General Update and Pics

On August 19th we had our one year anniversary. One year ago we had our commitment ceremony and celebrated with about 60family and friends. This year we went to Sydney for the night. We spent lunch time at Tracie's old work, saying hello and showing off our beautiful boys to her colleges. In the afternoon we went to our hotel (the same hotel we stayed in one year ago). We put the boys down for a nap and Sal and Tracie lay on the bed and relaxed and ate chocolate strawberries and fruit from a fruit basket that Tracie had arranged.... Yumm! We ordered room service for dinner. It was nice not to have to cook and clean up.
After dinner we went to the reunion of our birthing class to see our friends and their new twins. Not everyone could make it, which was disappointing, but it was great to see the ones that came. Here's a pic of Sal with the boys in the Hotel.

Today was the first nice warm day we've had in weeks. We decided to go for a drive, and took the boys to the beach for the first time. Ethan wasn't too sure about the whole thing, but looked around with a lot of curiosity and enjoyed rubbing his toes in the sand.
Benji loved the beach, and gave us many smiles. He loved standing in the stand and stomping his feet.
Here's our gorgeous boys sitting on the couch. Ethan's on the left in the darker blue, and Benji on the right.Ethan LOVES his toy bar on his rocking seat. He hits them, talks to them and laughs at them for ages. The toy bar is removable and we take it away when he gets annoyed with them. The next day when he's ready to play with them again we bring it back. Once he sees it he starts smiling, laughing and kicking his legs and waving his arms... it's funny to see him get so excited when we bring it back. Both boys are getting very good at their tummy time and head control. We bought them a tummy time mat that has an elevated bit in the middle. They lie on it and it spins like a lazy susan. They can both spin them selves around and are getting better at playing with the toys on the mat.

Below is Benji during tummy time.

Here is Ethan during tummy time.