Week of 4/7/08

This week was great! The boys are well and Matt and I are on the very tail end of our colds. You'd hardly believe it, but the little angels are quickly becoming little devils. It's becoming impossible to leave them in a room to play. I'm sure you other moms know exactly what I'm saying. As a temporary fix until we can get some gates that will fit our doorways, we've been using our pack-n-play as a holding pen for the boys when we need to get around to do things. They absolutely LOVE to crawl around and observe everything that's around them. They've been pulling themselves up to standing on a few things in the living room and Bryan's even started to shift from standing in front of a game to standing in front of the rocking ottoman to the rocker. It's scary, but really exciting. Of course where there's such bravery, there's also some bumps and bruises. Both boys have fallen back right on their heads or on to their sides. Mostly onto their sides because they'll hold onto whatever they can, but later realize that it's not going to hold them up. We've learned to say "Yeah!!!" and clap when they fall so they don't cry too much. Bryan has learned to climb into the kitchen this week. I grabbed a few pictures so you can see how he's doing it. He's pulled himself up to the step before, but never over the ledge until just this weekend. Love the one-sock look, right? Yes, it's our favorite around here.
He normally gets upset at this point and wants to be picked up, but instead... He started to lift that little leg and he wouldn't give up. It would be up then down, then up then down.. until...
He pulled his other leg up and found a whole new room to explore! He didn't even realize that he did it at first, so he was still a little frustrated, but then it clicked and he took off.

The more he crawled the more upset he got. I think he was worried he was lost. So once he reached the dining room, I picked him up and brought him back to the living room. Back up he went. *I can't wait till we find a gate!!*

Here's a spooky pic. There was a little white orb floating to the left of Bryan and he's looking at it. It's not in any of the other pictures. Maybe Great-Grandma Bryan was helping Bryan up that step!?

The next day, Bryan showed Jonathan how it's done. It was a rotten snowy day, so we were all in sweats, that is until Jonathan decided to go shirtless for awhile. Did you see that drool coming from Bryan's mouth! So when are those teeth coming already!?

Here's just a picture of the twins playing together. They were really good with each other on Sunday. They still don't share and get upset when the other one gets a toy (or person) that they want, but they'll learn eventually, right? Grandma Jean made a discovery this weekend. Any time we want a picture of the boys, we just need to clap and say "yay!" and they look up and smile. This will come in handy! I tried it with this pic.

On Saturday, Grandma Jean was feeding the boys their last stage one food, prunes. I have to say, I was really nervous. What is that going to do to them? Will Matt and I be up all night changing poopy diapers? Oh silly first-time-mom!! They really liked their prunes and we didn't have any accidents that night. Phew! Here's Bryan stylin' a stash-o-prunes. (yes, he's wearing not one, but two bibs. Some foods are messier than others and this was definitely a messy food.)

I'll be sure to update everyone on Thursday for the results of Bryan's ear-tube surgery. Hope it goes well!