear Babies!

2009-06-22T22:16:00.001-04:00

My Dear babies.. you are now six months old and I have to ask myself where did the time go? It seems like just yesterday, I rolled over in bed and asked Daddy if he wanted to have babies today.. and he handled it like a champ.. just like he does everything. I can't believe how lucky our family is to have you in our lives. The two of you bring so much joy and laughter into our house, you allow Jackson to be a big brother to you, and you make everyone smile.

My favorite times are all of the times. Honestly, you cry.. and I love making you feel better..and it makes me laugh that you smile when you see my face. I have seen you grow from fragile little infants to these round happy babies. The way you interact with each other.. the way Ronan flips himself upside down to see you makes me laugh... Ava, the way you greet Daddy and I in the morning with your crazy kicks, your beautiful smile and the crinkle in your nose... makes every morning worth waking up. Ronan, the way you start getting really excited and then start laughing when everything is quiet.. makes me happy that you are living in a world that makes you so happy.

The past six months have been some of the best times in my life and you make my dreams come true. Jackson said to me today, Mommy... we found a house that didn't have any love in it and we just filled it up with gallons and gallons of love.. and he is right babies!!! We did fill this house up with love.. Love for Daddy.. love for Brother.. Love for Lindsey and tons of love for the two of you.

Thank You Babies for making me a Mommy again.. for giving Daddy the opportunity to be the greatest Dad he can be.. and giving Jackson the opportunity to be a role model for you. Please don't grow up too fast.. I am trying to cherish every moment we have together.. and would hate for time to slip away too fast.

I love you so much Babies! Sleep tight.. we will see you in the morning!

Mommy

Time flies when you are a peanut almost 5 months old

2009-05-17T19:48:00.005-04:00

Mom is really really sorry she hasn't posted in a long time, and WE apologize that we always have to start our posts off with an apology... because SHE of all people has her hands full.

The last post you saw was from Easter. Mom and Dad brought us down to CT to have a proper Easter Sunday with the Pelloni Family.. Proper including the Easter hats.. as you could have seen from the picture. We spent a night at Grampy's house and then headed over to Great Gramma and Pop pop's house for the Italian Easter Sunday. We were really excited to meet more cousins we hadn't met before, Sonny and Skylar. Brother and I really put our cute on for that day... I don't know what happened to him... he looked like he should have been on the home page of baby gap. From what I hear, Mommy had a two cocktails and went to Janie and Jack.... and went a little crazy.

We have been on a constant adventure.... our Nanny takes us all sorts of places. We go to the park and out for walks as much as we can. She takes us to the mall for walks on rainy days... and don't worry she doesn't let anyone touch us... so we don't get the piggy flu. Mommy and Daddy have gotten a little more courageous with us too... they took us to Boston.. and they took us to the soccer field one night.. in hopes that they could rotate on and off the field.. That made us LAUGH... or cry... Thank God we had freinds there that could help out... and Mommy didn't really get any playing time in.

Brother has rolled over.. yep it's true.. the pudgie kid I share a room with, flipped from his belly to his back... everytime he does it he gets a little mad and then Mommy or Daddy comes flying up the stairs to plug him in and put him on his belly again. (For all of you who are freaked about the belly thing.. our Dr. told us to do it) As for me, my big milestone... well.. I wouldn't call this a milestone.. I would call it a lifestyle change.. I am no longer a cranky baby.. not even a little. Mommy puts me to bed with my eyes wide open.. and I doze off... through the night. Brother does too.. but he has always been easy going. I realized that you attract more bees with honey.. and turned a new leaf.. now I smile.. coo... and laugh.. and I don't give Mommy or Daddy any trouble when its time to go to bed... I do get a little crabby when my pants are wet... but wouldn't you? We are officially eating food.. apples, bananas, pears and rice...oh and peas, sweet potatos and carrots. We have been doing a pretty good job of it... I really really like it.. especially the peas which grosses Mommy right out.. she hates peas!

