9 Months 11-27-2011

"mom" captured by my talented friend Becky Horton

Time is flying by and these little angels are growing like weeds. Everyday is something new with tons of change. Both are now sitting up without tumbling over. They love their walkers (allowed in the bathroom only on tile), stuffed animals, and putting everything in their mouths.


This month Blake received her helmet. It is the first purple helmet they have ever fitted. She seems to be fine and doing well. I on the other hand had a very hard time with it at first. Actually a really hard time, it made me cry. First outing was a little tough too. I took her to the mall and when I normally get lots of how cutes instead I got double takes. Obviously I was a little sensitive. In order to improve the looks of her helmet and get some use out of all the bows I've bought I decided to glue an attachment to her helmet so I can change out her bows. I think it looks fabulous plus she likes to "coordinate". At least it's not a mushroom belt with a mushroom hat.

Both kids are teething so as a result we have grumpy grumpsters who chew on everything and drool everywhere. They both have one bottom tooth each and are currently working on a second bottom tooth.

They love veggies, rice cereal, and fruit. Carrots are not a favorite of either child. We are working on sign language in order to cut down on the screaming for more food at feeding times. I must admit it is a bit stressful for us during this time. The mess alone and then adding the screaming is at times more than mom can handle. I'm working on it. 

We are continuing our RSV vaccinations each month. Dax recognized the nurse and screamed bloody murder when he saw her. It took a while to calm him after the first shot so she moved onto Blake thinking he would be fine by the time he got the second shot, umm no not at all. The child went into hysterics. Since we are in flu and RSV season we are in another quarantine situation and have been advised to be cautious around small children. Again same reasoning behind the doc pulling the plug on daycare. 


As of November 10th Blake weighed 14 pounds 11 ounces and Dax weighed 18 pounds 5 ounces. He is in 6-12 months and she is in 3-6 months. Sometimes he actually wears 12-18 depending on what it is. Size 3 diapers for him and size 2 for her. Both sleeping through the night, bed time at 7 and like clock work up at 7am. 

Thanksgiving

Dax received his first hair cut by muaw. I think it looks pretty good considering my model is not that still when it comes to cutting. I'm very lucky we did not end up with a bald spot. It's actually kind of addicting because once you get started you just have to keep going to fix what you missed. Overall I think it was a successful cut. Here goes on a throw back...."summer cuttin, having some fun."

My new cut