Wordless Wednesday: First Crushes

 

Two Hours of my Afternoon

1. Feed and Burp Babies (total time 25 minutes)
2. Decide to walk around the block in the $400 stroller someone gave us (10 sec)
3. Put together Baby Jogger and adjust stroller for babies' height (20 min)
4. Change, Bundle Up, and Settle Baby A and B in the stroller(7 min)
5. Squeeze stroller through doors and down the steps (3 min)
6. Run back inside and grab water bottle and handful of chocolate chips (50 sec)
7. Start strolling to the end of the street and up the corner (3 min)
8. Realize tires are flat and go back to the house (3 min)
9. Retrieve tire pump, attempt to pump up one tire (7 min)
10. Realize pump does not work, ask neighbor if she has one (5 min)
11. Neighbor comes to look at girls without a pump (5 min)
12. Retrieve both car seats and put in Double Snap and Go (3 min)
13. Transfer both girls to DSaG (3 min)
14. Squeeze jogger back up porch and into the house (2 min)
15. Grab more chocolate chips (10 sec)
16. Call Derek while walking down the street to share the humor (5 min)
17. Continue walking and return home (7 min)
18. Grab mail and smile at Marcie's Christmas card (2 min)
19. Bring girls into the house, return DSaG to my car trunk, drink some water (6 min)
20. Lug girls and car seats into their room praying they'll sleep another hour (5 min)
21. Grab bag of chocolate chips and type this post (8 min)

I'm EXHAUSTED.  Whew! I guess I got some exercise... though not what I was planning. Now back to the Vegan Chocolate Chips.  Maybe I'll grab another bag or three tonight...

OneThousand Gifts

40. Vegan Chocolate Chips
41. My husband "mowing the carpet"
42. FOUR nights with 7 hours of sleep
43. Babies that latch
44. Marriage and the wedding of friends
45. English Country Dance
46. Orange and White Moonbeam Snuggles
47. Cute warm dresses from my neighbor who drove me to the hospital

48. Three months with the sweet babies
49. A steady paycheck
50. Swag Bucks to spend on the girls for Christmas presents at Amazon.com without blowing the budget (if only I could decide what to buy!)

51. Flannel Sheets
52. A visit with Sara and her twins Frazor and Hunter
53. Fleece wearable blankets
54. Waffles
55. Winning a blog giveaway and the chance to share the whole prize with others for Christmas
56. Less reflux more smiles!
57. A predictable baby schedule
58. Not breaking my toe when the pot fell on it.
59. Reconnecting with folks from my Multiples Birthing class
60. The days about to get longer!
61. Sausage... I love sausage
63. All laudry clean and waiting to be folded

3 Month Photos

The wonderful woman who drove my panicked self to the hospital gave us these adorable dresses a few day after we arrived home. I literally cried they're so cute and cozy. And they say 1 bear 2 bear as if they were made for twins! Such thought was put into these outfits and it moved me to tears. The girls are finally big enough to wear them without being swallowed so I indulged in a little matching feminine pinkness for their three month photos!

Aeralind

Bronwyn

Sisters!

P.S. Sorry the photos are fuzzy.  I shot in low light downstairs and the girls don't like flash, so the camera's ISO is at 1600.  Makes the images grainy, but I couldn't resist taking pictures of this cuteness now rather than waiting for sunshine!

3 Months.

Aeralind Grace just gets more and more social! She loves to be the center of your attention and will just sit there and flashing goofy smiles as you tell her stories. She is not so fond of tummy time and typically either complains or drifts right off to sleep. She likes to sit upright in your lap, perhaps leaning against your chest, as she watches the world go by.  Her tummy is ticklish and she'll writhe in apparent agony if you tickler her.  Her hair is still longer and prone to mohawks.  She would rather be pacifier-less, but if you insist that she quiet down with a paci, she prefers the blue one to the pink one.  Aeralind is still Houdini in her swaddling wrap.  She can get her hands out of daddy's patented "Eyes Pop out of Your Head" Swaddle; if she can't get them out then she'll pull the whole blanket over her face while attempting! Aeralind is super good at making people laugh.  I'd call her my Comedian with all her crazy smiles and desire to be the center of attention.

Bronwyn Hope is a little more introverted, but she loves to be held! She would rather be snuggled up in someone arms than anywhere else. In fact, I think she would rather be laying across daddy's arms watching him play Lord of the Rings Online than anywhere else. I think that's also because her vision is better than her sister's, because she love looking at monitors and cameras and anything else black. Bronwyn still loves tummy time, but is more prone to complain loudly when she's had enough.  She'll pretty funny to watch as she frustratingly tries to roll over by picking up her legs and head.  She looks like she's doing the worm ;).  Bronwyn is so active that sister has started to put on weight faster because Aeralind sleeps and rests more. As a result, Bronwyn almost always cues to eat before her sister. Bronwyn is ticklish on the bottom of her feet and would rather you just not put those socks on her, thankyouverymuch! She prefers a pacifer of any sorts as soon as possible. I would call Bronwyn my Cuddler; she just wants to be near you as often as possible.

Milestones of Month Three

• Smiling! I love this one as it is so rewarding for us!
• Tracking large moving objects (people!) as they walk in front of them.
• Fat rolls on their still so slender legs, but, I promise you, they are finally there!
• They are so long that I had to snap the BG diapers up a size!  However, they're so slender the tabs are still meeting in the middle.
• Out-growing 0-3 month clothing in their torso length.  Just like mommy, they have super long torsos.
• Developing bluer and bluer eyes.
• Starting to cry differently.  Aeralind is higher and faster, Bronwyn is deeper and likes to punctuate her desperate cries with fury at the end.
• Being able to put their hands in their mouths and sometimes sucking their thumbs.
• Punching toys dangling in front of them intentionally.
• Holding their heads up most of the time, but not when they are tired.
• Holding their heads in line with their bodies when you slowly raise them to a sitting position while holding their arms.
  
• Latching without the nipple shield!!!!

And a milestone for mommy: I've lost 50 pounds!

Wordless Wednesday: Tongues

One Thousand Gifts

30. Marcie Knox organizing the Under One Crowd at our local MoM's group
31. Marcie Knox making dairy free cookies for a playdate...mmm
32. Hugs
33. My frugal playmat updated with some toys.
34. Watching Bronwyn begin to whack the snail
35. Random gift of a $400 double stroller from people we'd never met
36. Girls that latch better!
37. How wonderful my husband smells
38. Hand me down clothing!
39. My sister and I laughing so hard it hurts our cheeks when I do something clumsy