Big brother has been spending more time with us lately which has been nice.. Sometimes he takes me into his room without Mommy or Daddy knowing about it.. we giggle about it because they freak out when I am not in my bed and they find me kickin it with big brother.

We have been spending alot of time with our "Aunties" and "Uncles".... I put this in quotes because they are who we adopted as Aunties and Uncles.. in our house everyone is family. Uncle Rob who tends to like brother better... has got a little crush on me... I have alot of fun with him... he bounces me on his knee like crazy. Aunty Tracey comes over every Thursday to play with both of us... and she just plays and plays with us.. it's so much fun we get SOOO much attention! Grammama comes over too!!! Lucky for us we have LOTS of grandparents.. and right when we start to miss one.. someone shows up to spoil us with love! Grammama comes over as a pinch hitter for our parents when they need her.. she's the best.. and she thinks we are the funniest babies alive...well except for Adelaide..she's the real funniest...and we have to give a shot out to Aunty Yo and Uncle Jason who trek over here from the seacoast to hang out with all of us.. Aunty Yo always talks about having all sorts of trouble up her sleeve with me..and Uncle Jason just carries me around like a pro.. ever since my 3rd day on the job he's been doing that.. pretty impressive.. huh? WE LOVE Aunties and Uncles.. and we LOVE when they come visit.. so if you are one of those people.. please come visit us soon.

Speaking of pinch hitting.. we are Red Sox fans in case you were wondering.. Brother has already grown out of his first red sox shirt.... and me.. I just wear mine to earn points from Daddy (I am trying to get a wooden play set to put next to the ponies).

We did celebrate our first Mother's day with Mommy.... but practically slept through the whole day.. I guess not a terrible thing right? We did enjoy Mommy's smile that day... and Daddy's birthday was this week. We know he appreciated brother's 5:22 wake up call after he went to bed at 3am.

We will be 5 months old next week and time has really been flying in the PBT house. Everyday is a new adventure for us and we see Mommy and Daddy smile like crazy at the two of us. We have started playing with each other a little more and we are definitely laughing alot more. We are really lucky to be part of this family, it's full of love and laughter.. and we are really lucky that Mommy and Daddy have such amazing friends and family. Life is good when you are a Tullis Twin!

Next month we are getting Baptized.. and we think we may be holding onto our bottles, rolling over, talking more..laughing more and maybe even giving smooches who knows.

Photo Shoot:

From Spring 2009

Aunty Tracey (She's a twin too) and us:

From Spring 2009

Daddy and I taking a little nappy nap

From Spring 2009

Daddy's Twin:

From Spring 2009

Our visit with Aunty Stacey and Uncle Scott:

From Spring 2009

Goin for walks in our rig!

From Spring 2009

Mommy and Ronan making Mother's day brunch:

From Spring 2009

Mommy and Bubba making Mother's day brunch:

From Spring 2009

Stacey and Brother on Mother's day:

From Spring 2009

Ms Kim and I on Mother's day:

From Spring 2009

Our trip to Boston:

From Spring 2009

A little North End action:

From Spring 2009

Cousins:

From Spring 2009

Pouty face babies:

From Spring 2009

Our twin cousins:

From Spring 2009

Brother looking really cute!

From Spring 2009

Easter Pics

2009-04-14T09:10:00.002-04:00

From Easter 2009

Ponies and Grampies and Mommies oh my

2009-03-23T20:31:00.004-04:00

I know it's been a while since you have seen a post. Mommy claims she is busy.. but honestly, I know she can find the time between taking care of us, working a full time job, taking care of Jackson, doing 1st grade homework, fixing dinner, and finding time to give Daddy some smooches.. there has got to be time in the day to update this blog so that you all ya'll can see what my sister and I are up to.

Seeing that it's been a month, I know I am going to leave some things out.. if you are curious... just give us a call and I can fill in the gaps.

