9 months and counting...

Hello there lovlies. Patch and Jamie are 9 month old, almost 10. They are BOTH mobile! Jamie boy can crawl like a pro. He goes from sitting to standing with ease. He cruises on furniture, barely holding with one hand. Until last week, my boy Patch was still immobile. But low and behold, he started sitting, kneeling and army crawling all in a  matter of a few days. He is so very excited that he can finally play with the activity table that has been eluding him for months!

It's funny that even though Jamie is faster and more able, Patch is the boss. He literally drags his body across the floor like a baby paraplegic but when he gets to Jamie, he manhandles any toy Jamie has away from him. Poor Jamie it left crying many times a day because Patch decided he needed that shiny thing Jamie discovered. I'm not quite sure why Jamie doesn't just crawl away, as he definitely would win in a race. Maybe he's just doomed to be the submissive baby boy B for life, lol.

Jamie now had 4 teeth, 2 top and 2 bottom. I think he is teething more. Patrick has 0 haha.

I attempted cry it out the last 2 nights and I think it's backfiring. Patrick now wails louder than ever during the night. I even tried leaving them both to cry and sleeping, myself on the couch. Yet an hour later, the shrieking was still going strong. Life is exhausting, I'm at my wicks end with their sleeping habits.

Today is Ash Wednesday. I am going to try and not eat sweets for Lent. Day 1 so far so good.

I'm excited to take a St. Paddy's Day photo of the kids. I'm hoping to get some over suspenders and little shorts to go with their Irish shirts and clover baby leggings…. I haven't done a photoshoot since Halloween really, aside from 1 photo each for the Christmas card. I can't believe they will be double digits (in months) in 4 days! Ahhhh!!

I need to do a measurement and weigh in… soon.

We just moved into a new, bigger, house. Hopefully things will settle down now that we know we'll be here for a while.

We had our first play date yesterday with Emily, Carlo and Lucia (and new little baby Reginelli (circa Oct '14). It was so great seeing Aria running around and having fun with Carlo. Having a bigger space to play made it so much nicer! When they arrived, Carlo handed Aria a dandelion that he had picked from his yard. It was adorable, quite the charmer!

Until next time, xo Rosie

weigh in

Patrick 21.6 pounds
Jameson 18.8 pounds

8 month stats

Patrick

28" long
8" head circumference
20.5 pounds

7 almost 8 months

Well it's just after New Year's and the boys are seven months old soon to be eight months. Jamie started sitting in the beginning of December with his hands down in front of him. On Christmas Day he first sat with no hands touching the ground he was a very very proud of himself with a huge smile on his face. Since then he has not looked that he only sits with no hands. Jamie also a few days later started pulling himself up to stand. The first time he did it he pulled up on my knees as I sat on the ground next to him. He now pulls up on anything he can reach. Jamie also can completely crawl and I when I put him in the middle of the room the next time I turn around he's underneath the kitchen table or behind the brown chair. 

Patrick is starting to get himself onto all fours every once in a while.  He's weighing in at 20 pounds and I think it's a little more difficult for him to maneuver his body. He is more intellectual. Where Jamie's sole goal seems to be where can I get to and what can I climb on. Patch enjoys making eye contact and smiling at mama or anyone that will talk to him's voice. Hey truly is a sweetheart lovable and so cuddly. I'm still not sure what color his eyes will be they are mainly blue but a dark blue and the very center has some brownish green. Time will tell I suppose. 

Aria got a pretty Tinkerbell book for Christmas and I read it to her and Jamie on my lap and Jamie fell asleep. He really enjoyed looking at the pictures.

Patrick loves to grab things. He grabs the spoon at meal time. He's always down to grab my hair or earrings or any loose clothing. His little grubby hands are just always reaching out trying to get a hold of something. 

