Five months old

These pictures were taken on the twins actual five month birthday (January 7th) and I just now getting around to write this post. I have actually already written it twice but it was some how not saved. I wrote  it while getting my hair colored for the first time since October! Which turned out to be the worst hair color EVER and I spent another 4 hour hair apt doing color correction. If you live in Austin this will make since my hair was not so much yellow rose but a whole lot landing strip.

On to my FIVE MONTH old cuties! The time is flying by my little nuggets!

Rush Beckett

- first off you are so sweet! You just love for people to talk to you and you smile and coo back

-you are wearing 6 month clothes

-size 2 pampers

-you just started solids this last week ( a week & a half behind your sister)

-your not a fan of rice cereal but you love pears

-your drinking 6-8oz bottles

- you got the beginnings of your first tooth! Bottom right. So far teething has not been to ruff. There was two nigh you were fussy and had to sleep with me

-you can roll back to tummy and tummy to back

-you start out sleeping on your tummy but always wake up on your back

-you have found your thumb and are sucking it a little

-your favorite person is mommy. you love to listen to me talk and you pat my face

-you are the king of drool and spit up ! wow you bro thru a lot of outfits and bibs! 

Nixon Elizabeth 

-Hello my tiny diva

-you are on average 2 lbs smaller than your brother

-you have been an awesome sleeper! 8pm to 7am most nights for the last few weeks (but you don't really nap during the day)

-your favorite person is your big sister

-your wearing 3 months clothes 

-your wearing size 1 pampers

-you started solids over a week ago and you love to eat! You have loved everything you have eaten

-you eat about 6oz per bottle

-you sleep JUST like your big sister. You have to have your face snuggled into something. 

-You love action. You want to be able to see everything that is going on around you

-your fine motor skills are very advanced. you can grab objects and switch them from hand to hand. 

-you can roll tummy to bad and back to tummy

-you sleep on your tummy all night

-you smile big, laugh big and scream big

-your very ticklish 

We go thru:

 about 300 diapers per month

10 23.4 oz tubs of Enfamil Gentlease per month

14 to 16 bottles per day

caffeine ... bottomless

Best little house guest ever

I know I don't have to explain Elf on the shelf to anyone reading my blog but I will introduce you to Merkle in case you forgot his name! This little guy showed up Black Friday and has been making mischief ever since.
One morning Merkle left a note telling Miss C she is doing good and made a few suggestions on how to make sure she is on the nice list (brush her teeth & wash her hair) he also left her a magic holiday seed to plant. When she checked back the next morning candy canes had grown
Here are a few of his antics over the last 2 weeks

Twin perk

The hilarious onesies for twins!
So in an effort to convince my favorite Mexican restaurant that's is JUST WRONG to charge for chips & salsa, the twins wore these!

Twin perk

The hilarious onesies for twins!
So in an effort to convince my favorite Mexican restaurant that's is JUST WRONG to charge for chips & salsa, the twins wore these!

Family Tree

Miss C made us a family tree at school. Her class is working thru several thematic units starting with self then family & now on to community. In her study of community she has decided to give up being a mermaid and now wants to be a vet when she grows up!

Domestic enemies of the MoM

People who failed health class: I gave birth to a boy and a girl. They happen to be twins, whose DNA traveled many moons and continents to find my very uterus, and produce two extremely different infants but I understand babies all kinda look alike And while they looked like the baby version of my 4 year old they are also, very obviously MALE and FEMALE. And always dressed one with a bow & one with out and even after being told they are a boy & a girl we hear the same question over and over. And over. And OVER.

“Are they identical?”

The only appropriate response is an impromptu lesson on the differences between a PENIS and a VAGINA. With drawings. Seriously, people NEED to know this stuff and I am on a mission from God to teach it.

Stuff: Stuff is a problem for any family with kids, but households with twins must have two of EVERYTHING. All the mur.thur.furking. time or someone (me) will explode, I think. Cribs and bouncy seats and high chairs and swings and those damn exer-saucers that require entirely new storage *wings* be added to the house. It’s okay, though. The babies don’t need a college education so much as they require those horrific, matching shoes with an obnoxious cartoon character on them. In a shocking twist of fate, I am ABSOLUTELY positive that I am going to die in an avalanche of the very Princess themed items that have ruined my house and my sanity. All that’s left to take is my actual living, breathing soul.

Grocery Stores: So. Grocery stores kind of suck in general for anyone with kids, but they present a *slightly* larger dilemma for those of us raising twins. I have YET to find a way to put two babies in a shopping cart that does not rely upon toilet paper as a padded wedge upon which your infant’s safety depends. And I ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to wait until my husband was home to make my way to the grocery store, because if I was given that kind of freedom, it was going to involve a t-box, an episode of The Real World and a tub of ice cream.

Instead, I opted to: stack twin #1 in the grocery cart, with twin #2 strapped on in the Baby Bjorn…all while verbally screaming my 4 year-old through the aisles of the store where Dora-the-marketing-slut peddles everything from fruit snacks to shampoo. All done with my head down to avoid eye contact with anyone who wanted to know if my babies were twins, identical (enter soft porn drawings) or wanting to touch their hands/cheeks/tongues with every germ in the known universe.

I feel sure any body of water will be added to my enemies list soon

Location:Domestic enemies of the MoM

Regression

I've been told often that when a new baby arrives some regression with your older child is to be expected. This is how I found the girls just now. Better look into the weight limit on that rock & play!