I think we have to move...our yard is NOT big enough for all the ponies my sister has won from my Dad.. Everytime she starts crying.. Daddy bets her a pony and she stops crying... so now, there is no more room in our yard for all of these ponies. I am beginning to realize that she has Daddy completely wrapped around her finger.. she gets ponies.. she gets extra long snuggles.. she gets to sleep in the big bed sometimes.. and Me.. I get the shaft. I get left in my bed.. and I don't get ponies.. I am torn.. do I want a pony.. or do I want a treehouse. As you can see in my pictures.. I am really trying to charm Mommy into getting me a treehouse.. the problem is.. there will be no room for my treehouse w/ all these ponies that are going to be in our yard. I have got my smile down! Watch out Ladies.. Ronan Tullis (yes that's me) is a CHARMER.. a little crinkle of the nose.. a little crooked smile and I can turn you to mush.

Mommies- Mommy is no longer with us 24 hours a day 7 days a week.. she had to go back to work... for a couple of weeks we had alot of fun with Grammy Pantz, Grammy Fudge (Formerly Grammy T), Aunty Kathy, Aunty Yo, and Mommy. Everyone came in to have their turn at taking care of us, while Mommy got her feet wet with work again. Our Nanny, Tina, started a couple of weeks ago and she is wonderful. She sings to us, dances with us, and is always trying to make us happy. Frankly, I think I have one up on my sister with Tina, MUSH.. MUSH.. I kid you not.. I turn her to mush when I flash her my smile. My sister.. she doesn't have the charm factor.. she has the cute factor going for her. We love spending time with Tina and we feel very lucky that even though Mommy and Daddy are working... we sometimes get a quick visit, hug, kiss or snuggle with them during the day because they work from home when they aren't on the road.

Grampies- You wouldn't believe who has come to visit us in the past month.. first.. our Big Poppity (Grampy Tullis) came to visit us.. Ava as usual tried to steal the show with her tears... and it worked.. I wouldn't be surprised if she got a pony from him too. I WISH she would just think of me for once and get a treehouse out of the deal. Most recently, we were visited by our Great Grampy Vadney and his "lil doggie" Suzette! We had a great time visiting with him!!! He has moved back here from Florida, so we are going to be spending alot more time with him... which is great.. we love spending time w/ Great Grampies.. they are really smart and I am hoping they can teach me some tricks they learned back in the day.

Milestones-You may find some of our milestones trivial, but we get really excited about them. I am a little disappointed that Mommy didn't get shots of all of them, but hopefully she will have them next time. We are both smiling up a storm. I think Mommy is the funniest person alive.. she makes faces at me no matter what time of day it is.. Daddy.. he sings so badly.. I can't help but laugh! Sissy- she's smiling but doesn't have quite the sense of humor I have. She's happiest in the morning.. after 4:30, you don't know who you are going to get.. you could get Glinda the good witch.. or you could get Elphaba the bad witch (who is really just misunderstood.. another story for another day). I am LOVING my hands.. I play with them and try to suck on my fist... Ava loves her pigs.. she is always kickin kickin kickin when she gets excited. Mommy is now giving us cereal in our bottle with every meal and has started giving us some apple baby food mixed with cereal from a spoon. I like that ALL of the time.. my Sister.. not so much.. if she is Glinda.. she loves food.. if she is Elphaba she doesn't like anything. Sorry to disappoint.. we have not said our first word, taken our first steps, eaten our first pizza, or had our first beer (although we were tempted on St. Patty's day.. what do you expect from me.. my name is Ronan Sean Tullis.. however the only pot of gold I have is the one I leave in my pants for Mommy and Daddy)

Although Ava may have my Daddy wrapped, he is preparing me for baseball season.. I won't be one of THOSE kids who doesn't know what is going on.. I have everything I need for opening day.. w/ the exception of a beer mug and a hat. My Dad is also teaching me how to be a good man.. maybe a little early.. but I have gotten some great lessons from him on cleaning up after dinner and doing laundry. He is always running around helping Mommy.. we hear I love you alot.. and thank you so much alot around here.. Team Tullis is a strong team and Mommy is lucky to have the help she does because we make a MESS!

