Valentines Day

This was the twins first Valentines Day and they both were sick.  Mark was off on Valentine's Day because we were signing papers on our new house.  Mark got up and made Wesley waffles and heart shaped bacon with fruit for breakfast.  One of his favorite foods is bacon.  The boys opened their presents and then we got Wesley ready for school.

Luke and Evan waiting for breakfast.

Wesley enjoying his breakfast.

Wesley's class had a Valentine's party at school; they sang songs and then had a few snacks.  Mark went and watched Wesley while I stayed home with the boys.  We meet up after the party to sign papers on our house and then headed over to check out the new house and let Wesley find "treasures" the other family left behind.  We will be in this house for a long time.  Stay tuned for some updates on the house.

We have moved!!!

We started searching for houses around November. With the babies getting older they were waking up each other during nap time and sometimes during the night.  During nap time we separated the babies; Evan slept in their bedroom and Luke slept in the pack n play in our bedroom.
We looked at several houses and didn't find any we loved so we decided to take a break over the Christmas holiday. The day after Christmas we found a house that we wanted to go check out and knew it was the one for us. It is a 5 bedroom home with a study.  Now all the boys have their own room and we have a guest room still.  This house is in a cul-de-sac and across the street to the left is the park and to the right is the park.  Perfect location.  Wesley's elementary is about a half mile walk which will be nice when the weather gets warmer.  This new home doesn't have as much land as we had with our prior home but we do have a large backyard.  We have already made a few changes to the house but have a few more we would like to do as well.  Stay tuned for posts with these changes.

9 months

The babies had their 9 month check up this month and the Dr. said everything looked great. They only got one shot this time; flu shot. This month has been rough with illnesses for the babies. Luke caught bronchitis from the church nursery. It was not fun. High fevers, throwing up coughing. Once Luke was better we made it a whole week without illness and Luke ends up getting sick again. He caught rotavirus from the church nursery; they will not be going back to the nursery for a few weeks. We had just moved into our new house and my mom came in to help unpack and help with the kids. As soon as she drove up I walked down the steps to let her in and Luke started throwing up all over me the steps and Evan. I thought it was just a fluke and it wouldn't happen again. A little while later he started doing it again and we knew it wasn't a fluke. This was on Monday, but Wednesday he was still throwing up and had horrible diapers every 5-10 minutes. Wednesday by lunch I started this lovely virus and Mark had to come home from work to help with the kids. By Wednesday night Evan, Mark and my mom had it. That night we decided to take Luke to the Emergency room because he was getting dehydrated, shaking and crying for hours. Emergency room doctor said to keep doing what we were doing and pump fluids. Thursday we took both of the babies to their dr and she had us stop all formula and food. We were to only give them pedialyte every 30 minutes; once the babies made it past 36 hours I think without throwing up we could start introducing formula back in. We eventually got over it and thankfully Wesley never got it.

Evan weighs 19.2 lbs and is 28.25 inches long.  Evan loves to take a bath and splash Wesley.  He also loves to eat, swing and go on walks. Evan loves to look at books and open and close them over and over.  He has one tooth and the second tooth is going to poke through shortly.  He does a great job at feeding himself. Some of his favorite foods are; black beans, peas, cantaloupe, crackers and chicken.  Evan can drink from a straw sippy cup at lunch and dinner.  Evan sits by Wesley in the car and loves when Wesley talks to him after school.  He smiles and laughs at him.

Luke weighs 17.7 ons and is 27.75 inches long.   Luke loves to take a bath, eat and pull up on everything.  He has one tooth and the second tooth is going to poke through shortly.  We bought a new baby swing for the swing set and try to go out when it is warm; he loves to go out and swing.  He does a great job at feeding himself. Some of his favorite foods are; black beans, peas, cantaloupe, crackers and chicken.  Luke can drink from a straw sippy cup at lunch and dinner.  Luke is crawling on his hands and knees now the majority of the time instead of doing the army crawl.

 Wesley has his trampoline out in the new playroom and the babies love to pull up on it and try to climb on it.

Evan loves this music table as much as Wesley did.  In 3 short months the babies will be one!

