Weekend Update

Babies 1st time sitting in grass, they were not
too sure if they liked it or not :-)





We had a wonderful long weekend! We ended up having a 4 day weekend because Jerame took Friday off to have the cast taken off of his hand & the pin removed. Although he was thrilled to get the cast off it was a bit disappointing for him as he will still need a lot of therapy to get full use of his hand back. He is in a splint now that allows him to use his hand more but he will still need the support of the brace for another couple of weeks. The good thing is, is the Dr. was very pleased with how things are healing up and he is on the right track to recovery. Thank goodness! On Saturday we went over to Jerame's sisters house and let all the kids play together outside. It was so fun to see them all starting to interact together. Chloe thinks her big-girl cousin Olivia is the coolest thing ever...she just laughs and laughs at her. It's so cute. Sunday we met up with our friends Kirk & Karen for a BBQ at a park. It was like camping for a few hours. Fun...but I don't think we will be camping for real with the babies for a few years yet. By the end of the 2nd hour Chloe was throwing a tantrum because I kept trying to move her to the middle of the blanket...away from the dirt she kept wanting to shovel in her mouth. By then it was time to go, just a little stressful :-). Monday we went to a BBQ at one of the ladies from my Twins moms group's house. I think there were 10 babies there all between 7 & 10 months. The babies seemed pooped today from all the weekend festivities so we just hung out at home today and tried to get back on our schedule. My Dad came over today to see the twinnies this morning. He just can't get enough of them. It's cute. I was flipping through the pictures on his camera today while he was here and the majority of the pictures he had on there were of the babies. Cute. He is such a wonderful Grandpa.

The babies have been doing really good taking naps during the day and sleeping through the night. We have been having some serious challenges actually getting them to go to bed lately though. They seem to think that the bedtime routine means party time. We have had at least an hour of crying for the past 6 nights at bedtime. Enough to make me want to cry to! I would like to blame it on teething but who knows. Carter is cutting his two front teeth now so he has a total of six. Chloe is still working on the bottom two. Teething is so hard! The babies have their 9 month well baby visit on Thursday. I can't wait to find out all of their stats! Its hard to believe they are getting so close to being 1 year old. Its crazy that we almost have toddlers. TWO of them!!!

For the best Daddy ever....

It seems like there are always so many baby clothes that have cute little sayings about 'Mommy' but not so much about 'Daddy'. So I have been on the look out for a 'Daddy shirt' for the babies to wear and I found one that had a boy & a girl version! Here's to you Daddy, you are the best in the world!

 

Chloe gives kisses

Conversation with Carter

Cute Kids

ARE THEY CUTE OR WHAT?!!!!!!

Finally Better!

Things are finally looking up for us over here! As a lot of you know we have had a rough past month or two. It all started when Jerame got his wisdom teeth out and got the most severe case of dry sockets a person can get. He suffered through some excruciating pain all the while trying to work and help take care of the twins. Then literally the same day the teeth started to feel better he broke his hand. The following week after visiting a hand specialist it was decided that surgery was the best option to help the hand heel. So he went under the knife to have a metal pin inserted into his hand. Ouch. He has been in a cast for the past 3 weeks and will wear it for hopefully only two more depending on how the heeling is going. Fingers crossed **Luckily the hand he broke is the left one and he does have use of his pointer finger and thumb. So again we have been struggling to take care of two babies down one hand. The math on this just doesn't work...two babies and 3 adult hands. He is not really supposed to even be picking up babies but of course this has been impossible so we are doing the best we can to give his hand a rest. Lets just say that I have changed A LOT of diapers over the course of the last few weeks. To top everything off our entire household came down with the stomach flu this past week. The babies had it last Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. Jerame got it on Friday and I got it on Sunday. Happy Mothers Day to me. It was the sickest Jerame & I have been since we can ever remember. It really was a bummer because Jerame was so very sweet to have surprised me and planned this wonderful night for the two of us to stay downtown & have dinner out to celebrate my 1st Mothers Day. Maybe we can celebrate Fathers Day & Mothers together this year? Speaking of Mom's thank goodness for my wonderful Mom, bless her heart has been over here helping us through all of this because I really don't know how we could have done it without her help. She was over here at the drop of a hat knowing that we were all sick our house was infested with sickness and that she could very well get what we had. Jerame's sisters also came to help us knowing we were all sick which was so nice. Since then I have had the help of a few Nanny's as I wasn't feeling 100% feeling until today. Needless to say I think we are on the up and up. I actually just got a call from Jerame and he said his cast will most likely be taken off a week from Friday!!!

Despite all of our ailments the babies are as cute as ever and just keep changing and learning to do new things everyday. Chloe is full on crawling now and can beat her brother to the toys when she wants to. She tends to be the toy stealer while Carter will most often just watch her take it out of his hands and happily go and find another toy to play with. Both babies are full on teething...drooling, chewing, diaper rash the list goes on and on. NOT fun! Poor things it must be so uncomfortable for them. Today has been a very special day so far as it was the first time I have actually really seen them interactively have fun together. They kept crawling towards each other in my kitchen and laughing right as they got close to one another. They must have done it 4 times. It was hilarious!!! Chloe now dances to music and claps her hands on demand. Carter is pulling himself up on just about everything and will momentarily let go and try to balance. I think I see walking in his not to distant future. They will turn 9 months old next week. Time is flying and it makes me a little sad seeing my not so little babies grow up so fast!!!!


Can you see Carter's bruise collection on his head?


They had so much fun ripping up mommy's magazines


Matt came to see the babies last week and I knew
that Chloe wasn't feeling good when she sat like this with
him for a long time. They never sit still anymore!

Bath Time

We have started giving the babies baths together almost every night instead of once every couple of days. It is so much more fun to bath them together and they just think bath time is the best part of the day! They like to splash and play with the toys. Carter of course is a crazy man and practially dives for toys. He actually swims around on his tummy all over the tub and tries to pull himself up on the sides. He has already taken too many diggers to count! We are starting to say "No" to things like this but it's hard to tell if he gets it or not because he just does it again like 2 seconds later. I'm sure that's a struggle we will deal with for years to come :-). Chloe is happy just to sit and splash & play with a toy. She is such a girl. The gender differences between them come out more and more everyday. Chloe is crawling now too. I have yet to get it on tape but she is actually going on her hands and knees. She doesn't do it very often though and most often still just does her sit and scoot thing. It's so cute.

Both babies have had a stomach bug this weekend. Last night we experienced our first projectile vommiting session in unison. Carter threw up all over me, himself and the floor. Jerame had to set Chloe down to come and help me with Carter and right as he set Chlo down she started going too. We had to laugh...what more could we do in a situation like this? I think the first thing any partent needs especially those of twins is a good sense of humor. Because more often than not laughing is what will get you through some of the grossest & most frusterating situtions. All in all the babies have been relatively happy considering they are both feeling under the weather. They are such cute little people.