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 

6 months! Well tomorrow…but I may not get another chance to update!

Well hello there lovelies! I am sitting here in the lull between Halloween and Thanksgiving…well Daddy Kevin's birthday really. I have been meandering away at Pinterest, being an activity I can do while holding, feeding, bouncing a babe. I am inspired to decorate my little house. I had forgotten how happy crafting and art makes me. I really do need to find time to do a few projects here and there. I think a happy mommy will be a good mommy to my babies and well creating beautiful things makes me happy. Of course 3 of those beautiful things are my Aria, my Patrick and my Jameson :)

I can't believe the boy are SIX months old! A half of a year!! Woohooo, by golly we've done it! This means, I've been breastfeeding exclusively (save 1 bottle a night) for 6 months!!! I am proud. My boys are happy and healthy! They are big and strong. I promise I will get their stats down this time, but shhhh for now they sleep.

Speaking of, I am trying a new sleep routine. Bed still at 8pm-9pm, depending on their moods, though honestly most night we barely make it to 8pm, they would love to go down at 7pm, but I just can't risk them being wide awake at 4am. The boys still seem to only need 8-10 hours of sleep, rarely 12. Fairly consistently they sleep 8pm-1am, this is great, a good 5 hour stretch. After this is where in lies my woes. After 1am, they are up every 2 hours, sometimes less. Of course I, mama, don't go to bed until 12ish, mainly due to the sweet Aria's ability to be the two year old college kid, whose fun part of the "day" starts at 10pm :(. I pump before bed, about 8 oz and split it into 2 4oz bottles. When the boys wake at 1-2am I leave them swaddled and prop up the bottle for them, 50/50 they go back to sleep another 2 hours or they are up and need snuggled/changed and put on their bellies. 4-5am is when they naturally want to wake up. They coo and smile and seem to think it's morning time. It takes me about an hour to get them back down. Here I've been trying a new thing of giving them a formula bottle. Too soon to judge yet, but doesn't seem to be making too much of a difference. I think I might be feeding them too much at night, because they seem to be very gassy and need to poop several times. Aria, while a beastly sleeper, never pooped at night; I never even changed her at night. I'm trying to cut out dairy to see if it's an allergy, but it seems just as bad when they get formula, so I don't know.

The boys are becoming more aware of each other everyday. Most recently If I face them on the ground toward each other during tummy time, they are very smily and love to grab at the others hands and clothes. They love Aria too and she is definitely enjoying the fact that they notice her. Just putting them facing each other can stop a meltdown, it's pretty sweet.

I thinking what I should get them for Christmas, maybe some learning toys or teethers. I ordered them their stockings from PBK and got Aria a new one as well, because I have no idea where hers ended up in the move and I don't want to upset anyone trying to find it, possibly in Grammy's attic. Actually Auntie Dobby got it for her because mama ain't got no monies! Tear.

Patch's hemangioma on his toe is fading. A while back I took photos of it and I'm glad I did, because he might want to see what it looked like when he's older.

I'm trying to reposition both boys all the time so their heads round out… here goes nothing.

Miss Aria can count to 10! And she is saying so many more words and what sounds like sentences! Whenever I leave a room she says, "where you going?" and always the little lady, "thank you" and "welcome" every single time she gets or hands something.

Kevin has been trying to sleep in Aria's room with her to get her used to her big girl bed, seems to be working. Several nights she has slept in there by herself and woke up at 8am. Last night Kevin was out late watching the Oregon and Stanford game. The little butt slept in their by himself and I had all the kids in my room! Oh well, he probably would have woken us up anyways, he's a wiggly sleeper.

I'm doing the Jillian Michaels Yoga Meltdown dvd. I'm feeling stronger already 2 weeks in! I was very excited because I thought I lost 10 pounds, but turns out our scale is faulty it you set in on the carpet. I only lost 7. Oh well, 7 is better than none, but I need to kick butt to feel better about myself.

Well, baby a is awake.

Until next time, xo Rosie

5 months!

Well hello there, here's a quick update that I wrote on my iPhone at 3am a week ago. This sums up my life. Hope to update more soon.

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Well the boys or five months old. They are 15 and 17 pounds patch still being my roly-poly boy. Their personalities are really starting to shine. Jamie is scrawny and wirey. He only wants to nurse when he's absolutely starving. There will be no comfort nursing or nursing to sleep for him. It's just business. He has learned how to get out of almost all my baby contraptions. You other day I had him in the monkey bouncer on the lawn to get some vitamin D for good health and moods. I went in the house for just a minute. And I came back the monkey bouncer was sitting there sans baby and Jamie was laying on his belly on the lawn looking happy as a clam. This boy needs shoulder straps on whatever he's in. Is too smart for his own good. Jamie's brown hair is coming in more it looks really cute. His eyes are also getting darker and the brown is spreading out. I wouldn't be surprised if he is crawling very soon.

Patrick is my smiley little love. He's just perfectly content as long as I'm holding him wherever I go. He's quick to give anyone and everyone a huge smile and a sweet little chuckle. His baby blue eyes now have some in amber in the very middle. The blue part is still fairly dark blue so I don't know if the eyes will end up hazel overall or if they'll be a blue and amber mixture. Is hair is still straight up white blonde. He's such a squishy baby weighing in at 17 pounds. He's harder to hold at first but once you do hold him, he doesn't wiggle as much as Jamie so it evens out.

Both babies are still waking up during the night. They do well going to sleep between eight and nine. And usually don't wake up until two. But after two they both are up about every hour until I give up at eight and put them in front of cartoons. 

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I don't even have time to re-read or edit, hopefully I'll get back to it.

Today we are having a little party at my house to carve pumpkins. I can't believe it but I am THAT mom. I didn't get the boys Halloween costumes yet. I'm going to have to brave the masses at Spirit tomorrow, the day before Halloween, to find them something to wear. Oh dear. At least I got Aria a bee costume 2 weeks ago. It was my backup in case I didn't get a chance to go out again. And guess what I didn't.

Well now here it goes, I'm being interrupted. 

But first, look at the cuteness (ps may or may not have been used).

Aria picked her pumpkin!

My twinsies looking adorable!

Until next time, xo Rosie

PS- Jamie's head is 18"

Grandma Carol is in Town

Kevin's mom is here visiting for a week. Aria loves her and it's so cute to see them play together. She has always connected really well with Aria. Jamie also seems taken with her, he fell asleep on her shoulder twice!

Yesterday we went over to Aunt Amy's for Tom's birthday. The boys got to meet Aunt Deirdre and Cousin Clare for the first time. They also wore jean for the first time and looked adorable!

Patch Rolls Over!!!

Not to be outdone by his little brother, my big boy Patrick has up and surprised us all. This actually happened 2 days ago to be fair, he was just 2 days behind. Let the competition begin!! lol

Go Patch go! Mama loves you!

I think he's ahead in who's going to laugh first. He actually makes noises that are "this" close to a chuckle…might even count!

Until next time xo,
Rosie