Back to Normal

The boys are feeling much better this week.  We saw our pediatrician yesterday and he said they sound perfect and to stop the breathing treatments!  That is excellent news because they really hate them.  And I really hate holding them down for them.  So we're happy to be cleared to leave the house again!

Both boys have both top front teeth in completely now.  I got some cute pictures of our new smiles - the don't look like tiny babies anymore!

This week:  I took both babies to our check up yesterday by myself!!  We all did great!  Jordan is pulling up on everything.  I mean, toys that are 6 inches tall - he's trying to use them to stand up.  I had Aidan in the exersaucer the other day and Jordan was sitting beside it playing.  Then he reached up, grabbed the ridge on the top of the tray, and started to stand up.  I helped, but only a little.  He's crawling backwards, basically.  I keep telling him that he has to learn to crawl first.  When he learns to crawl to the couch, he can pull up on that.  :)  Until then, we sit.  But he's also learned how to get from sitting to his tummy without flopping over.  He's working on pushing back from tummy to sitting.  He also has starting taking steps if you hold his hands.  He walked the width of the rug last night holding my hands.  Here we go!!  Aidan is scooting around on his bottom.  Not exactly the same as crawling or walking, but he gets around ok for now.  He also is trying to pull up, but not near as much.  His balance isn't as good (he's heavier) as Jordan's.

Here's some pictures of us playing last night in our newest set of Baby Legs from Aunt Sassy:

And speaking of being heavy... My back is starting to really give me trouble.  They started outweighing what I could easily carry around about 2 months ago and my back started hurting then.  But if I slept on my back, it would fix overnight.  Not anymore.  And I think I've hurt my shoulder (which is a bad shoulder anyway).  So that's great.  I've got to start doing my yoga again.

Funny thing:  Andrew is a fidgit-er.  Yes, that's a word.  He fidgits all the time.  Tapping toes, picking stuff, flicking stuff.  All the time.  I love him, but I want him to sit still.  How hard is sitting still, right?  :)  I've gotten used to it, for the most part.  But now our kids do it.  It is actually pretty funny.  Aidan does it the most.  He will open and close his hand so that his fingers flick things - different textures, things that spin, anything.  Hilarious.  I need to get it on video.  Today Jordan was holding the belt on his high chair with one hand and flicking it with a finger on the other hand.  It's more like scraping with fingernails sometimes.  They just love the textures of everything.  Aidan does it in bed to put himself to sleep, too; he just opens and closes his hands so that his fingertips scrape the bedsheet.  Love it.

This is Aidan in the Jumperoo - it has a blue spinny-thing that he flicks to make it spin... so serious:

Not so serious.  :)  This is evidently the face that Andrew makes at them all the time.  They do it to me like I'm supposed to do it back.  It's not nearly as funny to them when I do it as it is when Andrew does it.