Hello and happy Friday! I’d love for you all to meet our twin boys, Carver and Hollis ! They were born on Monday, October 5th at 36.5 weeks old. I honestly can’t believe they are almost 4 weeks old already!
In the picture above, Carver is on the left and Hollis is on the right. They are identical twins although they don’t look exactly alike right now.
Carver Selleck was born at 9:16am. He weighed 5 lbs 14 oz and was 19.25″ long.
Hollis Claybourn was born at 9:19am. He weighed 5 lbs 3 oz and was 18.75″ long.
Their big brothers were very excited to meet them. We were only in the hospital for two and a half days and they visited them a few times.
Today I would have been 40 weeks pregnant, but these two have already been in our lives for 3.5 weeks and I can’t imagine life without them. We are very sleep deprived right now, but they are really good babies, so that helps! And we’ve had LOTS of help from both of our moms (thank you thank you thank you!).
At this point I’d say that Hollis is a little more laid back than Carver, they are both growing like crazy, and are really good sleepers. I know there were more things about them both that I wanted to share, but that’s all I can think of right now. I need some sleep! Going to take a quick nap until they wake me up. Will probably only be about five minutes long since I swear they can sense when I lay down! 🙂
I’ll post more soon (hopefully)! You can follow along on Instagram if you want to see more pictures of the boys! Have a great weekend!
Hi Sara,
What beautiful little babies you have, and what a lovely family! You must be very busy right now!
I found your website while googling the name of a cousin of my father’s – Hollis Ross. Hollis was the son of Dr. Lamont Ross of Lewisburg, PA. I think that he may have had a son named Hollis, too. I believe that he had a sister named Margaret Ross Steele.
It’s probably a stretch, but I wonder if your family is related to mine?
In any event, I enjoyed looking at the pictures of your sweet babies, and your wonderful family.
Sincerely,
Eileen Ross Humphrey
Eileen-
Thank you for your comment! That’s so cool that you have relation with the same name! I have no idea if we’d be related, Ross obviously comes from my husband’s side and I don’t know of any relatives in the PA area, but could be very distantly! 🙂
Sara
Hi Sara,
I just found your post, and I’m disappointed that we are probably not relatives to your darling family. Wow – I bet that you are busy, but enjoying the little ones!
Is the name Hollis from your husband’s side, or do you just like it? My great uncle Lamont Ross had 3 children, I think. One of the descendants is a vet in the Dakotas – William Marlatt. Is that name familiar?
One of Lamont’s sons was named Hollis, and he had a son named Hollis Jr. There may be a Hollis III, too – I haven’t paid the full membership to ancestry.com yet to get more information.
Anyway, if you do find out that your husband is part of the same Ross family I’d love to know. There are some devout, upright people, and a few black sheep – just like many families, I suppose.
Some of my branch of the Ross family have lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California that I know of. A great great uncle had a huge family, so I’m sure that there are many more descendants out there.
Eileen-
Hello! Hollis was just a name that my husband came up with and we both liked! We did not do family names for any of our kiddos. None of the names that you mentioned are familiar to me, but who knows, we could all be related very distantly!
~Sara
Hi Sara,
I hope that all is well with you and your sweet family. You are probably incredibly busy with your darling little boys at this time of year.
I just found your reply from last March. It would be interesting if we were distantly related – who knows? Anyway, I’ve recently joined ancestry.com, and now have access to their family trees.
If you are interested in finding out if we are distant relatives, you could email me the names of your husband’s grandparents or great grandparents on the Ross side. I would need their full names and dates of birth and death. [Living people aren’t on the trees.] Knowing the locations of their births and deaths would help refine the search, too.
My great grandfather had a brother named Moses who had a huge family – something like 10-12. He has many descendants, obviously. The Rosses seemed to like moving west, too.
There were Rosses in MA when it was a colony during the 1600’s. During the 1700’s some of them moved to Gilmanton, NH, and then on to western NY in the early 1800’s. My great grandfather moved his family from western NY to Michigan in the very late 1800’s, and I think that some of the family had already moved there.
If at some point in time your precious children are older and less dependent, and you decide to look up ancestors online, you will probably find the Ross family very interesting.
Please accept my apologies if you find the request for Ross ancestor names intrusive.
I hope that you and your family have wonderful Holidays this year.