Joys In My Life

The boys had their last Synagis shot of the RSV shot yesterday. Leo took them as I had to get ready for a meeting with Internal Audit at work. Very frustrating that they ended up rescheduling for Wednesday. Anyway, as part of the Synagis shot process they got weighed, so their latest weights are: Tommy - 20 lbs 7 oz (9.27 kg) Liam - 17 lbs 4 oz (7.82 kg) I need to take some video of Liam rolling now that he's doing it more faithfully. He's not crawling yet, but he's managing to get around a bit more by rolling and wiggling. Tommy's been cutting the top two teeth lately, which has made him miserable. I've been giving him Motrin before he goes to bed at night to keep the pain from waking him up in the middle of the night. I don't give pain meds for all teething, but I've found that the top two and molars are the worst that wake them in the middle of the night with pain. We also took the boys out to dinner on Saturday and it went great. We ...

So the boys are interested in giving up baby food. Especially Tommy. He'd much rather feed himself. Liam doesn't mind, but after awhile he seems to get tired of feeding himself and wants somone else to put the food in his mouth. He doesn't mind if it's a smooth puree like yogurt or if it's a tiny chunk of cooked carrot for him to mash what few teeth he has on it. Tommy's still working on teeth, LOL. He has ***1*** tooth. That's it. On the bottom. The two on the top look like they want to break free and the other one on the bottom is thinking about it too, but he can eat solid food like a champ! Here's an example of what they might have for a daily menu: Breakfast: Cheerios and fruit (cut up into cubes) Lunch: pizza (cut into cubes) and peas Dinner: fried noodles with veggies (basically what we're eating but cut up the noodles into little pieces and cube up the veggies in it after it's all cooked) Their overall schedule seems to work ...

Thank you so much for the advice on the stroller. I think we're going to go with the Maclaren Twin Techno, which was an option I didn't notice we had yet, as I was just looking at the Twin Triumph. I did look at all the other ones people mentioned, but I want a side by side that can still go through doors and folds up easily and as small as possible for storing while at restaurants. We had a great weekend visiting my family about 3 hours north of where we live. We visited my grandmother at her place and then my grandfather who has Alzheimer's at his nursing home. Phoebe amazed me with how wonderful she was with him, making funny smiling faces at him as he's very hard of hearing. He smiled a lot and it really seemed to perk him up. He only knew my mother when we first got there, but by the end of the visit he remembered us all and even commented that Phoebe must be in 2nd grade now. He was close, she's in 3rd grade. The boys had a great time. Tommy explored t...

OK, my twin moms out there, I need twin stroller advice. I'm about to purchase one other than our snap and go for the infant carriers and I'm thinking between the Maclaren Twin Triumph and the Combi Twin stroller. Anyone have any advice or experience to share about their twin stroller? What do you like or not like?

I have lots to update everyone on. The boys had their 9 month check last Thursday and their stats were as follows: Tommy: 29 inches long (73.7 cm), 19 lbs 12 oz (8.96 kg) Liam: 28 inches (71.7 cm), 16 lbs 12 oz (7.6 kg) So now that Tommy is spitting up less, he's back to being 3 lbs more than Liam. The doctor did say to encourage Liam to eat more. She wasn't acting like it was a big deal, but she did say that he's in the 5% for weight for his age! She also recommended a neurologist consult and a hip xray for Liam as a precaution that he's not as interested in moving as his brother is. We'll definitely do it, but I'm thinking that he just needs the light switch to go off in his head telling him it's time to move. Which seems to be true because all of a sudden last night, he wants to roll to his stomach when I'm changing his poopy diaper on the floor. He kept fighting me like Tommy does. Once I got his bottom cleaned, I let him finish his ro...

Today is my birthday! I am 39 now. Officially in my last year of my 30s. I'm very excited. I love birthdays!

I'm really late in getting these posted, but hopefully I can get caught up on some good stuff over the next few days. I'm working with my diet as it comes to the exhaustion and my acidic stomach I've had lately. I broke out my Traditional Chinese Medicine cookbook to guide my way and it's been very helpful. This picture is my favorite and Phoebe took it. I wish we had one as good of Liam. Here's a pic of Liam from Phoebe's camera Phoebe took this one too of us. She really is a great photographer for a 9 year old. And here's a pic of all of us together. Liam is popping his head up, but he was asleep on me, which is why I didn't turn him facing the camera. The boys didn't take their morning nap before going to the church, so they were both exhausted.