Happy Halloween

Well, it's that time of year - Halloween!!! This year Lizzie is a little witch and Paul is a vampire. We were going for a more matched theme, but this is what we liked at the store. Here are some pictures from the Fall Festival for the Louisville Twins Club. I hope everyone else has a happy and safe Halloween.

Summer update

Sorry about the delay in posting. I've been super busy at work and all time at home is spent enjoying my wonderful kids! They are getting bigger and sweeter every day. They are talking quite a bit now (which is a relief as we were starting to get worried). Lizzie is talking more than Paul, but he's starting to pick up a little more everyday.

Due to the wind storms in Louisville, we were out of electricity a couple of days last week, but the kids handled it without any problems. They did miss seeing the backyardigans in the morning!

Here are they are playing on the back porch (there were power lines down in the front of the house).



Riding their tricycles. Mostly, Charlie and I just push them, but everyonce in a while they push themselves a little.


Lizzie's had enough!

Pool Party

Last weekend we bought a kiddie pool - not much just $8 at the local walmart (although we spent $20 on the pump to air it up). The kids seem to like it okay. It took a while to convince them to get in on Saturday, but once they did they had fun. I took some pictures tonight - they didn't get to stay in long because of the bugs. Not much else happening - Paul's face is kind of scratched up because he took a tumble down the street the other night. We let them play on the flat part without holding our hands (extremely quiet and out of the way street with only 4 houses), but there is a hill off the street that Paul loves to run to - and then fall down.

Lizzie wanting out of the pool (there was a dog roaming the neighborhood)

Mr. P and his bumps (from daycare) and scratches (from falling on the street)

Lizzie working on escaping while Paul stirs the water with his spoon

Continuing our attempts for them to feed with a spoon. This night we let them try ravioli with sauce. Lizzie did okay...

Paul made a wonderful mess (this so reminds me of their birthday party)

On the 4th of July, after a neighborhood party with Grandma and Grandpa Rademaker, we went to the Bullitt County festival - where our good friend Troi was in a Patriotic Program!

Lizzie took care of Mama by holding her drink

July, already?

Yes, it's been over a month (but not by too much!). I've been getting some gentle nudges lately that the blog needed to be updated. However, not too much has happened. We did have the twins' 18 month checkup yesterday. Important stats are:

Lizzie - 27.5 lbs and 31.5 inches (about 75th percentile for both)
Paul - 25.8 lbs and 29.5 inches (about 50th percentile for both)

The doctor said they were both doing good - everything on track. They are still behind in verbal, with Lizzie slightly ahead with about 10 words. We're waiting until about October (after my audit at work) and if they're still behind will seek the services of the First Steps.


The kids did get to go to Grand Assembly with the Fairdale Rainbow Girls (service organization for girls sponsored by Eastern Star and Masons). They had lots of fun catching up with all their friends from across the state.

Here they are sleeping in the hotel room (they love to sleep close)


Everybody all spiffy for the sessions


Lizzie and Paul are learning to eat with a spoon. Right now we only give them yogurt - it has a good consistency for practice. Paul especially will not let you feed him with the spoon - he has to have it.




They enjoy going outside and we usually spend everynight after supper taking a walk or playing with the chalk. Luckily, we live in a very quiet neighborhood and don't have to worry too much about traffic. We have started to meet a lot of our neighbors and have found that very nice. A family down the street has a 1 year old girl, so hopefully we have found a new playmate.

Spring Update

The twins are doing great. Just keep getting bigger and doing more things. They've started riding the trucks they got for Christmas. Lizzie has even stood up on the seat a couple of times - she's shaping up to be the dare devil. Paul's favorite activity now is to push the recycling tub all over the driveway and walkway. They still aren't talking too much, but we're working on it.

Here's a couple of pictures - mostly just hanging out around the house.

Playing on their trucks!







What a little ham!!!


Just one of the many funny faces of Mr. P


Someone was not very happy here - I think she wanted the camera

Easter 2008

We had a very interesting Easter. It actually started on Friday - with Mr. P and some really bad diapers. He (and Daddy) stayed home and he slept and lounged all day. The bad diapers continued on through Saturday and - just when we thought they were done - continued on at Grandma Allgeier's house. Mr. P actually ended up staying home the following Monday and Tuesday till he was all better.

They did receive some baskets from the Easter Bunny - with some toys, dvds, and a little candy. They seemed to enjoy the Peeps and have a few peanut butter eggs left. At the Allgeiers, Grandma had some baskets all ready for the kids and they got some plastic eggs (Mama and Daddy took the candy), a hopping chick and some bunny ears. Lizzie went with Daddy to visit the Rademaker grandparents and had a good time eating lamb.

Lizzie and Paul with their Easter Baskets

Lizzie's a flower and Paul's a bunny (but not a happy one)

Lizzie the flower investigates the peanut butter cup

Paul - not too sure about the Peep

At Grandma & Grandpa Allgeier's there's more bunny ears

Even cousin Killien gets a pair of ears!

Lizzie surrounded by Mama's (Diet Mt Dew) and Daddy's (the beer) favorite drinks

Paul playing with the Tupperware - all better!

Las Vegas

The family travelled to Las Vegas, NV for a week. I had some training to attend and we decided to make a vacation out of it and stay in our condo. We left in the middle of a huge snow storm - about 12 inches of snow!!! Even with that snow, our flight left only 20 - 30 minutes late and soon we were in sunny weather. Paul and Lizzie did really great on both the flight out and the flight back. They were a little fussier on the return trip, but no more than you would expect. Many of the people on the flights complimented us on our great babies.

While in Vegas, we didn't do much - we got some shopping done at the near-by outlet mall and a little shopping on the Miracle Mile - in the Planet Hollywood casino. We did go to Paris and have some crepes - Paul really liked the nutella crepe. Lizzie wasn't too worked up about either the nutella or the apple crepe.

While I was attending my training - Charlie got to sight see at the local ER. That's right - Paul required a little trip to the ER for an ear infection and pneumonia. He ran a fever our first full day, it went away the next day, and then was on and off the following. So on the fourth day - Charlie took him (with Lizzie in tow) to the immediate care center, where he was told that they only look at kids older than 10. So off to the Children's Hospital. Charlie says the doctors and nurses were all really nice, so it wasn't a really bad experience - just long. We have some anti-biotics and a breathing treatment that seemed to do the trick. We checked in with our local ped yesterday and all is well.

So now, we're all home and happy - except that while on vacation the twins got used to us laying down with them when it was time to sleep and now we have to listen to Lizzie cry for about 30 - 45 minutes before she goes to sleep.

Lizzie and Paul playing in the kitchen as Mama and Daddy pack.




We left this in Kentucky...


For this in Las Vegas (the weather was perfect)!!!


The Paris casino (looks like you're outside)


The fountain in front of Paris


Paul playing with his favorite toy hanger as we sit in traffic on the strip.


Lizzie takes the easy way out and sleeps through the trip

Quick Update

Well - what can I say, I'm a very bad blogger. The twins are doing great. They're crusing around and getting into everything. Their favorite toy is the tupperware (as usual, not what we spent tons of money on).

We had a recent assessment by the NICU Doctor (at their one-year adjusted - March 7). Overall they are doing good and on track. As both are walking and picking up the smallest speck (especially Lizzie as she will eat anything on the floor) their motor skills are doing great. The verbal skills are lagging just a little, but this is expected with twins. The doctor gave us some games to play and help them. He said no red flags right now, but we're supposed to keep watching them for the next couple of months.

Soon I hope to have some video (or at least some pictures).