Nothing Sweeter

than a sleeping baby...

but before i show you all those sweet pictures, check out how "handsy" Davis can be while sleeping.  We are always finding him in the funniest sleeping positions. 

Peace

 "mom, you're embarrassing me"

"woe is me" 

 the butterfly

the butterfly part 2

 "stop, no more pictures please"

 "A-Ok"

 Now to the sweet pics.  I could look at him like this all day. 

Movie Monday

Sleeping and Eating and Sleeping....

You'll Never Know Until It Happens To You

You always watch those America's Funniest Home Videos with the babies who fall asleep in their food...i never could understand how that happened, or even why the obviously 'unfit ' parents let their babies get that tired...well i am here to tell you that it happened to me tonight. One bite Nora was awake (admittedly tired and fussy, but awake none the less) and the next minute she was like this...Yep. Dead Asleep. and there is a GREAT video to go along with this, but I will be saving it for movie monday next week...it'll give you something to look forward to!
*disclaimer: i would like to say that it was a weird day in general. much to my excitement (yeah right) the babies have once again picked up a cold and they have slept the majority of the day and when they weren't sleeping they were fussing. Appetites always seem to diminish during these times, but with our 12 month appointment looming in, i can't afford to let them skip meals, the doctors already think the babies are too little...so hence the force feeding through sleepiness and sickness (which you will see more of on Monday!).

Snoozin' at the Beach

Auntie Chrissy just sent us some pictures from our day at the beach a few weeks ago...they are too cute mot to post even if they are a little old now!

rocking my mohawk with auntie ronisunhats and floaties

love this face

they both fell right to sleep on the water...so sweet!

Innocent Who?

um...whatcha doing? haha, that's more like my babies!

"brother, i'll get you outta there!"
"wanna try mine for a while?"

the escapee

having a VERY serious conversation, obviously

haha, or not.

"hey mama, what's up?"

"brother, what big teeth you have"

and a little surprise ....

right this very minute...

the babies are doing this....

and granted i doubt it will last long, it sure is cute while it lasts!

and yes, i had to use my awesome stealth-like skills to capture this picture...the camera almost blew my cover though--they should make silencers for cameras too

Flying Solo

It's my first week flying solo...parents gone and Daddy's at work. So far it hasn't been too bad although we do have our moments...see below.

*this morning the babies stank---basically they sleep best when swaddled in 2 blankets...one light and then a heavy one on top. This is great and all except that they sweat a lot and between that and spit up they just plain stink. So, this morning i decided baths couldn't wait for the night and we went ahead and did it.

We used our bath tub Auntie Kim gave us for the first time. Nora loved it because it allowed her to soak in the water. Holden seemed to like it about as much as he likes any other bath--not at all! Here are some pics of Nora. Sorry, none of Holden--he was crying too much!

After their baths, i desperately needed one too. So, I layed them down together in the crib for some twin time and all seemed to be going well.

When I got out of the shower, I heard this.



and then I went to get dressed and less than a minute later it happened again.


So, hoping Holden would nap, i moved Nora downstairs since it was obvious she wasn't in the mood to nap. But apparently she wasn't in the mood to swing either. If you listen closely in the quite lulls, you will hear Holden upstairs crying now too.



Finally after i got the laundry folded and the downstairs in order i sat down with Nora and got her straightened out. Just the way she likes it...all bundled up. About 20 minutes of arm bouncing and butt tapping at the same time...no variations...and she was out. i put her back upstairs in her crib to nap. Holden thank goodness already put himself to sleep by the time i got there.



2 hours later i go to wake them up so they can eat and get ready for their first Moms of Multiples meeting and i found this...

sweet Holden, napping on his belly--which he seems to prefer the past few days.



and funny nora...completely hidden in her "magic blankets" with Dressy Bessy watching over her. When I left her, you could see her face--she wiggled her own self down into the blankets!

just a P.S.--please don't judge me about how they are sleeping. I know all the rules about belly sleeping and swaddling and so on...but this is how they like it and we all need sleep and peace and quiet once in a while--plus i have a video monitor.

Tonight Mike is actually on staff duty and won't be coming home, so it'll be my first night alone with the twins. Hopefully all goes well...so far so good..its 11:30 and they are both down in their cribs asleep...Wish us luck and a 6 hour sleep would be nice too!

Sneaky Sneaky

So this morning Mom needed a nap and Dad needed to clean up some, so the babies got to spend some quality "twin time" together in Holden's crib. When we went to get them later, here is what we found....

Nora out of her swaddle blanket while the swaddle was still in tact, turned perpendicular to her brother and kicking him in the head! Obviously Holden was not happy!

Here is Nora looking at us like "what guys? i didn't do anything."

Putting Nora to Sleep...

...apparently puts Daddy to sleep also!

Burns Babies First Night at Home

Our first night at home started out quite uneventful, which we fully expected being that the babies are already on a routine from the hospital and they sleep literally all the time.

Mike and I settled back in the house, unpacked our things and spent the evening holding our little ones. Oliver was super glad to see us and even took to the babies pretty well. All in all it was a nice relaxing evening.

And then came nighttime.... We had actually had Nora in the hospital room with us the night before we left and she did great--but last night was a whole different story. I know it was a lot of adjustment to their little bodies...a new bed to sleep in, a much quieter house, a much darker room--even though we played with the lights off and on throughout the night trying to see if it would make a difference, it didn't. So with all these new things going on around them, they cried most of the night, taking turns of course instead of both at the same time, which meant there wasn't much of a break between 10pm-430am--sure kept Mommy and Daddy on their toes! After that, i guess they were finally worn out and this morning has been much quieter and they seem back to their old selves. Hopefully tonight will go a bit better!

Olie enjoying the new box...we weren't sure he was going to be able to get himself in this, but he figured it out!

Daddy and his 2 boysThis is how we finally solved all the crying last night. We have been swaddling them in blankets since being in the hospital, but last night regular receiving blankets weren't cutting it. So i went digging in their closets for the swaddle blankets that i affectionately like to call "straight jackets" and it seemed to work like magic.

Sleepyheads

my two cuties...