Okay, I know, I promised I would keep this up better than I have been. However, to defend myself, I had no idea how busy I would be once the babies were here. Once I have a free minute or two after the babies go to bed, all I want to do is stare aimlessly at the TV! Anyway, my apologies (yes, Angela, I'm talking to you!).
So much has been happening that it's hard to remember it all. I will just give you a quick briefing by showing some pictures.
Back in May, Hannah and Noah got meet their Great-Grandma Joray for the first time. We took them up to Berne and had a very nice visit. Great-Grandma was delighted to hold them on her lap while she was wheeled around the nursing home. Everybody made such a fuss over them, she was in seventh heaven.
I can't remember if Hannah was crawling when I last posted or not, but she has been crawling for quite some time now. She has also learned to climb the steps. We got the baby gate up really quick after she figured that one out!
Her most recent additions to her repetoire are standing on her own and taking steps. She isn't really "walking" yet, but will be very, very soon. Too soon if you ask me!
Noah is taking his time. He is crawling around pretty well now. It's still mostly an army crawl punctuated by periods of on-the-knees or on-the-bottom crawling. He is learning things a lot more quickly than Hannah did. I guess its easier when you can watch your sibling make all of the mistakes. He is already able to pull himself up on his own.
He has also had his first hair cut. I had been begging Elizabeth for the longest time to get his sides trimmed. The curls were driving me nuts!
Finally, one day out of the blue, she said, "You wanna cut his hair?" I jumped at the chance and actually cut it myself. I think I did a pretty good job, what do you think?!
Luckily for Elizabeth, the babies are starting to play with each other a little bit. We have been promised by many parents of twins that it is such a blessing for them to have a built-in playmate. We've been waiting and waiting. We can tell they are going to make quite the pair!
We just got back from a vacation at Brown County State Park with Elizabeth's parents. While there we snapped this picture. I think Hannah and Noah must have caught on to us watching "So You Think You Can Dance." It looks to me like they're doing a Broadway routine!
Finally, just for fun, I thought I'd throw in a picture of the Joray siblings that I took when everyone was here for Bruce and Alyssa's wedding shower. We had a great time having everyone here, and we're getting excited for their approaching wedding on September 6th.
Until next time! Love you all.
Elizabeth's parents arrived Friday evening after going to the symphony and spent the night. We got up on Saturday and had a great time together. We had a tasty lunch, opened presents, and watched General Conference (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a semi-annual conference held by our church, we watch it on tv). Rather than spending the time to put all of the pictures here, I'm just going to post a link to the Smugmug page that has the pictures from that event. Check them out here.
Today (Sunday) we had a party for all of my family. We were just a few shy of having twenty people here. We had hamburgers and hotdogs (some very well-done hotdogs thanks to a fire on the grill), coleslaw, bandito beans, and chips. We also had cake and ice cream for dessert. The babies got very messy, but enjoyed having their own cakes. Even though we told everyone they didn't need to bring presents, we had a mountain to open. We're so grateful to have such wonderful family. Here are the pictures from today.
