Welcome Meadows Babies!!!!

Ann and Tim had their twin baby BOYS on Friday morning (7/18/08) at 36 weeks.

Matthew Charles, 5lbs 9oz, 7:48am
Michael William, 6lbs 1oz, 7:50am.

They are so cute!! Matthew looks more like Tim and Michael looks more like Ann. Everyone is healthy and doing well, including Mom and Dad :) They have my camera, so I only have the picture I stole from their blog. If you want to check out their website, its www.timandannmeadows.blogspot.com.

Michael & Matthew
Now I'll backtrack to earlier in the week. Jimmy rolled over!!! Yeah! He also got a helmet two weeks ago. The girls had theirs first and we were seeing if Jimmy's head improved on its own at all, but it didn't, so we went ahead and got one for him. We had a helmet checkup last week. Cassie started at 1.2, then went to .8, and is now at .4. She said anything under .5 is good, but we won't take the helmet off until they can sit up on their own. So that is what I need to work on now :) Jenna started at 1.4, then went to 1.0 and is now at .8, so she is improving too. Jimmy was still at 1.0, so there was no change in the week. We go back in 3 weeks. Their heads look soooo much better. My cousin Jenny has been helping me with the last two appointments. It gets a little crazy in the waiting rooms sometimes :) Thanks Jenny! I know its exhausting!

Jimmy loving his new helmet and his new Jumperoo
Jenny holding Cassie---look at them blue eyes!
Jimmy sleeping so peacefully
My cousins came in from Poland to visit their sister in NY, and then stopped in NC, Nashville, and made their way to St. Louis for a few days. On Tuesday night, they came over and so did mom, Ann, Tim, cousin Jimmy, and Uncle Dan. UD bought us all some pizza and beer and we just hung out and played pool. They are so nice and fun.

Alicja and Chrissy (we were the winners!)
Ola and Jimmy were on the losing team
Our Polish cousins - Ola, Alicja, and Radek
Jimmy, Me, Jim, Ola, & Tim
On Wednesday, my mom and Ann watched the babies for us and we all went down to the Arch. We took Allison b/c she hasn't stopped talking about going up there for the past few weeks since we went downtown for a Cardinal game. She was so excited. Then we went to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory on The Landing. Thanks for watching them and sorry we were gone so long. I'll blame Uncle Dan ;)
Daddy and Alli touching the Arch
Waiting for the elevator
First time going up in the Arch for Alli and Jimmy :)
Going UP - Alli loves to put her arms up on rides and when we go over bridges.
Looking at the wonderful view (which you can't see in this picture :)
We walked around the museum a bit too-Radek, Uncle Dan, Ola, Alicja, and finally, a picture of baby Victoria. She is so cute and such a good baby. It was good to finally meet her.
Ola at the Old Spaghetti Factory....this picture reminded me of Rose from Titanic
On Thursday, we all went over to Aunt Joan's house for a BBQ/get together so everyone could meet our Polish cousins. That was fun, but no pics b/c I forgot the memory card for my camera. We all just think its so neat that we met them and are keeping in touch with them. Hopefully next year we can visit them in NY or NC or even Poland.

And finally, the weekend. We finally took the babies to the pool and I even got Jim to come too! We were only there about 45 mins and the babies started getting tired, so Jim left with them and Alli and I stayed a little longer.
Cassie, Mommy, and Jenna
Look, proof that Jim actually came to the pool once this summer. Now we just need to get him there some more to work on that tan :)
Alli, getting ready to show Daddy how good she jumps
Jimmy and Jenna
Cassie
Dad on his way home