Momma is retro-posting

December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Some may have noticed that posts for days long gone have suddenly popped up. I have been so bad about uploading pictures and then attaching them to posts that they have fallen by the wayside. Now that Christmas cards have been mailed I will try and get some stuff up.

The kids are looking great. They are so busy these days.

Loen: On 12/10 she weighed 16 pounds 3 ounces and is 27 1/4″ long. She has learned to crawl on hyper drive so you cant turn your back on her for long. She has been practicing standing on her own. Usually for a second or two, then she realizes that no one is holding her and she will sit down. I love when she starts to get tired. She slows down and will lie on her belly and play, often singing or talking. So precious. She likes “grown-up food” better than purees lately. If I chop up cheese or turkey she will slowly inspect it, play with it then eat it. Purees she will just spit back into her hand then rub into the tray and her hair. Then there is Gerber Puffs, AKA baby crack. If you want to keep her quiet for a good 10-15 minutes on end just put her in her high chair with a small pile of puffs. She still doesn’t do three meals a day. She isn’t always interested in solid food and will prefer her bottle. Loen did much better with the switch from breast milk to formula than Derby did. You would have thought there was cyanide kool-aid in the bottle the way he refused it.
Derby: Weighed 16 pounds 1 ounce and is 26 1/2″ long. The gap is really closing between the two of them. He has mastered saying “Hi” but is selective on when and who he says it to. It is funny that he will tell everyone hi then when I want him to he clams up. I have decided they can walk or talk but they cant do both yet. So Derby is my talker and Loen is my pseudo-walker. Derby has been making progress with therapy. He uses his left side more and they have been working with him to get into the crawl position. He likes to sit but has yet to get himself in the sitting position without help. Well if you don’t count that one time at Fauxma’s (they do EVERYTHING at Fauxmas!). We came back after running errands and Derby was sitting and playing with a toy. We asked if she put him in that position to which she replied no. She was doing something with Loen and turned around and saw Derby sitting, she thought he knew how to do it. He hasn’t done it since so it may have been a fluke. Derby is no longer wearing his glasses. The opthamologist said they werent working so he will go in for a revision surgery after Christmas. That was a bummer to hear, but in the grand scheme of things it isn’t that big of a deal. I have to say to myself “Hey, at least he can see!”. The doctor said something I wasn’t expecting; “Well I didn’t think the glasses would work but I wanted to try one more thing before we had to do another surgery”. What? Back up there fella! Never had you said before the glasses probably wouldn’t work. If we had known that I don’t think we would have sprung for the top of the line Italian retro glasses. We figured he would be wearing them for awhile so we got the sturdy ones. Whatever, he got a lot of attention from the ladies when he wore them.

As you can see in the picture below the helmet is really working. The scan on the left is before the helmet and the right is after wearing it for 1 1/2 months. They said he would have approximately 6 more weeks of wearing left.

We have finally traded out the infant carriers for their big car seats. Tadd did some research and ended up returning the Britax that we had originally and got the Recaro Signo. These things are legit, lets just say if we ever needed to put the twins in a escape pod their seats would be perfect. I wasn’t aware until Tadd told me that Recaro is known for making auto racing seats. So I guess they would be at home in the back seat of Dale Earnhardt Jr’s car too.

They like to chew on a toothbrush, but when I try to brush their teeth all hell breaks loose.

Derby showing off his clean teeth

We drove the twins by the crazy Christmas house. My iPhone pic does not do this house justice. We were speculating how much this guys electricity bill must be in December

We stopped by the NICU yesterday to say hi and pick up a copy of the new Cottage Hospital Magazine. There was a picture of Derby and Dr. Donnelly that was on the third page.

Loen showing Martha how she can walk with help

Derby was a tired little guy but happy to see Li. You can really tell how much his eyes cross in this picture. Hopefully the surgery on the 29th will be successful.