Enough out of me.. it's time for you to see how cute we are.. and to see all of our adventures.. ooooh.. I forgot to tell you.. we went to Portsmouth and saw the Ocean for the first time.. If we don't move to a horse farm.. I am lobbying for Portsmouth.

Hello Ladies!

From March 09

OH AVA PLEASE, NOT ANOTHER PONY!!!!

From March 09

GOOD WITCH OR BAD WITCH... I AM SO CONFUSED!

From March 09

MY SENSITIVE SIDE

From March 09

GOOD WITCH

From March 09

WRAPPED

From March 09

PRETTY GIRLS!

From March 09

CUTEST SOX FAN EVER PRACTICING MY PITCH

From March 09

TWIN TIME

From March 09

AVA CHARMING GREAT GRAMPY VADNEY

From March 09

FAMILY BONDING

From March 09

Over the river and through the woods to Grammy and Grampy's we go!!

2009-02-19T10:02:00.006-05:00

I have to tell you.. I have started this posting a bunch of times but between eating, pooping, and getting spoiled... it's been pretty tough to get to the computer.. plus Mommy is always on it trying to find deals on diapers and coffee.. when she isn't taking care of us(thanks Miss Kim for pointing out the www.bigcatcoffees.com site for Mommy).

Brother and I have been really busy these past couple of weeks.. trying to pack in as much as we can until Mommy goes back to work on March 1st. We are a little sad about Mommy having to go back to work, but we are excited for our Nanny to start..we just hope she can keep up with us.. We keep everyone very very busy.

We took our first road trip. Mom and Dad were really nervous so they packed the family mobile to the absolute brim with baby gear. We went to Connecticut
to visit the Pellonis and boy did we get a visit in. We started off the weekend bright and early.. I was ready to go in my best jammy jams.. but it took our parents a few hours to get out of the house.. once we were on the road.. I WAS ready to party.. but because they made me wait around for so long.. I fell asleep with brother the entire way!!! I think I earned a pony for that one.. by now.. I think I have earned 4 ponies!!

Our first stop in Connecticut, was Grammy's house. She was in the middle of making a bunch of sweet treats for her pub... but we got in the middle of that and I think Mom and Dad polished off a couple of those treats.. they both had chocolate on their faces when we woke up from our nap. After visiting with Grammy.. we put our party clothes on and went to our Uncle Tommy's 60th birthday party. This was my Grand Debut... oops I mean OUR Grand Debut to the Pelloni Family.. ooh time for me to throw a fit.. I will have to finish this in a bit.

pphew.. well that turned into an ordeal.. two crying babies and two diaper changes.. see why it takes me so long to post.

In CT.. we met ALL of our Pelloni Uncles and Aunties.... well except our Great Great Uncle Georgie.. but he is coming home soon we hope. Our Uncle Jimmy even came all the way from Florida to visit (that made our trip look like nothin). The highlight of our Pelloni Family visit was meeting our Great Great Aunty Stella. She stole us away from our parents.. and kept telling them to beat it.. she had us taken care of. She really didn't want us to go back.. I think she was talking about bringing us to Vegas with her. She's a little crazy.. but what women aren't in our family? We spent lots of time w/ her.. and then made the rounds with all of the other family members... we are really lucky to be part of such a big family.... a big family who likes to eat just like us!

After the party, we went to Grampy's house to spend the night. It was fun staying with Grampy.. he made Mom,Dad, and Lorrie a GREAT breakfast and he gave us lots of love. We had fun meeting Lorrie and Dad taught her all about facebook.. he loves to teach people about facebook.. perhaps he can start getting paid to do so because I am going to need LOTS of SHOES! I can't wait until I can walk so that I can run around his house and hide. Brother can't wait to go to work w/ Grampy so that he can drive his trucks.. Between Ronan and Jackson.. Grampy has quite the rock picking crew...

