Hagen and the Hat

I signed the boys up for swim lessons. Jeremy is just thrilled to be participating (sarcasm). The benefit of twins --- Daddy gets to participate in way more than he normally would if there was just one :-)

Sooo, lesson learned - get your kids used to hats long before they know to pull them off. I really want them to wear hats while they are outside. No luck --- they just pull them off. We are having 'hat wearing' lessons this week in hopes that we will keep the hats on during our swimming lessons that start in two weeks. Wish me luck.

How is it going? Mason wants nothing to do with the hat. As soon as I put it on, he takes it off. 'On' being a relative term - I don't actually get it on. He catches it on the way to his head.

Yeah - good luck there.

Hagen on the other hand, thinks it is funny. I take that back - hilarious - that I want him to wear the hat. He cracks up, which in turn makes me laugh. So, he thinks it is this big game. Which of course backfires because now all he wants to do is take the hat off, laugh, and watch me laugh. Ahhh, no luck here either.

(But look at him laughing... you should have heard him... sooo cute!)

Oh, but he did wear it for a minute, must have forgotten about it, while Mason was pushing his truck for him.

'Okay, you talk her into letting us get over the gate.'
'It didn't work, now it is your turn.'

Since we are reminiscing...

My actual due date was June 28th, 2007. I wanted to mark this date because if the boys had been born on their actual due date - they would be 1 year old today. I like pointing that out because this shows how early they really were. Wow, March 18th seems like forever ago. Another thing to consider, look at all the milestones they are hitting! They are keeping up with their adjusted age (1 year old) and they are even hitting milestones closer to their correct age (15 months)!

1 year ago:



And now:

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'I ain't scard of no grass.'

The boys love to play with the door, opening and closing it. They also love to peek at each other through the glass. We had our 15 month check up the other day and Hagen is 2 inches taller than Mason. Can you tell??

Well, it is official, the boys (mainly Hagen) are eating us out of house and home. So, we decided they could earn some money helping Daddy. Here they are getting a little training in Troubleshooting 101.'I'll steer, you push the pedals.'

Our new tricks:
Hagen likes to stand, kind of like the yoga baby picture I posted in the past. Now he likes to peek through his legs. It is so funny to peek through his legs at him. He starts to giggle. I finally was able to capture it on camera --- he even picked his hands up so he was standing on his head. What a character!

'Look Ma, no hands!'

Anything to entertain the boys --- and of course if it involves Izzie, usually we get lots of giggles.

I Missed It!!!

I didn't 'mark' the 1 year anniversary of the boys coming home. I read Nina's blog and Nina's mom, Judith, pointed out Nina's coming home anniversary - so I thought we might just go back in time and reminisce.

June 2, Mason came home with us - all 5 pounds, 15 ounces of him. Here he is with Samantha before they discharged him.

Here he is on his first night alone, without Hagen :-(

June 12, Hagen joined us to make our family complete!

Here are the boys together again. What a beautiful sight!

After 87 days apart - our family all together under one roof!

Sharing

Sharing is a hard concept in our house --- but evidently it is easier with food.

'Hmmm, that looks good. I think I will take it.'

'Well, if you don't want anymore of your milk, don't mind if I do.'

'I really don't want this, do you?'

And, look at my, well okay, Jeremy's green thumb!

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

We went to Matthew's birthday party Saturday. The boys had a good time - but it was HOT! Wow, summer is here. With Mason still getting over his infection we took it easy and didn't stay too long. (He was fever free for more than 24 hours --- so no worries.)

They had a small bounce house. Gabriella checked it out first and then came and got the boys.

Come on, Hagen... bounce!

Mason had fun - but got hot rather quickly.

Hagen really wasn't digging this bouncy thing.

He quickly realized we weren't coming in, too... so he wanted out.

Are you getting tired of the comparison pictures yet? Check this out!!!

8 months15 months! (We had to take the car seats out to move the shoulder straps up -- they are getting so big!)

Fun with Trucks

I know how much the grandparents enjoy the videos -- so here you go...

The boys ride their fire trucks very differently --- wonder if this will mirror their personalities??

Here is our speed racer.

And our Sunday driver.

And here is Mason proudly walking behind his truck!

The Fever and the Rash

Hagen has learned climbing on things is much more fun than digging in them. Hmmm, this going to be fun.

On another Hagen note... he has a rash... we are unsure of what it is. The boys go for their 15 month check up and we are going to ask for a dermatologist referral. Hagen has some eczema spots and he has dealt with this rash and a diaper rash for quite awhile. Poor kid, I think he got my 'whiter than white' and sensitive skin.

Does this look like the face of a fever boy?

Mason has a fever that started yesterday evening. I know 'fevers are our friends...' Well, it is no friend of mine. I don't like them. And since I am in the mood to confess, I don't like any kind of illness or medicine. I feel like we pumped enough medicine into their little bodies, saw enough doctors, and used the word 'sick' quite enough during the first 2 1/2 months of their lives... so frankly, NO, I don't like fevers.

Since I did a rush appointment, I saw the nurse practitioner and she thinks it could be his ears. It could be bacterial or viral. She gave us a prescription for an antibiotic and sent us on our way. Hopefully the highest temp was today and it will slowly decrease tomorrow.

If not --- I just want all you NICU nurses that still keep up with the blog, please come spend the night. I will cook you dinner and provide you with fresh clean 400 count sheets on the guest bed. :-)

For your viewing pleasure. Hagen with his truck.

Happy Father's Day

Jeremy is such a great daddy to the boys. I couldn't have asked for a better father to them. He has so much fun with them. Every time Meredith - Hagen's OT - is here and gives suggestions for activities to do, he is the first one to start working with H & M on it!

Jeremy wishing me luck before they took me back to surgery. We were both scared and had no idea what was in store!The first time Jeremy held Hagen.With Mason.Here is Jeremy with Hagen right before they took him back for his hernia repair surgery. We were so scared for both of them!

Love this video! Here is Jeremy during our rooming in.

We were about to take Mason home.

Taking the boys on one of our many walks.
The boys.
Story time with Daddy.