Wordless Wednesday

A few recent photos of my sweet babies!

Good morning!

Fun playdate with friends!

Sweet baby girl!

My two most favorite guys!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Happy Birthday to the best husband and daddy in the world!! We had a fun day celebrating daddy's birthday today. Paige, Logan and I took him to lunch at Pappasito's (YUM!) and then we went to his office so that he could show the babies off a little. :-) He's such a proud daddy and I LOVE it! This evening we had a small family birthday party at our house for daddy and his twin sister, Aunt Christi. We even got to see and speak to our Uncle Phil, Aunt Heather and cousin Berkeley on Skype when they called to wish daddy a happy birthday. That was a great surprise! It was a great evening!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!!! We love you to the moon and back!!

7 months Old

Logan and Paige turned 7 months old on May 12th...this post is obviously a wee bit late. Better late than never, though, right!? I have to admit, I was really sad for them to turn 7 months old. I LOVE this age they're at but now I feel like we're on the downhill slide to them turning 1. I don't even want to think about that! My sweet babies are growing up WAY too fast!!

Logan~ You are just like your daddy! You have his goofy personality and I just love it! You are all smiles from the moment you wake up in the morning until...5:00 pm. Ha! At 5:00 you turn into Mr. Grumpapus as we affectionately call you. :-) It is full meltdown mode until you go to bed between 7:00-7:30. You actually play pretty well after you have dinner and your bath but the minute we start trying to put your jammies on you start screaming! It's actually pretty funny. So far you have loved every new solid food that you have tried. I think your favorites are sweet potatoes, green beans and bananas. You're still wearing size two diapers during the day and size three at night for bedtime. You can still wear most of your 3-6 month clothes but are also in 6-9 months and a few 6-12 months. You will laugh uncontrollably if we pretend that we're eating your tummy or your neck. It is so cute! You still love to pull mommy's hair. You're also still trying SO hard to crawl. Last week you actually figured out how to inch your way backwards and you ended up getting stuck under the couch twice. You are just the sweetest, cutest little boy and we love you SO much!!

Paige~ Your little personality is really starting to shine and you are so funny! You make the cutest, silliest little faces. I just love them! You are all smiles all day...especially when daddy gets home! Your newest thing is that you LOVE to babble...all.day.long. :-) I just cannot get enough of your sweet, little voice. I love it! You are doing really well at practicing your sounds and you actually said "da-da" directly to your daddy the other morning. I think he has been on cloud nine ever since! You love to give hugs now too. You will just squeeze mommy's neck, especially when I get you up in the morning or from a nap. I love this too! So far you have liked every new food that we've tried except for the sweet potatoes. There was something funky that went on with the bananas too. You seemed to really like them but then afer the 5th or 6th bite you would just start screaming. I'm thinking that they just didn't set very well on your tummy. :-( I think your favorites so far are avocados, squash and green beans. You're still wearing size two diapers during the day and size 3 at night for bedtime. You're still wearing 3-6 month clothes and can now wear 6-9 month as well. You really love for us to clap and you like to put your hands on the back of ours and clap with us. You like to have lots of conversations with us and you love talking to Logan. It's so cute! You're doing really well at sitting up on your own now. You still need a spot from us or the boppy but you're so close to doing this all on your own. You are the sweetest, cutest little girl and we love you SO much!!

More solids and some randomness

We're still doing well with the solids. After the avocado we tried sweet potatoes. Logan was a huge fan, but Paige...not so much. Poor baby girl cried until I made her some avocado. We continued the sweet potatoes/avocado for four days and then we moved on to bananas. I thought for sure these would be a hit. Both babies liked the bananas but I don't think Paige's tummy liked them too much. :-( She did fine with eating them for about 6 bites or so and then all of a sudden she would just start screaming. This happened two days in a row so I stopped giving them to her. Poor thing. I'm starting to worry that she has inherited my sensitive tummy. We are now eating green beans and they both love them! So far making homemade baby food for them is going really well. It's actually kind of fun. :-)

Now on to some randomness. Logan and Paige are really starting to interact with each other more and more. Yesterday Logan took Paige's binkie out of her mouth...twice. The first time she happened to have a toy in her hand and she flung it at his head after he stole her binkie. Thankfully it was a soft toy. The second time was about 5 minutes later and he rolled over the other way so that she couldn't see it. He might have been protecting himself from another toy being hurled his way too! They really like to babble to each other now too. They'll look at each other, babble something and then smile and laugh. It's so cute! I need to get it on video. Everytime it happens I just sit there and watch them in amazement. I don't want to miss anything by getting up to get the camera!

They're both in the midst of teething right now and I really hope the teeth that are trying to come through hurry up! They have been SO unsettled this week. Well, that's about all the random thoughts I have for now. Here are some recent pictures. :-)

Paige: Happy Easter! Logan: WHY does she insist on doing this to me!?

Ahh, the good life

Um, this is not avocado

Solids!

Logan and Paige tried solid food for the first time tonight and I think it went really well! We decided to start this new adventure with some avocado. I've read some great things about starting with avocado and it's super easy too. We gave them each 1/4 of an avocado which was more than plenty to start with. Although, I think Miss Paige just might turn into an avocado after tonight! She really liked it once she got the hang of the spoon and was sitting in my lap eating. She's a girl after my own heart! Her mommy and daddy love guacamole and I love eating plain avocados with salt too. Yum! We started with them in their high chairs and we reclined them back a little ways. I think it felt too much like they were laying down because they both really seemed to enjoy eating the avocado once we sat them up. I decided to just put Paige in my lap and she gobbled it down! She even started grabbing the spoon and my hand and she would pull it into her mouth. Such a big girl! Logan ended up eating in daddy's lap and did really well too. He didn't eat as much as Paige but I still think he liked it. So, overall I would say that their first time trying solids was a success!

