Quiche

I made my first quiche the other night, successfully I might add! The twins ate the leftovers for breakfast. They are such great eaters!

 Henry

 Mary Catherine

Transistions

The twins are eleven months today. We are going through some transitions around here. They now take one bottle a day after their second nap. They are eating fairly well at least two times a day, and most days it's three times a day. As food becomes more critical, nursing becomes less critical. So, our nursing sessions have definitely included more goofing off and less nursing. Here is a play by play of tonight's nursing session...

Nurse for minute
Mary Catherine decides to poke Henry in the eye
Henry cries
Both go back to nursing for a minute
MC snaps my bra strap
Henry snaps my bra strap
Both Nurse
MC smiles, scrunches up her nose, looks adorable
Nurses again
Henry rears back his head to see if anyone is watching and blows raspberries
Nurses again
MC plays with Henry's hair, tries to poke his eye while nursing
Henry reaches out to touch MC, and she snatches his hand away, and squawks at him
{How dare he?}
Nurses again
MC realizes there are flowers on her pjs, so she stops nursing to touch them and bite them.
Nurses again.
Henry cries out {distracted by Mary Catherine perhaps?}
Nurses again.

Seriously. I'm not even exaggerating. There are other things that I could not even remember that happened in that 15 minute period.

Something New

Today, Mary Catherine pushed herself from her belly into a sitting position.

Yay! Of course, now she has to work on this during nap time and bed time. Jackson came down tonight and asked, "Mommy, Mary Catherine is sitting up in her bed. Did you leave her like that?"

He's very protective of her and wanted to make sure that I had put her bed correctly. Honestly, between the girls and Jackson it's like I have to pass through inspection with everything I do for the babies.

Sharing Isn't Her Thing...

Mary Catherine does not like to share at all. She steals toys from Henry and then squawks at him when he tries to take them back. Here's a video to show her squawking at me.

Two Videos

Here is a video of Mary Catherine scooching forward finally. 

{As always, double click to open the video in youtube so that it will be larger}



The second video is of Henry saying "Pup-Pup".  He sleeps with a doggy named Pup-Pup and we say it each time we lie him down. 

Pay attention to the first few seconds of the video because you can see him say it.  He never says it when Jason is trying to get him to say it, of course. 



The other day, Kinsey started to read him a book that has a dog on the front and when he saw it, he said, "Pup-Pup".  We thought this was pretty cool for him to transfer that knowledge from stuffed animal to book. 

Scooching Along...

Mary Catherine is now moving forward.  I wouldn't call it crawling, but at least she can finally get where she aims to go.  It's more like an army crawl or a scooch combined with a roll. 

I wish I had my video camera right now, but I don't want to get up and leave the twins.  When I leave the room it will change their moods for the worse. 

Not surprisingly, they are fighting over a large bouncy ball.  It is so hilarious.  One of them will get it and try to chew on it or hold it but always drops it because his/her grip isn't that great.  As soon as it's dropped the other twin snatches it up.  If only you could hear the squawking from them when they notice the other twin has the ball. 

Other news is that I'm trying to begin the weaning process to bottles with formula.  It's not going that well with Henry.  Mary Catherine will take a bottle.  I think it's because she takes pacifiers.  Kerrigan transitioned to a bottle easily as well and she took pacifiers.  So, my late afternoon feeding consists of MC taking a bottle while I nurse Henry.  I feel kind of bad, but she doesn't seem to notice or care.  She's always been a quick nurser and doesn't really like to linger or nurse when it's not feeding time.  Henry would hang out nursing all day if I let him. 

My goal is to have them on bottles by the time my milk runs out.  I'm not going to buy any more medicine and I have about one month left of meds.  I take four different medications to keep my milk supply up for the twins.  The twins are 10.5 months, so that should work out okay.  I will nurse in the morning and at night as long as my milk keeps up. 

I am going to wean them to formula for a few months since they are so small.  Once they are eating three meals a day consistently, then I will transition them to milk. 

Teeth

Henry has gotten some top teeth.  He's about to cut his fourth top tooth.  It's hard to see them, so I decided to take a picture with him upside down.