Baby Magnets

So the babies are either:

A. Rolling around at night without our knowledge and refusing to show us their rolling skills during the day.

B. Secret superheros with magnetic powers.

or

C. Amazing scooters. If there was an Olympic medal for "Team Scooting" I'm sure they'd take home the gold.

I think I'm going to go with C. I took a before and after photo of the guys to prove their incredible scooting techniques.

Babies right after I put them to bed:

Babies the next morning: (I did not touch them all night long, except to give them a pacifier if needed.)

I gave up trying to move them apart awhile back (I was worried they'd wake each other up), they just keep scooting back to each other!

Class, Pay Attention

The ex-school teacher in me feels like getting back to my roots, so here's a little lesson for everybody on the best way to take twins to the doctor:

Step 1: Even though the doctor's office is 2 miles from your house, leave 30 minutes early.
Step 2: Don't even bother trying to find a parking spot in the lower portion of the parking garage. You have to open the car doors wide enough to get them out, and have room to work when maneuvering them around. Just go to the top floor where you can park without anybody on either side of you.
Step 3: When the doctor's office is too small to handle your double stroller, plan ahead on how you will get from the parking garage, down to the crosswalk (which goes over the street), and to the doctor's office on the 7th floor.
Step 4: Take first baby out of car and place on the ground in carseat.
Step5: Take second baby out of car and place on the ground in carseat.
Step 6: Take smallest baby out of carseat and strap him to you in the Snuggie.
Step 7: Put empty carseat back in car.
Step 8: Make sure you have diaper bag (which is a backpack).
Step 9: Lock the car, put on backpack. You should now have a baby on your front, and a backpack on your back. Use a backpack for a diaper bag /purse so you don't have a diaper bag and or purse slipping down your arm. (Thanks again for the b-pack, Allison).
Step 10: Pick up carseat that has a baby in it.
Step 11: Make friendly conversation on both elevator rides with all the people who comment "Oh, you have twins!"
Step 12: Walk in doctor's office right on time.

So, I am pretty proud of myself that I was able to get them both to the doctor. I've always had my mom or Sherry with me before. The doctor said they were doing good, but I need to make them do more tummy-time. I told her they had slept through the night for 3 nights and she told me not to feed them at night if they wake up from now on. They are still little guys for their age, Kyle is 13 lbs 12 oz and Reed is 12 lbs 10 oz which puts them in the 25% and 10%, but they aren't "falling off the growth chart" as she called it, so she's happy. Poor little things got 3 shots today and they really screamed. I needed a grandmother there with another set of arms to comfort. (Now I've probably made both grandmothers cry). Anyway, they're busy doing some big sleeping and swinging right now, so don't worry grandmothers, their fine.

So Well Rested

Cue Lionel Richie...
"All night long (all night, all night)
All night long (all night, all night)"
I've been singing it all day. Guess what the babies did last night. Oh yeah they did. And it was a true sleep through the night, none of that, 5:00A.M. or 6:00 A.M. stuff. 7:15 Baby! Jason and I hardly knew how to handle it.
Me: "I haven't been this rested in months, I feel great."
Jason: "I know, I woke up before the alarm went off."
It might be awhile until we sleep through the night every night, but last night was a great start!

Product Placement

Best toy ever....

JR played with this thing until his lips turned blue and Jason made him come inside. As you can see, it's just your basic sprinkler toy, but it comes with 4 or 5 balls that you load in the top. The balls roll down the ramp to the bottom, then the water shoots them high in the air. In JR's world, it's the perfect toy. Thank you Wal-Mart toy section!

First Swim Team Practice

JR had his first swim team practice last night (and we went again this morning). This swim team thing is pretty serious, practice everyday after school and on Saturdays until school is out. Then practice and meets during the month of June. So far, so good. JR didn't seem to care that the water was freezing cold, and he pretty much just jumped in and started swimming. We have trouble making JR keep trying when he is loosing, he just wants to give up, quit, and pout. Hopefully swim team will help with that, he can't just quit in the middle of a race or he'll drown! :-) Oh, and if you find a royal blue speedo in a size 26 please buy it for me...that's his swim team uniform and we can't find one anywhere! Here's some pictures of his first practice.

Toys=Happy

If you know JR then you know he loves toys. So it was really no surprise the other day when I found Reed like this...

I was busy feeding Kyle, and Reed was busy being disgruntled that he hadn't been held long enough after his feeding. Crying babies usually don't bother JR too much since it's a pretty common sound around here, but he gets pretty upset if he can't hear the television over them. Since I was feeding Kyle, JR sprang into action to quiet Reed. And how do you quiet an upset baby if you are a 4 year old boy? Of course, give them all their toys! Note to JR: the pacifier is a a big help too. Way to go JR! Look at that baby sleep!

Ummm...You're Being A Little Loud

Come on now, I told you people to keep it down. How many times do I have to tell you I really enjoy my "after JR gets on the bus nap"? Now, let's all just calm down, and take a little rest. Thanks for your understanding, Kyle