Hidden chicken

Today, when the boys woke up from their afternoon nap, I was standing over Jack's crib talking to him. Suddenly this piece of pinkish stuff flew at me from out of nowhere. I picked it up thinking it might be something out of his mouth caused by his molars coming through. It was a piece of chicken. It wasn't wet so I guess it didn't come out of his mouth. I think he must have been holding it in his hand, although I did wipe their hands before nap. I can't believe he held onto it and kept it hidden for all that time. They had napped for over 2 hours.

New chairs

The boys are getting so tall they have outgrown their swings. For their birthday (which is still over a month away) we decided to get them new chairs of their own. I went ahead and ordered them because Charlie keeps trying to crawl into his swing which clearly does not work. They arrived this morning. The boys really seem to like them. Jack sat happily in his rubbing the arm (he is a feeler) while Charlie mastered the finer points of lounging.

Jack still doesn't crawl and every time I put him on the floor to practice he gets so mad about moving backwards that he immediately rolls onto his back and cries. Charlie is getting up on his hands and knees more and more. Today he launched himself forward from this position but, as he doesn't move his hands or knees, he just did a face plant and went back to army crawling.

Both boys are also working on molars. Our tooth count has been stuck at 8 each for over a month now. Suddenly they both have huge swollen places on their gums (4 each). One of Jack's looks like huge blood blister which just makes me want to cry for him whenever I see it. They must hurt because neither of them will eat much of anything other than their bottles. Hopefully those suckers will push on through in the next couple of days and give them some relief.

It's official, we're on the move

Let the chaos begin. Charlie can "crawl." His belly is still on the floor but both arms and both legs are being used to army crawl towards whatever toy he wants. He went just a foot or so yesterday but today he has taken off. It is a lot of work you can tell and he is totally exhausted afterward. Every once in a while he'll stop moving forward to get up on all fours. But from there he just looks around, plops back down, rests for a minute then goes again. Jack wants to crawl too and pushes up on his hands, rocks back and forth and kicks his feet. Unfortunately, he only succeeds in pushing himself backward which just makes him mad. A few nights ago I sat Jack in their bedroom floor to go catch Charlie from his bath. When I came back into the room I found Jack half-way under his bed. The past few nights they've spent at least an hour "talking" to each other during the night, maybe tonight Charlie will tell Jack how it's done.

Church

We went to church as a family for the first time this past Sunday. The boys had been once before with my aunt and uncle (obviously they are very brave) but this was the first time we had taken them. They did really well. We kept them with us in the service and they didn't cause any trouble. Charlie got a little restless around their usual snack time but after he had his bottle he was fine. They ate their snacks with no problem and were overall pretty quiet. I thought they looked way too cute in their outfits. As you can see their hair is getting super long. We are trying to hold off until their birthday before having it cut but several people at church told Charlie he was a cute girl so we have to move that up. Jack has recently decided to be very serious in every picture. He used to be such a ham but you just cannot get him to smile in front of the camera now.

Jabbering away

Jack woke up very chatty today. Charlie has been blabbing away for about a month now but Jack has been fairly quiet recently, although he "talked" first. Dr. Herron, our pediatrician, says that twins often take turns going through chatty periods and that it is totally normal for one or the other or both to blab non-stop for a while then get quiet then blab again. Jack has definitely started to blab again and spent much of the day calling for momma or baba or wawa. It's really funny because Charlie's favorite word is dahdah or hida followed by blah blah blah. They seem to be carrying on entire conversations with each other consisting almost entirely of these 6 words.

They've gotten really interested in each other and spend lots of time pulling one another's hair, stealing binkies, and playing with each others' toes. They also seem to be getting a little bit jealous. Today we were playing on the floor. Both boys were sitting up with different toys to play with. Charlie fell backwards and hit his head on the exersaucer. He cried a little so of course I held him and rocked him for a minute. Jack erupted into tears. He would not be consoled until Charlie was able to sit in the floor again and I held him in my lap.

Over the weekend they went on their first wagon ride to the neighbors' house. They love it (despite Charlie's face in the picture). Jack spends most of the ride trying to touch Charlie, Charlie spends most of the ride trying to stick his fingers through the holes in the floor. The only challenge is trying to get Charlie to bend his legs and sit on the seat when you are putting them in, these days he wants to stand up all the time but he can't balance on his own yet.

Real food

For lunch today the boys had their first all real food meal. It was quite a menu featuring - green beans, pears, cheddar cheese, cheerios, veggie crackers and topped off by a cinnamon graham. They really liked it (as you can see from the pictures), but boy did it wear them out. By the end of the meal they were both falling asleep in their chairs.

Big Boy Car Seats

Yesterday we bought big boy car seats. These suckers are huge! I'm hoping they are going to fit in the Tahoe. The two boxes easily filled the entire back of the car, I had to turn the stroller up on its side. We haven't installed them yet but I'm sure even my big boys will look little in these. I hope they do fit and that the boys like them cause they sure were expensive but worth every dime to protect our precious cargo.