First Father's Day!

Today is Shawn's very first Father's Day, and I want to take the opportunity to say what an AMAZING Father he is.


I think it takes a very special guy to be a Dad of twins...when there are 2, there are literally no breaks. There is always a baby that needs to be changed, played with, calmed down, fed, burped and such. So you have to have a Dad that is ready, willing and able 24 hours a day. And in our home, we are lucky enough to have such a Dad...

Shawn has enough energy for both us! He gets up in the middle of the night with Parker (she likes to have a playtime party around 2am every night), he gets up and helps me every morning at 5am. He literally runs home everyday at his lunch break to help me and the girls for an hour before heading back to work. He takes the girls for walks every afternoon, and he loves to give them their baths even though they always splash all over him.

He is so attentive, concerned, loving, sweet and protective of them. I honestly could not even imagine how he could be any better at this Dad job! Our girls light up every time he walks in the door, and he happens to do the same when he sees them. All 3 of us girls as SO SO lucky to have him.

We love you Shawn. And thanks for being the very best Daddy in the whole world!

I made the slide show on the right to give you a small glimpse into why Shawn is such a wonderful Dad.

6 Months!

The girls turned 6 months this past Sunday if you can believe it!! It's all going by so fast and they are SO big! We had a lot of "firsts" in the last week, and here are some pictures.

Our first visit from Uncle John & Aunt Katy



Our first try at real food - We gave them carrots and as you can see, not much made it into Olive's mouth, but plenty on her bib.


Parker on the other hand couldn't get enough! She loved ever bite and even sucked it off the tray. Just like her Daddy the way she loves her veggies!




We also put the girls in the pool for the first time, and they loved it! They were too cute in their swimsuits. I am looking forward to lots more swimming this summer. In the pictures I'm with Parker and Shawn is with Olive.

New Videos!

I have been trying to take new videos of the girls, but they always freeze up when they see I am holding the camera!
But I managed to get a little bit of Olive blowing spit bubbles - it's her favorite thing to do right now. And an example of how loud Parker is first thing in the morning. She likes to scream with delight as soon as she wakes up. So here is what we hear at 6 am every morning. The video is dark, but you can get the idea from the sound and can see her little legs kicking away.

A Career Change

Last week I went in to work to give my resignation, yesterday I cleaned out my office and said my goodbyes, and today is my official last day with the company...

I'm so excited and lucky to be staying home with my beautiful girls everyday. I don't want to miss a moment. But after 6 years at Nick - to the day oddly enough - I am feeling very emotional about leaving. It's been such an amazing journey with that job. I got to do and see awesome things. I lived my dream while I was there and made some life long friendships. I feel so conflicted to be feeling both sad about closing the Nickelodeon chapter on my life and thrilled to be a new stay at home mom.

I like something my mom said to me about it - "I do not cry because it's over, I smile because it happened." And that's so true. I will always look back with fond memories and someday I can tell my girls all about it...

Here is a picture of my badge. They took this photo on my very first day! I was SO nervous!

BUMBO!

Check out my little Olive Bean (that's what I call her) in her Bumbo chair for the first time! What a big girl! She doesn't love sitting in it for more than a few minutes, but I'm just so excited that she holds her head up well enough to use it. Parker will be able to do it soon, but not just yet.
She looks totally adorable in it because the chair is as big as she is!

Easter

I realize that this whole blog could just be called "twin girls in holiday dresses", since that is what I mostly post. But who can resist an occasion for a special outfit?! Here are the girls in their Easter dresses. Grandma Saint also came to visit for their first Easter so here are some pictures with her. As a reminder, it's incredibly hard to get 2 babies to do the right thing for the camera :)



Look at Parker holding Olive's arm!




Olive looking surprised and another cute one of her.

And pretty Parker

and of course the little bunny shoes they both had on

Grandma Saint with Olive

and with Parker

and trying to get one with both...

What we have been up to...

Here are some things the girls have been doing lately.

They are really good at holding their heads up
Here is Parker


and Olive

Parker learned how to hold her rattle

Uncle Rick came to visit. Here he is with Olive



And I don't normally put the girls in matching outfits. But I could not resist these "Daddy Loves Me" shirts and the adorable cupcake dresses from GG Thompson