New pics

We've been pretty quiet on the blog lately. Daddy has been on a looooonnnngggg business trip (10 days in Slovakia and Las Vegas) but he's coming home tomorrow! On Monday night, I took the babies to see a free concert with Spoon at our cool record store, Waterloo. I think they enjoyed it - what's not to like about good music, people watching and nice, sunny warm weather in January?! Special thanks to my friend, Emily, who has been helping me to take care of them over the past few weeks (and for donning the Baby Bjorn carrier w/Knox at Spoon!)

Six months old!

It's hard to believe it, but the babies turned six months old yesterday! At his appointment yesterday, Knox weighed 16 lbs, 8 oz!! Piper was 15 lbs, 9 1/2 oz. As you can see, Knox is definitely filling out - he's a sturdy little boy. Piper has a more slender frame and at 26 inches tall, she is 1/2 inch shorter than her "little" brother.

Sleeping through the night!

As promised, here is a picture of the twins' new "playroom!" We've relegated most of the their toys to this dog free zone. There is a nice soft mat under the whole area that should make it easier once they start to crawl and pull up to standing. We also got them these little chairs - so funny how they sit up and laugh at each other! Of course, nothing entertains either one for very long - but it's all about containment!

Last week I decided it was time for everyone to get some more sleep! So we started following our schedule VERY carefully. Three naps a day at very specific times and no more than 3 hours of sleep during the day. We've cut back to five "meals" a day (two featuring a bottle and solid food) and baths as part of our nightly bedtime routine. It's a lot of work - and we're definitely not as flexible as we were - but I'm happy to say that we've had three good nights in a row - the babies have slept until 6:30 or later the last three mornings with minimal waking (and no feedings) during the night. So I guess we'll be sticking to that schedule! I'm sure the solid food is helping, too but at this point, I don't want to change a thing!

New Year, New Food, Schedule, Playroom...

Wow, it's been a long time since I last posted, but we have been busy with big changes since the new year! We started with solid food (rice cereal) on the 1st and have been working our way up to twice a day and this week started on vegetables, too (Sweet potatoes and squash - poor babies!) As big as it seems that the babies have gotten, they look pretty tiny in their highchairs!

Knox took pretty quickly to solid food and now he's eating like a champ. It's messy, but he quickly grasped swallowing his food and he seems to like it all.

But poor Piper didn't take very well to the plain rice cereal. She was really excited and opened her mouth up wide for the first bite, with a big smile on her face. Then as soon as the cereal touched her lip, she made the most hysterical face. We tried to capture it with the camera but she was too quick! But let's just say it wasn't a happy face! Here is a few bites later. Since she seemed to hate the plain cereal so much, I found a rice cereal with apple to try. I'm not sure if she's just used to the texture now or if it's really that much better, but the apple cereal seems much more appealing to both of them. Although Piper still has a quite a way to go to master the technique for eating solid food! She has mastered rolling over, though, and now turns over and sleeps quite comfortably on her tummy every night. And she's almost sitting up. Or rather, she sits up but can't quite keep herself in that position and pretty quickly slumps to the side or the front!

I'll save the pics of the new "playroom" for the next post!

Happy New Year!

Apparently Piper isn't excited about 2010! Or maybe she just doesn't like her tiara :)