Our week of firsts

The last week we have had a lot of firsts at our house.

Zack started crawling on his knees instead of the army crawling, he figured out how to sit on his own, and he started pulling himself up to standing.

Austin a little over a week ago started saying cracker, Zack can mostly say it. They also both started saying ball and they try to say Zack and they will make some of the animal noises like quack and moo and growling. It's very cute!

They also both discovered themselves in the mirror, twins generally take longer to find themselves because they are basically looking at themselves all day so they don 't really care when they see another baby in the mirror. It has been so funny; Austin loves to kiss himself and makes himself laugh when he's playing in front of the mirror and Zack likes to bonk his head against it and touch hands. They definitely keep us laughing!

This pictures is of Zack right after he pulled himself up for the first time, we were a little slow getting the camera.


This is of Austin just being cute, they were being naughty this night and wouldn't go to bed, but they were absolutely adorable so it's hard to be too mad!

Daddy Son day

I worked last night and I'm on call tonight so Aaron had the boys all day today while I was sleeping. They had fun with their daddy (at least Aaron says they did). Here are some pictures of their day together.

Aaron and the boys wrestling (if you are wondering if the boys are in their pajamas the answer would be yes, I guess that's what happens when their dad is in charge). I think I put out the wrong impression about Aaron, in the year that I have been back to work after having the boys he has done baths and gotten them dressed every time (not always matching clothes, but clothes nonetheless). I just wanted to give him a hard time for not doing it this time, it is the first.

Aaron apparently wouldn't feed the boys so Austin had to result to eating his toys. :)

Austin and Zack love each other, I missed the picture of Austin kissing Zack, he caught me with the camera and wouldn't do it anymore. This is the fun part of having twins!

Update

After 5 doctor visits, 5 hospital visits, 10 blood draws, 2 respiratory tests, 3 chest x-rays, 4 attempts at a urine catheter, 4 times of throwing up, 8 days of 103 fevers, 4 bottles of Ibuprofen, 4 bottles of Tylenol, 70 times taking temperatures, 2 days and still counting of a rash on the chest and back, and multiple calls to and from the pediatrician; Austin and Zack are finally mostly feeling better. After all of those tests we never did figure out what they had; Dr. Clawson thinks it was a virus of some sort, we're just glad it's over! Thank you to everyone for all of the love and concern, it has been a long week and a half, but we are very grateful that it wasn't anything worse and that they are on the mend. I can't wait for winter to be over! Here are some cute pictures of our boys feeling better, they love bath time!

The Good and the Bad

For being in quarantine and not going anywhere since November our boys have been sick an awful lot this winter. If nothing else it proves to us that our boys are definitely high risk and I'm really grateful they are at least getting Synagis ($6000 a month for shots isn't that much money, is it?). With all that said Zack decided to start having fevers of around 103 on Sunday and they have continued through today and Austin decided to join in the fun on Tuesday, we've had a fun week! Their pediatrician Dr. Clawson is stumped and so are we. We have had to go to the doctor and the hospital for blood work, x-rays, and other tests everyday this week except Tuesday and we still haven't figured out what's going on. One of the good things about all of this is Aaron stayed home from work on Wednesday and took a half day Thursday to help me. Another is Austin and Zack have only wanted to cuddle lately which is hard with two because they don't like me to hold them at the same time and they haven't really wanted Aaron, but I do love cuddling with them!



With our fun week me and Aaron decided to not do anything for Valentine's; I should have known though because everytime me and Aaron have decided to not do anything he always still does things and makes me look bad. So when I woke up yesterday he had cards from him and ones the boys had made me in our doorway so I would see them first thing. Then he had put little Spiderman valentine's (he claimed that's what the boys picked) all through the house so I would find them all day with sweet messages from him and the boys. He is wonderful! I love you Aaron!!

The things kids do

Austin and Zack have been sick the last week with colds and so they wouldn't take their afternoon nap for a couple of days (I think because they were having a hard time breathing) so by the time dinner came Austin was very tired! He has never fallen asleep in his chair before and so we were laughing very hard because he kept bobbing his head and was trying so hard to stay awake, he obviously lost the battle.


Austin has apparently decided that he wants to be a leader and not a follower so he has decided crawling isn't original enough and invented his own walk. This picture doesn't do it justice, he looks like an ape, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen!

Zack does the funniest look where he scrunches up his whole face when he is smiling at you, I've been trying to get a picture of it forever, but he doesn't hold it for longer than 1-2 seconds so I haven't been very successful, but here is the best I've been able to get. Angie and my mom will especially attest to how funny it is.