SIX months old!!

The boys are growing so fast!  It's so hard to believe that they are 6 months old (as of June 23rd).  At their 6 month baby well visit, Landon was just over 17 pounds and was 26 inches long.  He is in about the 40th percentile for FULL term babies.  Neither of the boys are on the preemie charts anymore.  How crazy is that!  Tristan was about 20 pounds at the 6 month baby well visit and was 27 inches long.  It's so hard to believe that they are gaining about 2 - 2.5 pounds per month and have grown 8-9 inches. 


Landon and Tristan are both rolling over with some assistance.  Their doggone arm gets in the way!  So if we can get them up over their arm onto their side, they will finish the roll.  I have to keep reminding myself that they were nearly 2 months early, so technically they are about 4 months old.  Both boys get their legs underneath them when they have tummy time.  It has me thinking that they are going to crawl soon!

Both boys are trying to sit up.  If we lay them down, they will lift their head/neck and their legs to try to sit up.  They don't like laying down because they want to see everything!

Tristan is developing separation anxiety.  If somebody else is holding him, he will watch me like a hawk.  Then if I leave his sight he starts to cry.  That's my little Buddha!  Landon is happy for the most part being with other people.  Every once in a while he just wants his mommy.

They are drinking water now and are eating solids regularly.  They have their little sippy cups and seem to enjoy drinking from them.  They can hold the cup and put it in their mouth, but they have a hard time tilting it up. 

Tristan is such a talker now!  I think when we went out to Idaho for my uncle's funeral, he was tired of not getting the same amount of attention that Landon was receiving.  Tristan was a hard one to make crack a smile before we went out there, but when we came back, he just started chatting up a storm.  Landon is such a ham and likes to flirt!  They both have the cutest little laughs.

Landon and Tristan both have some potential minor medical issues.  Landon has had two ear infections in two months so the pediatrician has discussed the possibility of tubes.  He also has weak membrane surrounding his stomach muscles.  Tristan has a lower eyelid that turns in towards his eyeball.  This can potentially be bad because the lashes could scratch and damage his cornea.  Right now it's all a waiting game to see if surgery will be required for any of the conditions.  So we just wait and see.  They both had bronchilitis about one month ago.  Tristan needed an inhaler and a steroid, and Landon only needed an inhaler (they have a mask that hooks onto it so you can cover their mouth and nose),  They also gave us a nebulizer to use if we felt it would work better.  We havent' used it yet though.

Overall, the boys are healthy and incredibly happy!  They laugh, scream (happy screams), love to be tickled, kissed and snuggled!  They definitely know their mommy and daddy love them because we show them!

Here are their 6 month pictures

Apples!!

Today I fed the boys gala apples that I pureed and froze the other day.  They really loved the apples (hey, I liked them too.....I almost ate THEIR food!).  Anyways, I was talking to Landon, asking him if he liked the apples (like I was really going to get a response back from him), and each time I said the word "apples' he started cracking up!  I don't know what it was about the word, but he thought it was hilarious!  Tristan on the other hand, didn't seem phased by it at all.  He was looking at me like "get that camera out of my face." 

It's funny to see how they both have mine AND Troy's personality in them.  The happy part is me, and the attitude is definitely Troy.  I love seeing them grow and change every day.  On one hand, I'm happy to see them healthy, growing, and happy.  On the other hand, I'm sad to see them grow because it's happening too fast!

Anyways, check out the video.  It may get a bit annoying hearing me say "apples" all the time, but that's what really got Landon going!  That silly boy!

Sweet......Potatoes that is!

Don't judge me!  Yes, the boys are one week shy of 5 months old and I gave them sweet potatoes today!  Guess what.....they LOVED them!  They were definitely ready for them.  Most people start their babies on solids at 6 months.  Well, I'm not most people!  You have to go by their cues/signs, not necessarily by the calendar.  The calendar isn't always right!  My boys were eating every 2 - 2 1/2 hours.  They weren't getting full off their formula.  This has been going on for the past couple of weeks, so I know it's not just a growth spurt.  I decided that since they can hold their head up, they were making chewing motions, were never full off formula, and they no longer have the tongue thrust reflex, that maybe we could try solids. 

Just Stuff

And now that I have edited and posted several videos and added a bunch of pictures, I guess I should call it a night.....or a morning?  The boys will be waking up in a few hours.  If I actually took my butt to bed when they went to sleep, I would get anywhere from 8-10 hours of sleep each night.  But I don't.  I use that time to do the things I wasn't able to finish during the day.  In addition to that, Troy and I started our own business, so that has consumed a lot of my time too!

If all else fails, at least I can count on my afternoon nap!  Yes, I have the boys on a schedule.  They usually wake up between 8-9 a.m.  They get a diaper change and eat.  Then we play, read books, sing songs, have tummy time, or sometimes go for a walk and around noon, it's time for them to eat again.  After this feeding and diaper change, it's off to la-la land.....and it's nap time for 2-3 hours.  They're up again to eat and play around 3 or 3:30.  We do more activities after they eat, then they fall asleep around 5:30ish.  Then they usually sleep for another 2-3 hours then get up, eat, get a diaper change,  get changed into their pajamas (they get a shower at this time every couple of nights) then off to bed by 10ish or 11.  Yes, my boys go to bed late.  I do this on purpose.  Why do you ask?  Well, their daddy doesn't get home until around 7:30.  He works 10:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.  If the boys were to go to bed by 7 or 8 p.m., he would never get to spend time with them!  And you see what he was doing in one of the videos.....he was getting Landon to laugh for the first time.

Ok, now it's really time for bed!

Tristan Talks....and screams!

It seems like every time I take video of Tristan, he's crying.  Looking back at the video, I know why he was crying!  Each time I recorded him it was right before he was about to eat.....which is why he has his hands in his mouth in almost every video.  That's what he does when he's hungry...he starts eating his hands, then will move onto crying.  So here is yet another video where he starts to cry!  This was on April 15th.

Landon Laughs!

This is the FIRST time we have heard Landon Laughing.  He will coo all the time and make all sorts of noises, but never has he laughed!  This was too cute!  This video was taken on April 24th.

The Boys Talk to Each Other

People always ask me if the boys talk to each other.  And the answer to that question would be a big fat YES!!  We were able to catch them briefly on camera talking to each other.  This was from April 21st, 2013.