Meals in the Field

One of the big traditions of harvest is eating supper in the field.  I only have to make supper 2-3 nights a week, which is kind of nice and it gives the boys some extra time to see Mike.

 The boys had their first meal in the field on October 1.

The menu was simple: Hunts Brothers Pizza, apples with caramel, pumpkin cream cheese cookies (made by Grandma Kathryn),  and yogurt puffs for the boys, but is was the first of many meals that will be eaten out of the back of the traverse.  Something you can only appreciate if you grew up on a farm.  

9 months

To be honest I do not have a ton of pictures or words about this month because I have been spending a lot of time playing with Jax and Jase.  It is amazing how much they have grown and changed this month and what they are learning to do.

Both boys improved their skills this month from getting into the sitting position on their own, to crawling, to pulling up onto their knees and pulling up to standing.  This makes it possible for them to play with each other and interact with each other, which is so fun to watch.

This last month we experienced some sleep regression, which has not been fun.  We went from sleeping through the night to getting up 5-8 times a night.  It was kind of interesting to walk into their nursery and find Jase sitting up in his sleep, but not interesting enough to want to get up multiple times a night.  At the end of this month the sleeping has gotten much better, but it was rough there for a little while.

We have started having the boys sit in the small bathtub and Jax has started splashing around in the tub alot.  Jase is more content to play with (suck on) toys.

We have started doing more finger foods this month too and it is obvious that Jax loves to feed himself.  We have tried puffs, grahm crackers, little pieces of bread, fruit and vegetables.  We aren't ready to get rid of pureed food yet, but I have decided to stop making food, so we don't end up throwing away a lot of food.

I started sending some formula along to daycare, so the boys can get adjusted to a new taste since we will be transitioning away from nursing by the beginning of November.

 Mike and I took a 24 hour trip to Omaha with our friends this month and the boys stayed with Grandma.  We took in a Nebraska Football Game and Mike ran the Omaha Half Marathon.

Jase is our busy body.  He is constantly moving, wiggling and getting into things he shouldn't.  His favorite is crumpling magazines. You can tell he is on the move by the number of bruises on his head from crawling into things and falling when trying to stand.  Jase has shown less interest in nursing and will eat a large amount of solid food.

One day I gave him a different pacifier to play with and he ended up liking it so much he made the switch to a new paci full-time.  

Jase had adopted the nick name "monk" short for monkey, because he is always climbing and moving. 

Jax is our laid back baby and we often referred to him as our cuddler.  He has been a little slower to start moving, but now that he can crawl there is not much stopping him.  He will stop when you tell him "no," but he usually goes right back to what he was doing especially chewing on the remote.

 He will wave his arms and turn his head if he doesn't want to eat what you are offering him and he loves to feed himself.  His 6th tooth came in on August 27.

38 Weeks

Well it's official.  

The boys have been living on the outside longer than they were on the inside.  

Technically they were only inside for 35 weeks and 2 days, but the first couple weeks you aren't actually pregnant whether you do IVF or not, so we will just go with the normal pregnancy schedule.  

For a little bit of a comparison, here are a few pictures.  

I know I have said this before, but I never really felt that huge at the end of my pregnancy because I expected to get bigger yet.  Looking back now I realize I was huge.  

Luckily I feel like my body is getting back to normal.  I'm sure it will never be the same as it was before, but for having twins, I'm happy with where I'm at.    

Splash Park

A few weeks ago we went to the Aurora Splash Park for a little fun with cousins Ava and Will.  Unfortunately I don't have a single picture of Ava or Will because they took off to play as soon as we got there and my hands were kind of full.  

Here are a few pictures from our day. 

Neither of the boys were excited about the water, which was very cold, but they had fun watching the other children.  

 I was probably more wet than the boys were from trying to get them into the water.  

 It was great to have Grandpa Terry and Grandma Karla's extra hands while we were there.  I'm starting to realize that I don't have many pictures of the grandma's though because they are always the ones taking the pictures.  We need to work on that. 

 I may have bumped Jase's head on that green bar.  Oops. 

I am excited to see how these boys play at the splash park next year.  I have a feeling that they will be all over the place and will love the water.  

10 on 10

I finally did a successful 10 on 10 depiction of our day and even did a little extra credit and took 13 pictures.  The editing I did was on my phone with PICLAB, which is a handy little free app.  Enjoy. 

  

4th of July

Here are the long lost photos from the 4th of July.

We went to Stockham for the Annual 4th of July Potluck and spent a little time swinging in the park.  The boys watched the fireworks from their car seats in the pickup since they were pretty loud. It was a great first 4th of July.  

8 Months

Both boys tend to roll on to their left side when they sleep

We attended the Hamilton and York County Fairs.  The boys enjoyed their first cattle show and looking at the different animals. 

We went to a Lincoln Saltdogs game for Henderson Day. 

We attended the Nebraska State Fair.  Out of the eight days that the fair was going, the boys attended 3 days.  More information to come in a later post. 

New foods: peaches, apples, prunes, nectarine, butternut squash, carrots, watermelon, zucchini, Mums, gram crackers.

Both boys go through stages of being messy eaters. Jase has be known to spit food, sticks his fingers in his mouth and then rubs his fingers in his hair.  Jax likes to waves his hands in front of his face, hitting the spoon and sending food flying.  We haven't decided if he is doing this because he doesn't like the food, is trying to sign all done or wants to eat something other than what I am feeding him. 

 

 Both boys have started picking on each other.  

We spent time at the Stauffer Pond. More information to come in a later post. 

There was a lot of rocking back and forth on knees this month.

Both boys can sit well on their own

We did some family jogging/walking/bike riding this month.

Average Daily Schedule

 6:30 am  - Awake, Change clothes, nurse, and play while brother nurses

7:00 – Breakfast of oatmeal with fruit mixed in

7:30- Play

8am – Head to daycare

8:30 - Nap

9:30- – 5-6 oz bottle at daycare

10:00 – Play

12:00 -  I nurse at daycare (the boys phased out this feeding by the end of the month)

12:30 – Eat solids.  Usually a fruit and vegetable (toward the end of the month they had solids prior to me nursing at noon)

1:00 – Nap

3:00- 5-6 oz. bottle.

5:00 – I pick up the boys at daycare

5:30 -  Nurse at home

6:00 – Eat solids.  Usually a fruit and vegetable

7:00-8:00 – Play time

8:30-9:30 – Nurse and Bedtime

Both boys usually wake up at least once at night to nurse.  This may be due to the fact that we cut out nursing at noon and the dream feed at 10:30pm, but they had already been waking up at night, and it didn’t really seem like the wanted these two feedings with the solids they are now getting. 

Moves all over the floor.  Started army crawling on 7/10

Got his first 2 teeth on 7/13

Would not stay still enough to sit, when we put him in that position, until he moved into the sitting position on his own on 7/8 as I was leaving daycare.  It surprised me for the longest time every time I looked over at him and he was sitting. 

Just started clapping his hands at the end of this month

 Third tooth 8/1, 4^th tooth on 8/1, 5^th tooth on 8/16. 

We have been battling constipation this month and as long as he doesn't crawl and loves to eat grahm crackers I think we will still have this problem.  

Is a solid sitter, but very little interest in moving around (unlike his brother) and is very content sitting in one spot. 

Loves the farm themed exersaucer.

Claps his hands very well. He started this trick on 7/5.

After several meals of prodding Jax to eat we learned that he prefers warm food.