Jesse & Danielle

{March 28, 2014}
Yes I'm late. Sorry!

STATS

Ian

Height: 30.5 in {73rd percentile}

Weight: 22 lbs {38th percentile}

Head Circ: 45.1 cm {16th percentile}

Brigham

Height: 30 in {57th percentile}

Weight: 20 lbs {12th percentile}

Head Circ: {7th percentile}

Tall and skinny. Just as I predicted at one month when Ian was barely on the charts!

Seriously, how on earth did these kiddos fit inside me?

Oh that's right, this is how.

Although it seemed a little skeptical at the time too as crazy as that sounds.

I remember walking into the hospital to deliver last year still baffled that I was going to be having twins. I knew there were two babies in there. I had seen them on ultrasounds countless times, I felt them move, I felt alternating hiccups, I saw my belly move in ways that looked alien-like, and yet I still could hardly believe it.

Oh my goodness.... One is so much fun!

It's seriously true that every stage is the best.

And although they are technically no longer babies and have passed through the threshold into toddler-hood, I refuse to call them toddlers yet. I figure since they still crawl instead of toddle, I can get away with it for now.

Some things we love right now.

I love their belly giggle. Briggs in particular has a deep throaty ha-ha giggle that cracks me up.

I love when they push the walker together. I'm pretty sure they push them more together than separate.

I love hearing them laugh together. It just warms my heart.

I love watching them tear all the books off the shelf as well as all the magnets off the fridge. For whatever reason I want that vision ingrained in my mind forever.

I love wandering around the house with one baby holding onto my hands, and the other behind me holding onto my pant legs while we practice walking.
They love the show Super Why. And I love watching them watch it. They both start dancing like crazy when the opening song starts playing!
We love putting them in the same crib for a few minutes periodically and listen to the giggles that ensue. They wrestle, play, and laugh. It is hilarious to sneak a peek of.

They love to follow me into the kitchen, roll over, and just lay on their backs in the middle of the kitchen.
We love watching them sleep and {accidentally} waking them up just enough to watch them bobble their little heads up, look confused, roll over, and go back to sleep.
They love pushing their stroller.

The boys love snuggling with mama and wrestling with daddy.
I love watching them learn to walk. I have absolutely loved the crawling stage and am totally ok that they are still crawling, but it is sure fun watching them learn to take steps.

They absolutely love going up and down stairs. It stresses me out and you can't hardly watch both of them by yourself because they are everywhere with no sense of level changes. They are champs at going up stairs but are still working on going down. They're finally figuring out how to back up and go down backwards. It's a big deal.

We switched over to whole milk a couple of weeks before their birthday and they didn't bat an eye with it. It's nice not buying formula any more, but we've now turned into one of those families who buys about 3 gallons of milk a week! Yikes!
They both love sticking their fingers under a closed door and playing with my fingers. We then smash our faces to the floor so we can see one eyeball of each other and giggle.

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Ian

Has such a sense of humor. He laughs at funny things. Which of course makes us laugh.

Still loves playing the piano.

Sleeps on his tummy with his bum in the air. Or stretched clear out on his back.

Took his first steps on Sat March 15.
Is very helpful with the laundry.

Can take 4 steps before plowing head first into our arms or the floor.

Blows. Just enough for his little bottom lip to stick out and blow air up.

Blows kisses

Claps hands, and feet.

When asked where his belly button is, he usually pats his chest.
Likes to walk while holding on to your index finger and pinky of the same hand.
Crawls in a "Mogli" stance outside. Not every time, but maybe half of the time.

And I know I say it every month but he loves books so much. He loves sitting in a pile of books turning each page.

Loves soft things and likes to stroke a minky blanket while he goes to sleep.
He is SO ticklish.

Is very observant. Often times I shower while they nap and when I get them up Ian always looks me up and down and tries to touch my hair and eyelashes. He knows something is different and checks it out.
He has started holding everything out to show us, but never actually hands us anything.
Loves playing in the kitchen cupboards and drawers.

Brigham

Loves "talking" on my phone. He holds it up to his ear and says "ha" when we talk to grandma. He also holds up other toys or just his hands to his ears and says "ha". I love it.

Also likes sleeping in the stinkbug position.
Can take 4 steps as well

First steps were a day after Ian on Sun March 16
He's so compassionate. He quickly gives kisses and snuggles to anyone, and sometimes anything.

He's somewhat obsessed with the camera too. He always wants to touch it. I've started letting him look through the viewfinder (who knows how much he actually sees) and zoom in and out and he loves it.

He is a climber. Well technically they both are. He's a smart cookie too. I had a bin (with a lid) of toys out the other day and he pushed it over to the ottoman and climbed up and onto the ottoman and then the chair.

When you ask him "What does a cow say." he says "mmmmmmm"

Blows kisses

Claps hands and feet as well

Can find his belly button.

Gets so excited to see you after his naps. He literally jumps in his bed and then dives into the mattress and then rolls over, giggles, and does it all again.

Briggs always seems to have his right index finger in his mouth.

Or sometimes the left.

And speaking of that finger... he very well may not have a nail on that finger down the road. Several weeks ago the boys were playing in a cupboard and Briggs' finger was in the hinge portion while Ian was closing the door and smashed his litter finger. It was a sad day. Well after that happened, it started growing in with a big crack up the middle of the nail and that's when I realized we might have more permanent troubles. I asked our pediatrician about it and she said damage to the nail bed is permanent and most likely results in a loss of nail or a goofy, possibly wavy nail. So I guess we'll see what happens. I was feeling really bad, but our pediatrician reminded me it's a good thing he's a boy because it really doesn't matter all that much. Your fingers are never safe when you have a twin.

Can close off his nose with his scrunched up kissy lips. He is definitely my child.

Loves pulling off his socks, on the rare occasion he's actually wearing some.
He's usually my little snuggle buddy, and even fell asleep wrapped up in my arms the other day while we watched Super Why.

Love sleeping with everything in his crib. He's especially fond of his pillow and blankets and somehow manages to have them right up next to his face.

I'm suspecting teeth for these hooligans.

At least I hope it's teeth and not something more.

They've both had fevers and Ian in particular is drooling EVERYWHERE.

Couple that with Jesse being out of town and it makes for a very long night.

I think I got a solid 2 1/2 hours of sleep before a crying babe pulled me from my bed.

2:30am: Up with Briggs.

3:30am: Up with Ian and Briggs for an hour.

4:30am: Laid both boys back to bed and I laid down on the floor in the front room.

5:30am: Both boys back up and crying. I pulled them both out of bed and onto the makeshift bed in the front room with me. Briggs curled up in my arms and struggled to sleep while I stroked his face and arms. Ian found a little piece of blanket that he liked and fell asleep on his own. We probably all fell asleep by 6:00am.

and 7:30am: Up for the day.

Our lovely bed.