02 June 12 - Neve Sneezes

02 June 12 - Neve Sneezes a video by Nathan A on Flickr.

a short clip featuring Névé sneezing..

02 May 2012 - The Girls In their Playpen

050212-girls in playpen a video by Nathan A on Flickr.


The Girls in their playpen

An Orchestra of Wailing

Crying Babies a video by Nathan A on Flickr.

Névé Having Fun in Her Bouncy Chair

Neve in bouncy chair a video by Nathan A on Flickr.

I finally got some of the video off of my camera and will post more of it when I have some spare time. For now, here is Névé, who has been very active and awake the last couple of days, having some fun in her bouncy chair early this afternoon. It's been fun watching the girls make connections between cause and effect this past week! They get so much smarter every day!

Home Alone with the Little Ones

I don't have much time here. It's just after 12:30PM and both girls have gone down for a nap, which I'm sure will be brief. Hopefully I can get to a couple of things on my 'to do' list while they are sleeping. I find that feeding infant twins is similar to being one of those guys who balances and spins plates on thin sticks. You are always hurrying back and forth in order to avoid imminent disaster. In the case of the twins, this entails trying to keep a bottle in each girls mouth, something they are absolutely no good at on their own at this point. One will be peacefully sucking down her milk, while the other is crying due to her uncontrollable kung fu arms violently bashing the bottle from her mouth. It's never ending. It's a very rare occasion when both are quietly drinking at the same time, the bottle of milk ever so close to falling from it's precariously balanced perch. I can't wait until our Podee's get here. I just wish we would have known sooner that these existed!

Here's are some clips of the girls I took this morning. They are getting a lot more vocal and enjoy "talking" when they are in a good, playful mood. I must say, it's quite adorable and a lot of fun to watch!

03 April 2012 - Baby Noises a video by Nathan A on Flickr.

With Dawn back at the office now, we've worked out a routine where she puts the girls in bed with me before she leaves.  So far, this has worked quite well.  We usually get up around 9 am or so, then the fun begins.  This morning, however, I actually was able to sneak out of bed without waking them up and captured the below pictures.

The Twins First Taste of Travel - Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

Passport Day!

The girls are now just over three weeks old. I’m not sure where the time has gone. Each day goes by about the same right now, so aren’t even sure what day it is sometimes. Do we have an appointment today? Should we go to the store? Is the store closed today? What time is it?

Névé and Siena are doing fantastic. At their two week appointment the girls both gained about a half a pound and 1.5 cm in length. They both have two kidneys in perfect working order and their hips are growing just how they should be. These are all things the Germans check for in a first appointment, as we are going to the German doctors. We are also following the immunizations from the Germans, so the girls will get their first shots in two weeks.

I’m sure you can see in the pictures Nate posts, the girls are growing like crazy and have slightly different facial features. Their faces have filled out much more and they are getting more expressions and little personalities each day. They keep us pretty entertained. There isn’t a day we don’t laugh at something they do.

Today, we are going to get the girls their first legal US documents. Passports. It is funny to think that our kids will have passport pictures taken at 3 weeks to last them until they are 5. They must have passports before they can get US birth certificates or social security numbers. Funny, huh?

Passport time. Pictures in their pictures dresses to follow.


Névé's photo looks similar to this.


Siena was a bit more patient, or sleepy.