And SO much has happened! Our computer had to get a few repairs and we have been mostly without one for almost 3 weeks now! Thus the delay in blogging and updating those near and away! But we are back and have some catching up to do!The girls are quickly on their way to 6months old already! Hannah will be four in only 3 short days! And the holidays seem to be approaching quicker than ever! True to form the twins are completely different than Hannah and they LOVE rice cereal! I mean LOVE it! They see their bowls and spoons and start kicking and yelling completely excited! This has been a whole new experience for us as I don't think Hannah ever finished a serving of baby food. She went from nursing straight to finger foods and never looked back to that mushy stuff! We still can't convince her to eat applesauce! Must be a texture thing!
Feeding two at once is quite an experience as well... especially when one baby is patient while the other is quite persistent that she be the only one fed! We found these nifty little spoons that hold the cereal in the handle so you don't have to mess with bowls, spoons, and such. You just give the handle a little squeeze and the cereal oozes out on the spoon ready for a little mouth.... or two little mouths in our case! $6.99 @ Target but priceless in my book! Has made feeding two at the same time a breeze! Also pretty nice to store in the diaper bag and not worry about messes etc... Oh and they are dishwasher safe which is MANDATORY in our house! I mean really.. who has time for dishes anyways!?!?!?
In general... (not always, but usually!) Aspen is quite persistent and Brooke is quite patient :) True to their everyday personalities as well. Although I wonder sometimes... Is Aspen actually a "persistent" eater or just a fast eater while Brooke enjoys sitting back and enjoying every single bite of rice cereal? I mean John can eat a meal at least 15minutes faster than me :) I imagine it's the same thing... just during infancy rather than adulthood! :)
I tried to get by with only one spoon here... As you can see Aspen was quite persistent today! ;) Practicing no patience whatsoever! :)
Although in the end she got the whole spoon! And although she is teary eyed, she is quite satisfied! (That is until she stuck the spoon down her throat and gagged herself!)
This is what the end of a meal looks like for Aspen!
And this is the end of a meal for Brooke! I say overall they stay pretty clean considering all we are up against!
Then it was time for the park! Here Hannah is flying high and loving it! The deal is she has to pump on her own to get started and keep pumping until she reaches John... then he sends her soring! Our way of encouraging Hannah to swing on her own! She really is a great pumper, just prefers the simplicity of hanging on while someone else does the work! ;)
And of course the twins had to have their turn! This was the first day they have ever gone in "Big baby" swings and they loved them! No complaints out of them! Even both took a nap in them at some point! All we could think was "Bummer! Now we are stuck at the park until they wake up!" (Sleep is such a precious thing! We sure don't want to wake two sleeping babies now do we?)
What a carefree day we had. With John home more, we have so much more time to sit back and just enjoy life... and each other. So important for a family! We are so blessed and sometimes life starts to move so fast that we forget it sometimes. It's days like these that we need in order to "reset" and remember what our true priorities are.
The girls continue to refuse to take binkies but will suck on their thumbs anytime they can get them to stay in their mouths! Here they both figured out the perfect angle to keep them in and in they stayed for quite a while! Oh how I wish they took binkies! A habit so much easier to break!
By the end of the day our bodies, souls, and minds were rejuvenated... Just what we needed to face another day in the life of the Daurer's!
Feeding two at once is quite an experience as well... especially when one baby is patient while the other is quite persistent that she be the only one fed! We found these nifty little spoons that hold the cereal in the handle so you don't have to mess with bowls, spoons, and such. You just give the handle a little squeeze and the cereal oozes out on the spoon ready for a little mouth.... or two little mouths in our case! $6.99 @ Target but priceless in my book! Has made feeding two at the same time a breeze! Also pretty nice to store in the diaper bag and not worry about messes etc... Oh and they are dishwasher safe which is MANDATORY in our house! I mean really.. who has time for dishes anyways!?!?!?
In general... (not always, but usually!) Aspen is quite persistent and Brooke is quite patient :) True to their everyday personalities as well. Although I wonder sometimes... Is Aspen actually a "persistent" eater or just a fast eater while Brooke enjoys sitting back and enjoying every single bite of rice cereal? I mean John can eat a meal at least 15minutes faster than me :) I imagine it's the same thing... just during infancy rather than adulthood! :)
I tried to get by with only one spoon here... As you can see Aspen was quite persistent today! ;) Practicing no patience whatsoever! :)
Although in the end she got the whole spoon! And although she is teary eyed, she is quite satisfied! (That is until she stuck the spoon down her throat and gagged herself!)
This is what the end of a meal looks like for Aspen!
And this is the end of a meal for Brooke! I say overall they stay pretty clean considering all we are up against!
Then it was time for the park! Here Hannah is flying high and loving it! The deal is she has to pump on her own to get started and keep pumping until she reaches John... then he sends her soring! Our way of encouraging Hannah to swing on her own! She really is a great pumper, just prefers the simplicity of hanging on while someone else does the work! ;)
And of course the twins had to have their turn! This was the first day they have ever gone in "Big baby" swings and they loved them! No complaints out of them! Even both took a nap in them at some point! All we could think was "Bummer! Now we are stuck at the park until they wake up!" (Sleep is such a precious thing! We sure don't want to wake two sleeping babies now do we?)
What a carefree day we had. With John home more, we have so much more time to sit back and just enjoy life... and each other. So important for a family! We are so blessed and sometimes life starts to move so fast that we forget it sometimes. It's days like these that we need in order to "reset" and remember what our true priorities are.
The girls continue to refuse to take binkies but will suck on their thumbs anytime they can get them to stay in their mouths! Here they both figured out the perfect angle to keep them in and in they stayed for quite a while! Oh how I wish they took binkies! A habit so much easier to break!
By the end of the day our bodies, souls, and minds were rejuvenated... Just what we needed to face another day in the life of the Daurer's!
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