2 Months Old & later 9 Weeks 3 Days
I started this post on the 8th of August, when the kids turned 2 months.
Having a slightly emotional afternoon. I’ve been having a few tears as I went thru some photos that I’ll be uploading shortly. I’m just so happy, takes me back to my previous post about being so happy before the kids were born. I’m just overwhelmed with joy and happiness. I honestly don’t see how things could be more perfect.
I have a wonderful husband, he still gets up with me whenever the kids eat first thru the night (like this morning it was 4:30am and he has to get up for work at 6:10ish and we didn’t go back to bed till 5:15). He changes one of the kids and carries them to me and places them in the right positon on the Boppy to be fed. He then stays with me, usually going to sleep, but still stays and then wraps a baby and goes back upstairs to put them into their crib until the next feeding. That was SO helpful when James was being supplemented, but now they are both on demand nursing with only expressed as supplement when we have company or are our or whatever the reason calls for. So he is truely amazing.
Finishing the post on Monday the 13th….
We are good though, I can’t remember somedays where the time went. I seriously feel like they were 1 month the other day and the day before that we were in the hospital having them. I have to stop and enjoy these moments, but I digress sometimes it is hard to remember that in the moment of changing them and feeding them -actually I do stop to gaze at them when they are eat, so I should reflect on that more…. I used to journal while they ate, but James now likes to grab at whatever I have (food, magazine, whatever) so I’ve had to stop. I certainly don’t want to forget these moments.
They’ll go for their 2 month checkup/shots on the 21st, it was the soonest they had two appts back to back I weighed them at a shop we were at on the 1st and Evie was 9lbs 9oz and James 8lbs 11oz. So they are growing well, I think… we took James off his supplement-he was refusing the bottle most times and if not then he’d just loose it all over one of us. He’s been off it for at least 3 weeks now and that first week gained 6oz, so I am positive he’s getting enough from just me to gain.
James it seems has an umbilical hernia-so we aren’t sure now if he had collic, or if that would have caused him pain… all we know is that he was quite upset most ALL DAY for a week or two, but after we took away the formula he got better and better day after day. It was a good two weeks before he was significantly better though. The worst peaked a night where I was up from 10pm till 1:30am with him crying non-stop unless you were walking him around the house … now he’s only really mostly upset at 9pm when he is ready for bed-it’s cute that he lets us know.
The kids are sleeping almost all the way thru the night. Usually from 10pm till between 4 and 5:30am. It depends from day to day.
They both roll over, from belly to back. James has been doing it for about 1 1/2 weeks, Evelyn just did it on Wednesday, when they turned 2 months.
James talks to us ALL the time. Evelyn mostly just grunts but in the last few days she has started to seem to be making new noises.
They both LOVE, though James more to stand. He can actually support himself totally with just our help balancing. He’s going from a sitting postion to standing on our laps.
Evelyn started last night also doing this with her daddy. Both can ‘crawl’ themselves up our stomachs without help and across the blanket or their playmat with our help on their feet.
James is totally loving sitting straight up. So most times after nursing he’ll sit on my lap looking at the world. There is a new photo in the gallery of him and I on the stairs with him just happy as can be.
Evelyn is becoming more vocal in her wants, previously she’d only get upset when she wanted to eat. Last night she got a tish upset when she wanted to stand. 
They both recognize me-the other day James said he saw James watch me put Evelyn in her bouncer which was on the left of his own which he was sitting in. Then he followed me all the way to the right side as I walked past his bouncer and went up the stairs on his right.
They are just too cute and had a big weekend. We went to a friends welcome shower Friday night, they adopted a little girl, Mihret from Ethiopia and only just returned from picking her up from there. She is a doll, tiny tiny thing. She just turned 6 months old and is only 12lbs 6oz. Hoping that our kiddos and she are good friends in the coming years.
Saturday was James’ company picnic at a local park. So they had tones of new faces and places to explore. They did really well, and we were there for almost 3 hours before it was time to head back home for James to take a nap (he’s so good at giving us the I need a nap clue).
It’s going to be another busy week or so for the kids, tomorrow my former co-workers are coming around to see the kids. I think it’ll be at least 6 people, upto 17 though doubtful. Thursday night they’ll be alone with Daddy (I think) as I have another Mother of Multiples get together. Then, Saturday James Uncle John & Aunt Mary are coming from Louisania for a visit, by way of Canada first. They are going to visit James’ Mom and sister first. So we are looking forward to seeing them, it’s been almost 2 years. That means however, that I’m on house cleaning duty this week :) Sunday marks 10 years since James flew to WI to meet me for the first time. I am hoping to attend the Executive Board meeting on Monday for the Multiples Club and Tuesday they goto the Dr. for their nasty shots and the following Friday is the Multiples Club Family Picnic.
Going to work on James making a post, it has been FOREVER and he rambles less than I do plus I think he should weigh in on his prespective, right?
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