What a weekend we had... we also had some other firsts.. like our first walk in the neighborhood.. our first I can cry so loud no noise comes out... Mommy tried to give us our first rice cereal... but then we had to meet our first prune juice..so she stopped that experiment.. we haven't had our first sleep through the whole night.. or our first poo poo on the potty..

Oh our vitals..

I am up to 8lbs 10oz.. if you remember I started off at 4lbs 10 oz.. so Mommy's milk has been doing me some serious good!

Brother.. aka Chunka Chunka Burnin Love... or Frank the Tank he is up to 10lbs 12oz.. he too has been enjoying his boobie milk cocktails.

That's it for now.. it's gotta be time for me to start crying so Mommy knows that its time to eat..maybe I can get brother to do it at the same time.. that's always fun!!!

Brother and I trying out our new Bumbo seats.. we still don't know what to think of these things

From CT trip

Grampy making breakfast(not our breakfast)... sorry Grampy we had to share this picture.. it was such a special occassion

From CT trip

I was trying to figure out how to get these prints in the diaper bag... they would look so great in our room! Grampy's house has fun pictures like this all over it..

From CT trip

Me getting some lovin from my Grampy!!!

From CT trip

Male bonding at its best

From CT trip

Lorrie and Elvis watching Grampy play with us!

From CT trip

Ronan and our Glamourous Great Great Aunty Stella

From CT trip

Everyone around the table at Pop Pop and Gramma's house

From CT trip

Grammy and her Twin.. that's where we get it from... right?

From CT trip

This is such a great picture of my Grammy.. I had to post it.. I hope I look like her when I get older.. Mommy hopes the same thing!

From CT trip

We are ready for our walk Mom.. let's hop to it!

From CT trip

Mommy tried really hard to get Lindsey to look at the camera

From CT trip

Lucky 7- Ronan tells you how it is

2009-02-06T10:32:00.005-05:00

This week marks our 7th week in the PBT house. This week has been a whirlwind of events.

We kicked the weekend off with a visit from our friends, the Ronans. Michael, Shelby, Maeve and Charlotte all came over to play. Michael still thinks I was named after him, we are going to continue to tell him that in hopes that he pays for my college education.

We convinced Mom and Dad to take us to Jackson's basketball game. Little did we know, we too, would be the center of attention, along with Addie Cakes (Aka Adelaide Bower). I can't wait to be as tall as my brother so that we can play some hoops in the driveway. I know I can't take him now.. but give me a few months and I might be a force to be reckoned with on the courts. After sleeping.. oops I mean after watching the game.. we headed off to Sam's Club for Mommy to stock up on organic milk. I am not sure why she bought so much.. my milk is organic and free!! What is better than that? We rested our eyes through the Sam's adventure.

We then went to Aunt Stacey's house to refuel. We were there for a while.. we were held and held.. and kissed.. and held some more. I personally, tried to impress them w/ with my grunts, cackles, and toots.. the toots always get me something.

After the refuel and spoiling... we headed to the MALL?? Mom and Dad were really brave with this one.. Ava and I were on the boarder of being great babies.. or being really tough babies.. we chose to be great babies.. afterall.. they do wake up w/ us every night.. they do give us tons of love.. they do laugh at us all of the time. The Mall is a crazy place for babies.. lots of people, lots of lights.. lots of things they wouldn't buy me even though I was good and said please.

Mom and Dad needed to refuel..so Ava and I decided to take a little nap, they wheeled us into Ruby Tuesday's and had themselves a dinner date. Can you believe it.. we were SIX weeks old.. and they took us on a date... and we behaved. I think Daddy is going to buy me a rocket launcher for that.. and Ava definitely is going to get her pony.

That was just Saturday.. on Sunday, Daddy decided to bust out the Baby Bjorn.. we modeled it together. Usually my sister gets to the do the modeling, but I got to take advantage of it this time.. I think she was snoozin during the shoot. Adelaide came over to play with us as well as Kelly and Kristy. It was nice to have our families together... we took Addie aside and planned some sneak attacks on our brother, Jackson.. shhhhh don't tell him.

