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November 2011
Sorry for the lack of updates. WOW 4 and 5 year olds keep you busy!!! We had a great summer did our first trip to Disney, visited my family where the kids have 8 cousins to play with. We just had a nice visit from Ryans family with the 3 Ts. Check out the halloween pictures as well.

December 2010 - Hello to anyone still reading this! We haven't been putting too many updates on this the last year or so. Mark really made this website for his mom in Ohio - so she could look at the twins whenever she wanted! As you know she passed away a little over a year ago. We took a fun trip to Ohio in September and saw all the cousins there. The kids had their 4th birthday party at the beach with a few friends. They are finally used to school and enjoying it. Matthew started ice hockey 101 and is getting better every week. They loved Halloween and trick or treating! Fun! Happy Holidays 2010! Enjoy the new photos!

Babies Turned 3! – Giuliana and Matthew turned three on August 31st.  We decided to have a small party while we were at the beach week with my favorite cousins.  We made everyone dress up like pirates and sing Happy Birthday!  Pizza and birthday cake and it’s a party!  My kids miss their cousins in NY and OH and ask for them all the time.  The weather was perfect at the beach except for one day it poured and we went and ate and walked around stores while it was damp.  At least it cooled things off!  Danna turned the big 4-0 and didn’t want to blow out her candles, but she did.  Besides she looks good for being so old.  Enjoy the pictures in the photo album! 

April 5, 2009 – Hello to all the Fookies loyal fans out there.  I think the only ones left still checking this site are the grandparents and some aunts and uncles, but as long as there are hits we will keep it up!  We have been using the boat a lot.  Matthew and Giuliana love to ride on the boat.  Mark lets them sit on his lap and steer.  They love to watch Mark and others wakeboard and constantly talk about who fell.  Daddy fall, Danna fall, Tony fall.  So we just say – don’t worry they got back up!  

We are hosting an egg hunt with our playgroup and will post those pictures when we can and of course the Easter bunny is coming soon so that will be exciting.  I have some pictures to post of us eating fondue on Valentine’s Day (on the card in the broken camera).  That is going to be our Valentine’s Day tradition, because the kids LOVED it.  They were screaming “DIP Mommy” “Daddy DIP!!”and dipping the veggies and bread in the cheese.  Loved it – of course there was cheese from one end of the dining room to the other!  There are some new videos on here and I just bought a new camera – so we will have pictures of the Fookies up again soon.  Our little photographer Giuliana is hard on digital cameras and camera phones!!  Giuliana likes to have Mookie day where she asks to be called Mookie.  It is hilarious.  She will call him “Na-na”  which is what he calls her.  Mark’s best friend Scott got married last weekend to his beautiful bride Evelyn.  It was an awesome event and Mark kicked butt on the toast.  Made us all laugh and then some teared up!  Send an email and let us know if you like the new videos and pictures coming soon.

October 20, 2008 – Once again I feel like time is fleeting.  The last blog written on this site was 8 months ago and it feels like only a few weeks went by.  Poor Mark missed Bridge Day due to our entire crew coming down with some flu-like sickness.  In the middle of recovering from his illness he went up on the roof over the weekend and I thought maybe he was going to jump off – but we need a bigger house – or at least a taller house for his chute to open.  So he swept some leaves off the roof, maybe cried a little for his missed BASE jump with Xerox and came down.  In toddler news - Mookie practices hitting wiffle balls more than once a day off his tee.  He is a bit obsessed and half of them go across the street into the neighbors’ driveway from our garage.  He likes to watch the Rays and yell BAAAASEBAAAALL. And I tell him when he makes it to the big show not to spit like Garza because it grosses mommy out.  How much spit does that dude have in his mouth anyway!!!??? Yuck. Giuliana has started playing with baby dolls and her favorite one is Ashley – coincidently given to us by her friend Ashley.  She also picks out all her own outfits and insists that her nails be painted – can you say Girlie Girl - Foosie Foo?  We went to get our pumpkins and the babies were still a little sick – so they weren’t very lively.  Matthew was focused on making sure the stakes of the tent were nailed into the ground and tried to see how far he could hurl the smaller pumpkins.  Giuliana liked sitting on the big pumpkins and posing for pictures.  There isn’t much else to say except GO RAYS!!!! 

February 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day to all!  We decided to put an old picture from last Valentine’s Day next to the pictures from this year!  They were chunky little babies and now they are skinny toddlers!  We need to put brick’s on their heads.  Matthew will throw a ball and catch it all day if you let him (his favorite is the purple ball that you see in the photos) – and he likes to throw it and then run and kick it.   Maybe he can be on Brenna’s soccer team next year!  GOAL!!!  Giuliana is a little taller than Matthew and loves to climb and play.  She also likes to take her diaper off and run through the house.  No pants.  They finally popped their blow up ball pit and little house.  So, they have a slide inside now to climb on and push each other off of.  We go to the playground and planet bounce all the time. Come play with us!  (oh yea, Mark and I are doing great to ;0)

