Hanks Pizza Parlor

Meredith and I tried our hand at Pizza making the other night and had so much fun!

We made one with an M in the sauce and one with a J - then Meredith had as much fun eating the cheese as sprinkling it on!

Who would have thought...

My friend Marcy was not only my best friend in high school, she was also my first college roommate (we shared both a dorm and an apartment), and is also partially responsible for Neal and I together - but she was also my preggo buddy. Meredith and her daughter Sydney were born just 5 days apart and we had alot of fun being pregnant together. So when she told me she was pregnant and Neal and I had just found out that we were too, I thought "How Perfect!" So Jillian was born just about 2 weeks after Carson and, again, it was great to have someone to go through all these stages with! Last week we got together for the girls to play and to introduce our 2 new little ones!

Here are Meredith and Sydney on their first playdate.

And here are Jillian and Carson - they both look so much like their big sisters!
And Meredith and Sydney checking out the water table together - sorry for the shirtless photo and the blurry-ness.

Fun with the water table

Meredith's newest obsession is the water maker on our freezer door - she always wants to get glasses, fill them, and then pour them into other glasses. This of course, makes quite a mess, so I convinced her that we should only play with water on her water table. When we went to get it out for the first time this season, it was yucky outside, so I set it up in the garage and we had so much fun!

Meredith's "Please stop taking pictures of me, mom" face. I get this alot lately.

The popular questions...

Since Jillian was born, we hear a few questions whenever someone meets her:

1) Wow - look at that hair! Did Meredith have that much hair?
2) Do you think she looks like Meredith?

Here are both girls announcement pictures both taken at one week old to help answer those questions..

Jillian

Meredith

It is so surreal to have these two little ones who remind us all so much of each other! Bubbie even joked at the hospital that it must be possible to have twins 2 1/2 years apart after seeing how similar they looked! Beyond just their looks, the funniest things to watch are that when Meredith was born, she always loved to tuck her thumb between her fingers and Jillian does it too and they also both are fond of looking at things with what Neal calls "The Hanks Sneer." When both babies started this up, we immediately saw their daddy in them!

I was starting to think that Jillian might be our small baby (since she weighed 8 lbs 2 oz and Meredith weighed 9 lbs when they were born), but we went back to the doctor this week (she was 3 weeks old) and Jillian was up to 9 lbs 10 oz - Meredith's baby book says she weighed 9 lbs 8 oz at 2 1/2 weeks, so it looks like Jillian is doing her best to catch up! I was actually concerned about her weight because she started eating for shorter lengths of time, but it turns out that she gained 11 oz in 6 days (they said they like them to gain a 1/2 an oz a day, so she is obviously an eating champ!) so my concerns are now put to rest.