Just some cute pictures

Gavin in Uncle Mikey's boots


Howdy yall!


Gavin being silly with his shirt on his head


Maddie waiting for her night-night bottle


I don't know... Maddie looks like the guilty one to me... what do you think??? :)


Or was it Gavin???


They love talking to each other... I wonder what they say???

Look what Maddie can do

Here is a video of Maddie and what she can do now. I have not put the babies under this play gym for about two months, and just decided to do it today to give them something different to look at. It is so funny because two months ago both babies would fit under it and all they would do was look at it.... but NOW you can see that Maddie has learned that she can move the toy bar and make it go all over the place. It's just a big dose of reality in how they are getting bigger and bigger every day and that our little babies are turning into big babies in just the blink of an eye!

Our pedi visit today... and other stuff

Today the babies had their 4 month well check at the pediatrician's office... and they are both doing great! As a matter of fact, they are right on track now developmentally... so the fact that they were born a little premature (about 2-3 weeks early for twins) isn't really a factor any more. Gavin is 25 3/4 inches long (in the 75-90th percentile for height) and weighs 14 lb 2.5 oz (25-50th percentile for weight). Madaleine is 25 inches long (75th percentile) and weighs 15 lb 2 oz (75-90th percentile). So they are both really tall and Maddie is a little chuncker :) And the best news of all... we got the official go ahead to start them on rice cereal twice a day. Once they learn how to take the rice cereal from the spoon, we get to start on the baby food. That will probably be in a few weeks. As far as the shots went, of course the babies HATED it... one of those things that had to be done though.

After the pedi visit we went home and the babies crashed all afternoon. When Daddy got home from work we took them to the park for the first time. By the time we got home it was time to feed them. Gavin was not thrilled at all to be eating his rice cereal. He started gagging with it... so I decided it was time to stop. I guess we will just have to try it again tomorrow. Maddie on the other hand did okay with it.... although didn't take it as easily as I thought she would have. She ate about half of what the pedi recommended we give her... I figure that's pretty good for her first real time trying it. Again, we will have to try tomorrow and hopefully both babies will start to like it a little better and get the hang of eating from a spoon.

Once we were done with the rice cereal ordeal, both babies were exhausted and ready for bath and bedtime. Len took them both upstairs and rocked them while I was getting bath water and night time things together. Len was not even rocking them for 5 min and Gavin had already fallen asleep. Once we got them in the bath tub, Gavin was still so sleepy that he actually started falling asleep in the tub... it was so cute.

So it was a big day for the babies (shots, park, feeding, etc.), so lets all keep our fingers crossed that they will sleep all night tonight! I will have to let you know how it goes!


Maddie going down the slide


And there goes Gavin


Gavin flying


Our messy little girl


This is what Gavin would do every time I came at him with the spoon


And this is the face he would make with the cereal


Gavin half way asleep in the tub

Yummy for my tummy!

I have been soooo anxious to start the babies on rice cereal and baby food (anything to help them sleep through the night!). I was really trying to wait until we went to the pedi for him to tell me it was okay to start, but I just couldn't wait! I decided to let the babies taste rice cereal... so funny! I made it really watery (I didn't want it to be to thick since I am really not suppose to feed them until we get the okay from the pedi). Most of it ended up on the babies onesies instead of their bellies, but I guess that's the way it goes!


Maddie: "This looks interesting"


Maddie: "Okay... I don't know what that was or what just happened, but I'm really excited now!"


Gavin: "YUCK!"


Gavin: "Madaleine, if this is the best that Mommy can make us for dinner, then we are in trouble!"

A special Mother's day gift

We took the babies to make their first art project for Mother's day this weekend. It was so funny to watch them get their hands and feet painted... they were really not sure what to think of that! At first we were trying to get hand prints, but both babies didn't want to cooperate... so we decided that feet would be easier! We will take the babies every year to do this so that we will be able to see how their little hands and feet are growing. I am all about starting family traditions! This year we were not able to get to creative with the painting, but it will be interesting to see how things will change year after year once the babies get big enough to paint their own things!

Happy birthday Grandpa!

This past weekend, Len's parent's and sister came into town for a visit. They were only able to stay for one night, but it was a nice way to celebrate Len's father's 74th birthday! It was also nice that the babies were finally able to meet their Aunt Lisa for the first time.


