I asked them to quit it, but they refuse. My monkeys insist on growing up. They are now {gasp} three years old. I don’t know how or when it happened, but really, three years flew by in a blink of an eye.
Last year on this day, I posted the very beginnings and showed their very first pictures. I won’t post the same photos again. I spent some time last night digging through the pictures archive and walked down memory lane. I saw pictures from the seemingly endless week in the NICU wondering when my precious magic monkeys would come home…
(tiny little Kat is on the left and Alex is the one with the cool shades…I tried to find the pictures with the fewest tubes and wires as they were a bit unnerving)
.. but they finally did, one week later. Back then they were so small that they would both fith neatly on my lap, like in this photo.
How very much they have changed.
Today was their first school field trip. They took the whole school (minus the babies and toddlers as the school goes from 6 weeks to 6 years) on two big yellow school buses up to a local farm. This marked their first trip on a school bus and was almost as exciting as the farm for them.
At the farm, we went on a hay ride…
…followed by some pumpkin picking (left the camera on the tractor so no shots of that – sorry and the remaining pictures aren’t just of my kids. I can’t make the decision for others to show or not show their kids. Discretion is the better part of valor and all that.), a hay maze, homemade donuts and cider and then another bus ride back to the school. There were some pretty tired kids when we all got back.
We took two of those tired kids out to a Power Squadron Pasta dinner meeting this evening. The monkeys are the unofficial mascots of this squadron and go to a number of their functions. Tonight was no exception. We had birthday cake and 45 people sang happy birthday to my sweeties.
Happy birthday my babies. I love you dearly and hope you had a very special day.
20 responses so far ↓
1 michelle // Oct 9, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Love the smiles and Alex’s t-shirt is the best! Today (weather wise) was perfect for pumpkin picking. Boy they were so tiny.
Happy birthday Kat and Alex.
2 Jen C // Oct 9, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Oh my goodness! What a change. It’s so happy to see growing healthy NICU grads. Happy birthday little ones!
3 --Deb // Oct 9, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Awww . . . so much cuteness!
That one picture, of the two of them as babies in his and her blankies? The look on Kat’s face is hilariously cute–she looks like a very tiny old woman . . . and at that age, that’s cute! (grin)
4 Katy // Oct 9, 2006 at 10:21 pm
I agree, it all flies by so fast! Happy Birthday to your pumpkins, and congrats to you for making it through the tough parts. (Not that there aren’t tough parts to come…but infant/toddler twins, well, that’s tough.
5 Sue // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:07 am
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, dear Kat and Alex,
Happy Birthday to you!!!
Enjoy being three!
6 janna // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:42 am
I love the picture of teeny Kat — I would swear she was smiling!
Happy Birthday, kiddos!
7 Anne // Oct 10, 2006 at 3:36 am
Happy Birthday to Kat and Alex – they do keep doing that growing up thing don’t they!
8 Carole // Oct 10, 2006 at 7:34 am
Happy Birthday to the wee ones! Who aren’t so wee anymore. And kudos to you, Risa, for raising them up.
9 Chris // Oct 10, 2006 at 8:05 am
What a great day for their birthday. Even better is you got to join them for another fabulous first. Happy Birthday to the kids!
10 Laurie // Oct 10, 2006 at 8:28 am
Happy birthday, Kat and Alex! Such happy smiles!
11 Rachel H // Oct 10, 2006 at 8:49 am
Happy Birthday, loverly munchkins. I remember when my boy was 3 I always thought it looked like such a fun age to be.
LOVE Alex’s t-shirt.
12 Hillary // Oct 10, 2006 at 9:01 am
Aww. They are so cute and Alex’s shirt is too funny. It’s amazing how fast they grow up. Remember to savor every moment.
13 Nancy // Oct 10, 2006 at 10:16 am
Adorable!
Happy birthday to Kat and Alex!
14 mamacate // Oct 10, 2006 at 10:37 am
A very happy birthday to Kat and Alex, and a very happy anniversary of the day you became a mom to Risa! It looks like it was a wonderful day.
15 Sara // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Happy birthday monkeys!
16 margene // Oct 10, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Your kids are SO CUTE! Guess I’ll get to meet them in person soon and you too!
17 JessaLu // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:51 am
Happy Birthday!! (sorry, I’m a day late…apparently I’m making it into a tradition in blogland…)
18 Denise/CT // Oct 11, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Hugs to Mom, and Happy Birthday to Alex and Kat. Oh how tiny they were, both on one lap. I can hardly hold my 8lb dog on my lap and you fit two babies!
I can just see that pretty pink sweater tonight…full of hay bits! Sounds like a great b’day for all.
19 Glenna // Oct 13, 2006 at 8:19 pm
I’m a twin myself so it’s adorable to see your wee ones. May they grow to be awesome individuals!
20 Stephanie // Oct 16, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I really can’t believe how much they’ve changed since last I saw them.
Congratulations on keeping them alive for this long.
It can’t be easy.