And Then There Was Biting, and Wrestling

More and more they're starting to notice eachother, and follow one another, and attack one another...



Yeah, I'm pretty sure my dad called Cannon, Connor...

It's a "C" right???

Laughing, Laughing, and MORE Laughing

It's not always this amazing, but when it is, I forget about all the screaming, biting, and middle of the night waketime....

Life was good before these guys, but life is AWESOME with them...



And then they bounce and laugh at eachother...



Life is good, life is soooooo freaking good...

Their First Halloween

This time last year I was a beach ball for Halloween and I made one block of trick or treating before turning around and going back inside. 

This year, I have DRAGONS...

Because we didn't want to get too off schedule and because Mark and I aren't big Halloween people we just dressed the boys up, took some pictures and went home to watch the Chargers lose to the Chiefs. Getting photos with the two of them looking at the same time is hard, super hard.

Cousins and Grandma. 

First family Halloween....

We also made it to the Pumpkin Patch in Seal Beach the week before.

Pretty sure they LOVED the pumpkins.

All I know is, Mark and I better get used to Trick or Treating next year....

10 Months (and a 1/2)

These boys are so silly and goofy.  It's beyond entertaining.  Being a working mom, I try my hardest to cherish every moment with them.  Even if that means leaving their dinner stuck to their high chair trays like I did tonight. 

The boys are crawling like bulldogs, pushing things to walk and strolling along the couch.  They're attempting to mimic what Mark and I say and even starting to get clingy.  I thought we were gonna skip that phase completely.  I was wrong.  Cannon and Cooper go to just about anyone.  But recently have been noticing when Mark or me leave the room, and it's NOT pretty.  Not cute either.  But I'm sure it could be worse. 

Since the boys were 5-6 months is when I went back to work full time and the boys stayed with a nanny, child care provider, whatever you want to call her.  But what I call her is amazing.  Being able to go to work confident that the boys are in GREAT hands means a lot to me.  You would think that's an obvious, why wouldn't you leave them with someone you feel comfortable with, right?  But there is such a level of comfort, I just don't know what I would do without her.  The boys, I think, are even learning from her son.  They're starting to wave.

I even think they're funny when they're cranky.  I mean, they are seriously.  Cooper yells at people.  I know, I know, I think this is foreshadowing bad things for the future.  They both bite (but I know this is because they're teething.)  They both tense up and yell out of frustration (pretty sure that was me when I was younger.)  My Grandma had a video of me trying to drive a little firetruck and I couldn't get it going, let's just say I freaked out on it and threw my body around like a fish out of water, then proceeded to put my head on the steering wheel and pout.  I have a feeling both boys will have my temper.  Not a good thing to have.  Hopefully Mark and I will be able to teach them the right way to communicate as they get older.  But for now, clinching down on our arms, legs, hair and anything else they can get their hands, and or teeth, and or feet on will have to do.

Mark started a new job and is loving it.  He's really happy and really confident that he will succeed.  I love his confidence and I love knowing that together him and I will always make things happen.  The two of us are definitely doers and I think that's a trait too many people lack nowadays.

 Yes, I made him take off his sunglasses. 

Finding Mark and starting our family has been the highlight of my life so far.  This adventure is so much fun and words cannot describe how in love I am with my life.

DNA Testing - boys are IDENTICAL twins!!!!

Most people know already cause I posted on Facebook as soon as I found out.

The boys are Identical!

What this means is...one egg split after the little spermies hit it. :) Did you picture it?? Did you? You're welcome for the visual.

Mark and I were told when I was 13 weeks pregnant that the way the boys were in the womb could be the result of one egg splitting (identical) or two eggs dropping (fraternal) and that the only way to be sure is with a DNA test once the boys were born. Called di-di twins. Look it up I'm not explaining it again. The test can be purchased online and mailed to you and then mailed out for results. Easy enough but it was $150.00 and with di-di twins there is only a 1 in 9 chance of them actually being identical, so we figured we'd just wait. Well after Cooper's lip repair we got lots of, "are they identical" questions. We couldn't wait anymore (or I should say...I couldn't wait anymore.) So I ordered it.

And we swabbed...

I was so impatient I bet I called the company 4+ times to see if my results were in. Ernesto who must have been the only guy in their call center knew me by name and I'm sure he thought I was the most annoying person ever...

Finding out the results was really interesting, For those of you who don't know identical twins do not run in families, it is not a trait anyone passed down to me. It was a complete fluke. We also found out that they were not d-di like we were told, but mo-di. Again, look it up...I have a twinning process post somewhere. There is a 1 and 250 chance of having identical twins. So I (for the lack of better words) achieved that and I managed to achieve having one of them born with cleft lip/cleft palate which I believe is 1 out of 700
births.

So either you just learned something or I put you to sleep.

Brotherly Love (Kind of...)

And so it begins...



I couldn't help but laugh. I'm assuming it's only going to get more interesting