Circus

We have never been to the Circus. We tried to go last year, but we had schedule conflict. The year before Aidan was too young, the year before I was pregnant. I was so excited when we decided to go this year!

And so was he:

We talked about going to the circus for days before!

James, Aidan, and I went with some friends. We were able to get free tickets for the kids, and had the whole row reserved for our group! The kids were so good and had a great time!

I was so proud of Aidan. He sat and watched the whole show! 2 hours long!!

He talked and talked about what he saw on the way home until he passes out.

The next morning he was still talking about the elephants, tigers, and bears. (I think he dreamed the bears part up, because there we not any bears there.) Silly boy.

Now seriously, how do they get those elephants to do that??

6 Months old!!

I can't believe we are half way through the first year! It amazes me that these boys are already 6 months old.

They have brought so much joy to our lives, and we can not imagine our lives without them!

They are little and just weighed in at 13.2 and 13.4, so we are trying to put some meat on their bones! So far we have tried rice cereal, bananas, prunes (a must in this house!), and sweat potatoes. I am making all their baby food and it has gone pretty well so far.

Landon,

You (still) weigh 2 ounces more than your little brother. You like momm'y milk better than the bottle, but you are adjusting pretty well to formula. You are the biggest flirt! I love the way you bat your pretty little eyes at the ladies! You are beginning to learn how to get from point A to point B. You roll and scott to reach toys, and have figured out how to scoot backwards pretty fast. Some how you always end up with your little legs stuck under the couch! You are a facegrabber so I have to keep your nails trimmed or we would all have some battle wounds. You LOVE baby food and are not very patient while your brother gets his turn.

Grayson

We call you Gray and Gray Bear. Hey, it is better than stinky. ;) You have the sweetest face in the world, and checks that I love to kiss all day long! I am starting to see more Aidan in you and your brother. You are becoming a better sleeper, and are my only child that I can lay down AWAKE! You will play for a few minutes and then put  yourself to sleep. Mommy thanks you for this!! You are trying to hold your own bottles, but not much of a fan of baby food yet. You are very content playing in one spot and have not tried to move around too much yet. I love you so much and enjoy watching you check out your world!

This month you guys have really "found" each other!

It is so fun watching you two play.

We are so blessed to get to experience the magic of twins.

I cherish every moment of watching you two, and your bigg(est) brother grow!

Even the moments that end in tears. (For all of us ;))

Side note: When I was looking back at the pictures from this month, we have a lot of pictures where someone hand is in someones mouth. Then I realized that it is always Gray's hand in Landon's mouth. I think that is really funny. For some reason, Grayson likes the feeling of Landon chewing on his hand. Ha, ha. It will be interesting to see where this goes.....

Double Trouble!

5 Months....a little late

I am so lucky....

The boys turned 5 months on January 27th. Today is Feb 10th and I am just now getting around to posting their most recent picutres. Surprised? I think not. Here are some recent pictures of 2/4ths of my heart. (Like that.... Ha!)

Grayson

Daddy and I have been calling you "Gray" for short. I kind of like it, and it is faster to type when I am talking blogging, im-ing, or emailing about you. :) As I sit here you are napping away in your crib. You are SO easy to put to sleep, and I thank you for that! I can give you your "lovie", paci, and rock you for a few minutes. Once I lay you down, even if you are still awake, you will lay quitely in your crib and put yourself to sleep! That makes my life much easier! You are teething and the past few days/nights have been interesting. I think I feel something today, so maybe we will see your first tooth soon! You love your feet and will not leave your socks on. You blow spit bubbles all the time and it makes your parents laugh. You are content on your back and do not roll much (even though you rolled before your brother). You are sleeping better at night, and before the teething got bad were only waking ONCE a night to eat! You are still nursing and have not had any solids yet. Mom's not in a hurry, so maybe next month! I love you so much "bear" (daddy's nickname for you)!

Landon

You are growing so much, I can't believe it! I have a feeling you will be the first to crawl. You love to roll over (you first rolled over on Jan10th), as soon as we lay you down on your back, you flip over. But, you can't figure out how to roll back over yet, so you will get stuck and wait for us to come help you. You have started babbling this month and it is so funny. You have many different voices and I love to hear you talk away. You like to touch my face when I am nursing you, and have started holding your brothers hand when you are eating together. It is the sweetest thing! Sleeping is getting better, but you still would rather stay up with mommy then sleep in your room with your brother. Once you are asleep, you do pretty well, but you like to give us a work out the first hour you are down at night, crying until we come in and soothe you. You are also teething and I think by next month you will have at least one new tooth to show off! You and your brother have recently started "watching" Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and your dad and I think it is so funny that as soon as Mickey comes on the TV, you break out the biggest grin! You have the sweetest smile! Mommy loves you sweet heart!

How cool is it that these boys have a built in best friend?

And an amazing talented big brother who LOVES to sing to all of us!

Picture-less post

Ok, well I failed. I really wanted to get the boys 5 months stats up, but it just didn't happen. I had a doctors appointment today for my ear (LLLOOONNNGGG story) and mom went with me. Haley watch ALL THREE BOYS, with some help from Tim and a few friends. We were gone for almost 6 hours, so I owe her....big. She did great with them, as I knew she would. Aidan is sitting on my lap right now, saying "Aunt Haley come?" He loves him some Haley.

So, we made it up to the 50s today...and guess what....we are STILL in a winter weather advisory. No school tomorrow. As in no preschool tomorrow. Ugh. Cabin Fever.