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.

8 months

8 months flew by for us.  Jordan got his cast off and started crawling within a week.  Jaxon took a little while longer to "army crawl".  Jordan seems to always be on Jaxon, either crawling over him or putting his legs on him.  They love baby food and are a lot of fun.

Getting harder to take pictures!

We went from soccer game to soccer game to softball game and this is how tiring it can be!

We went to the pumpkin patch twice!

A selfie of me and my boys!  Jordan is on the left and Jaxon on the right.

Lynar's uncle and Aunt--Jim and Faye Young stopped by for a night while driving from North Carolina to Utah.  It was so good to see them and fun to have them in our home.  Uncle Jim's face is priceless when he was holding the baby!  

First Broken Bone

On Monday, August 25th, Lynar mentioned to me that he noticed Jordan was not putting pressure on his right leg when Lynar would try to stand him up on his lap.  I was busy running around of course and kind of blew it off since Jordan had been happy and when he was born he wouldn't straighten out that leg for a couple months.  Lyndee had also said that she pulled his legs down a little hard when she put him in his jumper toy because they were stuck.  Tuesday was another busy day, Jaxon was fussy and most of my attention was on Jaxon.  Jordan was happy playing on the floor.  Again, Lynar mentioned the same thing when he got home from work.  I shrugged it off and thought that maybe his hip was a little out of socket since Jordan had been happy moving around the floor that day.  That night he was a little fussy in the middle of the night and we had to hold him, but he had had ear infections so I thought his ear was bugging him.  On Wednesday during the day Jordan was very happy and again played well on the floor while I had to hold Jaxon a big portion of the day.  Wednesday I did call the chiropractor to see if she could get Jordan in to check out why he wasn't putting pressure on his leg, but she was out for the day and so I scheduled something for Thursday since he was happy.  By Wednesday night Jordan was starting to get more fussy and it was an awful night.  I started to worry more about his leg since anytime I layed him down he cried.  I had to hold him most of the night upright.  I had a busy morning on Thursday.  Katelyn had a portion of her tooth fall off and it was hurting her (it was a molar that came in with a defect and the dentist had been watching it).  I had to get her into the dentist first thing in the morning for a filling so that is what we did at 8am.  I tried to get Jordan into the chiropractor earlier, but she couldn't see him until 11:30 or so.  When I took him in, I told her I thought his hip may be out and she checked the placement and adjusted a few things and he was not happy.  He still would not put pressure on it.  For the next couple of hours I was trying to get ahold of his pediatrician to see if we could get him in or where to take him.  I did not want to spend the day in the ER.  I ended up going to the walk in clinic we typically go to as a back up.  The doctor looked at him and said she thought it was his leg, not his hip.  They did x-rays and they came back that his femur was broken with a small fracture just above the knee on the back side.  Since this was such a weird spot, the radiologist told the Dr that she had to call Child Protective Services on us.  This Dr was so nervous to tell me that she was required to call and that I would probably be getting a call from them.  I figured this would happen when they told me it was broken and it took 45 min to come back.  The Dr. had been on the phone with multiple people about his leg.  The funny thing is that the nurses and x-ray tech saw that he was happy and didn't even cry when they did anything.  The only time he cried was when we held him down to splint his leg.  No one could believe that he was such a happy baby with a broken leg.  That is why I didn't think it was anything too serious. 

 I had arrived at the clinic at 2:30 and got out of there at 5:30.  Babies had been fussy by the time we left and we were all hungry.  I had to pick Lyndee up from volleyball practice and we stopped for some dinner.  I arrived home around 6:30 and by 7:00, 2 police officers and a child protective service investigator was at our house.  They were there until a little after 9 interviewing us and they interviewed the kids individually.  Nothing worse than being accused of being a negligent abusive parent.  They had to ask all the kids if they felt safe, and if they had ever been hurt or had bruises and where they did feel safe and who they felt safe around and if they had ever been touched in an inappropriate way.  They grilled me on why I did not take Jordan in sooner and kept bringing up that surely with 6 kids I must loose my temper and it must be frustrating and hard and that how can I handle 6 kids.  Talk about feeling violated in every way possible.  Lynar had to take Lyndee and Katelyn to piano lessons right before they showed up and since they were not home the police asked where they went to school and said they would talk to them at school the next day.  I put my foot down and told them that if they wanted to talk to my girls they would wait for 15 min and interview them at home.  They did not need to open an investigation at their school.  I made Lynar leave the lessons early and bring them home to be interviewed.  Lyndee was so good.  She told them how we prayed as a family and how good our home was.  She told them how she had pulled hard on Jordan's leg and that was probably how it broke.  No one could remember a time when he really cried hard.  Joseph later admitted that he stepped on Jordan's leg.  Joseph was much nicer to the twins after being interviewed by 2 poiceofficers.  