So that was the weekend.. we all had to go back to work on Monday.. sleepin, eating, poopin, it's all very hard work. Sister stopped her sleeping through the night streak which was tough on our parents. I stayed consistent.. wake up.. eat.. poop... toot.. and back to bed.

Grammy Tullis came to spoil us for a couple of days while Daddy went on some sales calls to Maine. Our Nanny came to visit us for a couple of hours, and we were visited by our friends Jen and Emma Melker. Everyone comes over here to get their baby fix.

Ooooh.. Ava wanted me to mention the fact that she wore her first pair of very designer jeans... no these weren't Sevens or Luckies.. they were jeans WITH designs on them... and they were pretty.. Not for me.. but she did look pretty in them. I am sure Mom will post some pictures..they took a bunch.

We are off to Connecticut this weekend to celebrate our Great Uncle Tommy's 60th Birthday. I am really excited to meet all of my Great Uncles, to eat some real pizza, to go to the Italian bakery, to sleep at Grampy's and to have Sunday dinner at Grammy's. I certainly am going to pack on a few pounds this weekend... I might just get up to 11lbs with the way Mommy has been feeding us.

We hope ya'll have a great week.

From 2-3-09

Thank You Thank You- Mommy's turn

2009-02-02T21:52:00.003-05:00

To all of our friends and family who have been so incredible for the past year or so.

I can't believe how lucky I am to have such incredible people in my life.

My husband is the most amazing, caring, thoughtful, loving, tender, courageous, strong and funniest person I have ever met in my life. I thank God for him everyday!! He does everything.. he cooks, cleans, feeds babies around the clock, goes sledding with Jackson, tells me I am beautiful (when I am at my worst), changes diapers, makes me laugh, plays dress up and photoshoot, tells me to take naps, and the list goes on. I always knew he would be a great Father, but couldn't dream of how great a Father and husband he would be. I am living a dream with him by my side.. and these babies are so lucky to have him.. what an incredible role model for both of them.

My family.. you are always here for the babies.. holding them, feeding them, burping them, you are that other set of hands that we need so that we can keep this engine going. We are so lucky... your help makes us look like we know what we are doing.

My friends... oh my friends... from the advice.. to the hand me downs.. to the dinners.... to the check in phone calls... thank you.. It really helps to know that someone has been in the same boat as us.. and your advice is always appreciated. We love and cherish the hand me downs.. we love and cherish your support.. we love and cherish your company. It hasn't been easy being couped up in the house and love when you stop by.. even if it is for a few minutes.

My Kids- There are 3 of you now.. and I thank you guys for being incredible children. Jackson, my big boy, the person who taught me how to be a Mom. You are so incredibly special to me. I love our snuggles, I love our two squeezes, I love our good morning Mommies.. I love how you make me laugh when you don't try. You are such a love to all of us.. I know this isn't easy for you.. but you are a great big brother... I promise you that it all gets better and I promise that Mommy is doing everything she can for you. Ava and Ronan.. you are such great babies. You make us laugh all of the time. We love your bright eyes.... we love your random smiles.. and even in the middle of the night... we love to give you kisses. Thank you for being such great babies.. We look forward to every new day with you. I am going to miss you like crazy when I can't spend all day watching you develop and grow.

Thank you God for allowing me to have this life. You have blessed our lives in so many ways... and continue to everyday. Thank You!

We keep biggering and biggering and biggering is what we do

2009-01-30T13:24:00.002-05:00

We had a Dr's appointment yesterday where we had to get weighed in.. some women may not want to put the lb's on.. but I LOVE to put the lb's on. I went from 6.8 lbs two weeks ago to 7.11lbs this week. My brother on the other hand, he's very talented.. he went from 8.6lbs two weeks ago to 9.12lbs. Mommy and Daddy keep calling him Frank the Tank... or just the Tank. They are silly.

