Ben::Abby::Will: October 2014

Splish Splash We Are Taking A Bath

The babies are finally strong enough to sit up in their bath seats-a day Ben has been waiting for! The other night they all took a bath together! They all had a BLAST! I see many many more nights like this in our future!

Babies:: 30 Weeks

Abby weighs 15.5 lbs
Will weighs 19.4 lbs
Babies hate peas
Will now rolls all over the place

House # 6

A few weeks back we went to look at a house that had just come back on the market. We have been talking ever since we found out I was pregnant with twins that we would need to move sooner than later to keep our sanity. We have gone and looked at a handful of houses the past year but nothing that we really liked enough to actually put our house on the market. But then a 4 bedroom brick colonial on a golf course came on and we decided we should go look. No harm in looking right? Well we looked and we loved. Its a diamond in the rough-wallpaper in almost every single room and lots of carpet and super old appliances. But Vince & I can see past all that in a house. We can envision what we can make it be. As long as the bones are good we can do it. It hit a lot of our must have's list like 4 bedrooms, big kitchen, flat driveway. So we decided we would put our house on the market and see if we would get any bites-if we did then it was a sign to move forward and put an offer in on the new one. Well we didn't break our 24 hour selling record but we did sell it in 5 days. So we put in an offer on the new house and finally came to an agreement. Then after inspections on both and battling back and forth with the buyers and the seller with threats to walk away from both deals we finally all compromised and moved forward. So we have 19 days now to pack up our whole house and move into our new house! Ben is beyond excited! He loves his new room or as he calls it "his ducky room"-yep it has 3 different wallpaper designs one of which is a mallard duck boarder. Ugh.

Babies 1st Bites

Well I had postponed it as long as I could but then the "mommy guilt" started to set in and I decided we had waited long enough it was time to start the babies on solid foods. I had been dreading this day for so long...the mess, the added daily baby "chore", and did I mention the messes x 2! I had been giving them Puffs & Cheerios the past few weeks trying to keep them happy. Will was a huge fan from the get go. Abby had to warm up to them but now can't get enough! So last Friday I decided that today was the day and mixed up some oatmeal for them. No a huge surprise but neither of them were a fan so I mixed in some baby food thinking it might help but no they looked at me like I was trying to poison them. Over the past week I have come to learn that they want people food not baby food. They seriously ate almost all of my baked sweet potato the other night but when I tried to give them baby sweet potatoes they spit them back at me. Tonight I finally got them to happily eat some baby oatmeal with baby pureed bananas in it so hopefully we can all find a happy medium between baby & people food!

Babies:: 29 Weeks

Both babies started solids

Both babies can sit in shopping carts

Both love drinking water from zippy cups

Abby's 6 Month Heart Check

Abby had her 6 month cardiology check up a few weeks back. We had a slight scheduling mishap and ended up seeing a different doctor. We saw Dr. Birnbaum-I was kind of excited to see someone else to get their take on the situation. First Abby had her echo which she did great in. She fell asleep about 10 minutes into it! Then we saw Dr. Birnbaum. He said that things are status quo. We talked about the potential of surgery and the hows, whens, and whys. The safest way would be using a catheter through her thigh the only problem is that the catheter only comes in one size so we need our tiny Abby to do some big growing so her veins are bigger and her heart will be larger. So we have a few more years before we have to do the surgery. Dr. Birnbaum assured us yet again that she is just fine and has no restrictions. She can run and chase her brothers around and we don't have to worry. He said the issues with her heart would become a real issue when she's in her 20's or 30's so that made me feel better that we know about it now and it will be fixed long before she's even in grade school. So for now we just continue to monitor her every 3 months at Children's Mercy.