65 years... And counting!

Mary Jane and I spent last week with my family celebrating my grandparents' 65th anniversary! 65 years!

Wow.....

We've got a bunch of pictures, but there are more coming. What we don't have is a picture of all the family together. We took some, but I don't have a copy of it yet (hopefully someone will send it my way soon...)

In the mean time, here is a picture of my grandparents, my parents, my sister, her husband and baby, and of course the four of us.

This was the first time the girls met their cousin. It was fun seeing my sister and nephew.

Emma Jane loving her some great-grandma time

Parker loving herself some great-grandpa time

teeth

Mary Jane pointed out that there hasn't been any official announcement concerning the enamel growths occurring in our daughters' mouths.
So here is....they have teeth.

Okay...the pictures aren't great...but you will just have to believe me...there are teeth. Parker has two bottom front teeth, Emma Jane has one

As requested...some pictures (and some news worth noting...too us)

Soooooo......while we have a lot to say and a lot is going on there is little time to actually say it. Sorry for the hiatus. Another longer post will be coming in the next couple of days, but here are some pictures to hold you over for now.



As you can see...they've learned to love food!!! They are still not fans of the bottles but boy do they like stuffing their faces with solids. We have high hopes that once we finally get through the bottle stage things will be better with eating.

But the really exciting thing came yesterday. We just got back in town (more about that in the next post) and evidently it was a very formative trip because both the girls just decided to stand up!

Emma Jane was sitting in her crib while Mary Jane was changing Parker's diaper and she just grabbed the side of the crib and pulled herself up.

Not to be out done, Parker immediately did the same thing when we put her down in the crib. Since then they have gotten up a few times. It's pretty exciting stuff. (yes...standing up is exciting...I promise...)

This one speaks for itself

A Little Perspective... Part V (Happy Fourth of July!!)

In honor of this day of celebration, this day we pause to celebrate something that did not happen on this date in history, we decided it would be good idea to celebrate by looking at how big our beautiful girls have gotten. Now we could give long lists of specifics, and while that would assuredly be neat to see and would probably cause a great deal of oohing and ahhing, I somehow can't help but feel that a list of numbers seems pretty abstract to most of us (for those of you who just have to have some numbers I will tell you they are both over 13 and a half pounds, with 14 pounds looking like it can't be too terribly far off). So I have decided to follow the tradition created around here of looking at a series of pictures of the little beautifuls next to a common object over over a period of time.
These first couple of pictures may look a little familiar. We've seen them before. They're of Parker with her Monkey and Emma Jane with her owl.

As you can see there was already quite a difference between the girls, but time passes and...

...well...

...they're bigger...



and just in case this picture didn't make it clear enough...here's a few more...

In summary...the girls are bigger, and we thank God for His graciousness. Hard to believe it, but they're over 10 months now (June 30th was 10 months). We all hope you are having a relaxing and enjoyable fourth of July.

Blessings,

Jason, Mary Jane, Parker, and Emma Jane