McKinley Jane and Grant Alan

Yep, you read that right...another milestone down. Grant got his first tooth the other day! We thought for sure McKinley would be the first with the amount of drooling and chewing she does but she has yet to break any. I think we're all over our respiratory junk and thankfully (knock on wood) we didn't catch the stomach flu that Chad also had. We've been doing pretty good with the night schedule and are working on the day schedule now. Grant sleeps from 530pm to around 600am each night..that boy loves his sleep! McKinley sleeps from around 530pm to around 4am and then back down until 6 am but lately has been waking up in the night...hopefully that stage ends soon! They're still taking 3 naps a day but their awake hours are slowly increasing which makes it easier to get out and about. They're eating solid foods like champs and we're trying to introduce finger foods like Cheerios and such which can be pretty comical! It usually comes right back out! Neither are c...

This past week we took a trip home to visit the family in Kansas and Missouri and it was quite a hectic trip. We flew into Kansas City to stay a night with my brother, drove 2 hours to Topeka to stay with my other brother, drove 3 hours to Hutchinson to stay with yet another brother, then 3 hours to Healy to stay two nights with my parents, then 6 hours back to Kansas City to stay with my sister and then fly out the next day. Lots of action for the babies, but they did so good staying in a different place each night and driving everyday. With all the traveling and exposure to different people we brought home a nice souvenier of nasty colds for Grant and McKinley. We took them to the doctor today and ended up having to put Grant on breathing treatments every few hours because he was having some wheezing when he breathed. We had our 6 month check up with the developmental specialist and she tested them based on their adjusted age of 4 months and they actually tested out 5 months of age, ...

This is a really late post, but recently we took the babies to their first spring training game. It was 90 degrees that day, but they chilled out in their little "tent" or the stroller and we got through the whole game without any meltdowns. Grant with Daddy McKinley obviously likes the taste of sunscreen b/c she wouldn't stop licking Grant's arm!