Damn I suck at this...

I really suck. I finally decided to log back on and see when I last wrote on the girls' blog. Where did the last six months go? Oh yeah, I have twins...

So much has happened in the last six months. Here are some of the highlights.

• We sleep in our own cribs now and we finally got them out of our room. We started out with both cribs in the same room because of course they would want to sleep together... Yeah right. I'm sure this is just the beginning of wanting their own space. But whatever it is, works for now so we are going with it. Strange part is when the cribs were in our room, Brylee slept through the night and Brooklyn woke up several times. Since they have moved upstairs, they have also switched roles. Lucky us.
• We love eating! Brooklyn's favorites seem to be, well pretty much everything. She eats what she has and usually finishes Brylee's too but seems to really like blueberries. Brylee's favorites are carbs.  They both love watermelon and strawberries.
• Whenever we hear a plane, we point in the sky. You can also ask them where the plane is and they will point to the sky. We also know where our belly button, piggies (toes) and nose are.
• We can wave. Usually only happens when someone is leaving and then followed by a lot of screaming. Yes, we still have abandonment issues.
• We went on our first cruise. Chris, Michelle, Deborah, Kathy and Sandy were all brave enough to join in the fun. It went pretty well. Dinner time not so well. But the girls and their wagon were a hit on the boat.
• The shuttle stopped in Houston on a ferry flight to California and the girls got to come see it!

Here's the another great six months!

WOW... One Year Down

Wow! A year ago today I was sitting in the hospital with absolutely no idea how much my life was about to change in the over the next 24 hours. I was feeling great, super excited that today was finally shower day (after 5 days without one) and getting ready for a long hospital stay. Oh how I was so wrong….

Instead, I welcomed in to the world two beautiful angels (even though it would be another 24 hours till I actually felt good enough to go see them in NICU) and life couldn’t get better. Today…
· Brooklyn has 8 teeth and Brylee is catching up with 4.
· They are both crawling like crazy and pulling themselves up and standing on anything they can hold on to.
· Brooklyn can take about 4 steps before crashing. Brylee is a little too top heavy for that just yet.
· We have a wide array of nicknames for both. Some have come and gone... like Piglet and Poo (yes, there is no “h”, hence you can probably guess where there name came from). Some have slightly stuck… like Feather and Chunk. But apparently Brylee Bear and Brookee have stuck the most (although really not crazy about Brookee so we are welcoming any new names)
· We are getting ready for the girls first birthday party this weekend. Dusty is holding fast that they really don’t need a party because they won’t remember it. Then he decided he wanted a Hello Kitty piñata. Man, if only I could find one of those…
· But most of all, they are growing like crazy and can’t wait for Year #2!

Get out of my box!

The girls love sitting in Simba’s box. I think sometimes they crawl in and just wait for him to come in and see them in it, then start giggling. They are still pretty wobbly and usually it is Brooklyn that falls and hits her head on something, but last weekend, Brylee took a pretty bad fall and hit the corner of the box. It looks like she got in a fight... at least she won.

Wow! What happend to the last two months?

Somehow we flew by the last two months and it's already 2012. Someone asked me last week "so when is the birthday party going to be?" and I responded "who's having a birthday?" So, I guess I need to start planning for that...Christmas went well. The girls loved playing with the bows and wrapping paper... presents not so much but that will come in time. Tracy took some amazing pictures of them that I absolutely love!



Brylee still only has one tooth while Brookly is sporting 8. They are crawling on everything. Pulling on up on anything within reach and tumbling down just as fast. There isn't a day that goes by that Brooklyn doesn't have a bruise somewhere on her.

Thanksgiving 2011

Finally getting around to posting some pictures from Thanksgiving with the family!

Time Flies

I can’t believe my baby girls are 8 months old today. The last few weeks have been full of firsts.

· Both are starting to crawl. They have been rolling for quite awhile and are able to get where they want to go by rolling to their destination, but the crawling is about to take full force.
· Brylee was sitting up on her own (still a little wobbly but getting there)
· Brooklyn got her first two teeth! Brylee isn’t showing any yet but the amount of drool is ridiculous!
· Brooklyn and Brylee had their first fight. For awhile now, Brooklyn has been hogging the toys. We put all of them spread out on the floor next to the girls and when we come back five minutes later, Brooklyn has managed to grab them all and stuff them under her. Well, Brylee finally and enough. Brylee was playing with a book… Brooklyn grabbed it….and Brylee let her know that wasn’t nice.

Halloween

Halloween went well. The girls were ladybugs and actually kept their costumes on longer than expected. The pictures came out good and when Brylee actually smiles, she just lights up the room. We are working on making that happen more often.

On a separte note, a fellow MoM (Mom’s of Multiples) had this as her facebook status today…
“A mother asked me to watch her baby and 2 1/2 year-old because she couldn't fit the stroller inside the restroom. Not a problem. However, I am left wondering if I just look that trustworthy or if she just assumed there was no way that the woman with eight month old twins would be tempted to steal someone else's kids.”

I couldn’t quit laughing (Still grinning) and thought to myself, how true.