21 months!

This past month the boys have really started playing with each so much!  It is so fun to watch them interact with each other---lets not forget the fighting either.  They love to be outside, play baseball, and go down their slide.  Jaxon has better ball skills than Jordan.  He is able to hit a ball when someone throws it to him.  Impressive for 21 months!  Jordan appears that he is trying to decide between being a lefty and a righty, so it's tougher for him to play ball.  

20 months

Yeah for 20 months!  These past 5 months have been rough, I'm not going to lie!  Twins started walking about 15 1/2 months and when one boy decided that it was ok to walk, the other one did too.  Same day pretty much.  They were wobbling for a couple months and really just the last 2 months they have finally become steady.  They love stairs and are becoming better at going up and down.  We have worked and worked to have the twins go down the stairs on their tummy or bums, but they prefer to walk.  

Speech.  We started speech therapy a few months ago and progress is being made.  Jaxon can now say mom, dad, shoes, hat, uh oh, Lyndee (kind of), and sometimes look.  Jordan can mom and dad and a lot that no one can understand.  He talks non-stop especially while we are in the van.  He loves to sing and sings to the hymns during sacrament meeting (very loud).  

Sleep:  Nap time is around 12 every day and the twins can be super tired and as soon as I put them in their cribs, they perk up and play and talk with each other for almost 1 1/2 hours every day.  Night time is getting better, but they do the same thing at night.  Joseph became their room mate a few weeks ago and Joseph is always telling the twins to be quiet and go to sleep.  Joseph needs more sleep than the twins and is much better at going to bed.  

Food:  Finally the twins are eating with utensils, but still are super messy.  They love meat and cheese and have learned to love ice cream cones.  

 Enjoying their first succors at a parade.  I know….I've deprived them for way too long from sugar, but it's easier to just not clean up the mess of sticky drool.

 This is one of their favorite places to sit.  Bottom of the stairs.  Jordan absolutely loves this book that makes animal sounds.

 The boys love the outdoors.  Jaxon is pretty good at swinging the bat and hitting the ball off the tee, but Jordan needs quite a bit of help with it.  Jaxon is more into balls and seems better at his ball skills.

 This is how I take the twins swimming.  They are safe and they have really enjoyed the water.  The first of the summer they did not like the water, but they enjoy swimming now.  Jordan has put on his floaty and will wear it around the house.  Jordan (L) Jaxon (R)

 I have to admit that I am a stress case and don't do well taking two 1 yr olds to the park.  Tonight we went with the whole family and the twins loved it.  The slides were a hit.  Jordan (L) Jaxon (R)

Ahhhhh!  Nothing is cuter than when twins share food.  Jaxon was sharing his pear with Jordan.  Jordan decided he liked it so much that he started chasing Jaxon around for another bite.  I gave Jordan one of his own and we sat on the couch and enjoyed our pears.  

The sharing is cute, the fighting is not.  Jordan bites Jaxon on his arm all the time.  And Hard!  I'm surprised he hasn't broken the skin yet.  Not long after this sharing moment, Jaxon had a toy that Jordan wanted and so Jordan took matters into his own hands and bit Jaxon.  

15 months!!

Can't believe the twins are 15 months old today!!  It's gone by so so slow, but so so fast.  They are so fun and cute, yet so much work and so hard.  Blessing beyond measures.  They are so competitive with each other and will not walk on their own yet.  They have each taken their own steps and can walk 5-10 steps on their own, but they won't very often.  They both are taking one finger of mine out of each hand and I'll walk one on one side and the other twin on the other hand.  They don't say any words yet, but sometimes they will say uh oh, but that does not count, neither does saying mama or dada when they are crying.  A couple weeks ago both babies were sick and that means all sleep schedules go out the window and they are now in a terrible habit of wanting to sleep by mom all night.  Jaxon won't let me put him in his crib at all and I need my sleep, so I put the twins together in the same crib for nap time today and they played for over an hour just laughing and tickling each other and playing peek a boo with each other.  I was so glad that I had a video monitor that I could watch it all.  Tonight they are back sleeping together, we will see how long it lasts.  Just hoping that something will help them sleep through the night.  Both twins love their bottles and still get them warmed up (spoiled) for morning nap and bedtime and they like me to hold their bottles for them.  I just cut out the afternoon bottle  because we are so busy we just don't have time for it.  Neither baby loves to drink water or milk out of a sippy cup, but slowly they are drinking more.  They do have a mind of their own and know what they want.  When the twins fight over a toy (usually a ball), they will start to head butt each other like little bulls.  I will usually just let them fight it out unless I can tell someone is actually going to get hurt.

