Full house leads to the start of full mouths

My Memaw came to visit us this past week from Alabama. Memaw is my Grandma on my Mom's side. It was great to have her here. My Mom and sister also stayed with us. Needless to say, we had a full house.

This was the first time she got to meet the girls. She has been chomping at the bit to get her hands on them. Her husband, my pawpaw, was a twin himself. He had a twin sister. A fun little fact about this is that him and his twin sister were actually his parents 3rd set of twins!! They were the babies of the family. My pawpaw died last year so he never knew that I was pregnant with twins. As far as we know, I am the first family member since my pawpaw's mom, to have twins.

Even at 75 years old, my Memaw sat on the floor and played with the girls every single day. She did everything but change their diapers. I was very impressed!!! Samantha fell asleep on Memaw a few times but this particular time, I took pictures because of the way Samantha was lying. I thought it was SO cute!! Both girls fought sleep a lot with all the commotion going on this past week.


Memaw left today. Her flight was suppose to leave at 5:30 and naturally, it was 2+ hours behind schedule due to bad weather in Atlanta. Sigh...I feel bad because I know she was nervous to begin with and then had to sit on the plane for a couple hours before finally taking off. I just hope the flight itself was smooth.

Here is a picture of Memaw holding both of the girls.

The picture below starts with my brother Jamie, my mom holding Addison, me holding Samantha, Memaw holding Joshua and my sister Kelly in front of us all.


The house is so peaceful right now. I'm laying on one couch with my laptop and Dusty is sitting on the other couch playing pool on the xbox 360. All 3 kids are sleeping and we are taking advantage of the silence. What a crazy week and although I'm happy to be enjoying the silence, I am quite sad that Memaw's visit is already over.

Baby update:

Both girls ended the visit with teeth!! Samantha had her first tooth pop through on Saturday July 26th and Addison's popped through on Sunday the 27th. It pretty much happened with out much complaint from either of them. I expected some major drool and crankiness but that didn't really occur.

Addison and Samantha are starting to scare me with how mobile they are becoming..YIKES!! They aren't crawling but they are rolling around like crazy and Samantha can make it from one side of the living room to the other in just a matter of seconds! Addison got up on all fours today for a split second. They can go from sitting to tummy without falling over... they are actually doing it on purpose.

Addison is babbling a lot too. Her sounds are yayayaya, mamamama, bababababa. They aren't associated with anything yet but it's so cute to hear them. Samantha is our squealer. She is just like mama. I love a good squeal every now and then =) She has also been making a lot of noises too.

-yawn- ok, I'm going to wrap this up now. I'm tired. It's been a long week/day. Good night!

Swimming

The girls went swimming for the first time today! They seemed to really enjoy it. They were so well behaved as we waited for Joshua and Dusty to have some more splashing fun!








They did so well that we are going back on Friday! Thank goodness it has finally gotten warm enough here (for now anyway) Thank you Aunt Dena for having us over!! =)

T-ball

T-ball is going pretty good. Dusty is a little tired of coaching it. Next year will be better when we both can just be "parents" of a t-ball player. It would be nice to have help with the girls every time. Anyway...

I took some pictures. Here are some of my favorite ones. Of course I have to throw in a couple pictures of the girls.

Here is my Mom (GAGA) and Joshua before the game

Josh waiting for his turn at bat

Swing batter batter swing

Addison sitting on Gaga's lap

Samantha sitting with Grandma DD

It was definitely nice to have a couple extra set of hands so I could concentrate more on the game and take some pictures.

Happy 4th of July

Our tradition on the 4th of July is to head out to my dad's house. We usually grab a pancake breakfast during the Fenton Festivities but with having the girls this year, we decided to skip that part. My dad made us waffles with all the fixins at his house instead! They were yummy. We then headed to the parade. We were running a bit late so we ended up having to walk over a mile from our parking spot to the parade. The girls were SO good! They missed their morning nap but you wouldn't have been able to tell. They were so well behaved and smiley.

Here are some pictures.

6 month appt and pictures

Today was the girl's 6 month well baby exam. They are both doing great! They have been staying right in their own growth curve

Addison weighs 17lbs 1oz and is 24.5 inches in length

Length = between percentile 5 and 10
Weight = between percentile 50 and 75
Head Circumference = in percentile 25

Samantha weighs 15lbs 10oz and is 25 inches

Length = between percentile 10 and 25
Weight = between percentile 25 and 50
Head Circumference = in percentile 25

The doctor had some of their vaccines without preservatives, so we went ahead and did two today. Two is our limit per visit. I won't subject the girls to a ridiculous number of pokes. We are in no hurry to vaccinate. They aren't in daycare or anything. They just need to be caught up by kindergarten and that won't be a problem. I did the same thing with Joshua and it worked out great.

Both girls handled the shots better this time than last time. They cried for just a few seconds and were over it. We gave them extra cuddles this evening and all is well.

The doctor gave us the ok for teething biscuits and such. I was a bit shocked because I don't remember giving Josh baby biscuits this early. The girls are doing great with solid foods. Here is a list of what they've had so far. (by the way- I know most of you guys don't care about these types of details, I do this part mostly for my own records.)

Green beans
Sweet potatoes
Butternut Squash
Carrots
Apples
Bananas

We have been taking it slow with the solids but we are going to pick it up a notch. The girls are totally ready. I also love making the food for them.

Both girls are sitting on their own. They do still get a bit wobbly when they are excited. They are grabbing at everything and it's all going straight into their mouths.

We took the girls to Walmart and had their 6 month pictures taken. We were pretty impressed with Walmart's pictures. They were much better than we expected. We spent a fortune but it's SO worth it.

Here are some of our favorites.

I'm one hot mama

But not the way I'd like. I have been extremely sick the past few days. I started running a fever, sore throat and really run down. By Monday morning, I was running an extremely high fever. I topped out at 105.5. I couldn't even move. I just cried. Luckily my Mom had the day off and was able to come over and help with the girls for the first part of the day. Dusty was able to come home from work early too.

I went to the doctor and she was amazed by how sick I was. By the time I got in there, my fever was hovering at 103. My heart rate was 160 and my blood pressure was high. She said I was sicker than the average patient and she wanted me to come back the next day. I left with my scripts and went right home to bed.

I went back to the doctor yesterday for my follow-up. She could see some improvement but still classified me as one sick mama. She asked if Dusty was able to take time off work to help. I told her that he did stay home to help me. She offered to write him a sick note for work because I shouldn't be doing anything but resting and drinking lots of liquids.

I am feeling a bit better today. Dusty took today off work again to help. My throat still really hurts and I'm still exhausted. I don't have much energy. I really hope I'm back to normal tomorrow. I don't have time to be this sick!!

First Food!

We tried green beans on June 1st. The girls were not impressed! lol

I made them myself. I just steamed some green beans and then put them in the blender. I love making my own baby food, it's so easy and cheap!

The first picture is of Samantha. She hated it. She shut her mouth and wouldn't open it back up. She even started to push my hand away, as you can see in the picture.

Addison gave us some nasty faces but still opened her mouth for more!