I can't wait to try another food. I wish we didn't have to wait four days in between trying foods, but I know it's what's best and we will of course abide by this rule. I think we're going to try sweet potatoes next. I hope they like them...if they don't we just won't tell their Auntie Heather. It would just break her heart! :-) (My sister LOVES sweet potatoes and I have grown to love them too over the last year). I'm posting a few pictures below. They really don't show their reactions too much. It took them a little while to figure things out, but their little green faces are still pretty cute. :-) We also got a video of each of them taking their first bites, but I had to take the videos with my phone. The stupid battery on our flip video camera was dead. I'll try to remember to charge it before we try something new next week.

P.S. Two posts in one week...can you believe it?!

6 months old!

Yes, you read that right. Logan and Paige turned 6 months old yesterday! Can you believe it?! Where has the time gone? They are so cute at this age. I love watching them interact with each other and seeing all the new things they learn. Their little personalities continue to shine through and it's so interesting to see how unique each of them are. They are just so much fun and I'm excited to see what the next 6 months hold for our little family. :-) Logan~ You weigh 15 lbs (10%) and you are 26 inches long (36%). You are such a chunky monkey and we love it! Your feet and hands are so plumpy. Mommy and daddy kiss on them all the time! You are still wearing size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 diapers for bedtime. You wear 3-6 month and 6 month clothes. You eat 6-8 oz. every four hours during the day and rice cereal once a day (when mommy remembers to give it to you). :-) You take two longer naps during the day and one shorter nap late afternoon/early evening. You go to bed between 7:00-7:30 pm and usually sleep until 6:45-7:30 am. You LOVE to be on your tummy!! Whenever we lay you down on a blanket or the playmat you immediately roll onto your tummy. You also like to sleep on your tummy now and will usually end up on your tummy within a few minutes of us putting you in your bed. Bless your little heart, you are trying SO hard to crawl! You "swim" on your tummy and have started getting up on your toes and doing the inchworm pose. There is going to be no stopping you once you get going! You are still such a sweet, smiley little boy...until early evening. :-) Around 5:00 in the evening you become "Mr. Grumpy" as we like to call you! The faces you make are quite funny. You love for mommy to sing to you and you really like to reach out and grab the books when we're reading. You love for us to pretend that we're eating your tummy. This almost always makes you giggle. You really like to grab onto mommy's hair and pull it. Mommy is not a fan of this. :-) Your favorite toys are Freddy the Firefly, Mr. Caterpillar and your ocean wonders playmat (also known as your fishies). Your smile is contagious and mommy and daddy love you SO much!!

Paige~ You weigh 13 lbs 15 oz. (13%) and you are 25 1/2 inches long (42%). You are such a sweet, little petite girl! You are wearing size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 for bedtime. You wear 3-6 and 6 month clothes. You eat 6-8 oz. every four hours during the day and rice cereal once a day (when mommy remembers to give it to you). :-) You take two longer naps during the day and one short nap in the afternoon/early evening. You go to bed between 7:00-7:30 pm and usually wake up between 6:45-7:30 am. You LOVE to be bounced on mommy and daddy's knees! You will immediately smile and start laughing. You love to have the back of your hand kissed and for us to tell you that we love you. :-) Kissing your neck usually gets some giggles out of you too! You do really well with tummy time and like to sit up now. You still need some assistance but you're able to sit unassisted for a little bit before falling over. Your favorite toys are Freddy the Firefly, Mr. Caterpillar and your ocean wonders mat (also known as your fishies). You really like to swing at the park. You are so close to crawling. You don't try everyday, but when you do you're able to get your knees under you and you do a really good inchworm! You love toys that make crinkly noises and you really like to study things. You're mommy and daddy's quiet thinker! You love for mommy to sing to you and you really like to be read to. You even try to turn the pages when we read. You are such a sweet baby girl and your dimply smiles melt our hearts! Mommy and daddy love you very much!!

Why???

This is a question that I have been asking a lot over the last few days. Why, God, does my sweet friend (who just got the shock of her life last week by finding out she's having twins) have to start bleeding on Sunday and endure the fear that she might be having a miscarriage...again? Why, God, does another sweet friend have to lose her father today in a tragic motorcycle accident (while she's pregnant expecting their first child)? I know that we're not supposed to understand why things happen, but it doesn't stop my mind from wanting answers. To say that my heart is heavy tonight is an understatement. My heart just breaks for both of them and I so wish that I could do or say something to take away their fears and pain.

I know that the best thing I can do for both of them is to just be there and to pray for them like crazy. So many of you have been such awesome prayer warriors for me in the past and once again I'm going to ask for your prayers for my sweet friends. Please pray for Melissa's babies and this pregnancy. Pray specifically that the bleeding will stop and that these precious miracles will continue to grow and stay strong. Pray that her body will cooperate and allow her to carry these babies to term. Please pray for peace for Elizabeth and her family. Pray for God to comfort them and remind them that He is right there with them in the midst of this horrible tragedy.

Thank you for the prayers and thoughts in advance. I promise that my next post will be much more upbeat. :-)