Growing up my family and I spent most summers in Texas with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. My grandpa is retired from the Army and lives right by the Fort Hood Army base so on the 4th of July we would celebrate on the base. It was patriotic. It was fun. It was special. […]
Oh my…goodness why were they sleeping when we went to the zoo? I took my trusty helper, Johnny, to help me with the babies and our first visit to the zoo. I wasn’t sure how they would do but knew at least they would enjoy getting out of the house! Or wait, that was my […]
Within the last two months we have gone to two baseball games with the babies. The first one was to the SF Giants game with the youth and this last one was to see the A’s with some friends of ours. And both games they did surprisingly well. We were in the nosebleeds both times […]
Find a park that has water and spends lots of time in it. We’ve been adventurous this summer and have been trying to attend play groups at the park and other activities (more to come on those). A few weeks ago Holly and JD would either stay in the stroller or sit on a blanket […]
Holly and JD have lots of toys. Some they’ve never even seen before because they are still to little for them. At a baby shower they got these blocks with animals and numbers on them. We don’t play with them very often because Holly and JD like to chew on them and paper and spit […]
JD loves buttons, switches, keyboards, computers. Really anything that he push. In fact when I switch the laundry he likes to push the little button in the dryer that turns the light on and off. After each bath he points to each switch to turn the light off and then points to the hall light […]
A few months ago I bought a baby blow up pool to use when the weather got warm. It was warm for a few days and then the babies got sick, it rained and was cold again so I wasn’t able to use it. Finally, this past Friday we (Grandpa Hopkins) blew the thing up, […]