The next day I had to go to the Orthopedic doctor and he was a jerk.  He was one of the people that told the other dr office to call CPS.  I was not a happy person with him either.  He didn't even know the situation and wanted me reported because of the break.  Jordan got a green cast and was a happy baby again the whole time until he was held down to get the cast.  The cast did not slow him down one bit.  He had it on for 2 weeks and 4 days and it was all healed up.  Seemed like forever to have the cast on.  One positive thing about Jordan having the cast was that before the cast, Joseph couldn't tell the difference between his brothers, after the cast he is now able to tell who is who.  We did have to separate the twins into their own cribs so that Jordan would not hit Jaxon with the big heavy cast and cause another injury.  Jordan was almost crawling with the cast by the time he got it off.

I had a hard time taking my eyes off the babies for weeks after this incident.  I was so cautious with everything and if I'm a little over protective now, it's because I've already got a red flag on my "record".  I never want to have CPS be called on me again.  It was one of the worst experiences of my life!!!    

7 months

I love 7 months for babies!!  Twins have started solids and loved rice cereal and oatmeal. They gobble up quite a bit and feeding twins is fun. They need to take turns and so usually we do a couple spoon fulls for Jordan and then a few for Jaxon. 

It is getting harder to take their picture together since they want to be moving. Both babies are moving all around. Finding them rolling to where they want to go. 

They love to play with each, especially their faces. 

Twins are sitting up with support. Love those cute chubby faces. 

Yummy toes. Always so cute when they do this. 

Big sister still loves to help with babies, but they like to pull her long hair!

Twins are not always happy and sometimes both want to be held at the same time. Dad enjoys sitting in the rocking chair and holding them together. Once again, one awake, one asleep. 

First of our mobility

Jordan is mobile!  A couple days ago he finally started rolling over from his stomach to his back to complete his full turn. Now he is rolling all over the room. This is the start of a new harder mobile stage. It has been nice to leave the twins on the floor and they don't go far. So long. Jordan will be crawling before too long or at least army crawling. He is trying so hard!!  Jaxon on the other hand is content being in one place!  

This is where I found Jordan this morning when I let him play on the floor (I was trying to stay in bed a few extra minutes). 

Swimming for first time

We finally made it to the pool and got the boys in. Usually the twins sit in the stroller while the big kids swim. They are really good about just sitting there most of the time. Usually I am by myself and so I can't take them in the pool. 

Notice how in so many pictures of the twins my kids like to photo bomb the babies. 

Twin disguised

We are basically celebrities wherever we go and so people are pointing and talking to us since we have twins. Today I found a way to shop that doesn't bring attention to the twins. Although, Jordan was asleep and Jaxon was awake so it worked out perfectly. I had a guy at loses helping me and he didn't even notice another baby in my cart!!

Joseph was trying to smile by the way. Jaxon is just starting to sit up so this was a good challenge for him. 

6 months!

Twins 5 months

The days and months seem to fly by.  This 5 month update is a little late.  Boys are growing so fast now!  I can't even remember what went on to write.  The boys play more with toys and love to jump in their jumpers..  They seem like they have been teething a lot, but no teeth yet.

These two photo bombers.  They wanted to get in the pictures as well.  

Brooklyn with the twins swimming for their first time.  They didn't stay in the water long since it was me and the kids.  I think Jordan is on the right this time.  Can't tell and can't remember.  

The boys are just adorable.  It is hard to not take a ton of pictures of these guys.  Jordan is on the left and Jaxon on the right.  

Jordan always sleeps on the left and Jaxon on the right.  Jaxon sleeps through the night and Jordan ends up waking up once and he kicks when he wakes up.  I'm always afraid he will wake his brother up.

4 months

The babies decided to wake up at 4:30 AM and both not go to sleep after eating, so I can update the blog!  These are from May (Month 4 of the babies).  I wish I can remember everything that was going on at 4 months, but things go so fast and everything turns into a blur even faster!  

The babies are finally big enough to ride in their double stroller.  We had lots of softball and t-ball games that they got to go watch.  

Getting 2 babies to smile and look at the camera at once is kind of tough.  Thank goodness for I-Phones so you can take tons of pictures right after the other.

Twins finally started sitting up in their bumbo's.  They had the head bob going on quite a bit, but they were just getting stronger.

Big brother Joseph really loves his brothers.  He was pretending to give his brothers a blessing.  He loves to do this to the babies when they are laying next to each other.  He'll tell me that he is giving them a blessing.

Getting stronger at lifting up their heads.  

They love to play on their playmate more this month.

Up until sometime in the 4th month I would feed them both at the same time.  When one would wake up, I would start getting bottles warmed up, go change both babies, finish making bottles, then pick both babies up at once and put them on my lap and bottle feed them.  They would go right back to sleep and then I could go back to bed.  They would usually go to sleep about 10pm, wake up between 2-3am, then again around 5:30-6am to eat.  Well, they were getting so much bigger that it was hard for me to put them back into their crib without one of them waking up, so I had to start feeding them one at a time and hope the other baby didn't wake up, then I would feed the other baby.  

The 4th month they really started smiling more and laughing a little bit.  They love to be talked to and will talk back to you.  They love all the attention they get.