What Next!!!

Now we have RSV in he house!! I tell ya......thank goodness for hospitals, and deep suctioning!!! ( Oh and dark chocolate and Coke!! that always makes life feel a little better!)

Sick-Smick

It has been a rough couple of months around here! Well really since October of last year...the twins have caught every sniffle, cough, runny nose, and fever, that has went around....not to mention they both have had one ear infection after another. I honestly have been to Alpine Pediatrics at least once a week for the last month and a half, and at least a couple of times a month before that! Whit did get tubes, but he has battled with ear infection AGAIN over the last 2 weeks! And Reese is seeing the ENT this week to more than likely get hers!!!!! And to top it off this week we added a regime of breathing treatments for them both!! I-YI-YI!!!!!!! I never realized until lately how lucky we were with Tate, he was so healthy, a few sniffles here and there but not much. So around here we are so rooting for spring!!! I cannot wait to see tulips!!!




Whit does not like it at all!

Tate gets to wear the extra fish mask for moral support!

Trouble in Two's

I knew having twins was going to be hard at times!!!!! And I also knew that it would be double the fun, and it is!!!!! However I was not quite prepared for the naughtiness that has occurred in the last few weeks!!!! These two are NAUGHTY!!!!!! The old saying is true, " What one doesn't think of the other one will!!"" Don't get me wrong their personalities are so stinkin cute, but they are pure MISCHIEF!!!! All those people who said the first year is the hardest, were full of Sh%*!!!! I can tell that for the next couple of years Taylor and I are going to have to be on our game!!LOL! and poor Tate, everyday I let him go in his room and lock the door and play so he can have a break! LOL!

Whit is into EVERYTHING!! He is a monkey and can climb on anything.... I swear he can hear from the other room if someone has forgot to shut the bathroom door, because he makes a b-line for the toilet! Changing his clothes or his diaper anymore is like wrestling with an alligator!!!
And to top it off they are both starting to walk!!! YIKES!!!!!

Reese..... I am not sure how something so little can be so mean, and so loud!! She is a little fireball. She WILL Not let me feed her anymore, she has to do it herself, and will arch her back and throw a fit until she is happy! She pulled Whits hair so hard the other morning, he cried with a quivering lip for 5 minutes, the whole time with a smile on her face! But no matter how hard the day has been, I still can't believe how lucky we were to get two, and I wouldn't trade a thing! Here is a taste of what has been happening at the Taylor Ranch! ( And McKell NO LAUGHING!!!!)


They had thrown out every towel in this cupboard and thought is was so funny!





This is Reese trying to wrestle the chocolate they found, out of Whit's mouth!





She got it!





This is her body slamming him, when he wasn't looking! He did think it was funny though!






And Whit trying to get to the highest spot in the house!

Kararte Kid!

Tate took his first Karate class this week...well actually I think it is Jujitsu??? But either way my calves are sore, from him HIYAing me all the way down the hall! He really liked it and he did so good for being a fish out of water. It is sort of a trial run, because this place usually doesn't take 4 year olds, but Taylor knew the guy, and he said just come and see what he thinks. HE THINKS IT IS GOOD! He did really good for being blind sided, they speak another language and they mean business.

Tate had a little girl named Maddi that was his example, and she was so cute, trying to show him how to do things, and really he caught on pretty quick.. But as proud as I was of my little man, I have also never laughed so hard in my life! You forget that EVERYTHING is learned. Once they had warmed up, they started with somersaults down the mat. Tate was hilarious, he started out with his head on the mat and then just sort of fell to the side with arms and legs flying everywhere but straight ahead. I got giggling so hard!

Anyway, when class was over he asked when he could come back, and by the time we got home, we had to bow before each room we entered, and he had mastered the forward somerault! It was a fun night for him!

A Year Ago Today!

It was a year ago today that we brought Reese home, and completed the Taylor Party of Five! Whit got to come home two weeks before her, and I will never forget how relieved i was to have us all on our own couch! Tate was so proud to have them here, and it was just a GOOD day! It is hard to beleive that the twins are the same tiny little babies that were in those isolets! You guys have come a long way babies!



Taylor Party of 5


I love the look on his face! These days it is not always like that!!LOL


This was right before Reese went to Primary's

Here's my Pork Chop!

I would have never guessed that he would be the big little brother!

Pieces!!! A small little package of DYNAMITE!

This is when she was so small she scared me!!

Christmas!

Way fun Christmas!!! The anticipation up until the big day nearly killed Tate! He was soo excited and a lot of fun! The best part was having the babies this year! We didn't even get to see them last year on Christmas because of a nasty snow storm! Whit could even say HO HO Ho this year, and he knew right when to use it! It really was an awesome day. I have a million pics, but here are just a few!



I love it everybody under the same Christmas tree!

Whit never got off his horse, he loved it!!

Tate was like the Tasmanian devil going from one thing to the next!

Reese..she thought she was big stuff walking with her stroller!

I told you, he never got off this thing!

Sea toys, when Tate opened this he said."OH He got this at Toys R US!!!!"

This is just how I felt after all the festivities!

I LOVE this Wrangler butt!

Once Whit did get off his horse, I looked over and he was eating the leftovers of Santa's cookies!!!

Christmas Cheer!

I have to say, I have never really been a Christmas girl, I like Halloween, but kids make the magic of Christmas so fun!!!! I have kept my word about going all out, and doing a lot of fun stuff this year to make up for last year, and it has been a blast. We had our annual cookie party with Heath and Steph, and the boys, and my parents, we had the Hopes family Christmas party, a few parties with friends, a party with santa at Garwee's......we went to breakfast with Santa, and out to Thanksgiving point to see the Reindeer and the lights, and have a little dinner! FEEEW!!! And the best part of it all is that we were all there together, no running back and forth between 3 kids! The twinkle that is in Tate's eyes this year is awsome.... I am really starting to LOVE Christmas!!!!




Tate checking out the reindeer! Riding the trolley to see the lights!

Hopes and Whit at the party!

Reese thoroughly enjoying a gooey sugar cookie at the cookie party!

They were really good!