November 12-  Hello our faithful web fans.  Hope that everyone that reads this is doing well!  The holidays are upon us!  Ready or not here they come.  I hope that no one will eat any turkey or pig carcass to celebrate – why not a nice pasta dish?!  We all have a lingering cold (going on week 4).  Fookies are running, climbing and working together to keep me skinny.  They however are nothing close to skinny – they are BIG babies!  At 15 months they still fit in some of the 18 month outfits, but they are already wearing 24 month clothing!  Matthew wears a size 6 shoe and Giuliana wears size 5, but needs room on the top for her fat to pooch through! ;0)  (I know some grandma’s that needed the sizes of the babies!)  Mark’s cousins came down from Ohio to give us a whole new roof.  It looks so nice and no more leaks or rotten wood.  With the new roof regulations in Florida the house will blow away before the roof does if there is ever a hurricane.  There are videos of Cade, Camryn and Seth playing with the Fookies.  It is 80 degrees and sunny down here, so enjoy that Ohio weather!  Mark’s sister Kristin is only a week or so away from finishing her internship and becoming a teacher.  Go Kristin Go!  That is all the news we have over here at the twin house.  Oh yeah - we are selling Peahens buy one get one free and Peacocks are free with the purchase of 3 or more Peahens.   We will ship them anywhere in the US. 

October 6 – Hi.  I am not keeping up on the blogs, but I am also thinking no one is still reading this.   Today is Saturday and we are having a little dinner for my mom ‘s birthday – She must me turning 46 years old since I will be turning 26 in November and she is 20 years older than me.  How old does that make you?  It is tough being such a young mom and so hot at the same time, but somehow I manage.  The babies are not walking they are RUNNING everywhere.  Matthew is like chatty Mattie with his little mouth always going.  He sounds like he is saying full sing-songy sentences.  Giuliana fights to be first at everything and always leads with her belly and her mouth in a pucker going “ooh”.  Matthew likes to do an impression of the incredible hulk and lift all his toys up over his head and throw them.  Look Out!  I think it is just his way of working out.  We have some new pictures and some great videos – once Mark fixes them and just wait until you see our family Halloween ensemble.  I wanted us all to be the Teletubbies with Mark being the purple one with the red purse (just because he is tallest of course), but the kids won’t wear anything on their heads.  Too bad, because I think Mark was really enjoying carrying that red purse around.  Well, stay tuned for more exciting Twin News on www.jenniandmark.com  

July 17th – Hello everyone!  I haven’t written in a while, but the babies are a lot more mobile now.  So I am chasing babies all day long.  Giuliana has decided to walk a little bit.  She prefers to crawl at top speed, but can take slow steps withhold holding on.  Matthew likes to take his time and ponder things.  He crawls and stops to take rests.  He has figured out how to stack a block and put blocks inside the block holder!  He has also figured out how to take the top off his bottles and make a puddle of formula to splash and kick in.  They both have muchos dientes - Teeth on the top and bottom and more coming in.  The camera has decided not to work anymore, so the newest pictures are all from my phone.  So, if they are blurry or not great… sorry.  We have ordered a new camera.  Oh and by the way – the babies no longer fit in the same swing!  They are getting big – 23 lbs each and 11 months old.  I would love to hear from you all, so email me or come by to visit. 

April 30 – Hello again. I can’t believe how quickly these last 8 months have gone. The babies are so big and getting bigger every minute. Giuliana says “mama” when she wants picked up or is upset and “dada” when Mark comes home. Matthew has his 2 bottom teeth and loves to kick his feet. So, when we put him in his raft in the pool he just goes and goes. They are both very happy babies! We can’t figure out why, but they are still not sleeping through the night. Poor Mark takes the nightshift, so he is very ready for them to stay asleep for more than 4 hours at a time. We are very excited for Jon and Lori. Savanna Nicole is gorgeous (we have a few pictures of her if you haven’t seen them). Congratulations!

February 15th -Hello Everyone! The babies are now 6 months old and doing great. They love to do raspberries all day long, but especially while they are eating bananas or pears. They love Elmo and watching other kids play (especially watching Meghan jump on her trampoline!) and laugh out loud. Their first words will either be “Elmo” or “no Cobe”. Things are going great. You can see the raspberries on the video about the teething biscuits. Very funny! Email me and tell me how you are doing or make me your friend on myspace! If you haven’t come by to see us in a while – come on over!

January 8th – here are some pictures and videos of the babies playing with all the Christmas toys they got. They love the activity tent and aquarium round a bout activity center. Their feet didn’t touch the ground when we set this up on December 25th, but now their little toes touch the ground. They are already growing. Giuliana is over 15 lbs and Matthew is over 14 lbs and they are very healthy. We are counting our blessings in the New Year. All is well.

December 28th - Hi my people. Happy New Year! We are taking some old photos and videos down/off the site to make room for the new ones. We haven’t put any videos on the website lately, so there are some new ones from Oct and Nov that are just being put on the site. Congratulations to Lori and Jon – they found out they are having a baby girl! The twins are doing well – Giuliana (notice the spelling – some of you are still spelling it wrong – you know who you are) is starting to hold her own bottle and she tries to grab Matthew’s bottle from him when they are right next to each other eating. Andrew plays bass in his school’s jazz band and we have pictures of that. Brenna is getting so tall and doing well – there is video of her and the babies. Enjoy and keep us informed of what is up with you in the New Year – Happy ’07!!