Oscar's First Piano Recital

Oscar had his first piano recital today! Here is some shaky footage of him playing "I Like Rain."

Shenanigans

Atticus is on the left. Joaquin is on the right.

Six Months

That's twelve months in twin time, right?

We're cutting teeth and mostly sleeping through the night over here. Atticus (on the right) is an avid Jumperoo jumper, while our grabby guy Joaquin is more of an exersaucer man. Both boys like making googley eyes at O and Ro and basking in the resulting attention. These pics are of them working it for the big kids.

Tree Farm

Family Pic

Here's a rare picture of the whole gang, taken while we were in Michigan for Thanksgiving. Gabe is holding Joaquin, and I have Atticus.

Halloween 2010

Hay Maze

Nap Buddies

Here are Joaquin (on the left) and Atticus enjoying a little nap. They are about 6 weeks old.

Oh Boy, Oh Boy!

This is really belated, but Atticus Jude and Joaquin Robert joined us on the outside on August 4, 2010. Atticus was born at 4:46 pm, weighing in at 4 pounds 7 ounces, and Joaquin followed at 4:49 pm, weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces. Though the boys came early at 34 weeks, they both had great APGARS and were downright strapping, as far as preemies go. They did spend 16 days in the NICU, to address complications from the Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome that we had been dealing with throughout the pregnancy.

The time immediately following the birth was kind of wacky and fraught, and we were so, so happy when we were finally able to bring our babies home. Now, almost four months later, here we are, and life is very good.

Here are Atticus and Joaquin on their birthday:

And here they are now:

Totally worth it.