Hope and Grace Are Turning 2!

In honor of Grace and Hope turning 2 on 4/11/10, I created this video montage for the girls with pics from their last year. What a wonderful year it has been watching our daughters grow!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

An oldie...

This video is an oldie, but goodie! We've been trying to upload this for the past year to YouTube, tonight being our first successful attempt. Things are fine until about the last 10 seconds. Every single time that I watch this video, it makes me fall down in hysterics. Luckily, Daddy is much more proficient at getting his daughters dressed now!

Grace Walks!

We finally have something more than three steps! Here's a video of Grace doing some (wobbly) walking.

Summertime Fun

Enjoy some new videos of our girlies getting bigger and having fun this summer!

Hope loves her belly button!


Hope and Gracie sharing


Gracie slides!


Hope slides!

Scrapping!

Our first family trip to Miller Park

Gracie loves her Chorizo souvenir from the Brewer game. FYI, Hope chose the Hot Dog.


Daddy and his girls outside of Miller Park.


The Piper Family at Miller Park.


The Piper Family with JJ Hardy. The Piper girls think he's cute.


Our family in the giant baseball glove.

Family Day!

We celebrated the anniversary of the girls coming home from the hospital by creating our own holiday, "Family Day." We took the girls to the zoo, played in our inflatable pool, and enjoyed some tasty meals.

Hope getting ready for her zoo adventure.


Daddy, Gracie, and the rhino


Daddy, Hopey and the giraffe


Mommy, Gracie and the elephant.


Mommy and her girls.


We are tired after the zoo.


Hope enjoys some time in the swing


Gracie relaxing in the pool.


Hope enjoys playing with the "Little People" boat in the water.


Hope tries to give Maggie her maraca.

Summertime!

The girls explore the mirror. They love looking at cute babies.


Gracie the rock star.


All dolled up for our friends Anne and Eric's wedding.


Gracie crawling to Daddy.


Hope the slugger.




The girls enjoy the mirror.

More Spring Fun

Enjoy some new videos of Hope and Grace this spring!

May 2009

The girls continue to grow and amaze us each and every day. Aside from a couple of colds and ear infections here and there, the girls have remained healthy and happy throughout the month of May. Right now they are crawling rapidly and enjoy pulling themselves up on everything they can (stable or not!)

Enjoy their springy pics!















Our first bike ride with Mommy!















Hope enjoying playing catch with Daddy and her giant baseball. Hmmm... does the crystal ball foresee softball pitcher in the future????















Gracie enjoying playing with her "Little People School House" toy. She loves her "little people."















The Piper Girls enjoy some Memorial Day weekend fun helping Mommy plant the flowers in the front yard.

Fun Spring Pics

Hope stands in her "Pack 'N Play"

Hope sports a mowhawk in her new 'big girl' tub.

Gracie is relaxin' in the 'big girl tub.'

Gracie stands at her piano... future keyboardest/piano player in the making.

The Hopester is coming to get you!!!

Hope and Grace's Big Birthday Weekend and More!

Hope and Grace are decked out in their Brewers garb with their daddy, as he gets ready to attend the Brewers home opener (4/10/09).

It's cake eating time! (4/11/09)

Hope enjoys her cupcake. Gracie fell asleep eating hers.

Gracie enjoyed playing with her new friends in her pretty party dress.

Gracie also looks stylish in her new shades she got as a present.

Easter Sunday @ St. C's (4/12/09)

Hope in purple and Gracie in orange after Easter brunch.

Easter basket time!

Gracie enjoys shaking her egg with a "Little Person" in it.

Hope tries to eat her plastic egg (right now everything is 'tasty' for the Hopester.

Gracie shows off her new skills, pulling up at Granny and Grandad's house.

Daddy's Spring Break

We love sitting together and playing with our plush blocks


Hope is aspiring to be an indie rock star (or so her daddy thinks) as she plays her piano in her "Decemberists onesie" (her first "concert t-shirt")


Mommy loves reading to her girls. They enjoy this evening's tale, Horton Hears A Who


Gracie Girl loves crawling around and is happy to smile for the camera.


I have been blessed to be on spring break over the past two weeks and have been enjoying "Daddy Leave Version 2.0" with the girls. This has been a more exhausting version of "Daddy Leave" as the girls are much more active than they were in November/December and currently enjoy spending most of their day being "busy." They like to crawl around (which they both improve on a little bit each day), bounce in their "Exercauser" and "Jumparoo," play with their toys, and eat what seems to be copious amounts of solid foods (they are now nursing twice a day, taking one 8 oz. bottle, and eating three meals of solid foods, which consists of cereal mixed with fruit, meat, and/or veggies and is consumed at rapid speeds by our daughters). "The cold-that-never-ends" (which began at the beginning of February) still lingers, but the positives of the girls being "up and at 'em" far outweigh the morning congestion, fights betweent he girls and the infamous "booger snatcher," and the nebulizer treatments the girls receive daily. All in all, our girls seem to be doing very well and are right on track developmentally for their adjusted age.

The truth be told, however, Jeni and I cannot help but feel a bit anxious and overwhelemed as we look back on where we were a year ago. In fact, it was exactly one year ago today that Jeni entered in-patient care in the antepartum unit at St. Joe's. What a scary, worrisome time that was for us, our extended families and friends. A year later, we watched with joy as Grace and Hope crawled around on their mat and tried to pull themselves up on their drums and bouncy seats. It is amazing what happens what seems like so little time!

We are looking forward to the girls turing one in just a few short weeks. What a year this has been to say the least!