8 months old

I can't believe in 4 short months the twins will be 1 year old. I know I say every month that it doesn't seem like it has been a month but we have been so busy this past month with selling and buying a new home.  Both Evan and Luke are on the move.  They are "army crawling" every where.  Evan is much faster than Luke but he will catch up.  Evan can start crawling and hear something in another room and do a complete circle quickly and start moving in that direction.  They are starting to talk to each other.  In the stroller they love to sit face to face and and kick each others feet and smile at each other the whole time.  Very funny. Evan and Luke still don't have any teeth, but hopefully soon they will.  Both babies are sitting up without any help now.  They both say; da da, ba da, de de and a growling noise.   Luke has started to make a very loud screech to get your attention.  They are eating finger foods a few times a day and can feed them selves the majority of the time.  They still wake up between 4:30- 5:00 am then the majority of times they go back to sleep once rocked.  

 Luke weighs about 18.5 lbs.

 Evan and Luke

 Evan weighs about 20 lbs.

 We wash the babies together and they try to roll over every night in the bathtub so we tried them sitting  up and they love to splash.  Once one baby is washed and gets out then Wesley gets in and he loves to have the babies splash him.  They both love it.

 Evan helping us pack boxes.

 Luke sitting on the car.  He likes to have you push it around and do wheelies.

 One of Luke's many faces.

Luke and Evan sitting up. 

February Snow Storm

We had our first snow storm of the winter season.  The weekend before we had the storm we headed to Lowes and got a sled for Wesley.  We were not sure how Wesley would like sledding down a hill but he loved it.  Mark took him to our pond; it has a very large hill, and they loved sledding down the hill.  he wanted to do it over and over.

 Evan and Luke watching Wesley play in the backyard.  Next year they will be out there playing.

 Mark drug Wesley around our front yard before they headed to the pond.

 Luke, Evan and Wesley

 We have had a few more small snow storms following this one but nothing significant.  Wes sure loves to play in the snow and throw snow balls.  He really loves to come in and have hot chocolate to help warm up.

Kick-N-Gym

We signed Wesley up for Kick-N-Gym through our gymnastics center this winter.  He started on January 15th in the afternoons.  They learn karate for 35 minutes of the class and then 25 minutes they spend working on gymnastics.  His class has about 8 boys. We are unable to watch Wesley when he is learning karate, but he comes home and shows us everything he has learned.  They have a uniform that they have to wear for the karate portion.  He already loves it and can't wait til Wednesdays.

7 months old

January 8th the babies turned 7 months old. I guess with the holidays last month it feels like they just turned 6 months.  Both babies are feeling better; thank goodness last month was rough.  The babies eat solids during breakfast, lunch and dinner.  They have a bottle in the morning before breakfast, around 10:00, 1:15 and then at bedtime.  We have started them on finger foods this month.  They eat yogurt melts, cereal puffs and crackers.  They have also started practicing using their sippy cups. Luke and Evan wake up around 5:00 am and sometime will turn on their music and go back to sleep and sometimes not.  We usually get them out  of bed around 6 or 6:30 depending on how they are acting. They usually fall asleep for their first morning nape when we are take Wesley to school and then when we go pick him up.  They take an hour and half nap in the afternoons then go to bed around 7:30pm.

 The babies love to help you when you are working on the computer.  I walked away for just a second and Evan was beating on the key board when I returned.

 Luke and Evan love to listen to Wesley play the guitar.  If they are fussy during the day and Mark is at work Wesley will run and find his guitar and play a song for the babies, it quiets them quickly.  Evan found Wesley's hiding spot for his guitar.  

 Evan trying a Mum Mum for the first time.

 Luke trying a Mum Mum for the first time.

 Luke's favorite thing to do.

Luke doesn't think his feet need socks, he thinks they need to go in his mouth.

Wesley loves to help do anything with the babies.  Now that they are eating breakfast he wants to help, so one morning I let him feed Evan. He did a very good job and was very patient.

Evan loves to hold his toes when sitting up.  He is sitting up unassisted on the floor for a minute or so but still isn't able to do it for a long period of time. Evan is very close to crawling.  He will get on all fours rock and then throw himself down.  He is starting to pull himself around but not far. He says da da da da over and over and ba ba.  He loves all food that we give him.

It took a little while to get both looking at me and smiling.  It is getting harder and harder to keep them in the chair sitting still.

Luke up on all fours trying to crawl just isn't there yet.  He rocks back and forth then throws his body down and repeats over and over not going there. Luke loves to bounce in the exercauser.  He says ba ba and da da.  He loves to stick out his tongue and make noises. He is getting better at sitting but still not very confident.