We celebrated our awesome Daddy on the right Fathers’ Day, but we are just a little slow getting to show and tell you all about it.  We love our Daddy so so much!  We love when he plays with us, sings us silly songs that he makes up, and we love that he tucks us into bed every single night.  Pretty soon he is going to be teaching us all kinds of things like he is teaching our big sister, like how to ride a bike, drive an radio controlled car and cool stuff like that.  James even got to help Daddy work on a for real car once! 

Daddy has lot of cool stuff he likes to do, so we had no idea what to get him for a present.  So we decided, what better gift that a wracked car!  Daddy loves to work on cars and do all kinds of cool stuff, so he got a Jeep that got in an accident that he can fix up and play with.  We also took him out to lunch where he could eat all the stinky garlic he wanted and Mama wasn’t allowed to complain about it!  Our big sister Mackenzie was with us to help show Daddy how much we love him.  It was a great day!

Us and our Daddy, getting ready for bedtime

Daddy with all three of his babies!

James getting some goofing time in with Kenzie.  She’s funny!

Emma and Kenzie and breaking it down!  Dancing on the couch!

We love you Daddy and we’re lucky to have you!

~James and Emma

Editors Note:  This is more of an editoral/rant than a post about the Fox twins.

As visitors may have noticed, there are no longer ads on foxtwins.com.  It seems that Google feels that my “account poses a significant risk to our advertisers“.  What is the risk you ask.  It seems that their system cannot tell the difference between 20 people in the same building clicking 1 ad, and 1 person clicking 20 ads.

Carrie (Mommie) works in an office with 1,600 other people.  As most of our readers know, the web site address gets passed around.  Google’s systems are unable to tell who is actually clicking an ad, and for that reason is taking it out on me (and probably many other website opperators).  This is a technological failure of Google’s systems.

The ads on this site went to support the cost of running the site (and afew other domains we have), and any extra was placed into a college savings account for the Fox twins.  In the 4 years that I have been assoicated with Google’s Ad setup, I have received 1 payment for $103, and had earned another roughly $60.  So we’ve averaged roughly $3.51 per month.

I’m not sure if I will be putting any additional ads on the site.  So for the time being, enjoy the new and improved Fox twins site.

And by Super Behind, we’re not saying that Mama’s heiney has super powers, we’re saying Mama has TONS of cool stuff to tell you about.  We have been enjoying the summer and doing lots of cool stuff.  A couple of weeks ago we travelled for the second time to see our Hornbeck family in Ashtabula.  We went for the celebration of our cousin Josh’s graduation from high school.  It has been a summer of celebrations!

But, we really think that somehow when we travel to Ashtabula, we are cursed to have bad luck.  The first time we went we were very unhappy in the car and cried the whole way there.  On the way home, we got a speeding ticket and then the next day Mama’s car got broken into.  This time we didn’t want to go to sleep at bedtime, in the middle of the night some lady (who was at the wrong hotel) tried to get into our room and made tons of noise and yelled at Daddy, and then Aunt Cassie had a dead car battery.  Whew! 

But even though there was drama, we had a very good time.  We got to celebrate with Josh and see our family.  Here are some of the pictures…

Josh the high school grad.  Isn’t he cute?

Our uncles are GREAT!  Uncle Jim and Uncle Doug.

Our cousin Erin has a chat with Emma.

Our cousin Ryan says hi to Emma and Erin.

Mama and a sleepy Emma snuggle.

Sweet baby James.

Smiley girl Emma.

We cracked up Great Grandma!

Look how much handsome James looks like handsome Great Grandpa.

Four generations of Hornbecks.

Thanks, Hornbeck family for always helping us have a great visit.  We love you all very much and wish we could see you more often.  Come to Buckeye country and we’ll show you around!!

~Emma and James

I know, I know.  Everyone says it to you when you have newborns (and you don’t want to hear it one more time or you’ll scream).  Everyone knows it.  But when you really realize it, it hits you hard.  Or at least, it hit me hard this week.  My babies will not be babies forever.  They were so so small when they were born (thank God, not as small as some) that I never thought they would get big.  When people bought us wonderful clothes as gifts in 3-6 months or 6-9 months sizes I laughed because my babies would never be that big.  But we keep chugging along, switching out PJs and outfits, maybe a bit behind what the tags say, but getting bigger none the less. 

