Oh Baby Baby, Mommy is exhausted

Twins are fun.. really. Lately though I'm so exhausted from trying to keep up with them. Thankfully noone is walking yet. But that Anna sure can crawl rather quickly. Especially to places I don't want her to explore yet. Speaking of crawling, there was a Baby Fair in Boston last weekend and my mom and I took the girls. We had fun. Got some free duckies, and entered Anna in the crawling contests. She did ok... 3rd place in her first race (with 8 other babies) and then 7th (with 6 other babies) in the crawl off since the people running the race messed up and registered 18 babies instead of 9 babies. Oh well.. She had fun. Lily and grandma had fun cheering from the sideline.

I took the girls to a new playspace yesterday in Arlington. It's called Together in Motion and the girls seemed to have fun since they fell asleep on the way home. It's a gym for little ones and their parents. We went to the Tiny Tot Time (0-24 months). Anna had fun exploring with her friends Erica and Autumn. Next time I'm bringing the camera. Lily was content to just watch. Hopefully soon enough she will be mobile enough to enjoy playing there too.

Mommy so needs a nap.... maybe this afternoon when and if the girls take a nap.

Just slightly frustrated

I love my mom.... really I do.. but lately... she's getting on my last nerves. Between the comments about how I parent the girls and her comments about Lee and my relationship as of late, I am so ready to run away.... far far away. I'd even bring the girls with me. Thankfully I am able to get out often and take the girls with me when I can. I can't wait to eventually go HOME.. I'm dying to see the apartment and to see how Lee has set it up. I want to see my kitties. I want MY BED. I miss Lee so much.. I think we have set a record for time apart. Before now the longest we haven't had contact was 11 years ago when Lee went to Kenya with his male family members for 2 weeks.

At least I'm getting quite a bit of knitting done. I might even have one of the baby kimono sweaters done soon. That will be exciting... then I can possibly go back to the blanket project or start baby kimono sweater #2 or start the dresses that I want to make for the girls.

Growing like weeds

My babies are growing bigger everyday.. i went to dress them this morning and quickly found out that the green jumper I was going to have Anna wear wouldn't button up... I could have dealt with this but this was right on the heels of the onesie that i had picked out for her didn't fit either. This led to me going through the clothes AGAIN and weeding out anything that was smaller than 12 months in size. I filled a size 4 diaper box... yikes.

Let's Do the Time Warp Again...

First things first..... I have not fallen off the planet.... I've just been really busy for the last almost month with personal stuff. I've also had quite the social calendar lately. Last weekend I went to my friend C's daughter's Bat Mitzvah. It was mostly in Hebrew which is so not a language that I know or understand. Thankfully the party that night was in English and was amazingly fun. I was so in awe of how poised and grown up MAG has become over the years that I have known her and I've known her since she was basically just a twinkle in C's eye. It's amazing to think that 13 years have passed so quickly. It makes me appreciate my girls so much more. It still floors me that Anna and Lily are 10 months old already. I'm so in awe that less than a year ago they arrived. They were so tiny back then. I can't believe that my little 5lb 9oz and 5lb 6oz babies are now starting to tip the scales at 20lbs each. Before I know it, May will be here along with their first birthday.

Anna (purple sleeves) & Lily (pink sleeves)

Kid Updates

So let's see it's been a while since I've been here to blog.. life has been extremely complicated so I'm not going into it here right now... but for this post at least I'm going to focus on my girls and how they are doing and what they are currently up to.

We had our 9 month appt on Feb 19th and the girls are healthy as anything. Anna weighed in at exactly 19 pounds and Lily weighed in at 18 pounds 9 ounces. They have definitely grown since the 6 month appt back in November. Thankfully at the 9 month appt we had no shots at all so the girls were in a good mood before and after the appt.

Anna has some huge milestones to report. She can crawl, she can pull herself to standing, is starting to cruise the furniture and is no longer eating baby food. She is now a table food eater. She truly enjoys eating real food. She also is starting to sprout some teeth. I finally saw one coming through on the top. So we might be up to 3 teeth for her with maybe 3 more on the way. Anna is starting to talk, just the other day she added the word Mama to her repertoire. This is in addition to Dada and a really exaggerated Ok.

Lily is working on the crawling thing still. She is starting to go backwards. She'll get it eventually. She has joined Anna in the revolt of all things Baby Food related. Though she hasn't figured out that it means that she has to eat real food and not just her bottles of formula. We've recently learned that if you don't look at her while she's eating that she might actually eat something that you put in front of her. She's also starting to fight back when Anna takes toys from her now. Go baby go. Lily is starting to talk a little bit too. Not as much as Anna but she's making her needs known. Thank goodness I am doing Baby Signs with both of the girls. It's been so helpful to know what the girls need and want.