6 Months

 

Time has flown by. I am sad you have gotten so big. Look at your cute faces!

 

5 Months

Hi little babies! You are 5 months old. I can't believe it. You are growing so fast and big. Juliet yo have been grabbing things for a couple of weeks now and are such a grabby little thing....you grab everything. :) It is so cute and fun to see. Jace just started using his hands to grab his toys and things this week.  You both coo and jabber and it is adorable. Juliet you still seems so tiny and little and Jace seems a bit bigger. I don't know how much you weigh, prob a pound and a half different most likely. :) Kason has taken a great loving to you two. He gets in your face and says, "Hi Jace!""Hi Juliet!" It is so cute. :) He rubs your heads and bellies and wants to hold you guys sometimes. The girls carry you around like you are their dolls. They are great helpers when they feel like it.:) Ryder loves you both too and he is cute to see with you since he didn't have much to do with Kason when he was a baby. :) Probably because he was easy going and didn't care much. :) Juliet we got your ears pierced last Sat on the 6th. :) I guess it was your 5 month bday gift. :) You are so cute with your new earrings.:) You have started to just stare at mom and dad a lot. It is so funny. ;) When you are being held you turn your head and cute little eyes and just stare at mom and dad it is so cute. :) I can't believe how fast time flies. I am sad you aren't so little anymore, and just keep growing :(. I don't know if you are our last babies or not and I hate that you are so big. I hate that it is harder to hold you both at the same time. I want to be able to do that forever. You are both so squirmy now it is hard. I miss holding you both in my lap. :( You still grab hands when you are next to each other and I love it. LOVE IT. Sometimes I still can't believe I had twins....and yet here you are. You look nothing a like. Jace you look like Dad and your brothers and Juliet you def. look like me...and perhaps Halle. Or Jayda. It is funny you are so different and great also. :) I love you little pumpkins so much. I just want to cuddle you all day and you are too big for that.:) I just have to settle for you head in the crook of my neck and me kissing on your for only a couple of minutes now instead of for as long as I want. :) You are getting great at holding up your heads and preparing to sit. Things are a little slower since you are #7 and #8 but that is okay, I am happy to keep you young as long as I can. :) I love you dearly.

Motor Skills

So lately you are both wobbly bobblies. :) You squirm around a lot, if I lay you on the floor you squirm your way around and end up all crooked with hands and feet on each other and twisted around. :) Juliet, you discovered how to use your hands this past week. You grab your toys above your seat and grab anything...(which you have since birth) but now you have control over it. :) It is cute. You grab my face and you give open mouth kisses. :) I  look at you and you seem so small and tiny still. You are about 11 lbs and still you are tiny for a little 4 month almost 5 month old. You have the cutest most precious smile and I love it when I earn it. :) You are so sweet and still a good sleeper.

Jace, you haven't found your hands yet except to put them in your mouth or grab your feet to put them in your mouth. :) You still smile so big and it is so precious. You open wide and smile big for kisses. You are growing big, and seem to be hungry all the time. You often have an extra feeding or two that Juliet doesn't. You are so cuddly and I love to just squeeze and love on you.

Both of you watch everyone and see what is going on. You turn your heads and follow us around. You have figured out that you don't want to be sitting in a swing all the time anymore.:) But you both can't quite hold your heads up yet...almost....you just get a little tired. You can almost sit in a bumbo...I would love to write more but Jace is crying and the boys are making a mess in the bathroom, so I must go. Love you both!

Growing

You are both growing so big. You are so much more awake now than before. It is fun to see you looking around and growing so big. You are also so squirmy and moving lots. You are getting around to holding your heads up a little better. You are also doing well with cereal. I am not consistent enough to feed you everyday, but I am working on it. You are doing well learning to eat. Sometimes I wonder how on earth I will tend you both as you grow. It is easy with you small and immobile. Life will be nuts when you start moving around. We have a great routine right now...need to work on overnight...but we are doing good. Love you guys so much and I find myself wishing I could hold and love on you both and squeeze and cuddle all the time. But I can't...def. can't at the same time.
You are too big and squirmy! Juliet you are so dainty and little. You remind me a lot of Sienna and how tiny she is. I suspect you will be  a lot like her. ;) Jace you are so squishy and fun. You are like my little puppy dog...sleep and cuddly and I love it. I love to look at your feet and watch you. You are love to look at your hands and feet and play with them. It is so cute, I love it. :0) I love it when you blabber on about nothing. I love to lay you by each other and see what you do. You always end up touching each other, holding hands, it is so cute. I love to see you smile at each other. I am sad to see you grow so big. I love you both so much and count my blessings every second. Even when I am half asleep. :)

4 months and Counting

You two little crazy angels turned 4 months on the 6th! This past week has been a little difficult. For some reason Jace has been screaming bloody murder to eat every 1 1/2 hrs to 2 and sometimes Juliet also. Night has been the hardest. Usually Juliet does okay, but Jace still wants to eat all the time. I have been starting you both on oatmeal cereal lately and you have been having more bottles lately. It makes it harder for me to do anything when you are so hungry all the time. Besides, I really don't want you to be hungry. :) And I really want to sleep! Neither of you take your binkies at all when you are crying. I have to have a bottle on hand in public because there is no pacifying you...you both just scream so loud and get so mad. Not a good quality, I guess the little patience Jace had in the beginning has vanished :(. We will work it out. I can't really go many places unless I am super prepared...it makes everything a little more challenging. :)

