Odds and Ends ~ February 18, 2010

A bonus post since it has been so long! Here are some of my favorite pictures and movies from the last month.


Noisy boys

I'm gonna eat ya!

Matthew dancing

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Haircuts ~ February 18, 2010

My it has been a while since I have posted. The boys continue to grow... everyday they seem to do something different. Matthew is finally crawling, one day he just decided to go and ever since he hasn't stopped! So now we really have our hands full, as one seems to go in one direction while the other is off the opposite way.

Ryan is really smart. We have a gate up in the living room between the couch and the kitchen, keeping the boys out of the kitchen and out the dog bowls and computer wires. Well, Ryan has learned how to pull the gate open at the couch and every once and a while I will hear his excited noises and I turn around and off he goes into the kitchen. He gets really mad when I hold the gate shut too... I can't wait until he starts to move faster! He will be keeping me on my toes.

Matthew, on the other hand, started pulling himself up on everything. As soon as he learned he could crawl, it seemed like the next day he was off and trying to walk already! He is a little stinker too. He pulls himself up on the coffee table, and when I tell him "no" he will look over and laugh at me. Off course, I can't help but laugh too, he's too cute... so that doesn't help matters!

But anyway, back to my post. A few weeks ago I decided that we were going to need an electric hair trimmer, since I will have to cut the boys' hair often, can you believe Ryan has had his hair cut three times already? So the other day we tried the trimmer out on the boys. Here are pictures from that adventure.

And the after pictures:

Ryan could have used a little more cut off, but we were still learning on his haircut. He'll need another one soon enough!

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Peek-a-boo ~ January 27, 2010

Just wanted to post a quick video of Ryan and myself playing peek-a-boo in the car trip up to Chicago a few weeks back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ePyO3OIvA

I have some more pictures and videos to get up soon, hopefully I will get some time this afternoon to post more.

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Laundry Time ~ January 15, 2010

Happy New Year and belated Merry Christmas everyone! Things here have been about the same, busy! Ryan is still keeping us on our toes, getting into everything when we are not watching. He really enjoys the dog's bowls and the knobs on the coffee table. Matthew still isn't moving, but he might be getting close. He likes to bounce on his bottom, scooting just a little when he does. But I think he will be crawling in no time, especially since he sees how much fun his brother has. But Matthew still seems to get into things, even though he doesn't move yet... as you can see in the pictures below. We had just stepped out of the room to get the bottles ready and not even a minute later Matthew decided he wanted to help me out with the clean diapers. ☺

I can't wait until they are big enough to start unloading their dresser drawers!

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On the Move ~ December 14, 2009

My worst fear has arrived... Ryan is moving. I know, it was going to happen eventually... but now life gets much more interesting.

Ahhh! TV Remote!

Attacking mommy

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Ooey Gooey ~ December 12, 2009

Oh the joys of baby food! At least now I have semi-control over the amount of mess the boys make. When they get to the point of feeding themselves, that will be a completely different story! Peanut sure does love this though. She has been getting some cheerios and sweet potato puffs from the boys. Amazingly, Ryan has switched and become my good eater and Matthew has decided that he doesn't like to open his mouth for solids now. But the last couple of days have been a little better with Matthew... maybe this is a teething thing?

If you look closely you can see the teeth cutting through on both boys. Matthew is getting a second tooth already, his bottom left. Ryan has been up a lot the past few nights, and we are hoping this is just from the teething pain. They were sleeping so well before... maybe waking (to the point where I have to get up) once or twice in 8 hours.

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Tub Time ~ December 9, 2009

So, we have two teethers now. Ryan has a tooth visible also, looks like his bottom right is going to cut soon. Now it makes sense why he always has to be chewing on something, including his brother's arm/leg/shoulder. Matthew's bottom left has cut, pretty soon he will have a toothy smile.


We gave them their first tub bath the other night. Ryan had a blast with all the toys and he really loved to splash around. We realized we need the no slip stickers before we try a bath again, because they got pretty slippery especially when they got excited. Here's a video of that. Peanut liked all the toys too and decided she needed a bath after the boys were done. She wasn't as excited about the bath as soon as she realized she didn't get to play with the toys too.


According to the ped's office visit yesterday, Matthew weighs 19 pounds 11 oz, and Ryan is 19 pounds 3 oz. But that was fully clothed, probably with a wet diaper also. ;) I estimate them to be around 18.5 pushing 19 pounds... still growing great!

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