Hard to believe, but the girls will be four months old on Wednesday! They’re starting to babble and play with their toys more every day. And, as you can see from the pic below, they’re becoming champs at holding their heads up during tummy time! It seems like just yesterday that they were born… they’ll be crawling before we know it!
We had Christmas at our house this year so everyone could see the girls. Of course, we were flooded with presents for the girls and we’re still trying to put everything away. The girls… well, they had a pretty good Christmas themselves…
Merry Christmas, everyone!
It’s time for a Christmas card! So we sat down and took some pictures this weekend. Here are some of the finalists for the card:
But here’s the winner!
Last week when we were in the mountains, the girls’ grandparents bought some pumpkins for them. We couldn’t resist getting a couple of pictures with the pumpkins.
Grace, with her pun’kin
Erin, with her pun’kin
We just got home from a great week in the north Georgia mountains with Adriene’s parents. We took the girls out to the pumpkin patch for the first time. They weren’t really interested in the pumpkins, but maybe they will be next year! Nonetheless, it was a great chance to get some photos with mom and grandma…
Here are some of the latest pictures from La Casa de Holland.
Sleeping peacefully….
Gracie, being a flirt!
Looks like we just bought the world’s most expensive cat toy.
More pics available at Jeff’s Flickr site.
We got brave this past weekend and decided to take the girls out of the house and down to Tech for Homecoming. As always, it was wonderful to see old friends and see how the old House is doing. Our girls were the center of attention for many people, with lots of “ooohs” and “awwwws.”
The girls were great. If only they could always be this well-behaved as children!
…and of course, we took pictures! (Warning: for those of you that crave baby content, there’s more football than baby in these pictures. Sorry. More baby pictures to come soon, we promise.)
Here, our friends Rob and Elizabeth show that they know what they are doing around children.
Our friend Kara and her daughter Claire came all the way from the UK to visit us! Okay, maybe it wasn’t just to visit us, but they did stop by while over here in the States.
Now, it’s not our baby, but Claire is cute enough to get her own picture on our site. It won’t be long until our girls are this old. Look out boys….
On to our babies! Sometimes both babies want attention at the same time, and Adriene has been getting adept at keeping them both happy…
…of course, sometimes that means someone gets a foot in the face.
Hard to believe, but our girls are already a month old! It has been an exhausting and busy month, but compared to the last month of the pregancy which dragged on and on, this month has simply flown by.
Erin has begun to start behaving like a full-term baby, responding to mom with coos and giggles (and a voracious appetite). Gracie is a little behind developmentally, still acting more like a preemie, but we expect her to be coming along soon.
Someday we’ll look back on these sleepless nights and constant feedings and diaper changes with good memories we hope, but right now a nap sounds really good.
While we sleep, enjoy these pictures! Enjoy! We command you!
Grace at One Month.
Erin at One Month.
We’ve been home for a couple of weeks now and still adjusting to having two more people around the house. As you might imagine, caring for two infants is a whole lot of work. Fortunately, Adriene’s mother has been staying with us and she has been amazing. Just when we are worn out, she swoops in and gives us spells of relief. The cooking hasn’t been too bad either.
Jeff is back to work and already waist deep into business emergencies. Adriene has been home manning the fort. How is she doing? Let’s just say she’s smitten.
