The Twins at Three Months

Anders and Hadley turned three months old on Valentine's Day.

Hadley wears 3-6-month outfits

Anders is already in 6-month sizes and has been for weeks now

I mostly feed them in this "Table for Two" passed down to us from a friend of Ceci's

Hadley started out as the stronger "tummy timer" but Anders is catching up

What I like to call Hadley's "unibrow skin" gets very dry, so I washed it and dab it with olive oil every few days--
hence the irritated skin above the gummy smile

Anders making one of his old-man-in-baby's-body smirks

Face-to-face tummy time

Have you noticed that they're always wearing bibs?
Hadley is the main offender in the spit-up category, but Anders sometimes surprises us.

Who, me?

Anders' mellow temperament persists--he hates having gas and he won't drink his bottle if he has anything in his diaper, but other than that...you can put him down and walk away feeling confident he can entertain himself.

Hadley, on the other hand, seems to enjoy and demand interaction on a greater scale. In general, she has higher high and lower lows. She's much quicker to smile AND to cry.

Both babies have been sleeping through the night from 7:15ish in the evening until 6:30ish in the morning for a couple of weeks now. We moved them into their bedroom and out of ours (although they're still in their Rock 'n' Play cradles) one week ago and it's been great--and amazing to think we will never again share our room with our kids!

They have begun to like looking at each other;
they definitely light up when they focus on one of our faces, although their big brothers and sister are the greatest attraction of course.

They do three naps a day and I have them on a very strict schedule:
 7am bottle/9am nap/10am bottle/12pm nap/2:30pm bottle/4:30 nap/5:30 bottle/7:15 bedtime

Hadley chugs her bottles; we have to forcibly slow her down and burp her every ounce or two to prevent her Vesuvian spit-up eruptions

Anders sometimes has to be coaxed to take his last couple of ounces at each bottlel
they both take roughly 8 oz in each bottle for a total of 30-32 a day

It feels like we're out of the woods at this three-month mark. I can't wait for the next phase: less spitting up, more sitting up, reducing the naps to two a day so our schedule's more freed up--

all of this as the weather gets warmer and the days get longer so we can actually introduce these babies to the outside world!

Christmas 2013 (Yes, I'm posting all out of order)

A new tradition: the Christmas Eve gift;
this year it was a Playmobil nativity set that we just now (in February) put away.

Dave and the boys stumbled upon this pretty symmetrical gem of a tree
at Volante Farms even though they were about two weeks late to the tree-shopping party--score!

Holy stockings, Batman!

The Christmas morning tumble in front of the tree

Stockings!

A moment of silence as they all inhaled their chocolate...

Will's FAVORITE present of Christmas, his "Pound Puppies"
scarf from Santa

Finn asked for a snowboard and a sled;
Santa must've known he'd never been snowboarding before and got him a snowboard-sled combo to tide him over!

Bridgie's present from Santa was a giant teddy she now calls "the big hungry bear"
(after the book with the same name). She sleeps with it (under it?) every night.

Chocolatey smile

One of the best parts of Christmas with three basically coherent kids:
watching them watch each other open presents.

Bruins lunchbox

Skylanders!
(These are figurines sold specifically to hook up to the video game but
as the boys aren't old enough for video games quite yet, they received them as action figures.)

Grooooooooonk

Perhaps the most enjoyable present of the season was this playtunnel I purchased
for Bridget at the last minute.

Okay. So. Bridget climbed out of her crib for the first (and second and third) time while Dave and Anders were in the hospital together the week before Christmas. My makeshift solution was to heave her mattress onto the floor, but when Dave got home he converted her crib to a toddler bed. And then we gave Bridge a blanket to fit. Rewarding bad behavior? Hm, probably. Oh well.

A Husky for our half-Northeastern legacy kid

The Comenzos gave this headband and tutu set to Bridget when she was born.
They finally fit! 

Bridget got a new comb and brush set to keep those tangles in check.

Nan and Mamp arrived with a very cool addition to Bridget's new big girl bedroom

Here's Rachel, Matt, Bella and Joe

I'm posting a lot of pictures of Bridget, but she is just so smiley it's hard to resist.

Cousins! In matching PJs!

A more candid group shot

Oldest sister, youngest brother

Feeding her new baby doll from Auntie Rache

My sister gave this awesome tee-shirt to Dave. I still laugh when I see this picture.
(Even though I must point out that it is the WOMAN who really "makes" the twins. So if we're handing out gold stars...)

Christmas is exhaaaaaaaausting for Anders

Big boys holding babies

We strangely got no pictures of Nan and Mamp but I promise they were there, brightening spirits all over the place. It was a lovely first Christmas with our complete family of seven and the additional Freeman/Solman/Viola crew. We missed our Noon clan terribly, though, and hope we won't ever have to go another Christmas without seeing them.