Dress up

I don't "dress up" the boys very often because they still spit up a lot, and we really don't have anywhere to go on most days. Today, it was chilly outside and we needed to do our bi-monthly trip to Sams so I decided to go all out and dress them like cute little boys today. They are sporting new jeans and long sleeve onesies from JC Penny...the latest in twin fall fashion! HA! Brandon even has the "male model pose" going on in this picture!


Connor can push himself all the way up with his arms now. All that's on the floor are his little chunk a monk legs! I predict he'll be crawling, or at least up on all fours, by Thanksgiving. I've been trying to get a picture of it for Eric and haven't been successful, but I'll keep trying. If you think about it, he'll be almost 8 months adjusted age at that time, so he seems right on track! I heard Santa is bringing each boy a walking toy for Christmas...guess we'll have to just wait and see!

They are both eating VERY well, especially Brandon. They eat about 1/4 cup of cereal and a veggie twice a day now. Connor always finishes his, and Brandon will usually finish all of the dinner feeding and will leave just a little bit left over in the morning. I attempted to make them carrots yesterday (since we'll be starting those on Wednesday) but they came out looking like Witch fingers. I don't think anything that looks like that should be fed to my kids! HA! I'll just buy carrots. So far, I've made everything else myself, so I'm definitely saving some major moolah! It won't hurt to buy the carrots. We'll start green beans after they pass with carrots, and then we'll add bananas. I hear that most babies LOVE bananas, so I wanted to wait on that as long as I can. HAPPY EATING!

Halloween Preview

I had an officers wives' coffee to go to last night, and the boys went with me dressed in their halloween attire! I bought these little jammie sets for them at the used kids clothing store! Connor looked so cute in the Frankenstein hat, and he actually wore it all night long! I'll have more pictures of them at their first Halloween Party when we go see my sister in Maryland!

Eating Like BIG BOYS!

Well, we're definitely making our way through the solid foods! So far we done sweet potatoes, apples, squash, rice cereal, and oatmeal. I'm going to add in carrots next week. I'm still making their veggies and storing them in the freezer and it's working out very well! I get out a few "cubes" of food each night and put them in the fridge. They are ready to serve the next day! I had a few rough days trying to get Brandon to eat, but I really think it was due to his ear infection. I also moved them to their booster seats to feed them instead of their bouncy seats or Boppy pillows. That made a BIG difference.

More videos for Eric

In this first video, Connor is showing what he thinks about the George Michael song that just played on the radio...



These are two kinda boring videos of the boys drinking their bottles. Once again, this is something that Eric is missing out on. I try to get a short video of EVERYTHING the boys do because let's face it...he's missing it all :( He won't see them in person until they are almost 14 months old! If you listen closely, you can hear Connor chugging! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Another One for Daddy

This is a video especially for Eric since he misses this every single day!

Sleeping babies

Instead of "dancing cheek to cheek" the boys are "sleeping feet to feet." Tonight was "clip nails night" and they were in the perfect position for me to clip all 20 toesies!

Connor makes 2

I'm glad I had Connor with me this morning at Brandon's recheck because he, too, has an ear infection. The doc assured me that they will be coming in regularly for little things like this because of being a preemie and flu season. Still no word on whether their RSV vaccination will be covered...I hope so! They put in a referral for Brandon to see an ENT specialist. Hopefully that will get approved and we can get some tubes in his ears before the end of the year. Connor is also on some antibiotics now and we'll be going back to have them both checked again next Wednesday. Brandon's blood culture came back negative which is good. That means there's no other infection brewing somewhere else. She said his ear is definitely looking better. Connor is a hefty 21 pounds and Brandon finally hit 16 pounds! YAY!