I thought when the Emma and James started sleeping in their nursery and not in our bedroom that I realized how big they were getting.  When they started eating cereal I thought I knew.  When they rolled over… and the list goes on.  But this week, by twin babies who have been together every second of their lives started sleeping in separate cribs!  I knew the one crib was starting to get tighter and tighter, but Tuesday night was the breaking point.  We put the babies to bed like normal and a few minutes later we heard some fussing (not normal), so up I went.  Emma had a huge grin on her face with one pacifier in her mouth and one firmly in her little hand and James looked stunned and saddened at his sudden lack of pacifier.  Pacifier justice was restored and new good nights were said.  Five minutes later, round two of fussing, this time Emma.  James was trying to roll/kick/play with his feet in the crib and it seems Emma was getting in the way.  I didn’t see any actual kicking happening, but I am pretty sure it happened.  So I moved Emma to the other crib (once the mountain of stuffed animals were given the boot).  At the time, it was really just to save me from another trip up the stairs/my sanity, but now I know they were telling me it was time.  When I checked on them later when I was going to bed, they were both firmly conked out Emma on her back and James on his tummy, Superman style with his arms straight out in front of him.  He has probably wanted to sleep like that for a while, but never had enough room to maneuver the roll.  Every night since, he ends up on his tummy to sleep. 

My other earth-shattering discovery is that I seriously fall deeper in love with these babies every day.  They are growing and changing and learning new things all the time.  We never seem still anymore, someone is playing on the floor, or working in crawling or sitting up.  But sometimes, just when they know I need it, they melt my heart.  Emma likes to sit sideways on my lap to look out at the world and talk.  Earlier this week (which was just a long, dreary, stressful week) she just leaned over, snuggled her head right under my chin and sighed.  A real audible “Aaaah, it’s the Mama,” sigh.  I almost died.  Later in the week, when James was having a hard time settling down for bed, I was upstairs rocking with him.  His head was right on my chest and we were rocking and he looked me in the face and raised his little hand and rubbed my cheek.  He kept his hand on my face till he started to drift off.  How can you resists these wonderful babies?  Don’t even try, they are magical.  I am so lucky to be their Mama.

Friday was both our 8 month birthday and our big sister Mackenzie’s 8 year birthday!  Can you believe it?  It was a very super duper special day so even our Grandma Penny came to our house to celebrate with us.  We were very tired on Friday and were in bed before Kenz got home to our house, so we did our celebration day today.  Everyone (besides us and Mama) slept in late which was the first treat.  Then we all went out to lunch for a celebration meal and came home to nap.  Then, we went swimming for the very first time!  Okay, so we didn’t swim, really, but we had our bathing suits on and Mama and Daddy held us while they stood in the pool and dipped our feet in.   Mama and Daddy took tons of pictures so you could see all of the cool pool time!

Here is our 8 month chair picture looking like cool kids in our bathing suits!

Surfer James in his board shorts. 

Emma looking like she is giving a monologue.

Here are all the birthday kids getting ready for the pool!

Mama and James in pool, checking out this new experience.

Mama and Emma checking out the pool.  Emma was not a fan of the cool water. Can you spy Kenzie playing in the background?

How beautiful is this baby boy?

Swimming sure can knock a baby out!

It sure was a great day!  As for us, we have had a great month.  We went to a cool Memorial Day cookout, saw our cousins graduate from college, visited Mama’s office, and went to out very first 1st birhday party for our friend June (pictures to come!)  We love spending our weekdays with Mrs. Bekah and get to play with two pets there – Buttons the kitty and Linus the doggie.  We still love veggies more than fruit to eat and oatmeal the best.  We still sleep together in a crib most of the time, but sometimes we sleep in separate cribs at nap time.  We sleep at least 11 hours at night and take 2 or 3 naps everyday.  James is a HUGE flirt and loves to smile and giggle at everything.  Emma is a little more shy and likes to watch and makes sure James gives new people his approval first.  Thanks for sticking with us for another month.  We love you all!

~Emma and James