6 months

Another doctor's appointment today...and we still have two boys!  Our sonographer likes to point that out every time as soon as she pulls up their images on the machine.  I guess after initially prediciting  a boy and a girl she wants to make sure and show us that she is 100% sure now about them both being boys.   She always includes a great picture of each boy's anatomy, but I will spare you all of those.

Each baby weighs 1 pound 13 ounces, and they are developing right on track.  Having almost 4 pounds of baby is starting to cause some slight (or sometimes a lot) of discomfort for ol' mom, but they are also very fun to feel moving around and kicking. 

We were able to get really good pictures of each boy's face.  When we were watching the actual sonogram and could see their faces for long periods of time I thought they looked a lot alike!  Of course, sonogram pictures are not exactly crystal clear, but they seem to have the same nose.  I guess we will find out in a few months!

Here is Cy:

(just like the last appointment Cy had his face covered by Presley's foot for almost the entire sonogram...I am glad we were able to still get such a good picture of him!)

I circled the main part of his face to make it easier (?) to find.  The most prominent feature is definitely the cute nose!

Here is Presley:

His nose is smashed up against his sac in this picture, but you can really see his mouth and chin!  He also managed to get his foot (circled) hiked up and away from Cy's face long enough to get this photo.

Profile of Presley!  Red line points to his ear.

California

We made a trip up to see Paul's family in northern California this past weekend.  His grandmother, aunt and cousins and uncle and his family all live in the Palo Alto/San Jose area, but we spent the entire weekend at the beach house near Santa Cruz.  It was beautiful there and despite what I consider cool temperatures and freezing water Paul enjoyed some time swimming in the ocean.

Paul and Mark enjoying the COLD water

My stomach has grown A LOT since the last post.

On our last night before coming home his Aunt Ruth, Granny and cousins Nicolas and Elisa had a mini baby shower for us!  We had delicious cake and got some really cool gifts for the boys.

We had so much fun playing and hanging out with Nicolas and Elisa, although Paul did most of the playing and I did a lot of sleeping...(my allergies have been horrible this past week and I am not too happy about the lack of medicine that pregnant women are allowed to take!)

Cy and Presley each got a bear that is exactly like the bears that Nicolas and Elisa loved when they were little.  These bears had actually been discontinued so Ruth searched all over and finally found these two in England and had them shipped over.  I know the boys will love them!

The new bears with their very loved, older bear cousins

Each of the boys received a handmade blanket courtesy of Ruth's mother-in-law, who is Cuban.  She makes these traditional style, Cuban blankets that are very soft, trimmed with lace and hand embroidered with characters.

Some cute onesies that are perfect for our Texas boys

We had a great trip visiting with everyone and look forward to getting Cy and Presley out to California as soon as we can!

Christmas 2009

Paul and I had a great, last Christmas with just the two of us, although it seemed as if the boys were already here...they got more presents then anyone!!!  Paul's dad, sister and brother in law were in town for the week of Christmas and then we drove to RR to celebrate the Whiteside Christmas on New Year's Day.

Here are some sneak previews of some very cute clothes for Cy and Presley.

Made by Aunt MP!  The boys will be so fancy in their ties!!