Monday, March 23, 2015

 Taking the babies and Charlie for a walk!
 
 All the way down to Fort McHenry
 
 View from Fort McHenry
 
 Living Memorials
 
 Canons!
 
 Key Bridge
 
 Mo' canons!
 
 Do you see the lighthouse? In front of the red brick building?
That is where the tunnel begins running under the water!
 
 Baltimore City Fire boat
In the background, bluish-green glass in middle of
picture is Johns Hopkins Hospital
 
 To the left of the two huge boats is where
Bob and I hauled the boat last year, and will again this year!
 
 Charlie sniffing everything!
 
 
 Bob and Lynn's home state!
 
Charlie's birth place
 
 
 Jenny's 2nd birth place (Cuba was first)
 
 Sam snuggling with me!
 
 Bob out for St. Patrick's Day
(although you wouldn't know it with a pink shirt!)
 
  Gary from Dream Catcher (wearing green as should be)
hangin' with my man!
 
 2 months old (+ 1 day)
 
 How adorable!
 
 Cameron is like...get off of me Andrew!
 
 Andrew
 
  This is where Charlie hangs out in the baby's room
when we are feeding them!
 
 Cameron is not happy!
If you look closely at his upper leg
he has a band-aide...today he had 3 shots;
2 in one leg and 1 in the other!
 
 Charlie and Sam hangin'
 
 Just when you think that can't get any cuter!
 

 Wa-la....they are looking each other in the eyes!
 
 Cameron
 
 Andrew
 
 Andrew is happy!
He is going on a walk!
 
 Cameron is happy also...
he's just ready to leave!
 
 Andrew and his binky!
 
 Daddy and Andrew going
out to dinner!
 
 Mom and Cameron too!
 
 Awe!  How much cuter can this J-Team
family get...unless of course they had twin
girls hee hee!
 
Andrew getting a bath...it takes two to clean him!
Dad washes body and mom washes hair!
 
 Sam loves it when it's time to wash bottles
He loves trying to knock stuff in the sink!
 
 Oh woe me....nobody pays attention to me anymore!
 
 Cameron teaching Grandma this time how to whistle!
 
 Bill (Bob's brotherhome from back surgery on the same day of surgery!
 
Jack, the one right smack dab in the middle of the group and Bill's son,
holding his Harford County Traveling Team 10 year basketball trophy he won this year undefeated!  Go Jack!!
 
Another busy week this week.  The boys went to the doctor's for a check-up and are doing great!  Cameron weighed in at 10 lbs 15 oz and Andrew weighed in at 10 lbs 8 oz!!!!  They had all their shots this past visit also.  Not to pleased I must say.  Their doctors appointment was on Thursday and today is Monday.  They literally have been sleeping for 3 straight days and eating half of what they would normally eat....however, all that changed today....they have been eating like little piggy's and not sleeping at all!  It will be another 2 months before they go back for another doctor's appt. !!
 
 We started trying the 4 hour stretch at night again just last night...they were supposed to sleep until midnight and woke up at 11, sleep again until 4 and woke up at 3 and then again at 8 and woke up at 7...so not bad, just an hour off.  But that really kills Jon and Jen's sleeping mode....poor Jon was up at 3 a.m. and had 4 hours between feeding and prior to having to be at work at 7 - and it took Jenny 2 hours to get the boys back in bed at 1 a.m.  I on the other hand just had to get up an hour earlier, I was the lucky one!
 
Bob is in GA. now.  He needs to be in Savannah by Thursday to pick up Paul his friend from D.C.  He says the weather is getting cooler and cooler, and he's been getting rain here and there.  In totality, he really has nothing to complain about, at least he is not here!
 
Bill, Bob's brother, ended up in the hospital this last week.  He had 4 bulging discs in his back and one that was herniated and pushing on his nerve.  He had the herniated disc shaved off so it no longer hit the nerve and was back home the same day!  How crazy is that!  He is doing much better.  He wasn't able to sit for 2.5 weeks and the night he went home he was sitting in a chair eating a cheese steak sub!   