They still love their walkers and have fun running in them and chasing their siblings around in them.

Good at Stealing food

So the boys are now over 13 months and keeping us on our toes.  Jaxon took most of the placenta when I was pregnant with them and we would always joke that he was a hog and taking all the food.  Come to find out he had 60% of the placenta and Jordan only had 40%.  Well, Jaxon learned well from the beginning and almost daily we will find Jaxon stealing some of Jordan's food off his tray.  Every once in a while it goes the other way and if he doesn't want something anymore he will sneak it onto Jordan's plate.  Smart for 13 months old.  It is funny to watch!

The boys figured out how to use the buttons on our new dish washer.  It seems like whenever one does something, the other has to do it as well.  They are very competitive!

Fun moments should be frozen

This past year has been full of fun times and hard times, long days and short nights, crying and screaming to laughing and giggling.  There are many moments that I just wish we could FREEZE and always watch the twins having their fun moments together.  Today was one of cuteness that turned to too much whining and crying and neediness.  I couldn't get enough of the twins and then I didn't know what was wrong with them.  I'm sure I'm not the only one that this has happened to.  The fun thing with twins is that teething can ruin your nights and it seems to keep going.  Starting the first week in December, Jaxon popped his first upper tooth out.  The next week, his second front top tooth popped through.  The next week, Jordan's first top tooth popped through.  The following week I thought that Jordan was going to pop his other top front tooth, but it still hasn't come out and I'm starting to think that it's stuck and the gum is so tough that it won't come.  There are days that all of a sudden the drool just starts flowing and the crankiness starts up, then it stops.  Well, instead, Jax decided to pop another bottom tooth last week and this week a bottom tooth is trying to come out.  Why can't they all just pop out at the same time?  At least give me 2 teeth a week.  

Despite their slowness of the teeth, they are still cute!

35 weeks in--35 weeks out

The picture on the left is 2 hours before my c-section and the picture on the right is when the twins were 35 weeks.

9 Months

 Life is getting fun here at our house.  We have two new vacuums that are pretty good at their jobs.  We also got 2 new mops, although the solution used on the floors is not always desirable—drool & puke.  Yep, the twins are very mobile now.  Jordan is great at crawling and is fast and stands up to anything he can.  Jaxon is our little walrus.  He can’t seem to figure out how to lift his big fat belly off the floor.  He drags his right leg, keeps his right arm bent and uses it to pull himself forward.  He will rock his body like a fish—it’s kind of funny to watch and he’s getting fast.  Since Jordan is higher off the ground and Jaxon is stuck to the ground, Jordan uses Jaxon as a piece of furniture and crawls over him or stands up against him.  Jaxon doesn’t mind most of the time unless his head is being pushed into the ground.  When I feed the babies bottles during the day, I will hold them both on my lap and then hold the bottle in their mouths….they hold hands or push each other in the head….so dang cute that if I had a third hand/arm I’d take a picture.  They are just a ton of fun!  Oh, they weigh 22 lbs and 24 lbs so I guess the puking up they do hasn’t hurt their weight.

 They absolutely love their jumpers still.

Joseph has to photo bomb all the twins pictures! He really does love them!

Big boys in a cart.  I don't go shopping much and so they aren't in carts often. They didn't know what to think about this.

Jordan always climbing over Jaxon!

Another shopping trip.  Jordan on right, Jaxon on left.