Bad Blogger!

I have been so bad at this blogging thing! I have a ton of stuff that I've been keeping in Word and dated...but alas, I have no way of putting it in here in any order. So, lets just say, the twins are getting big and going on 11 months old now! holy cow!

School started and Sammy is doing well. Neil's teacher is the lady that bought Scott's old house. I only met her briefly. I'll know more when we go for conferences.

I pile the twins in the van every morning and afternoon and take Sammy to school and pick him up. We even walked one day. Sammy wants to walk to school, but apparently our town has no crossing guards. No crossing guards + busy highway= Trouble (with a capital T) Why on earth do they charge for bussing, yet don't provide a crossing guard on such a busy road? I suppose if I were involved in politics and actually went to town meetings or some such thing, I'd find my answer and be able to voice my opinion.

We have been so busy here. The twins are all over everywhere. I can hear them upstairs as we speak- playing nicely in their room. We moved rooms all around. We started out with us in the master bedroom downstairs, and the twins in the other room downstairs and Sammy and Neil each had their own room upstairs. Well, now Scott and I have the small room upstairs, the twins have what was originally the master bedroom upstairs, the older boys have the master bedroom downstairs and the other room is now the office. Let me just say- it has been utter chaos! I think its harder to switch rooms around than it would be to just up and move to a new house! But, what's done is done..and now Sammy isn't jumping up and down on the twins' ceiling while they are trying to nap, and I'm not climbing up and down stairs all day to change diapers and give bottles. Not a perfect world, but will have to do until we can get another house. Maybe all on one floor next time?!

Update on the twins- They are both 75-80% in height and 25-50% in weight. The doc said just keep doing what we're doing! Spencer shakes his head no, says Dada. Corbin does "so big" and growls like a tiger They are both getting a good set of choppers, Corbin is working on #5 and Spencer has 4. They are crawling- this is new the last week or two. They have been army crawling, but Spencer figured out the real thing last week and now its fully natural and Corbin started a couple of "steps" on his knees yesterday. They had some trouble sitting up, but Spencer is a pro at it now and Corbin is getting there in a hurry! Big boys! Where did my babies go?!

Video montage- Look how far they've come!

Spencer and Corbin

Batten down the hatches!

Spencer rolled yesterday! Time to lock down everything and block of all entries! LOL Corbin was well ahead of him, but still hasn't rolled! Spencer rolled yesterday- and then rolled again, and again..... time to baby proof!

They are doing really well eating. We're finishing up a week of barley cereal and before that was oatmeal and we introduced pears too. The previous week was rice, of course. The old standby. I only gave them pears because I had some "hanging around". They have their 6 month check up today and besides shots :-( we'll see how much the chubs' weigh, and get the ok to start other foods (tho I cheated a little with the pears! LOL)

Otherwise, things are settling into a routine now. They still don't sleep completely through the night, but they are close. Some days are better than others. Occasionally they like to sleep in, but then days like this morning they were up for the day at 6:30.

The last day of school is Friday, so Sammy is getting very excited. We're going to have lots of activities to keep him and us busy this summer. We have passes to the pool and the zoo, we have 3 month membership to the YMCA, a summer reading club and activities at the library, swim lessons, summer camp....it just goes on and on!

May days....

Haven't posted in a couple of weeks. Corbin is working really hard at rolling from back to belly! He gets almost all the way over- and if you give a slight nudge, he's there. But, once he's there, he just wants to roll back. =) Spencer hasn't quite figured it out yet, but he's pulling his knees up- so he's getting there.

We moved them into the nursery about 2 weeks ago. They no longer share a crib. The first night was rough on Mommy, she didn't get much sleep, but they both slept really well- until about 5am! We still get up at night between 3 and 5, but I guess 5am is considered sleeping thru the night (in whose definition?!) But, they go back to sleep for a few hours after that, so its ok!

School is almost out and we're winding down the year. Sammy is working on his year end project. Last year was Yu-gi-Oh! and this year its Pokemon. *sigh* Hopefully Sammy will want to research something about the real world soon! =)

no title- just rambling...

Well, Corbin's sleeping thru the night was short-lived. Lasted exactly 1 week. *sigh*

I think he's getting close to letting out a yell...he was testing out his vocals this morning- it was cute!

What was not cute was getting upchucked on twice this morning- once by each! Thanks so much! Then Corbs did it again tonight- and I totally wasn't expecting that one! ick!

We are preparing ourselves for guests again. We bought new furniture Sunday. A sleeper sofa and love seat. Need to sell the leather couch now. Doubt I use Ebay for that! We also bought Sammy a loft bed- he's very excited. Sorry kid, probably won't get set up for awhile! We are so slow with such things! He was so sweet about his current bed tho- said, "Mom, can we save my old bed for the babies? Pop Pop made it and its special" Sweet! Told him we don't have room to save the bed, but we can sure make a shelf out of the headboard for him since his name is on it.

Easter

The Easter Bunny has to get up awful early at our house to get those eggs and basket hidden before Sammy gets up! I think he was up around 5:45am! Goodness. Anyway, the kids had a blast. Of course the twins didn't know what the heck was going on, but we had fun watching them anyway!

We had a wonderful dinner with our friends Brian and Jenni and their kids. It was nice. Jenni made a delicious ham loaf and we had more than enough food!

In other news, Corbin is sleeping through the night continuously now. Spencer is not, however. But, he's getting there.

Sleep filled night!

Wednesday night the twins both slept through the night! Woo Hooo! Spencer went from 10:30 to 5:30 and Corbin went from 8:30 to 7:30!

They had their followup at the hospital and got to see some of their old " buddies" from the NICU, like Dr. B and Sara, Natalie, and Shanna. They are right on target and that was great news!

Sammy did really well at soccer practice yesterday- really focused and trying hard! Good job, Sammy!

Spencer goes for his recheck today on his ear- blown eardrum from an ear infection. Poor little guy- hopefully things will look good today.

Then need to hard boil eggs, make jello jigglers and fruity pebble bunnies, and get ready for the Easter weekend!