Thursday, October 30, 2008

10 weeks old

I can't believe the babies are 10 weeks old today. It feels so weird to think that they are now into the double digit numbers in weeks. One of my friends stopped by today with her new baby who was 5 pounds 14oz at birth and he seemed so tiny compared to my babies. It's strange to think they were smaller than that at birth. 10 weeks later and I still haven't sent my thank you cards for all the gifts we were given. I think new Moms especially twins Moms should be exempt from sending thank you cards. Don't you?! The days just still seem to fly right by. Its sad but I feels so accomplished if I can fit a load of laundry or make our bed during the day. Its the simple things that make me feel good these day! My next goal is to actually try to put something together for dinner before Jerame gets home from work. I think he might be shocked the day that happens. I figure if I am going to be home now I better start learning how to cook. The babies are better about wanting to go in their swings now so it allows me just a little tiny bit more time during the day to do stuff around the house.
My Grandma took me shopping the other day at Nordstrom. We took the babies, it was their first big shopping trip. They did pretty good! It's so funny people just can't seem to get enough of these babies. Everyone is just so intrigued by the twins factor. I always put a pink blanket on Chloe and a Blue on Carter so people know they are a boy and a girl. Although it's funny lots of people still ask me what I have. I think it must be just a way to strike up the convo...sometimes if I am walking through the mall or something I just avoid eye contact with people because I am sure to be stopped every 10 feet otherwise!
Tomorrow is Halloween and we are dressing the babies up as Dalmatian puppies. Our day is going to be pretty eventful too! I will take the babies into Jerame's office in their costumes because they have a little trick-or-treating event organized at his work. It will be fun to show them off in their cute little costumes. I will take pictures of the in their outfits tomorrow. I'm excited it's almost the weekend again. I LOVE weekends now more than ever. This is mostly because Jerame is home and we get to spend time together with the babies. I just love my family to pieces. It's so fun because all we can really do now on the weekend is hang out together with the babies. All the other chores and stuff that I always stressed out about doing and getting done
on the weekends just don't seem that important at all. I don't really have any recent pictures to post I will take some tomorrow & get some on here.
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another one of my favorites that the photographer took.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Happy Birthday Paul

Jerame's Dad came to visit us this weekend to celebrate his 60th Birthday! It was a beautiful fall weekend in Seattle...we saw sun both days. What a treat! We went to a nice Mexican food dinner on Friday night to celebrate the Birthday. There were some Tequila involved for Jerame & his Dad ofcourse. The Babies had their 1st round of shots on Thursday so they were still very sleepy from those so they both just slept the whole dinner. Getting the babies shots was just horrible. Not mention they use a huge needle and they get a shot in both of their thighs, it just makes them feel miserable. Poor little stinkers...they just didn't quite know what had hit them but they knew they didn't like it at all. We ended up giving both babies Tylenol on Thursday night because they were running little fevers and we could just tell they didn't feel good at all. Today is the first day since their shots that they are acting normal again. Chloe literally slept all day yesterday, we could barely wake her up to eat. They will get their next round of shots at their 4 month check up, we are not looking forward to those already.
Carter is now a full pound heavier than Chloe. She is not gaining weight as fast as him so we will take her back in a few weeks to the pediatrician to check her weight again. She is just a little peanut. Carter weighs 9lbs 15oz and Chloe 8lbs 15oz. Both babies are healthy which is the most important thing! Sometimes I feel like they are getting so big but really they are still so little...a little bigger than some babies are when they are born. I can't beleive this week is the last week in October the weeks are just flying by and the holidays are right around the corner.
Don't you just love how they always make you wear
something ridiculous when they sing to you on your bday
at resturants

Monday, October 20, 2008

2 months old

The babies are 2 months old tomorrow! They are getting so big I can't beleive it. I just packed up a box of all their newborn clothes last night. They are officially into the 0-3 months size now which I am excited about because they have such cute clothes! One of my favorite parts of each day is getting them dressed and picking out what they will wear. More often than not I end up having to change their clothes a few times during the day because they puke, pee or poop on what they are wearing. So the more clothes I have the better. The laundry I do around here is just never ending! Jerame actually asked me if I wanted a new washer and dryer for my b-day as a joke and I actually think that would have been the best gift ever. The babies are continuing to get better and better about sleep. Last night they slept from about 11:30 to 4:30am which was ground breaking. Both Jerame and I actually felt like we got sleep! I woke up in a panic actually before they even woke up because I didn't know if they were ok or not. Sure enough they were just sound asleep. I really hope it continues but I won't keep my fingers crossed just yet. Both babies are smiling all the time now. It just melts our hearts every time they flash us those big smiles with their little dimples. They are changing everyday and are seeming less like fragile infants. I am already looking back at pictures going, "I can't believe how small they were". I wonder how I will feel in just another couple of months! I have been getting out more and more. Last week I met some friends for lunch at Bellevue Square. The babies did so good...Chloe actually slept the whole lunch. I am getting more brave about taking them places by myself. Soon it will just be 2nd nature I am sure. We don't have much planned this week but somehow I'm sure it will just fly right by.
we set the babies together to take pictures of them
in these outfits. They immediately snuggled up
together and fell asleep. They like to be near
each other, so precious.


I tied a bow in Chloe's hair for the first time yesterday.
There will be many more of those to come. I can't
wait to be able to do her hair all cute.

We took the babies to Jerame's sister's house to visit
their cousin Skyler who is 8 months old. They are going
to have so much together when they get older.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Carter & Chloe 4 week old pictures

We got the pictures back from our photographer yesterday. Words just cannot express how happy we are with how they turned out! Every single picture is absolutely precious. These two babies are just too perfect for words. I can't believe they are ours. Here is a few of our favorites. I will upload more of them later.































































Tuesday, October 14, 2008

My little Clone

It is really amazing how much Chloe looks like me when I was a baby. She is literally my clone. This is a picture of me when I was just a few weeks old. I think this picture could defiantly be mistaken for Chloe. I have a mini-me!

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

more nursery pics


The nursery is finally complete. I order stickers to put on the walls of their names it turned out really cute. It actually looks like the letters are painted on the walls. Also my Moms cousin who is a professional artist painted us a water color painting for the wall. She coordinated the pattern of the crib fabric and all the colors. She named the peice of art 'Twins' ...it is very special. She painted a water color painting that my Mom still has hung in her house that was in my nursery as a baby.