Up to speed!

As a result of being, let's see, about 3 months behind in posting stuff on here, I decided that I would do one monster post with a small snapshot of each event leading up to now (I even have a pic from Monday on here...amazing right?) ha ha! But I really will try to get better at posting a little here and there instead of waiting so long to post so much. Caleb is almost 2 1/2 and Rachel will be 9 months old in a few days. It is so crazy! She just had her 9 month appt. and we think this is so interesting. Caleb, when born, was 8 lbs. 9 oz., Rachel was 8 lbs. 10oz. (and they were almost the same length). We looked up Caleb's 9 month stats and it was cool to see, Rachel just weighed in at 17 lbs. 5 oz. at her appt., and when Caleb was 9 months, he weighed in at 17 lbs. 6 oz. (again...only an ounce apart)! Now, Caleb was 2 inches longer than Rachel is right now, but we just thought it was funny that they are growing at the same rate pretty much. They both started as round little babies, and once Caleb started moving he really started to thin out to be the string bean he is today. It's so crazy to us that Rachel is starting to show the same pattern! Rachel is crawling, walking with her walker, etc. now, so I'm sure it won't be long before she officially walks. Caleb walked at 10 months, so we'll have to see! So here are some pics over the last 3 months or so of some of the things that have been going on!

Daddy went to a Red Sox game the other day and brought home Caleb a special present, a hat just like his! Don't worry he went out and bought Rachel a special new book too!

I just thought this was funny. I took this of Rachel after coming home from a friend's birthday party last week. She looked so cute in her dress; I was just trying to get a nice picture. She is normally a really chill baby, but that day she didn't want anything to do with having her picture taken!

They fell asleep together and were just the sweetest.

Just the other week Caleb used the potty for the first time!

Here are the kids and their Easter baskets from Grammy and Pops that they opened up Easter night.

Earlier in the day, we were all dressed up for church!

Caleb got a t-ball set from us for Easter and here he is showing us his stuff. Check out the video below, it was his first day playing with Daddy. He LOVES baseball!

Here was our first time taking the kids to the park in their new wagon from Grammy and Pops (that they got at Christmas) and Rachel's first time on the baby swings.

Here's a pic on St. Patrick's Day with Rachel in her outfit from Aunt Sue. Caleb wasn't interested in being photographed that day!

A few weeks before St. Patrick's Day, the kids and I went to York to celebrate Matt's 30th birthday. We got to see some family while in town at a lunch outing at the Olive Garden (there were others there, I just really liked this pic of Rachel and Aunt Ann so I thought I would post it!), and we went out one night for a special birthday dinner for Matt at Outback.

Here's just a cute pic of Rachel and Jason. Love this one!

This was our favorite Valentine's Day family photo.

Here are some pics from when Grammy and Pops visited in late January to celebrate Christmas (since we were in FL and MN over the actual holiday). One of Caleb's big gifts was a "My 1st Craftsman Tool Bench"!

Lots of presents!

Pops helping to set up the airport Uncle Matt got Caleb for his birthday.

Rachel loves her Grammy!

Caleb turned 2 in early January and his favorite gift from us was his first baseball glove. He had so much fun opening presents this year! We also took him to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate (and he had a party with his friends too around on another day). We also made cupcakes at home and helped decorate them (he also helped eat them too of course)!

I just had to throw in a few other cute Rachel shots from around that time! She's growing up so fast!

And last but not least, I think this was the last snowfall of the season. Caleb looks so cute in his snow pants and boots! He really loved pretending to shovel too.

And there you have it, the last 3 months or so in a quick re-cap!