So, about that whole "having more time to blog" thing. Someone forgot to tell me that just when you think you're making progress, babies go and cut a tooth or reach some milestone that screws up their sleep. Times two, and well, yeah. Anyway, they're growing like weeds. I'm sure they're close to 16 pounds by now. I keep forgetting to weigh them. We'll find out next week at their check up. Size 2 P@mpers, and I had to put most of their 3-6 month clothes away, already. (sniff)
Julia, rolls over front to back, and back to front, from either side. She is also on the verge of crawling, see the pictures below.
She thinks solid foods are pretty good, as long as she can help the food in with her fingers, her way.
She has given up the pacifiers, and is very good at soothing herself to sleep. And she is a flirt! Hilarious...
Nicole is sitting up on her own, now, although I don't let her out of my arm's reach, yet. She can roll over front to back, but is still getting it down to a purposeful maneuver. She blows raspberries when she's mad, and she has found her "voice." Sometimes we can't believe the banshee-like screams than come out of her mouth. I'm having a little trouble throwing my MIL off the scent when we try to "explain" her white hair. Hee-hee. She thinks solid food is insulting, especially peaches (huh?!)
She loves her bumpy ball from T@rget.
Best $5 I ever spent! She also doeesn't think she needs naps, although two or three times a week, she surprises me with a two hour plus afternoon nap.
Two days ago, I pulled out their exer-saucers, and they could finally stand up in them. They have been having so much fun with their new toys. They are really starting to interact and notice each other and the animals, too.
We took the girls on a 2 day road trip to Colorado in June, and we have come to the realization that another family vacation is several years down the road. Too bad I didn't get to see many friends. It was all business for D. The funniest picture from the whole trip illustrates Julia's fascination with beer bottles.
She was the same way at my cousin's wedding last week. Like mother like daughter, I guess...
We went to Pridefest to see their honorary surro-mommies, K and C at the booth they set up. They wore their swimsuits for the first time,
but didn't wade in the park's wading pool because it kept raining. Had to take the crappy Kolcr@ft stroller because I finally wore out the wheels on the Snap-n-go. Time to order the Ph!l and Ted's Sport, I guess.
All that walking with the snap-n-go (which I loved, by the way) combined with weight gain, and repetitive rocking/gliding with my right foot, have given me plantar's fasciitis. New fun with the forty-year old bod. So, the walking has basically stopped, too hot anyway, and I look pregnant again.
D and I actually manage to have dinner together every night now because we put the girls to bed between 6 and 6:30.
Our daily routine:
4:30-5:00 a.m. Babies wake up for a 4 oz. bottle, then back to bed
6:00-6:30 Mom & Dad wake up, feed cats and dogs, make coffee, eat breakfast and try to shower
6:30-8:00 Babies wake up, we walk outside for a few minutes to "set their clocks," eat a few teaspoons of oatmeal or barley with a little applesauce and another "fruit of the day." Clean up, change into play clothes, play a little
8:00 Have a 3 or 4 oz. bottle
8:30 Hopefully take a morning nap of at least an hour
9:30-12:00 Play, have another 3 or 4 oz bottle, possibly run an errand or go to grandma's for the day if its Wednesday (mom's "day off")
12:00-2:00 p.m. Hopefully take an afternoon nap of at least an hour
2:00-3:30 Play, have another 3 or 4 oz bottle
3:30-4:30 Third nap or "crap" as I call them, but definitely needed, still. Usually 20 to 40 minutes
4:00-4:30 Have a 2 oz bottle to "take the edge off"
5:15 Have some rice cereal with a little applesauce and the vegie of the day (yes, they make trays for Bumbos now, cool, huh?)
5:30 Have a bath, jammies on, and have a 6 oz bottle of almost 4 month old frozen breastmilk that we are trying to use up
6:00-6:30 Go to their seperate cribs, Julia in the basement (sniff) and Nicole in the nursery (Nicole used to be the better sleeper, now they are pretty even, but still wake each other in the night)
6:30-9:30 Mom and Dad eat dinner, try to keep their Netfl!x account going, wash friggin' Dr. Br0wn's bottles, pay bills etc. (insert blogging time here)
9:30 Mom and Dad go to bed
12:00 a.m. Babies wake up at different times for a 6 oz bottle. Babies are "assigned" each night. Sometimes we get lucky with no wake-up and sometimes we don't
4:30-5:00 a.m. We start the process all over again and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Coming soon, the new house is finally going to be built. Met with the architect last week and the builder again this week.
has finally begun on the new house, after almost two years. It has taken us that long to get the old one torn down! Unscrupuloous demolition guy ran off with our deposit...long story...
This is how they were on the road, most of the time, since we timed the driving around their naps.
No, that it is not me.
The girls had to get a picture in the outfits my SIL, the ass, with 5 daughters of her own, bought. Hey inlaws, let me dress my own kids, you had your chance! Nic discovered that dead grass tastes kind of good.
This is one of the few that isn't blurry. First time they ever rode in a wagon, and they LOVED it.
(I think the headband is making Nic's ears stick out a little, but it just makes her look that much more elfen, I guess) Oh, and their Jack o' Lanterns.
I mangaged to carve both of them, very un-artistically, in 1/2 an hour, while Nic played in her exersaucer and Julia took a longer nap, than usual.
This was their year. Of course, they didn't fit right, since dachshunds are notoriously barrel-chested.