For their first Christmas they got clothes from uncle Steven and aunt Cara and grandma. Cute little jeans and hoodie sweatshirt collared shirts and bowties. Jamie loves arias little piano that she got from uncle Bee. He crawls over to it where ever it wherever it is, sits right in front of it and start hitting the keys. I had does get jealous and pushes him down sometimes. We are working on her sharing skills.

Yaya got both the boys but all many animal blankets. It's like a 1' x 1' square with an animal head in the middle. Patch loves to hold onto his and suck on it. Auntie Dobby got them squishable balls that have rattling beads in them.

Aria got a Samantha doll, a bouncing Tigger, a mini piano, a Tinkerbell doll, a Tinkerbell book, a safari book, two beautiful new coats, a dress, a sweater, little Tinkerbell fairy dolls. And of coarse she got Wrassle Junior. He's the same dog that I got on my Christmas when I was two years old he's just Way more fluffy than my Wrassle is now. I hope she grows to love him right now she still likes my Wrassle better.

New Year's Eve we went over to Gabby and Billy's apartment. Gabby made turkey and Amy brought lasagna and there was lots of cake and dessert. The boys took a nice long nap right when we got there around five or six. Then they were a little angels and stayed up all the way until 1 AM without so much as a cry. I was hilarious. She insisted on walking around with a football under her dress and asking everyone that would listen "where'd it go?". Then she would jump up and down three times and the football would slide out and she would laugh hysterically. Over and over and over again she did this trick.

Aunt Aggie gave Aria a basket of old toys. There were several little tea sets in the basket and Aria has been going around every day pretending to pour and drink miniature cups of tea. She insists that I drink the imaginary tea. Unfortunately two of the teapots have already met their demise. Luckily we still have two more. Next gift is going to be a PLASTIC tea set.

The boys are still horrible sleepers. They've taken to being up for 2 to 4 hours smack in the middle of the night. I'm going crazy. The other night I even tried to put Patrick out in the swing in the living room and get back in bed but he want squaked and whined until it became a cry and i had to go and get him. 

Jamie is getting two teeth on the bottom. Not helping with the sleep issues.

Happy 2014!

Until next time, xo Rosie

7 months!

Patch is 19.5 pounds

Length 27.5 inches

Head Circumference 17.5

Jamie is 17.5 pounds
Length 28 inches
Head Circumference 18.25

Baby Food

Well Patrick had his first jar of baby food and he LOVED it! Emily brought us over her leftover Earths Best squash #1 yesterday. Her little one, Lu, has already moved to regular solids at 10 months old! Well I decided to try it out on my boy Patch. At first he made a, "what on earth is this?!" face, but it quickly transformed into a "more please" little guppy mouth. He downed the whole entire jar! Of course, greatly encouraged by my success, I tried to offer Jamie boy some halfway through the jar. Jamie was not impressed with squash. He kept his, "you are force feeding me poison" face the entire trial of 3 tastes. I will try again with Whiny in a week or 2. Fatty boy had a total of 2 jars yesterday.

Jamie is sleeping horrible, writhing and crying all night. I just don't know what to do with him. I ran out of soy milk so went back to regular which was probably a mistake. Patrick is no joy at night either. He insists on being held overnight at 3am for an hour or 2. I'm ready to curl up in a ball and call it. I am a zombie and I am starting to hate their crying during the day. And I'm getting angry at Aria for being a regular 2 year old. And my mom was supposed to come over and help this week but she kept canceling. Kevin is being difficult and blaming me for everything. I'm feeling in general pretty down. I literally want to hurt something.

Anyways on that joyous note. Lauren had her baby. I'm so happy that everything went well. And I can't wait to meet little Hannah Elizabeth.

Until f'ing next time. Ro

6 Month Stats Are In!

Patrick Christopher

26 inches long

19 pounds

17.25 inch head circumference

Jameson Paul

26 inches long

17 pounds

18 inch head circumference 

Aria Rose (just for fun)
38 inches long
31 pounds
20 inch head circumference