Alex. The babies have a little bit of curl to their hair. Just the ends though.
Alex stole my phone. He managed to trigger the camera. Here is Alex's first self portrait.
Alex's 2nd self portrait.
I'm pretty sure the babies are going to be dentists when they grow up. They are never as happy as when they get a hand in your mouth. Here is Alex inspecting Cody's teeth.
The babies have learned the joys of drawers. They now open the bottom 2 drawers and empty everything on the floor. Eventually Alex decided to crawl in to the drawer. They sat like this for a while chatting. Ben now also crawls in to the drawer. I've emptied the bottom 2 drawers and put toys and other baby friendly items in there instead.
Alex wanted my phone that was on the recliner. He is too short to climb on it from the front, so he figured out a solution. I didn't catch the first part of this stunt. I looked up and saw him when he was standing on the plastic storage box. I grabbed the camera once I realized he was stable and wasn't going to fall on his head. The real kicker is he happened to be diaperless at the time. Naked baby in the recliner!
I covered up the bits for a congrats baby shot. Good job Alex!
The ice cream cake I made for Cody for his birthday. It looked a little better in real life. Last year, I asked for an ice cream cake. Cody got me one from one of the big ice cream fast food chains. It was completely not what I expected. I wanted cake, ice cream, and a crunchy cookie layer. This year, I decided to make one for Cody. This has 2 layers of chocolate cake, 2 layers of ice cream with a layer of crushed oreos inside. It was topped with an ice cream frosting and crushed peanut butter cups. Basically all of Cody's favorite things. It was delicious. I figured out how to do the layers better after I had already made it. Next cake will be even more awesome.
We had a really, really awful Christmas- New Year's. Both of the babies got a stomach bug of some sort. I spent every. night. for like 9 nights getting thrown up on. While they were sick, they were very tired. Here they are on a blanket together.
Playing with toilet paper. I think Ben in stripes, Alex in solid blue.
I think Alex
One of their gifts from their grandma. Ben stripes Alex solids. It took a lot of effort to get them to sit there together. Even extremely tired, they managed to wrestle with each other on it.
Alex was sick, so Ben took the chance to steal from his pacifier.
Ben Blue Alex white. Christmas morning. They were not very excited by their gifts. We actually didn't buy them anything that we wrapped. Everything under the tree is from someone else. Oops.
I didn't put any ornaments on the tree to avoid them getting hurt. They wouldn't hurt most of our ornaments, but they all have the little metal hooks on them. That metal hook would have been extremely exciting for them. Our cheap fake tree from back in college days sure has been through a lot. It looks a lot more sad with no ornaments.
Alex was not excited by opening things up. We tried to build excitement, but they were not having it. They were both sick at that point, but still. I figured they would love the wrapping paper at least.
Ben
His favorite toy: a fake key to suck on.
Our wonderful neighbors dropped by one day and gave the boys bedding sets for Christmas. They said we wouldn't use them right away, but it will come fast. We ended up opening it on Christmas and using it for them to hang out on while they were sick. They had thrown up on all the other blankets. Gross.
Ben
The boys like sitting in the bouncer from when they were newborns. They will crawl up in it and sit there with a toy. Sometimes this happens. Both babies in one bouncer. I can't believe it can support that much weight. Neither baby was very happy to be touching each other.
Ben got sick about 2 days before Alex, so Alex was sick for about 2 days after Ben felt better. Here is a video of Ben comforting Alex when Ben felt better but Alex was still sick. It makes you wish everyone could have a brother.
We finally got a new mattress. The Queen size was just not cutting it with 2 adults and 2 babies. We now have a gloriously big King size bed. It is a foam mattress, so the bed frame is taller than standard frames. The boys LOVE crawling under it. Only one time did one stop in the middle and cry. I couldn't reach him from either direction. I guess I could have done what I did when Little Bunny hid under the bed: grab a broom and push him out to the other side. I didn't. Eventually he came out on his own.
Playset. Not big enough for 2 babies we've found. They push each other off of it, or dive on brother and kamikaze to the floor. Luckily, one or both of us is always there to catch them. They are getting better, but I still block off the slide and ladder when I'm not around.
They don't like touching.
They both like the tool box. Ben especially likes it. One day he was picking it up and carrying it to a room. He would then put it down to play with other things. When he decided to move on, he would pick up the toolbox and carry it to the next room. All day. Really cute.
Ben heading in to the bathroom
Dishwasher. Constant Battle. They will now not only play with the door, reach in, grab things, etc. They will now crawl on to the door and sit there. Very difficult to get anything done.
Ben got a hold of a nearly full box of cereal. They were Very proud of themselves. Ben yellow Alex orange.
Don't worry Grandma (mom's mom), I may have packaged up anything that wasn't touching the dog bed to feed them later.
We stacked up the chairs while working on the kitchen floor. Ben (I think) crawled in. He looked like he was in baby jail. He couldn't get back out, so I had to rescue him while he was sobbing. He was fine until he tried to stand up and couldn't. Suddenly he was not a happy baby.
My mom and sister got the boys a Teddy Ruxpin bear and accessory kit. Apparently the only toy I liked when I was a child was Teddy Ruxpin. That does sound a lot like me. He has that boring outfit on, so I gave him one of the onesies from the boys. It made Cody tear up. That was the onesie he picked for the babies back before they were born.
Alex wearing dad's hat.
The first time Ben climbed up the slide by himself. This is why it has to be blocked off now.
The first time he climbed the ladder by himself. He can do it way more quickly and gracefully now that he has had practice.
Alex red Ben blue. Playing by the Shop Vac.
They like to play with the curtain together. They play peekaboo with it. Or one will get on each side and they will poke each other through the curtain. They will just laugh and laugh.
Want to know what it is like to have 2 babies? Here it is. One with a hand in your mouth, the other banging their head against yours.
Ben started by banging his head on Cody's. Eventually, he just left it there in a nice little snuggle. This is right before bed, so they were a bit sleepy.
Things have been going well. Other than them being sick for over a week, things have been going well. They are keeping us busy. We are working on weaning them off of formula and on to cow's milk. They are 13 months actual, but they aren't a year adjusted for being premature yet, so I'm giving them a little while longer on formula. They do okay as long as it is not cold. They will drink cold unmixed milk straight from a sippy cup, but when they want a bottle it must be at least room temp.
We did have to get a new furnace. I don't know if I've posted since then. That was a lot of fun. It is no fun to spend that kind of money on something so boring. It was not just boring, but our furnace was still technically working, just quite unsafe, so we had no real interruption of service. It was a bummer to go from having heat +$4000 to having heat without $4000. We now have a furnace that most likely won't kill us though, so there is that.
Our friends across the street had a baby this week. She is a beautiful little girl that our boys can fight over in 12 years or so. Our street has 3 houses. In the last year, it has gotten 3 new babies. Fun!
The babies are sleeping from 8pm- 8am. I really can't express how much I love them for this. It gives Cody enough time to see them after he gets home from work. It allows us a little alone time in the evening before we go to bed, and it gives me a few minutes in the morning before they are awake. Such great babies.
They have also FINALLY consolidated naps. They take 2, hour- hour and a half long naps at 11 and 4. It is a lot better than dealing with 4 naps a day.
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