Happy 4 months babies!

I can’t believe you are 4 months today! We love you both so very much!!!

Transitioning to the crib

I should preface this by saying that Maddy slept in her bassinet til she was like 6 to 8 months, yeah way too long but I am a total suck what can I say. ;) When the twins came home we tried the crib the first night (in our room) and they hated it, although they hated everything that first night home, somehow they ended up in the bassinet side by side and there they have stayed ever since…they will be 4 months tomorrow.

 

So while hubby is off on vacation we decided to try to transition them to their crib finally, you know…before they fall through the bottom of the bassinet due to their combined weight and break some of their cute little body parts that I would miss too much. If the bassinet was rated for their weight you know they’d still be in there haha! So we tried the night before last night, it was a miserable failure! Mr Jackson hated it and cried most of the night off and on and as in true fashion when he finally stopped towards the early morning Miss Jae started up. Wow we were seriously lacking sleep yesterday and so were the babes. Now you would think that would make for a great day in which they would catch up on their missing sleep but that was not the case. It was a horrible day and seriously had us scrambling for ideas on how to make them more cozy in their new home.

 

So Maddy and I went out shopping to try and find some stuff to make the twins, once again, snug as two bugs in 1 rug (did you like that? heehee, cuz seriously you almost needed a shoehorn to get them outta the bassinet.)

 

Off we went to walmart, I seriously hate this store and have been trying not to go there lately, it’s a long story and someday I’ll fill you all in on my love hate relationship that is wally-world but for now I need to stay on topic. ;) $50 later I bought one of these thinking we could lay it in the crib and they could still be snug as a bug in 1 rug (i’m gonna wear out the cuteness on that if I keep saying that aren’t I?).  The 2 of them actually did fit in there side by side…ahem snug-ly.

We didn’t use it and it’s going back today.

 

I was also looking for a bumper pad for the crib to help make them feel more secure and I thought I had seen them sold separately but no such luck. I searched the mall and they only came in bedding sets, so what’s a mom to do? Buy a bedding set of course! Now to most moms this would be thrilling but to me this is a choice that will shape the entire personality and life of the new baby, this is not something to be taken lightly if it will shape their whole future…no? you don’t think so? Well I don’t actually either but you would think I did by how much thought and indecisiveness goes into making a purchase like this for me, ugh I’m slightly on a tangent here.

 

Anyway, we needed a bumper pad and so I had to make my decision and fast. No internet shopping for the perfect set and waiting for it to arrive, no browsing through the catalog and getting it just right, nope just buy it now and take it home which in this town (especially when you’re me) is next to impossible.

 

While I was at Sears I had seen a boy set there that I liked before, sure enough it was still there, they had one left. I grabbed it, put it back, grabbed it, put it back and then decided to take a picture of it and the others so I cold go home empty handed and make my hubby help me decide. (poor man!) I made it a few hundred feet away and decided to just throw caution to the wind, to heck with it, make my hubby proud…I’d just BUY IT, cue the music! So I turned around, scooped it up and took it to the register. (I did of course ask if they had the matching mobile, they didn’t darn it, but I found one on ebay, my life is now complete hahaha!) So here is a terrible picture of what it looks like.  It really is cute in person and the cars and planes are pieced together out of felt. (It was a great buy too!)

 

 

For now the 2 of them will sleep in one crib so that leaves me with a few more months to find “just the right set” for Jae rofl *wink *.

 

I really do like this set, although that didn’t stop me from second guessing it when I got home and showed it to hubby. By then I had realized that I could probably borrow a bumper pad from a friend and take our time ordering the perfect set online, he convinced me it was just right for our little man…see why I need him?! HAHA!

 

Update: I started writing this post a few days ago and just finished it today. I am happy to say that after all of the hulabaloo over bedding and making their crib cozy with their new diggs they decided they liked it yay! It was only one awful night and I am so proud of them for moving to their big bed. :) Now what do I do with the used moses basket we bought to fit in the crib rofl?!

Twin Moments

Last night hubby and I were each holding a baby, we stood in front of eachother and they actually seemed to really see eachother for the first time! They each smiled and started cooing to eachother, it made our hearts melt amidst the chaos! Thank god for these moments. ;)

Santa Pics

As you can tell my the radio silence (to say things have been busy around here is a huge understatement! ;) I will be working on a few posts for you all with recaps of Christmas and such but here are a few pics of the kids with Santa to tide you over (is that how you spell and say that? seriously I would hate to be one of those people who says stuff like “for all intensive purposes” rotflmbo! Oh well if I’m wrong I can blame it on the fact that my kids have sucked my brain away heehee!)

