Sara Sullivan

I found out about this blog a few weeks ago and hope you will read it as well. It's about a woman about my age who suffered with breast cancer and passed away the week after her little girl was born. I didn't know this woman, but I surely wish I had.

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Boys in their baptism outfits

I didn't think I got enough pictures in the boys' baptism outfits, plus I didn't ANY of the beautiful white blankets Grandma Fase made for the boys. So, I dressed up the poor little guys and made them to a photo shoot for me. In some of the pictures, Carter has on a shoe with no laces. They had come out and I didn't find them until midway through the shoot. Oh well!

Teeth!!!

Carter has been acting a little bit not himself lately. I thought it was because he was missing his daddy:) He's just been crying more lately, not napping as well and been more clingy than usual. On Tuesday, I was letting him gnaw on my finger when I felt something sharp. His first tooth came through! Then on Thursday, the second came through!
Below are his first teeth. My baby's growing up!!

Here he is, Mr. Toofy!

Rice Cereal

Before I left for Dallas last week, I gave the boys cereal. I thought I'd skip putting on a bib since the boys' outfits were already dirty. Big mistake! Boy, did they get dirty! I had to give them baths afterwards.

Four months old

Last Saturday, the boys turned four months old! Can you believe it? They are growing up too fast. They are getting cuter and cuter by the day. It is so much fun to see how their little personalities are shaping.

Carter is such a happy baby and a joy to be around. He still loves to have conversations. No matter if he's crabby, if you pick him up and start talking to him, he gets happy again. He just has such a happy disposition.

Brandt has developed a smile that will melt your heart. It's this big, toothless grin. When you start talking to him, he'll cock his head to the side, shrug his shoulders and give you this big, open mouth grin. He's also started this thing where he sucks on two fingers. It's too cute!

Both the boys have been giggling. I think that might be the best sound in the world. Love it! I'm going to try to get it on video.

This month we start on foods! Although we've cheated and given the boys rice cereal before, we are excited to officially start. The boys' pediatrician gave us a great schedule to introduce the boys to food. They start on rice cereal and then start oat cereal, barley cereal, then fruits, then vegetables and finally meats. This is going to be so much fun!

At their appointment, Carter weighed 17# 7 oz. Brandt weighed 13# 14 oz. We definitely think Carter is going to take after the Groens and be a very tall man.

Sleepers

Recently, we've been putting the boys in sleepers when they go to bed for the night. For awhile the boys would wake up early and I'd go in to find they'd wiggled out of their blankets and were freezing! We tried the sleepers and they started sleeping longer and are so cuddly when they wake up.

Really cute outfits

The boys receive these cute seersucker outfits from Eric's dad's friends, Jeff and Lila Hokanson. They wore these outfits when we went to the mall before Eric left for Dallas. Aren't they so cute??

This picture cracks me up. The boys were hungry when we got back and they look like they are yelling at me and saying, "Mommy, will you please stop taking our picture and give me a bubba?!!"