Sunday, March 15, 2015

 We are so adorable!
These are the outfits our grandpa bought us from Iowa!
 
 J-Team family out for a walk!
 
 J-Team family full!
 
 Charlie is starting to feel a little bit better....
He's decided to take action!  The other day I was
feeding one of the babies and he decided he wanted
to sit on my lap, so he tries and pushes the baby over
a little bit so he can sit on me also!  Of course
we had to straighten that out. So when I told him he would
have to wait until I was done with babies he looks at me and
says "Fine!  I'm laying on your remote control then!"
 
 Andrew
 
 Cameron
 
 Time for another J-Team walk
Charlie is hiding behind them!
 
 Cameron
 
 Andrew
You can just see his smile in his eyes!!!
 
 The J-Team boys
Boy is Jenny going to have her hands full!
And! She will love every minute of it!
 
 Cameron
 
 The boys are communicating
Simon says "hands meet in middle"
 
 Simon says "Andrews hands are up and Cameron's hands are down!"
 
 Cameron says "OK I have something to say!  Andrew is like...
"not again!"
 

And to think "I'm your bro and we're friends for life Andrew!"
 
" I'm gonna have to nap on this one!"
 
" Am I milk drunk!?"
 
 Playtime in the Pack in Play!
 
 We think we are enjoying this!
 
 And we get to play on the floor!
 
"Isn't this fun Andrew!"
 
 Unless things change, this is where we will be coming
for Daycare in September...
 
 Yeah!  It's time for another walk!
 
 We love them!
We just don't know it yet!
 
 Because we are....
 
 always sleeping!!"
 
 Jenny with 3 out of 5 of her babies!
 
 It's hard to believe she had twins 2 months ago tomorrow!
Doesn't Jenny look wonderful!
 
 "It's green beer day!"
 
 Oops....grandmamma meant
"It's St. Patrick's Day!
 
 The J-Team and Grand-mama went to
In Like Flynn's for St. Patty's day!
 
 It's drizzling and just opening so not a bad crowd
 
 All kinds of things for the kids to do
 
 There's even a musician playing Irish music!
 
 Grand mama wants that hat!
 
 The boys are enjoying their first of
many St. Patty's Days to come!
 
 Daddy and Mommy
 
 Games for kids....
the little girl to the right has on a sweater
that goes to the ground....it's really cute!
 
Grand-mama with Andrew and Cameron
 
Another great week in the J-Team household.
 
Jon & Jen went and seen a lawyer and took care of business for the boys this past week. 
 
Jon & Jen have decided to take over the night feeding.  Jenny goes back to work the middle of April and is hoping to have a plan in place so that they can get at least 5 or 6 hour of sleep per night.  They are testing the boys out to see how long they can sleep between feedings during the nighttime hours only.  During the day we keep them on a 3 hour feeding frenzy :-)  Will keep you posted!
 
We have come to learn that the iron is really upsetting the boys stomach.  Poor Andrew, the last two mornings his food has gone straight to his diaper....it's like he hasn't eaten at all; and what doesn't get to the diaper is vomited back up! Cameron on the other hand, vomits and does a lot of tootin'....I read on Facebook that "farts" keeps cancer at bay....so I should live to be a very old grandma!!  Yay for me!!
 
Bob is doing great!  He is 5 miles south of Titusville, Fl now.  He had a good day in the ocean, it was a little rough but he was able to make it to Lake Worth so that was good!  The last two days he was actually sailing!  He had both engines turned off and was doing 5.8 knots sailing which is very good, and then the second day he was doing anywhere from 3.6 to 5.6 knots.  It took him a couple of hours longer to get to Titusville than need be, but he had the time and enjoyed the moment!  He said it's really nice not having to rush back!
 
I met up with Derek & Shelley this past week.  Now I know why I'm not around for the winters anymore.  It takes all I have to force myself out of the house when it's cold and miserable....but I have to say...it felt good being out with friends and having a couple of drinks....it's like Shelley said..."just because I'm a grandma doesn't mean I have to act like one!"