The Coolest!

Here are the coolest Gator babies - gearing up for the big game this weekend!!!

Swearing In

I am finally posting these pics from David's swearing in by a retired Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Chief Justice Harding. Here are a few pics from the day The official swearing in ceremony. David takes his oath.

Mr. Hart and Justice Harding with David.

The Weiss Family excited for this occasion.

Alden and Carson were there too - Daddy with his boys.....

The Tharpes and the Weiss' all together.

Enjoying a celebratory lunch afterwards - our little family :) also our first trip to a restaurant with the boys - good thing we had lots of hands to help hold!!!

Mommy and Alden enjoying the beautiful weather at FGF.

Mr. Hart looking like a natural with Carson.

Grandma Kathy and Carson :)

More new Friends and Family

I thought I should document our storage of milk - when Alden and Carson were in the NICU and were still on IV, the milk I was able to pump was stored until they needed it. When they did begin to eat it by feeding tube, they started at 3 cc of milk - there are 30 cc in an ounce - so you can know what a small amount that was. In the mean time, I was pumping away so that I would be ready to feed them when they were ready. So, now we have months of breastmilk stored in a deep freeze here at our house. Wow - when I look at this I can't belive it was 4.5 months ago that we started this process!!!!

Milk stored from July through today.

Lainey and Alden. Lainey is having a baby girl in January and we had her shower this weekend!!! She's practicing for her new role as mommy!

Kathy and Carson. Kathy is Lainey's mom and is so excited to be a grandmother!

Aunt Ellie was in town from Cleveland to meet the boys - here she is with Alden.

We are now a member of a summer babies playgroup. Here is a shot from our first day: All of the boys - from Left to Right: Colson, Alden, Carson, Jackson and Dawson - all born in July!

New Friends and Family

Now that the boys have had their 4 month checkup, Alden and Carson are now allowed to meet more people! Dr. K said as long as people are healthy, they can meet the boys. So, we did a little bit of meet and greet over the past few days. We still haven't ventured out to a restaurant or anything (Mommy and Daddy DO want to enjoy ourselves when we actually go out!).

As of their appointment on Friday, Alden weighs 11 pounds and Carson weighs 10.5 pounds. They are continuing to stay about a half a pound apart as they have pretty much the entire 4 months. Their growth curve is just fine too. So, we are all happy they're doing so well. The Pediatrician does want us to wait until they are six months old (which is like a full term 4 month old) to start rice cereal, and I have to admit we're thankful - not sure we're quite ready for that!

In addition, the boys are now sleeping about 11 hours at night - we are SO thankful and Mommy feels like a new person!!!


Cousin Gabriel holding Carson - how cute is this!!!

Cousin Talise holding Alden - she looks like a natural!

Carson and Alden getting ready to go see Dr. K

Carson and his "girlfriend" Carson - she is 6 months old and lives down the street

Carson is a triplet - here she is with her sister Hadley, her brother Reese and Alden and Carson.

4 Months Old Today!!!

We cannot believe that Alden and Carson are 4 months old!!! They go to the pediatrician for their 4 month checkup on Friday so we'll post weights then but we think they are somewhere between 10 and 11 pounds. Here is a shot of them today on their 4 month birthday :)
in case you can't see what it says on their shirts.

Pick-a-Pick-a Pumpkin!!

Thank goodness Grandma Kathy was a kindergarten teacher - she is teaching us lots of songs we did not know - the one of the week is "Pick-a-Pick-a-Pumpkin" - perfect for these costumed babies! Ok, several costumes for you....here we go!!

Carson as a Tiger and Alden as a Zebra.....

Carson right before bath time - smiling with his Daddy.

Alden right before his bath playing with Daddy too!

Grandpa and Mimi came over for the Florida/Georgia game on Halloween!

Alden (L) and Carson - Mommy couldn't resist putting them in these precious pumpkin hats!!

And a shot without the hats - see how much more they look alike when their hair is covered!!

And Thank you again to Terri Smith for these beautiful shots at the pumpkin patch. (Alden on the Left and Carson on the right)

You can view more at http://www.terrismithphotoblog.com/ and her professional site http://www.terrismithphoto.com/ - Thank you again Terri for helping to raise $600 for the TMH Foundation in Marsha Click's Memory.