5 months have come and gone!

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!

I don't know how he does it...

But John continues to amaze me on a daily basis.... I'm definitely spoiled!

It's incredible what can happen in 2 weeks!

Well since you've heard from us last Aspen has had her helmet sized and fitted. Minus a few growing pains and loss of hair, overall it is going very well! We can already see HUGE improvement and you will be able to see it in the pictures below! She is wearing it 23hours a day and during the 1hour off we wash her head or bathe her and then give her head as many kisses as possible until we put the helmet back on! The other thing is lots of tummy time. Since her helmet adds a lot of weight she is having trouble holding her head up with the helmet on so we are taking it slow!
I found a "Hannah photo shoot" in between all of my pictures and thought I'd share a few... Yep that's a picture of the greatest Husband, Father, and Man alive :)

Sadie licking her chops!

And Mystic taking a bath.... who knows, Hannah may just end up a photographer! She's pretty good for only being 3 on her way to 4!

So here is a side shot of Aspen... Only 2 short weeks ago the back of her head was entirely flat! Flat as a board to be exact! It is starting to round out very nicely!
Brooke

Aspen
And the girls having fun together on their tummies during the hour Aspen's helmet was off..

Here are the girls hanging out as Hannah and I get ready to bake cookies while John paints the playroom, they just woke up and Brooke looks like she is still asleep :)

Aspen is very serious about her toys!

SO excited!

Why not pose with the sprinkles? ;)

I am so grateful for a Husband who listens to my ideas and dreams, and then helps me bring them to reality! We are working really hard at having organization and order at the top of our lists! The office, located right off of the kitchen, is now turning into the playroom so that all of the girls toys have a home (With 3 there are a lot!). When the girls get old enough we will relocate it upstairs in the bonus room but for now we need them close to keep all 4 of our eyes on them!

A short period of instruction time...

and to work Hannah went!

Not exactly like the plan, but it works!

And of course (above Hannah's head) the room was tagged with an H!

We are coming up on 5 months old November 8th and we have NO clue where the time has gone! The girls are getting so big, cute, and chunky! A long way from 4lbs11oz and 5lbs1oz! They are incredibly happy babies and Hannah, John, and I are having so much fun with them. Twins are a challenge, at times we have no clue how we made it through the day especially when they wake up at 4am, but we are continuously blessed by them even at such a young age. We are excited to see what we learn from the both of them as we learn something new from Hannah everyday!

Brooke and Hannah

Hannah and Aspen

Girls girls everywhere, not a drop of blue around!

And here are some videos to enjoy!

We have the changing table right next to the window and the girls love to yell at the trees. Gigantic mobiles when the wind is blowing! So here is Aspen yelling at them!

Brooke has learned to blow bubbles and spit! Lovely! Her shirts are constantly soaked!

Aspen has learned that scooting with her helmet on is a piece of cake and we constantly find her on the other side of the room! She's definitely going to be the "scooter!"

Brooke has learned to roll from her tummy to her back and she will definitely be the "roller!" Oh no! Only 4+ months old and already mobile!


This last one is super cute! As the girls show more and more interest in food we let them gum on some carrots while we were eating lunch... they loved them! If we tried to take them out they threw little fits until we gave them back! You'll hear Brooke in the background start to cry as I let the carrot fall out of her mouth when I was taping Aspen... little Boogers! Maybe they'll be healthy little eaters! Starting off on the right foot for sure!

All in a hard day's work

Now that the twins are playing more these days, they actually love to go to bed. If they are upset and tired all we simply have to do is enter their room and calmness takes over. They are sleeping great in their own crib and generally wake up twice... Once around 2 or 2:30 am and again around 5am. Then they are up for good between 6:30 and 7am which is so hard, especially in the winter months since we haven't changed the clocks yet and it is pitch black when they wake up! The only comfort I get in such early risers is that they are ready for their first nap by 9am!

Their personalities continue to emerge and change all of the time and I'm sure they get sweeter by the day. It's not a coincidence that they are sleeping in the same position, we find the twin bond is stronger than we even imagined and more of a mystery now that we are exposed to it all of the time. The girls eat different amounts at different times yet they poop at the same time (sorry if that is too much info but it baffles us!). It's not as simple as they poop everyday at 12 (I wish it were). If one skips a day they both skip a day... if one poops at 9pm the other poops at 9pm... If it's 11am for one its 11am for the other... Who knows? Don't ask me? No wonder why they study twins so much! It's crazy!