We had a great time at the Dr... we kept messing all over the table making Mommy and Daddy jump up and clean us up.. they kept getting embarassed.. but the lady said it happens all the time... and here I thought I was special.

Doctor says we are doing great, we keep making eye contact with Mommy and Daddy and we are starting to smile a little. No, it's not gas.. it's the real thing.. just don't expect it..we like to surprise you.

Hopefully we will have more to post next week... THANK GOODNESS ITS FRIDAY!!! We love the weekends because Daddy doesn't have to work and he plays with us like crazy. He dresses me up in my pretty clothes and takes pictures.. and makes the best noises.. I SO can't wait. I am going to get up really early Saturday morning just so that I won't miss a minute of the weekend.

It's Been a MONTH.. Ronan's perspective

2009-01-27T11:49:00.006-05:00

Wow.. we have been around for a month already.. and boy has a lot happened.

After we came home from the hospital, we spent some time getting to know our big brother, Jackson. He's the greatest big brother.. he holds us and gives us kisses all of the time. We met our fur sister, Lindsey.. Mom and Dad were really excited for us to meet her.. she keeps us clean and always makes sure that she lets Mommy know when we are crying. My sister, Ava, gave my parents a scare on Christmas Eve.. we had to go BACK to the nursery where she was told she was too yellow. They wanted us to go BACK again to the nursery on Christmas Day and if she was more yellow.. we would have all had to stay there for 2 days!!! Luckily, we had an amazing nurse, Elizabeth, who found us a glow bug blanket to wear at home.. Elizabeth was our Christmas Angel.. she made sure that we could all be home together for Christmas.. Mommy and Daddy are going to do something very very special for her. Mommy always gets teary when she starts talking about Elizabeth and everything she did for us on Christmas.

So what have been up to for an entire month?? We have had tons of visitors.. Grammy T, Grammy Pantz (aka Pelloni), Aunty Kathy, Aunty Yo, Michael Ronan, Uncle Rob Michele Campbell, all of our cousins, our wonderful neighbors, Grampy Pantz (Grampy Sean), Uncle Austin, Aunty Anz, Big Papi (Grampy Tullis),Grammy Tullis, Aunt Tracey, Angela, the Field Family, Uncle Jason, my Brother's Grandparents (Grandmama and Grandaddy Bower), and our family from Dover, Kelly, Kristy, and Addie.. (we can't wait to play with her!!) and we have done some visiting. Mom and Dad took us to go see our Great Grandparents before they left for Florida.. personally.. I wish that they packed me and brought me w/ them because I would like to be warm like when we were in Mommy's belly... and I keep hearing how Florida is warm.

Having Ava and I eating, pooping and sleeping at the same time can sometimes be difficult so Grammy T and Grammy Pantz have done a great job of being here and helping Mommy and Daddy out. They were even able to go out on a date.. I hope they weren't thinking of having more babies.. I kind of like being in the spotlight..well when my sister isn't in it. She tends to hog it.

I bet you are wondering how big we are now.. seeing that we were so small when we were born.. well.. I am a bruiser.. my parents call me FRANK THE TANK, Frankie, Junior, Mini Mike (I guess I look like Daddy) and Buddy. So.. you can probably guess I am on the bigger side. In my last weigh in.. I came in at 8.6lbs, most of that was gained in two weeks! I like to eat... I like to eat so much! I LOVE the booby milk.. love it so much it makes me fall asleep... and I love to get it all over my face and then spit it back up. Gross huh.. well I AM a boy.

My Sister.. she came in at 6.8lbs.. mostly gained in 2 weeks.. she is alot smaller than me.. but she packs a punch. She hogs our bed and steals attention w/ her chubby cheeks. My parents call her P-Nut, Bean and Baby girl.. she has HUGE cheeks and big big eyes... she likes the booby milk too..but just doesn't advertise it as much as I do..she takes her time when she eats.. she's a good girl. Mom and Dad might start playing favorites soon.. she has been sleeping 6 hours a night for the past few nights.. seeing that I am "THE TANK".. I have to get up around 4am to get some of that milk in .. and then I am off to dream land again.

