Happy Birthday Cousin Sophia!!

Today was Sophia's 3rd Birthday Party - though yesterday was her actual birthday!!
We cannot believe how much you have grown and how beautiful you are !! We love you!!
(we took the photo from their blog - we did not have any good one of just Sophia!!

Sophia w/ her beautiful blue eyes and sweet smile!!
Great job Auntie Brooke on the cake and the party!!

Theo looking totally tired
This is how we found Theo asleep during presents - arm in the air!!

Big blue eyes like cousin Sophia

Will showing of his standing w/ Nancy

Mama & Will

Great Grandpa Nestor, Sheila, & Will (He was wearing a frog outfit from them - 9 months!!)

Sophia carrying around her one of her "pink party" balloons

Ryan, they boys, and I stayed longer after everyone left - a little less hype!! Sophia loved spending some time w/ the boys - especially Will. Before her nap we played the Wii together.

Park Playdate

The boys and I went to the park for a playdate w/ Sarah since it was beautiful out when they came to visit for the day!!

Will loves the Bjorn but not the sun in his eyes!!

This is how Will fell asleep on my sweatshirt on the grass at the park-isn't he so adorable!!

Theo asleep in his carseat on the stroller - it happens every time he is in a moving vehicle...our car, a friends car, his luxury limo stroller, or even walking around...

Tiny Theo enjoying the swing!! We have a small video where he is smiling and laughing - but I have not figured out how to post those yet...

Will in the swing!! His experience was not so wonderful - we have the video to prove it!!

Sweet Sarah!!

My friend Becky came to visit w/ her daughter Sarah. She was born two weeks before the boys, but as you can tell - this sweet girl was not an uber preemie!!

5 MONTHS

Will & Theo are five months today!! They are wearing their new summer clothes from mommy's older brother and his fiance - Uncle Joe and Kristen - THANK YOU!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Ryan and I went to my adopted mothers for a family & family friends BBQ...

Theo asleep on my mom...

Will asleep on family friend Sue...

Theo still chillin w/ my mom...he was really relaxed that day - not common for little T-bear.

Will w/ Daddy!! Look at those eyes!!

My sister Emily's new little puppy Henna - chillin in the sun against the house after swimming in the pond. So cute!!


The next day we went to Ryan's moms for another family BBQ...


Remember how small Will looked next to his Pats woobie - now his feet are half the size!!

Will is now bigger than the changing pad - so we use a burp cloth under his head sometimes...

My sister-in -law & her husbands new "baby" Rufus - chocolate cuteness!!

Theo asleep w/ Grammie

Our best family portrait yet...

On the way home Will kept trying to look at me over the back of his carseat-apparently it took too much work!!

May Milestones

Developmentally Will's motor skills are ahead of the curve for a preemie - despite his recent injury and immobility!!
Grasping a small toy...
holding his bottle - w/ONE hand...

...shaking his arm w/ a rattle on it and realizing he was the one doing it...

...reaching for hanging toys...

...and standing in his new shoes!!

Theo has some things he is accomplishing developmentally, but they are mostly neurological and emotional - w/ the exception on his standing and stepping...

Theo sleeping on his back in the boppy and w/ his legs held up...

...finally falling asleep by self soothing....

...falling asleep and not waking up in transition and screaming like he usually does...

...and having tummy time on my chest and not screaming but being calm enough to sleep...

...and standing and stepping w/ only little support in his new little soft soled shoes!!

Sleepy Snuggles

The boys have been found sleeping in the strangest positions and are a lot more snuggly

Theo w/ /arms back behind himself w/ his face planted in the boppy pillow - at least he has his legs pulled up under him...

...usually we find him more like this - still holding onto "raffe" for dear life!!

Theo and Daddy both fell asleep on the couch...

...despite the funny position Theo still is clutching "raffe".

Theo pretty much will only sleep if he is face to face w/ "raffe". If he is not just so - Theo cries!

Will loves to snuggle his little lamb too - he love his "amby"!!

This is pretty much the only way I can get them to sleep for their morning nap - on our bed!!

Before their afternoon nap they have playtime in the crib together...

...and of course we cannot forget their "pluggies"!! Look at those cute faces!!