Ethan and Grandma at Angelo's Pizza on 4th of July

We went to eat at the Candle Light on the 4th of July but they were closed so we went to Angelo's for pizza instead. Here's some cute pics of Ethan playing with Grandma after dinner.

Can we go biking too?

Emma and Ethan wanted to put on Mommy and Daddy's biking shoes and go biking too.

Ethan and Emma go to the park for the first time in 2010

Took Ethan and Emma out to the park for the first time today. Even though it was cold they had a great time and didn’t want to leave.
Here's some pics of them on the swings.

The box is always the favorite present

We bought a little toy organizer for Emma and Ethan on Black Friday and they think the box is the best present ever. Ethan crawls on top of it and bangs on it to make noise and Emma pushes it around using it as a walker. It's all over the family room, breakfast nook and kitchen. Toy organizer $29.97. Watching all the fun they have with the box...priceless.

  

More Halloween pictures

     

Yet more Halloween pictures - can you tell it's our first year with kids?

     

Ethan and Emma in their sleep and plays

Emma and Ethan in their outfits from Pat and Kristin

Thanks for thinking of us, we love the outfits.

  

Vacation Day 6

Today we went riding in the Buffalo Creek Recreation Area in Colorado. It was a great trail. A hours plus climb, then a hour and a half of rolling singletrack at the top and then a blazing downhill to the parking area.

Above is the view from atop Buck Gulch Trail.

Here’s Nanc and I with Ethan and Emma in a Pagoda at the Pine Valley Ranch Park. It is one of the only original historic buildings on the park. It was quite popular in the days before air-conditioning as it was near Pine Creek and in a shady area.

Here's Mom and Carl with Ethan and Emma in the strollers we had to buy to fit al the stuff in for vacaction. It was so nice of them to watch Ethan and Emma on vacation while we were able to get some mountainbike rides in.

Ethan and Emma visit Grandma and Grandpa Wiese

    

Ethan and Emma finally got to meet Grandma and Grandpa Wiese. We took a vacation to Denver so Ethan and Emma could meet them. Mom Wiese was the only baby sitter I ever had and took care of me from the time I was 6 weeks old while my Mom worked. She, Dad Wiese and their children Ed and Shiela were like a second family to me growing up and we have managed to stay in touch even after they moved to Denver. I have such great memories of being at their house growing up.

Everyone has something especially wonderful in their life that they have no right to have and Mom and Dad Wiese and their family are mine. I always tell people how incredibly lucky I am to have them and their family in my life. I just hope I can do as well taking care of Emma and Ethan as they took care of me.

It was so great for Ethan and Emma to meet you all. Shiela made a great dinner and Ed, his wife Peggy and their daughter Amanda were nice enough to drop by as well. It was great to see all of you again and to meet Amanda.

Here's my Mom Wiese holding Emma. Can you tell she is a natural?

  

Here's Mom and Dad Wiese holding Ethan and Emma.

Here's Ethan, and left to right; Amanda, Shiela and Peggy.

Here's Peggy holding Ethan while Ed entertains Emma. They loved the voices and hand motions Ed would make.

Here Mom and Carl catch up on things with Mom Wiese.

Carl and Dad Wiese when we first arrived.

We are on vacation ! -Day 3

Here we are at the highest paved part of Rocky Mountain National Park just outside Estes Park, CO. It is over 12 thousand feet high and one of the few Alpine areas in the lower 48 states. The views were unreal. A nice person volunteered to take all our pictures together

Here's Ethan practicing his running to get rid of the fussies that sitting in a car seat for hours can cause. I love the pic Nanc took because it looks like he is running off the rock and that I am trying to catch him.

Ethan reading his book and Emma playing in her exersaucer

  

Ethan can now sit independently for short periods of time. Here he is "reading" his book the library gave him. His idea of reading is to eat the book and then daddy has to pry the pages apart after they dry, but he is getting much better at sitting alone

Here's Emma with such a great smile I just had to include it.

Nanc attends Labor Day party at Jan's while I was off motocrossing

More pics to come from this party soon I hope. People are sending them. While I was away up near Galena motocrossing, Nanc was at a family party at her sister Jan's. Thanks so much to everyone there that helped take care of Ethan and Emma in my absence. Nanc was gushing with how helpful everyone was and what a great time she and the twins had. As you can see here they were enjoying theirselves. Sorry I missed seeing everyone.

Mom and Carl come for a visit

Mom and Carl came in today for a visit and Ethan and Emma had a blast with them. They let me take a nap and when I got up they had Ethan and Emma posing on the lounger on the patio. I know I am prejudiced, but they are just too cute.

Carl was holding Emma while she waited her turn for feeding and he put her to sleep before she could eat. She loves to just lay across you and then let her head hand straight down. Looks uncomfortable to me, but she looooves it.

Here's Mom holding Emma in her sun-hat. Thannks for coming in and helping with the kids. We love seeing you.

Here's Ethan helping water the plants

We got back late from taking the lawn wagon and walking over to Home Depot to get Nanc a mum for the front yard and Ethan and i had to water the plants as dinner was cooking. Notice the Goober from Mayberry brim flipped up look on his hat.

Emma and Ethan get their 6 month check up... and shots!

Well Ethan and Emma got their 6 month checkup and are doing great. They would have been happy if they were about a month behind developmentally since they were born 3-1/2 weeks early, but they made all the 6 month milestones and already achieved a couple of the milestones they look for at 9 months, like reacting to their name. She gave me one month to childproof the house. Ethan is already lifting his butt in the air and getting ready to do the scoot. Emma already rolls 4-6 feet when you look away for a minute.

Emma is now up to 50th percentile for height and the 30th percentile for weight. At the first month's checkup she wasn't even on the chart (don't know how you can be less than zero but she was) so she has come a long way. She has tripled her weight since birth.

Ethan is in the 75th percentile for weight and the 50th percentile for height so he is living up to his nickname of little man. If this keeps up we will be placing him on a diet, just kidding, the doctor says it's ok for now.

Here's the cute Band-Aids they give for shots now days. Each got three shots, down from five they would have gotten last year. They came out with a new combined vaccine that takes the place of 3.

Here’s Ethan with a cold compress on his head, since he got a fever from the vaccinations for the first time.

Couple of recent pics and a update.

Just a couple of recent pics of the twins. They are growing so fast now.

Ethan has two teeth, and I think a third coming on the top. Mom says I got my teeth early too. Emma's are on the way, it won't be long.

Both know their names and will turn their head when it is used.

Both can now sit in the tripod position with some assistance to keep from falling backwards. A week ago they would have just fallednforward and then fussed (screamed) till we pulled them up.

Both can go for items that they want and are able to move across the floor to them. We were changing the sheets on the guest bedroom and had Emma on the floor while we did it and she moved several feet and grabbed 1 of mommy bears off a small bench, we moved her and the one bear away several feet and finished making the bed. Looked down and she was rolling around with all 3 bears.

Earlier in the weekend. I placed several items on the floor about 3 feet from Ethan and watched as he rolled/squirmed to them and then grabbed them. Time to finish childproofing the house.

I love Emma in dresses and rompers.

Here Ethan is having a ball in his ExerSaucer.