Playing Footsie in the Bumbo

Brody smiles at Mason

Mason smiles at Brody

Both looking exhausted.

This sitting business is hard work!!

IT'S A TWIN THING

What are you looking at?
The toys are up here!

Oh there you are, brother!

It's a twin thing.

BRODY'S TRICKS

Sure Mason does great tummy time and he can roll over and sure, maybe we've been a little concerned that Brody would never move and that he'd be 15 and wanting to hang out under his little jungle gym thing. But Brody's got tricks too. Here are some of his best moves:

He gives lots of smiles.

He sucks his thumb.

He's super good at looking cute.

He can bounce himself out of his bouncer.
(I was giving Mason a bath and found him like this. Not crying. Just hanging out.)

He can rotate a quarter turn to his right. Even managed to straddle his jungle gym on this one. Impressive.

And with Daddy's help, he's even been working on tummy time.

Brother has been less helpful in this area.

3 MONTHS

Brody "tummy time is for suckers" Babcock

Mason "fight the system" BabcockAlways has his fists at the ready Brothers!

Bonus Pic:
I think somewhere in the fine print it says you're supposed to wear the sling... but this worked just as well.

MOM, BROTHER THREW UP ON MY HEAD

These are the kinds of things I expect to hear once the boys can talk.

Here is the before shot. Mason woke up just long enough to lean forward, spit up all over Brody, and then collapses back to sleep.
This picture doesn't even do justice to how covered he was. Sweet Brody didn't even wake up.

Gotta love brothers.

GROWING UP

The boys and I are growing up together right now. One day, one week, one month at a time.

I feel lucky, and so blessed, to be the mother to these sweet, sweet boys. Mid-December, Brian and I ventured to Denver to be with his entire family for the holidays. The 4 of us, with 4 huge suitcases, 2 car seats, one tandem stroller and 2 slings, crammed ourselves into a minivan cab at 5am and somehow found our way to the airport. We were a sight and everyone wanted to get a look. The boys were CHAMPS and slept the entire way. Two days after getting to Denver, I landed in the hospital with a breast abscess. THE WORST! They kept me there for 3 days and sent me home with the drain in ("the boob tube") that I had to keep in for 10 days. I felt stressed about being away from the boys but Brian and I kept talking about how this would just be a crazy, funny story really soon. Thanks to all for the thoughts and prayers during that time - our family was definitely blessed because of them.
Mama in the hospital, Brody (my sweet visitor) and the boob tube.

As crappy as it was to be in the hospital during our holiday time, I'm grateful that we were in Denver when it happened because we were surrounded by family to help us. The boys jumped to formula for 5 days, which gave everyone a chance to help feed them. Jenny has a way with Mason - what can I say.

The rest of the holiday season was perfect and more normal. Stories and pictures to come.
Here are some of my favorite Christmas pictures.Is there anything more exciting than a Christmas morning with a tree full of presents???

We Take Naps Where We Can Get Them

Even if it's on the changing table.
You win some, you lose some. I'm learning quickly to choose my battles.

One Size Fits Two

So this is a onesie we got as a gift. We were so excited since we're Steelers fans. Then we discovered that it was made for the baby of a linebacker. What baby is this wide and short???
Hard to see it here but we've actually snapped the bottom of the onesie between the babies, so each set of legs is coming out one leghole.

Classic.
Also, amazing how identical 2 screaming babies can look.

More Brody & Mason

This has quickly become the Brody & Mason show. And for good reason. If I was this cute, then it could be all about me, but alas... not the case. These boys take the cake for cuteness.

(Mason)

(Brody)

Here are some of our latest pictures to show you how well we're all doing. For the time being, I'll keep labeling who's who so you can start to tell the 2 apart. Once you see them in person it's much easier to see the differences.

They each have 2 looks.
Brody: Sleeping or Worried.
Mason: Alert or Screaming.
Showing off the boys on skypeSometime soon, I'll try to put into words the emotions of my first 2 weeks but that will have to wait for another day.

Love you all. Thanks for your love, support, prayers and visits!