But you are both worth it. I am sad you are getting so big. Your last checkup on the 6th put Jace at 12 lbs 5 oz and Juliet at 10lbs 9oz. You both have almost gained 2lbs exactly. :) Juliet you still a little peanut, but I am glad one of you is still small. :) Jace you will still smile at everyone and brighten the room with that gorgeous smile. Juliet likes to play and when she is in the mood will laugh and kind of grunt and play. :) Both of you are ticklish and will laugh when mom tickles you. :)

It is so fun to have two of you, I find it getting a little more difficult now. You are both wiggly worms..so I have to be sure and buckle you in swings, seats, etc, or you will wiggle out. Also I have to be careful you are both starting to squirm and can roll from front to back, so couches and beds we have to be careful too. You are both close to holding your heads up...not quite yet, but getting better. I think you are a little behind in that regard, because it is not possible for me to hold you both all the time, as a matter of fact, I almost can't hold you both at the same time anymore and that makes me sad. You are too squirmy and big and :( it is sad. I will still try though. :)

I love to have you look at each other and watch the recognition and smiles come to your faces. It is my favorite thing!!! You are both so fun. I love you dearly please stop growing so fast.

And PS Please start sleeping through the night...or at least just better (Jace) :)

Juliet you are crying...I must go..

Almost 4 months

Wow time is flying. You will be 4 months old on the 6th! You both are awake more often and smile constantly. Jace you smile all the time at everyone and anything. You are on smiling auto pilot. Juliet makes people work for it. :) Including me. :) You are getting bigger and wearing 3-6 months clothes now. You still sleep with us and have starting squirming around. Both of you kick your legs like crazy which makes you move around on the bed. You both love to cover your face to sleep and gave both become big screamers when it is time to eat. Jace used to be more patient, but  must have realized he was getting the shaft and eating second, so now it is a toss up and the loser cries loudly. :) By that point a binky just won't cut it. You are both great babies though and generally happy. I think Jace will have a laid back personality like Ryder, he seems to have that carefree attitude a lot. Juliet, you will be interesting. :) You demand attention and love and cuddling often and like I said, make us work for your gorgeous smile. :) I still think if you could talk, you would have a lot to say. Sometimes you make expressions like, "seriously? " or just things I wonder if you are thinking we are ridiculous. :) It is still so much fun to have twins. Several of my friends just had twins and I find myself sad you are growing big so fast and wishing you to stay small. :) You are getting bigger and soon you will be sitting up and too big for me to cuddle you both. But no worries, I will still try. One day a couple of weeks ago I held you both up to look at each other and it was the cutest thing, you finally laid eyes on each other and started smiling so big. :) I only wish I had recorded it. :) So sweet!  I hope you will both be best friends forever. I adore you both and can't kiss you enough.

9 1/2 weeks old

Well my little babies, you are 2 months old and kicking! Really. Jace, you are always kicking out of your nightgowns...maybe because it is a nightgown...:) but you always end up with it around your waste. :) You are both doing so well and good babies. You have your moments like any other baby but you still sleep most of the day.

You are both happy babies and like to smile. I usually sit in my rocker chair and there is a picture of Jesus you adore on the wall. Both of you stare at it and smile big at it. After all it wasn't long ago when you were with Him. I am sure you remember.

Jace, you are so laid back. You usually eat second, and that is because you are patient and usually will wait peacefully, like a good boy. Juliet, you are not. :) You will wail until you are fed or held one. You love to be held. I know it is because in the womb you were pinned to my left side, since Jace was all sprawled out in there. And whenever you are fussy or tired or I am tired and need to go to sleep (and you are not) the solution is always to cuddle you. You love it! :) Sienna was a lot like that too.

You are both such good sports to be numbers 7 and 8 and put up with all these older siblings. Especially a Kason who is tyrannical right now and likes to walk by and smack you on the lack and look at me with a smirk. No worries though, he does the same thing to me and dad...smacks us then smiles. I think he thinks he's funny. But he adores you both and is quite the proficient binky placer when you need it. He also thinks he can pick you up, so we have to stop that right in the beginning. He loves to goo goo at you and smile and you can just tell he loves you dearly.

Every now and then I put you two together on the couch and you heads just cuddle in together right next to each other. It is cute :) I love it. :)

At your two month checkup you were both growing enormously. Juliet weighed in at 8 lbs 15 1/2 ounces, almost 9 lbs! Jace weighed in at 10lbs 5 oz! Yep....Big boy. I knew he felt so much heavier. Especially in a car seat. :)

I can't believe how old you are getting. While I love you so small and little, it is fun to see you awake more and smiling and gaining personalities. You are both such a blessing. I just can't kiss your little cute faces enough. :)