House Arrest

Little Indy

Thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes for the babies! We had a really great time celebrating them over the long weekend and will share photos as soon as we can pick ourselves up off the ground again (having collapsed from all that happiness you know).

Going to work today was incredibly rough. The blah weather, the pile o' crap that I knew I had waiting in my inbox, the seemingly endless meetings did nothing for my mood today. Let's just say that I was missing my kiddos a little today.

Every day brings new accomplishments. I mean, look at what Aden learned to do today:

(cue the "Indiana Jones" theme song)

Da da da da, da da daaa...

Babyproofing? What's that?

Hunter, incidentally, is just biding her time until she puts her plan to rule the world into play...

P.S. I don't know if we're going to post daily about the kiddos or what the frequency is going to be like. We are continuing the 365 project and will finish updating year 1 while starting new albums for year 2. But, I am planning / hoping  / praying to post a little more about knitting and other personal things just as much as I post about the kiddos.

1 Year: We Close Our Eyes

We close our eyes and dream and another year has come and gone

Aden Theodore born at 12:26 PM on 5/23/07 and a year later at 11:13 PM.

Hunter Rhiannon born at 12:27 PM on 5/23/07 and a year later at 11:18 PM.

(She was bouncing so hard in her jumper that her crown got all crooked!)

We're on the healing path
We're on a roller coaster ride
That could never turn back
And since you love me
And since you really try
To make the seconds count
Then we can close our eyes and dream...

*Lyrics slightly paraphrased but one of my favorite songs nonetheless...

More pictures, stories, reminiscences and blather over the course of the weekend.

1: Give us the 'Os... (guest post by Mark)

...and no one gets hurt.

Hunter and Aden are good about showing a unified front, but...

...there may have been some poaching going on.

2: Bellying Up to the Dad (guest post by Mark)

Life is good, even if (or especially when) it comes in double-handfuls:

3: Sippy Puzzle

4b

I'm super-pissed at our happy government friends in the NYS tax office so I'm just going to hold my tongue and leave you with this:

4a: Leap Years are a Bitch...

So a long, long time ago I put the kiddos' birthdate into an online countdown calendar.

One that apparently didn't realize that 2008 was a leap year.

You know where this is going, right? Everything has been a day off from the beginning and my countdown has been a little screwy. My 365 Project is indeed a 366 Project (rest assured, the photos for the albums have indeed been taken religiously and both sites will be updated soon...)

I thought I had spotted the mistake at earlier intervals but just kept writing it off to bad math and tiredness and parenthood so I never tried to address it.

I'd been in denial until last night when Mark made it clear to me that a) there was no moving their actual birthdate and b) that folks might be a touch disappointed in wishing the babies a "Happy Birthday" earlier than everyone expected.

So for the record, the kiddos' first birthday will take place Friday, May 23rd. I'm adjusting the countdown by creating 4a and 4b so our daily writeups will coincide with their actual birthday(s).

As for our plans for the big 1-0... The 'rents and the kiddos are planning to go to their first professional photo session, evah! (And, I think you can tell how I feel about that...)

Afterwards, we have a semi-fancy dinner planned at a local joint that we want to support and get used to the idea of having kidlets around. (Family-friendly is the new battlecry for us...)

And, finally, a super duper 1st birthday party at a really fun cajun/italian joint has been scheduled for the day after their birthday...

And... can I just simply say, holymotherfuckingshit!

A year? Already?

P.S. We will do some special posts (prob a few days after the big day) so that everyone can see how far these two doodlebugs have come.

5: Full of Cheerios

6: Bunny Ears

It starts early I see...

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