six months old!

The twins are 6 months old!!! I am sad and excited that they are growing up so fast.

Beck weighs over 18 pounds, he is a little ball of muscle. He loves to play on the floor and he can get to almost anything by rolling and scooting, I think he will be crawling very soon! He is very independent and curious, his eyes are always as wide as they can be so he can see everything going on around him. He is going to be a joker, he laughs all of the time, especially when I am disciplining Dax (you think I am kidding, but I'm not) We are entertained all of the time by him, he is a very funny boy!

Reece weighs 14 1/2 pounds, and he the same length as Beck, he is just long and skinny. He doesn't have a lot of muscle yet (he is delayed a couple of months from his heart surgery and recovery.) but he is doing great! He also loves to play on the floor, and he can move around a little bit, he is getting stronger everyday. He is the sweetest little boy ever, he smiles at everyone and he loves to cuddle, he is already sensitive to other peoples moods and tries to cheer them up. He loves to watch us and try to imitate what we do, he is very smart.

Both of the boys are great, most of the time they sleep well, and they are very content playing by themselves if I need to get something done. They are the best babies ever and we so lucky to have them!

These are videos the kids wanted to make, we were trying to get the twins to laugh but it didn't work to well, but they are still cute babies and who doesn't want to see that? Enjoy!

We finally got a new camera so I will try and post more pictures soon!

Bugz

The whole 2nd grade put on a musical called Bugz. Kailey did a GREAT job!
She was a honey bee, her line was
"Just try to be as sweet as me and don't hurt anything."
It was the perfect line for her since she really is the sweetest girl, we think the teacher Knew exactly what she was doing when she gave that part to Kailey.

She was also the star student of the week out of all the kids in 2nd grade!

We are so proud of her, she is wonderful girl and we are hoping her brothers will all learn to be a lot like her. (they probably won't be nearly as sweet, but at least we have Kailey!)

By the way, I designed all of the Ladybug and bee costumes, and sewed a ton of them! I had fun doing it, but my house was messy for a week while I got them all done!

After this play we decided we needed a new camera, since all of our pictures turned out blurry!

I am so sad that we didn't get any cute pictures of Kaileys big day!

I LOVE Coupons!

I got all of this for 23.41!

I even had Dax and the twins with me when I went to the store.

(couponing tip, have twins and take them with you, everyone is so much nicer when I have my 2 cute babies to look at.)

It's sunny, can we go swimming?

Every time the Sunshines (which hasn't been often) Dax asks if he can go swimming at least 5 times a day. One day I finally got tired of explaining it to him again, so I decided to show him why. I told him to go get his swimming suit on and then we could go out and I would squirt him with the hose and he would see that it was really too cold. He was super excited!

When we got outside I turned the water on to a trickle and let him play in it for a couple of minutes until he got a little bit cold, then we went in the house to get him warmed up.

However Tyler was working from home that day and he wanted to get in on the action to, so he convinced Dax to go back outside and he had a great time squirting Dax with more than a trickle of water. After Dax was soaking wet and freezing cold we went inside and gave him a nice warm bath, that was deep enough for him to pretend to swim in.

Unfortunately my plan didn't work and he still asks to go swimming all of the time.

Cheap Halloween Thrills

Halloween is one of Dax's favorite things ALL YEAR ROUND (see his Jan. '10 HALLOWEEN birthday party post, including trick-or-treating in January). So, we were having fun with JibJab:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/fWiT26OVWsZrMSOG

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

I personally like this one better:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/eu0lGHW1LcmFIuJs

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Fall, Twins, & More Pictures

Here are more pictures of the twins and the late, slowly approaching fall (it's come late this year).

Kailey's first day of 2nd grade:

The new minivan, full of 3 car seats & a booster (but in a different arrangement than shown here):


More of the babies:
Taken within minutes of being born (Beck on left, Reece on right).

You guess, which one is on left & which one is on right?

Dax was great at finding different uses for many everyday hospital items.

Ready to leave the hospital.

At home with Grandma Lisa (Cassidy's Mom).

All four kids with Grandma Jo (Tyler's Maternal Grandma).


The babies like to sleep close:




Beck has become a big, thick, strong baby, which has earned him several nicknames already. More faces & expressions from "Bruiser Beck:"


Just as a side note for those of you who may not know, after the babies were born, the doctors found a hole in Reece's heart, and he will have heart surgery on Nov. 17th to patch the hole and possibly replace the adjacent valve. He has grown in length equal to Beck but is outweighed by a good 3lbs. now. He is pretty thin, not very strong, and has labored breathing, but it is good to finally have a date that this will be repaired now.


Unfortunately the new additions have not been easy for Dax to accept, but he has his moments with them, occasionally:
Dax reading to them while they're asleep in bed.

This picture reminds me of the infamous Michael Scott quote from The Office: "Would I rather be feared or loved? Um… Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."


Tyler's 30th birthday:

Twins' Photo Session

Our friend, and a great photographer did a photo session and some the photos are on her blog:

http://blog.jennipricephotography.com/beck-reece-12-days/.

(Sorry for some reason the hyperlink isn't working)

TWINS!!

On Wednesday, September 8th, 2010, at 8:37pm and 8:42pm, Beck Lyman Nelson and Reece Delmer Nelson were born, respectively. Beck was born 18.5" long and weighing in at 6lbs. 1oz. and Reece was born 18.75" long and weiging in at 6lbs. 8oz.

We went to the hospital at 6am and Cassidy was induced, after a long labor, the babies were finally ready about 14.5 hours later. Fortunately she had an epidural so she was able to take a few naps during labor. The delivery was done in the operating room, just in case an emergency c-section was necessary, but fortunately it was not, and after only 3 pushes, both boys were out.

(Beck & Reece, respectively)





"Old Man Beck" makes a lot of good faces:


Ready for the OR:


Sorry it's taken a ridiculous amount of time to post this.

Photo giveaway

My friend Jenni Price is an amazing photographer, and she is having a giveaway over at her blog. Check it out here.

The Twins

We are expecting twins!

They are both boys and they are due sometime in September. (September 21st is the actual due date, but more than half of all twins are born before week 37, which would be August 31st.) We are very excited and can't wait to meet them!