Love and Laughter

 The first year with the twins has been amazing. They go from holding their head up to sitting up. Then they talk and crawl and scoot all over the place. Then comes the standing and the " I don't want to mind" attitude. What happened to just having to worry about spit-up?

It has been a fun fun ride though. This is my house today...

We have no walkers...Sara started walking months ago, but has since decided she rather crawl. She stands, she pulls up, she shuffles across things...but refuses to use those chunky little legs. Drew just likes to stand. He will stand to drink a bottle, to see whats cooking in the kitchen or if there is someone outside...he makes sure he is seen and heard. We work with them every day and they have toys galore to guide them to the walking stage so as of now we are just waiting.

A typical day in our house consists of..Toys, toys, toys!!! They love playing especially with each other. Drew you can tell is all boy...I feel like his life motto is DESTRUCTION. Sara is more peaceful during playtime. She loves reading books. Her Uncle Kyle got her a really cool one for their birthday. She will literally sit for 20 minutes turning the pages and staring at all the animals. Its really sweet to watch. There are times though where they like hitting each other in the head or stealing each other toys. Our motto here is...make sure there is two of everything. Its now out of habit...where if I buy one car for Drew I have to make sure I get another one for Sara.

They are opposite in so many ways 
but I be damn if they are not our kids. Andrew had to discipline the dogs one day we came back from an afternoon outing. He used a plastic spoon to spank the dogs...which that particular spoon just happens to be Drew's favorite kitchen utensil. Now Drew takes his spoon, hits the dogs or his sister and says "bad, bad, bad!" yeah his spoon privileges have been taken away. Speaking of hitting things...Drew loves to bang now on his drums he got from his Oma and Pops for their birthday. His friend Tres came over and strapped the drum around his neck and bang bang bang up and down the hallway the whole evening...now that's Drew's favorite thing to do.

Sara loves things handed to her as any princess would. She is more talkative and is sure to let you know when you don't pay attention to her. She is just the funniest little girl we could have though. Andrew has taught her to out her hands out to the side as if we were saying "uh or what's wrong" but in the Rhodes world when lil baby places her hands out to the side it means "whatssssss upppp!" she claps after every time she does it too. Such a big girl. When her girlfriends Gabbie and Breely came to play she thought they were so cool. She wouldn't leave their side. She was so excited to see them run around that she almost took off herself. She moved, she took a step, but didn't make it very far. She is going to love when she gets older and those two dress her up and teach her just how to be a princess. Drew's buddy Tres let us all know too that day that Sara was his girlfriend. He was giving her kisses and wanted to just eat her up! It's already starting!!!

They both love the outdoors! We try and get them outside to play with their toys or watch WWF with the dogs in the back yard. They just love it. I'm excited for when they get a little bigger so we can actually run outside, play at the park and have game days in the yard like I use to when I was little. We were outside as much as we could be and I hope my kids will want to do the same. We are looking forward to summertime though...we have many play dates planned with Aunt Mitzi and the pool. We are excited for that.

It's a mess of things and days I couldn't explain. It's one of those you have to be here to believe it. The more they grow the crazier it gets here and I am loving every moment of it. 

"Twins...a day full of love and laughter plus double the craziness!"

I am still waiting on their birthday pics...they are still being edited. I hope to get them soon and when I do a post full of birthday fun it will be!

Twins, Twins, Twins

What a joy they are. What an amazing thing I so proudly say I have. Twins. Twins. Twins. Its such a blessing to have. Through all the spit-ups, late night feedings, the constant running of the dishwasher, the washer and the dryer all at once. Everything was double. Double the love, double the fun, trials, but most off all double the joy of life. I cant believe a year has already gone!! Where did it go. I hear moms say it "enjoy it because they grow so fast" now I know why they say it. 

I had a friend come over today. She has almost 6 month old twin boys. To hold them at that age again...so little and gentle and the spit up ( mom and dad's perfume as she said it) brought back so many memories. To watch them try so hard to crawl and their little giggles...I remember that all like it was yesterday. It is all priceless! Where o where did all that go. My twins were poking the babies in the eye, standing up and yelling, pushing each other and fighting over toys. It goes...time goes way too fast. And what a change in time it is. I miss it even all the work it took and restless days and nights. I do miss it. Now dont get any ideas...it wasnt the easiest thing to do in life and there wont be anymore babies in the future. But seeing her twins now reminds me that all she is doing now is just a memory for me.

I miss those days but I am enjoying the memories we are making today. Memeories I shall share with you in my next blog. 

My First Blog

I have a friend Nicole...she kind of encouraged me to start this blog. I figured why not! I am usually not into all this, but I figured it was a way for friends and family to keep updated in my life...especially those who aren't on facebook or one I may email or talk on a weekly basis. So here I go. Wish me luck cause this is all new to me!

To start things off I will tell you a little about my life and how I got to where I am today. I graduated from Northwood University in 2006. The same year I met Andrew...Lucky 2006 as we would call it. The year we were so lucky to have met and fall in love. A year later he proposed and September 2008 I proudly got to marry the man of my dreams. We took off to the Bahamas for our honeymoon and little did we know that was our last vacation together as a couple. We bought a house in March 2009, found out I was prego with boy/girl TWINS in July 2009 and by February 15, 2010...our lives really began.

Here it is a year later and this is where I will began my blog. We have 12 month old twins, lots of craziness with plenty of love and here I am to share it with you all.