Louise was so excited to see her grandbabies again! To bad the babies are not big enough yet to have had the yummy cookies and cake Louise had made! Louise was so great... she made sure that everything was taken care of this weekend and that we all had full bellies!


Here is Gavin with his Aunt Lisa and Grandpa. Both babies loved their Aunt Lisa... they were full of smiles and laughs. Lisa made some wonderful homemade pizzas for all of us... and some extra for the freezer...yummy!


And here are the babies with their Grandpa. It was so neat to have the babies take this picture with their Grandpa... memories in the making! He is so gentle and loving with the babies!

We have some catching up to do!

We finally have our internet up and running again! It seems like every few months we have problems with it and have to have someone come out and fix it... so frustrating! Here are a few pics from over the past few weeks.


Here are the babies playing with their cousin Laurel. Can you tell that Maddie LOVES to pull hair???


Maddie reading about where to find her belly button


Gavin being a big boy and holding up his own bottle for Paw-Paw


Gavin ready for a fight. It is so funny... he is always doing this.


Here is Madaleine learning that all she has to do to get her way it to look at Daddy with those big beautiful eyes!


And this is a picture of the never ending laundry at my house! I have a pile of baby laundry like this to do every day. A mommy's job is never done I guess.

I want triplets!

Since I have had twins, Laurel (my oldest niece) has been very fascinated with the idea of multiples. She tells everyone that Gavin and Maddie are twins... and that she and her sister are not twins. Anyways, here is a conversation that Laurel had with her Mom...

Laurel: I want triplets
Kim: Oh no you don't Laurel
Laurel: Yes I do
Kim: Well you can play triplets with your dolls
Laurel: No, I don't want to play triplets... I want to have triplets
Kim: Well, Laurel... you know how hard of a time Aunt Jessa had with twins. How are you going to handle triplets?
Laurel: Oh, I'll just go back to work
Kim: And who is going to watch the babies while you are at work
Laurel: Grammie will

So funny how she has it all worked out!

And this is a question she asked her mom one day...
"Mom, when I'm one hundred, will Aunt Jessa be one hundred and dead?"

Where do kids come up with some things? :)

odds and ins

Well, this week has not been that exciting for us... hence hardly any new pictures. We have stayed at home most of the week trying to catch up on our sleep! The babies sleeping patterns are still different every night. Bath time is always at 7:00 pm, night night bottles and story at 7:30 pm, and hopefully they will be asleep by 8:00 pm (although it does not always work out like that). Most nights both babies sleep fairly well until about 1:00 - 2:00 am, but then after that it seems like I am up (and having to wake Len up) every hour after that. So by the time Friday rolls around, I am exhausted and ready for Len to pull the all nighters! (Since I work every Saturday, Len takes Friday and Saturday night shift duty and lets me sleep).

Anyways, here are a few pictures of little odds and ins just so that you can look at something! (I know the grandparents enjoy all the pics they can get their hands on!)


One day while Laurel was at school, Aunt Kim and Holly came over to visit. Here is Holly (with a half eaten chicken nugget in her teeth) hugging her little cousin.


Both babies are starting to get attached to their lovables (that's what we call them anyways). Every afternoon they have to have their lovable to hold on to when they are taking their naps. It has just been in the past week or so that they have been wanting to hold on to things... Maddie really has a killer grip!


This was so cute! They were both talking to each other and then all of a sudden decided that they wanted to hold hands. So cute. It's not unusual for them to grab on to each other... but normally they grab at each others ears and pull (not enjoyable for the baby getting his or her ear pulled). So I loved that they finally decided to be nice to each other and hold hands!


Here is our current crib situation. As you can see its getting a little crowded! It is funny because we will lay the babies down the same way every night, and every time when we go back in to check on them they are in opposite directions of where we put them. Gavin loves to get his little head in the bottom right hand corner and Maddie finds herself snuggled up to the far left hand side of the crib. We really need to separate them (they might sleep a little better), but there is not enough space in their room for another crib, and Mommy doesn't have the heart to put them in separate rooms yet. So this will have to work for a little longer. Oh, and I know... the American Academy of Pediatrics would have a fit about the sleeping on the tummies.... but if anyone is going to get any sleep at our house, the babies have to be on their tummies!