Our first Plane Trip

The girls did great on their first plane ride! We had a really nice flight attendant who helped us board, got us cookies, offered to watch them if I had to use the restroom and got them a certificate with their names and "wings".
J and O got to meet their newest cousin B. He is so cute and such a good baby! Here he is nestled in his little sling at the zoo...

N's newest obsession is Jeeps, so you can imagine his joy when we came accross this display at the Zoo! He was sooooo excited!

My favorite part of the zoo was feeding the giraffes. It was super cool! Never thought I would get to pet a giraffe!

And back at Auntie Lea's house, we spent a hot afternoon chillin in the pool. What fun!

So all in all a great trip! Can't wait to go back!

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Too long between posts!

Okay, I am becoming a horrible blogger. As Lisa pointed out, it has been forever since my last post! So, in the interim, the girls have turned ONE! (I can't believe I have toddlers!). They started crawling a couple of days before their early intervention appointment (they were approved for services for gross motor), so she will be back in July when the girls are 15months old. They are cruising, pulling up, riding their little cars and horses all around the house and just generally creating mayhem! They are so freakin cute. They each have 4 teeth now (O cut her 4th one today). They had a great birthday. You can see their pictures on Megans blog at
www.perspectives-photography.com/blog and search under April 2009. We had a blast and the girls got tons of stuff. We will be moving to "Big Girl" carseats soon. And we will be taking away the paci's after we get back from our trip. Which brings me to the next thing... The girls and I are flying to Michigan on Tuesday! Lea had a little baby boy (well, not so little 9lb15oz!) on May 15th. So the girls are going to get to meet their newest cousin! We will be gone for a week and I unintentionally planned the trip for over fathers day weekend. And you would think that not getting up early and being able to do whatever you want on Fathers Day would be a great gift, but Steve will be doing a side job, so it isn't all fun and games! But we will get to celebrate the following weekend. They are both saying "down (sounds like don), mama, da da, dog (daw), bubbles (buba). O seems to say things more consistently than her sister. They both sign "more", but O seems to think it just means "I want". She does the sign for more then just points at what she wants. They love looking out the big window in the living room to look for birds, and say "bir... bir?". So that is all for now. Wish me luck on the big trip. I'll try to be better about keeping up with this blog!

First Teeth!

So after 11 months (to the day!) my girls have their first tooth! They each got one tooth yesterday (3/26) on their 11month birthday. Seems like they have to do EVERYTHING together! Olivias is on the right and Jocelyn's is on the left. Poor girls were teething while having pneumonia (Olivia) and an ear infection (Jocelyn) with fevers of 104! But all is better now. They are feeling much better. Early intervention is evaluating them (they still aren't crawling) and we should hear more about that soon. Jocelyn is waving bye-bye a lot now. Olivia started clapping today. She also says "yay" (sort of, it kind of sound like "aaayaa") while she claps... sooooooo cute! That's all for now!

J&O have been doing well. They have another bad cold, but other than that, things are good. Cousin E got baptized last weekend and we went to the party after. The girls were their usual cheerful selves. I swear that they do better in large groups than small intimate settings! They are getting good at scooting around on their bellies. I have gotten a few tips on helping them learn to crawl, so we shall see. Even though they are not feeling well, they still have tons of smiles to go around! O is doing a little worse than J. You can just tell she doesn't feel well. She is actually being a little cuddly (very unlike her!). They have been having fun hanging out with their cousins, but they are all going to Florida today, so we won't be seeing them for a week!

Peek-a-Boo

Peek-a-boo has, of course, been a long time favorite in our house. But just recently, the girls have started covering their own faces with their blankies (or whatever else is laying around) to play with us or each other. It is so cute! Still no forward motion (again, this is totally okay with me!). They can get around okay by pivoting while lying on their tummies. J is best at this. She can really move! They aren't afraid of the penguin blow up toy anymore. In fact they really like it. O started with a virus in her mouth (the doc said it isn't anything serious) and now J has it also. It hurts their mouths to eat, so they aren't eating as well, but they are still nursing fine, so we are sticking with that. Not too much else that I can think of...
Until next time!

9 Months Old

My babies are 9 months old. We had their appointment on Monday and they were great! J weighed in at 19 lb 2.5 oz, 26.75inches. O was 19lb 6.5 oz and 27 inches long. They are not crawling yet (which is just fine with me!), but they can push themselves backwards and J is rolling over like crazy now. We were at lunch with Memere the other day and J waved bye-bye to a little girl...that was a first! And on the way out, they gave me a $5 off coupon because she said I have such well behaved babies! I should have asked for a college fund instead, oh well. :)
J is learning how to do Peek-a-boo. She will hold her blankie up over her face and when you say "Where's J?" she pulls it down, smiling away. Grandma and Grandpa are in Disney World with cousin W. I think the girls really miss them! They will be home Sunday. Can't wait to hear all about it from W. I started going to meetings at a place called Keeping Pace with Multiple Miracles. It seems like it will be a nice support group. They have a playgroup for kids the girls age and hopefully we will get to go at some point. Right now, I am working all of the days that the group meets, but maybe next schedule.

J&O are growing so fast! I can't believe they are 8 1/2 months old. Time is flying (have I mentioned that before????). It has been great being off of work for awhile. I feel like the more time I spend with them, the more time I want to spend with them. They are so amazing. They laugh so easily. Everything is getting easier too. Especially the sleeping. They sleep through the night (although I still have to figure out how to get them to stop waking up at 5 or 6 a.m. to nurse). They still don't nap well, but I have resigned myself to that.

We converted the dining room into a playroom, which I LOVE! The girls like to be in there and it is nice to have all of their toys in one place. They like to play! The toy that Auntie Daphne, Uncle David, Ethan and Lea got them is one of their favorites!

J's new favorite thing is shreiking. She does it when she is happy, sad, frustrated, mad...I think I got one of my sisters kids! She was the shreiker! Oh well.