3 months old

The babies turned 3 months old on the 21st, I can't believe it. They have changed so much and continue to be different on a daily basis. Everyone says that the first 3 months are the hardest and after getting through them I believe every bit of it! I would never want to relive the first month if you paid me...it was VERY challenging. It is getting so much better and we are feeling more 'normal' all the time. Life has changed completely and totally but we are loving our new lives and cannot imagine what it would be like with out our babies now. I feel totally comfortable now being alone with the babies and manning the fort by myself. We pretty much know what all their different cry's mean now and feel like we can figure out what is going to make them happy the quickest. I have figured that parenting a newborn is just a total game of trying to figure out whats wrong with them most of the time. They are both smiling, cooing and on occasion they will both let out little laugh-like squeals. It's really pretty cute. Last week we got out of the house and had a play-date with some girls I went to high school with. It was fun to catch up...I can't believe my 10 year will be next summer...crazy! Good motivation for me to get back in shape.

I am excited for this week because Jerame will have some time off for the Holiday so we will get to spend more time together as a family.


The babies are more interested in playing now. I
can actually set them down on the floor and they will
entertain themselves for 20 min stretches sometimes.


Carter flirting


He is such a smiley boy


Need we say more!



Chloe is more in toTummy time than Carter

We got this mirror that they can look at while

laying on their tummy. You would never think

it would be that interesting but they think it's

pretty neat.

Mommy & Chloe. We went to Kirk, Karen & Sydney's

house to watch the Apple Cup. Go Cougs!

Bath time

Chloe after her bath last night. Both babies have
discovered their tounges lately and stick them out
all the time.


The babies are starting to enjoy their bath time. They splash and kick their legs...it's starting to not seem like such a chore for Mom too. We are getting the hang of it. It's sad though I feel like I have to rush them through their baths with fear the other baby is going to have a melt down at any moment. It will be so nice when I can finally bath them at the same time. We are now going to try and start doing baths as part of the bed time routine that way Jerame can help me too. All the books say you can try to start to establish the routine as early as 3 months...I say the sooner the better. I think we already have a little bit of a head start on the bed time routine because both babies have been sleeping in their cribs at night for a while now. This is not to say they stay in their cribs all night but at least they go to bed there initially.
Chloe got her weight checked again on Friday. She is now 10lbs! She is maintaining her weight in the 10th percentile, which is good. She is just small.

We had a wonderful weekend. Jerame started to clean up the many gallons of leaves we have in our yard. He filled 13 yard waste bags with leaves in just the back yard. We had a group of friends over for dinner on Saturday night too. It was fun to see everyone and have them get to know the babies a little bit! Sunday was football filled and family time.

Cuteness

We finally caught a smile from Chloe on camera tonight. They both are just getting cuter and cuter by the day. I pretty much can get Chloe to smile on demand now :-)....she loves her momma. Carter is still more serious but does flash us those gums quite often. Carter always looks like he is in deep thought trying to solve the worlds problems. As you can also see Carter has completely found out that he has hands. He sucks on them at all waking times! I just fall more in love with these babies everyday. I just can't believe they are all ours...we are so blessed! I feel like I am really starting to get the hang of taking care of two babies. Sometimes I just can't imagine what it would be like with only one baby to take care of....how boring!

Daddy & Chloe had a long night together last night
so they are both very sleepy this evening. I hope tonight
is better!






Time fore some smiles!

Night Out

My cousin Melissa came over last night and took care of the babies while Jerame and I had a date night! We went to the new luxury movie theater in Redmond town center. It was really cool they have really comfortable seats and you can order food & drinks inside the movie theater. It is sort of like going to dinner and a movie all at the same time. It was so fun! Then Melissa stayed the night with us and had baby duty all night so we got a good night sleep. She is just awesome! The picture is us before we went on our date last night.

So Big!

I remember when I got these outfits at my shower and they seemed so big. I just would never have imagined that they would fit into them already! They don't have a lot of matching boy/girl outfits so it was fun to dress them similar today, even though we didn't leave the house :-). The babies slept so good the night before last and we thought that maybe we were making progress in the sleep department but last night they reminded us that they are the ones calling the shots still! I think that we all got maybe 4 hours total sleep...ugh! Then they slept most of the day today so we will see how tonight goes. Wish us luck.
I got to go out to dinner last night with Ashley & Misty while Jerame stayed home with the babies. It was so nice to get out and get somewhat dressed up. It was so fun to catch up with the girls. I was ready to get back to the babies though by the time the night was through...I missed my little family!

Carter taking a nap yesterday.

Chloe loves to sleep with her arms up it's so cute.

nap time

Our little Dalmations

The twinnies looked so cute in their costumes. They were such good sports wearing their hats that were too big for them. We went into Daddy's work and did some trick-or-treating and then went over to Jessica & Justins house for dinner. It was nice and relaxing and I couldn't have asked for a better Halloween!

Carter ate too much candy :-)

Hanging out with Mommy

Family of 4

Mommy & her two puppies

Princess Chloe

Finally we caught a smile on camera!

Two peas in a pod

Both babies melting down :-)

Jerame took our little niece Oliva trick or treating

in our neighborhood. She was a Frog Princess...how adorable is she?!!!!

Jerame's Mom & Chloe

Princess Olivia