We have been on a few adventures.. Grocery Shopping, Circuit City and our every weekend we sleep through our brother's basketball games. We rally every Saturday and get really excited to see him play.. to see our cousin Addie.. but the ride there takes everything out of us. We think Mom and Dad like it that way.. I wonder why? We went to "work" (what is that?) to go visit our friends from PC Connection. We met so many people there, I think I forgot their names.. BUT, I do remember meeting two people who really sounded familar to me, David Mitchell and Jade. As soon as we got there, David Mitchell was holding me.. it was really nice to finally meet him. Mommy spent alot of time working next to him.. it was like I had always known him. We met Jade a few minutes later.. and again it felt like I had always known her.. she kept saying I was so small.. she must know some big babies or something. I hope I get to see more of them.. they are really nice and Mommy seems to be very very fond of them. It was fun meeting all of the different people from PC Connection... hopefully Mommy and Daddy will take us back over there so I can flash them my smile.. maybe I will end up in the catalog or something.

The past month has been fun.. we love our new home.. and we love that our family is always coming to see us. Daddy has been using his new camera to take lots of pictures so that everyone can see us. We love getting company...especially sleepovers (hint hint). We hope to meet some more friends soon and to see more of our family. We are working on lots of things right now.. like tummy time to strengthen our bodies, we are working on sleeping through the night, I personally am working on trying to get Mommy to make me a steak (I swear my gums and can get through one and they smell soooo good!!), Ava is working on playing with her doll a little more and I hear that she is getting a tutu soon (what in the world is she going to do with that). I am hoping that Brother is going to teach me a few tricks... he's very tricky, that Jackson.. and hopefully he will bring me out in the snow so that we can play.

We will have lots of updates this month.. Mommy has been slacking and finally got the blog up. We have been telling her too but she's been a slacker.. I wonder why.

Here are some of our favorite pictures.. as you can see we have been changing alot and Dad has had a TON of fun taking pictures of us.

Our Birth Story- Ava's perspective

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We were born on December 19th, 2008.. just in time for Christmas and for our parents to get a break on taxes. I was a tiny baby.. 4.10lbs.. and was born at 1:20pm had to be under the warmer and needed an IV.. I didn't get to see my Mom until MIDNIGHT. We were born in the OR and my parents tell me that there were 10 people in the room for our birthdays! I was a little stubborn coming out.. where as my brother was a piece of cake.. a little forshadowing of our futures.. probably. My Grammie Pelloni and my Daddy made sure that I was never alone while in the nursery. I was a trooper though.. I was able to get off the IV and out of the warmer on the 20th.. so that I could join my brother and the party they were having in their room.

My brother, Ronan, was born at 11:55AM.. on the same day as me.. that makes him my big brother..I have two big brothers. He was much bigger than me 6.0lbs. Daddy fed him and changed his diapers right away.. he made really really funny noises from the start. He was able to spend alot of time w/ Mommy and Daddy in their room.. but for some reason they kept sending us both back at night time where the nurses would feed us and burp us.

We were in the hospital for 4 days.. not enough time if you ask me. I wanted to spend a little more time being told how cute I was.. and being swaddled by the pros... plus I was a little yellow and wished I could have been under the lights to spare my poor parents some Christmas eve stress. While we were at the hospital we were visited by so many people.. and had very memorable times.. Uncle Jason and Aunty Yo came to visit and threw a Christmas party for all of us. Ronan didn't get to attend the entire party because he had to get the old snip snip which made Daddy very sad... I think Uncle Jason was sad too.

Our Birthday was quite the event.. so many people sent us flowers.. and wished us well.. Makes us feel kind of special. Well at least I know I am really special.. not so sure about that Brother of mine.. he's loud and I have to share a bed with him.. and he keeps dutch ovening me.. I hate that.

Here are a few pictures of our big birthday and a couple of days after.. enjoy!