What we've been up to...

Wow, I'm ashamed that it's been two weeks since my last post. I always come up with ideas and things I want to post about, but sadly I just haven't been making the time. There's always something around the house that needs to be done or I'm just too tired by the end of the day to form any sort of coherent post. I want to make sure I record all the fun, new things that Logan and Paige are up to so here it goes!

Logan and Paige are still loving the pool! We have taken them to one of our neighborhood pools a few times and we have also swam several times at Mimi and Poppi's pool. Paige LOVES the water! She is my litte waterbug! I absolutely love baby swimsuits and I especially love their little tushies in them and the hiney hang-out! It's too cute. I may or may not have bought 4 different swimsuits for Paige already. A girl needs choices, right? :-)

Logan is doing really well at sitting up all by himself now. He no longer needs a spotter. Go Logan! He's also SO close to crawling! He tries so hard and actually lunged forward on his knees the other day and moved one hand forward...then he plopped down on his belly. :-) Paige, on the other hand, is perfectly content to just sit and play with her toys and books. She has made absolutely no attempts at trying to crawl. I think she's just holding out for Logan so that once he's mobile she can just boss him around and tell him to get things for her. Ha!

I just love to watch all the new things that they're learning. They are both learning to take their puffs in their fingers and feed themselves. Paige does this pretty well. Logan just wants me to do everything for him. He gets SO mad at me when I try to make him hold the puffs in his fingers and feed himself or when I make him hold his bottle or sippy cup. It's not that he can't do it, he just doesn't want to do it. Lazy, little boy! Speaking of sippy cups, we just introduced them to Paige and Logan this past weekend and I'm happy to say that they're both doing so well with them! I bought the Nub.y brand that has two handles on each side and a flexible, soft spout on the top. It's spillproof and it's pretty easy for them to hold and tilt back. I'm giving them a tiny bit of baby applejuice mixed with water in the cups. They seem to like it.

While we're on the subject of feeding, Logan and Paige have continued to move right along with trying new fruits and veggies. We usually have oatmeal mixed with some sort of fruit (pears, apples, peaches, bananas, etc.) for breakfast in the morning and then at dinner they get two veggies or a fruit and a veggie. I'm gearing myself up to start feeding them a solid for lunch too. Once I start I can't go back! We've also let them try a few table foods as well. They've had shredded chicken, rolls and some mashed potatoes from Lu.by's. Yum!

Paige is really into this patting thing. She loves to pat-pat-pat on your chest, shoulder, leg or arm. It's so sweet and I just love it! Logan and Paige's Auntie H came to visit a few weeks ago and we all had so much fun! She lives in Denver so we don't get to see each other that often. We missed not getting to see Uncle Phil and cousin Berkeley but we can't wait to see the whole family at Christmas!

That's all I can think of for now so I'll leave you with some recent pics!

Auntie H & Logan

Father's Day

Paige hoarding the toys!

Swimming in our new whale pool

8 Months!

On Sunday our sweet babies turned 8 months old! I have no doubt that the next four months are going to fly by and I will no longer have babies...they will be toddlers. Ugh. Can someone please hurry up and figure out a way to slow down time? They are doing so many new things now and are just so much fun. They both have lots of personality and I love it!

Logan~ You are just as sweet and funny as ever! You still have two bottom teeth and you love to try to eat all of us! I keep telling Daddy that we're all going to have nightmares about your two little teeth coming at us. Ha! You will grab ahold of my face and pull me really hard towards you so that you can eat my face. You are so silly! You are doing really well at sitting up on your own now but you still need a spotter or a boppy around you when you reach for things beside you or behind you. You love to stand up and you love to bounce (aka "boingy boingy")! You absolutely adore your sister! You will just smile so big when you see her and the two of you have developed quite the little communication system lately. It's so fun to watch the two of you interact! You are now wearing size 3 diapers all the time. You wear mostly 6-9 month clothes and a few 6-12 month. I also still squeeze you into a few 3-6 month clothes at times. You have tried lots of new foods but you no longer like to eat veggies that aren't sweet. The only ones you'll eat now are sweet potatoes and butternut squash. Mommy has gotten sneaky, though, and has started mixing some other non-sweet veggies with the sweet potatoes and squash so that you won't know the difference. :-) You have recently started having peach yogurt melts and Ger.ber puffs for snacks. You also get peach popsicles when we go to Mimi and Poppi's house to swim! You are just growing up TOO fast! Mommy and Daddy love you SOOO much!!

Paige ~Sweet, baby girl...you crack us up! Your personality has just exploded and you do the funniest things! You LOVE to dance now and sometimes you'll stick your tushy out and dance on Daddy's lap! You love to laugh and are ticklish now. You have one bottom tooth that has started poking through the gums and I'm pretty sure you're also in the midst of cutting the tooth right beside it as well. You are sitting up all by yourself now without any assistance or spotting. You do NOT like to share toys with your brother but you love to laugh at him and "talk" to him. You and Logan went swimming for the first time a few weeks ago and you LOVE it! You are seriously a little water baby! You have tried so many new foods now and so far you have liked everything. You also like the peach yogurt melts and Ger.ber puffs that we recently started giving you. A peach popsicle at Mimi and Poppi's house after swimming is always a favorite too! You are getting so big! Mommy and Daddy love you SOOO much!!

*The following pictures were taken right before bedtime and they were the best we could get. We are in full out teething chaos over here and so it's pretty much complete survivial mode at this point! At least I got the pictures...a day late. Oh well. Such is the life of a twin mom, right!?

Wordless Wednesday

A few recent photos of my sweet babies!

Good morning!

Fun playdate with friends!

Sweet baby girl!

My two most favorite guys!