 

Maddy loves Santa, until she meets him in person that is, what a little cutie!

Mommy and Santa or “tanta” as Mads would say, trying to bribe her with a candy cane and coloring book…didn’t work haha. Well since she isn’t freaking out still I guess I should say it worked a little bit now shouldn’t I?

Trick photography as suggested by Mrs Santa, she’s actually sitting on my knee but it looks like she’s sitting with Santa. ;)

 

And here are the twins aka Mr and Mrs Clause. Adorable!

 

These are probably the best pictures of Christmas, no family photo this year as all the kids were sick except Kelsey and we literally had to run out after Christmas dinner due to a frantically screaming child, ironically that’s how we started Christmas dinner hahahaha! Hopefully more to come soon and since it’s new years day Happy New Year to all my friends and family, I hope 2010 brings you more than you could ever want!

Commence Radio Silence

Well it appears my right arm (aka my netbook) has decided to take a holiday vacation despite how much I rely on and love it. Apparently it no longer wishes to be used to leisurely surf the net as I nurse/feed babies or while I cook, displaying those gorgeous recipes I love to at least drool over even if I don’t cook them for my loving family, finicky friend isn’t it?! LOL! So expect radio silence for a while as I can’t get to my desktop a lot. It is still under warranty but who knows how long they’ll have it, guess that’s better than no warranty at all and no netbook at all.  I am off to start my grieving process now. :(

For your viewing pleasure

I have finally found a few seconds to upload some cute video clips. First and foremost Maddy is WALKING!!! Ok so it’s still only 1/3 of the time so far but that is a step in the right direction considering she is 3 days shy of 18 months. What a girl! She is the light of our lives!

 

Oh and before you enjoy these videos please please disregard my awful mommy on video sing songy voice yikes…its baaadddd! ;)

 

Maddy Walks!!!

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In keeping with the season and to have some fun we bought some of those vinyl cling-ons and Mads sure does love them. She even knows who Santa is check it out its adorable. :)

 

Santa

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Jae is our high maintenance baby just like her sister Maddy was. She doesn’t talk much yet, although sometimes she may be and it just sounds like her cranky noises so we don’t pick up on it. You really have to see her face to know if she’s happy or not LOL but we caught her here talking. When she does smile though it lights up her entire face, she is such a beauty! Oh and her poor little face in this video, the night before I had put some new cream on her since she seemed to have some pretty bad eczema and wow did it turn her red, I mean fire hydrant red. I felt sooooo bad! (So much for baby eczema care lotion!) So as you see her face here, keep in mind this is the day after. :(  We were going to the doc the next day anyway so it worked out great, we got some hydrocortisone cream prescription to apply once a day and some glaxal base cream to use the rest of the time (at every diaper change I’m doing) and she looks like a new girl! Perfect skin! Anyway, she’s adorable check her out!

 

Jae Talks

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And last but certainly not least is my little man Jackson! Oh my how a little man can melt a mommy’s heart! I am so blessed!!! This is the first time he is sitting in his bumbo, a chair that lets babies sit upright when they can hold their head up. As with Maddy the twins get to sit in theirs for a few minutes a day and build up their strength for longer play sessions. Maddy used to sit in hers and rifle through her toybox and smash the toys on the accompanying tray at quite a young age, it was adorable and I just can’t wait til these little ones can too. Jackson is quite the little talker (he is also my happy baby) and I just love watching him and listening to him talk. So here he is, mommy’s little man!

 

Jackson talks

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And with that I am off. I hope you all enjoyed these videos. 

I don't have much time

but after getting "lost" in a grief forum at a regular forum I frequent and finiding out someone who was pregnant and due around the same time as me lost one of their twins I just have to publicly say...
I am the luckiest mom on the face of the planet to have 4 happy healthy children. Having twins could have had a far different outcome than 2 happy healthy beautiful babies and I am just so thankful for these little joys that I am blessed with, all 4 of my kids! Those 4 sweet faces, among the chaos I am blessed! With all my ranting and laughing and complaining I may do here about my crazy life, I wouldn't trade any one of them for the world!!!!