Eight Months

This is really late since my boys turn 9 months tomorro, but I wanted to share some pics... ENJOY!

Lots of updates!

Yikes!  Where does the time go?  So so much has been happening!  Rocco and Maximus are turning 9 months tomorrow! Can you believe it!?  It truly is unbelievable how fast it does go!  Those first three months feel like an eternity with the lack of sleep learning how to be a mother, learning your babies needs and wants then BAM you get it down and they are NINE MONTHS OLD!  Oh how I love them!

My babies are so much fun!  I love my life with them!  Each day they make me smile, each day they make me laugh... of course we have challenging moments, but I wouldn't change a thing!  I am truly BLESSED beyond words with the sweetest most lovable little boys a Mommy could ask for!

Rocco is crawling like crazy, since 7 months, and honestly I think he is going to walk soon.  C started walking when he was 9 months... I'm scared.  This week Rocco learned to pull himself up in his crib, I walked into this in the morning...

Look how proud he is of himself!  Then, with in two more days, he has learned to  pull himself up on just about everything he can grasp, including our back door, he has also climbed up a step from the living room to the foyer.  Thankfully, he is the only one doing this...

Maximus army crawls EVERYWHERE.  I'm not really sure if he will actually crawl, since he is so efficient at army crawling.  He can keep up with Rocco and go from room to room.  He sits up very well but cannot sit-up on his own or go back to to crawl from sitting.  He is in no hurry and neither am I!  Maximus is VERY busy, high energy, so I know that he won't be walking, he'll be RUNNING! Ha!
He is definitely my lil comedian and is so funny!  I have never met a baby like him.

Last week, we FINALLY went back to the RE and the boys got to meet all the nurses, Dr. R, and the Embryologist!  It was SUCH an awesome day!  I brought them a little thank you...

We actually had to go to both offices to see everyone.  I got a little teary going back there and seeing the nurses who were so supportive throughout our IVF process.  It is something that I can NEVER forget!  Going back just reminded me of how far we have come and how emotional the process was.  Anyways, Dr. R got to hold the babies which was so neat to see since he got to hold them as embryos!  I am so mad because I forgot to get a photo :-/  I was so caught up in the moment.  However, I went to go see Kristine, the embryologist, who told me at the transfer, "you have to bring these babies back to see me after you have them, we NEVER see this happen!"  Which I elaborate on HERE, in a previous post from our IVF cycle.  

Kristine had been following our story through the computer, since they update to make sure there was a live birth.  She remembered us IMMEDIATELY and was SO happy to meet the little miracles she helped create.  One thing she said, which surprised me is that we are their MOST SUCCESSFUL case EVER of rescue ICSI because we got twins and that we only had a 2% chance of it working to get ONE BABY, let alone TWINS! What little miracles I have here!!!  She wanted me to take a picture of the three of them so here they are...

It was such an awesome day!  The boys also did so good... I am one PROUD mama!!

Sunday, the boys are getting dedicated to the Lord in church and we are having a celebration lunch back at our new home (which we are LOVING!).  All is good here and we are all just so blessed :)

Seven month photo shoot...

Rocco

Rocco

Rocco

Rocco

Maximus

Maximus

Maximus

Rocco

Rocco

Maximus

Maximus

Rocco and Maximus

Rocco

Rocco and Maximus

These pictures were taken in their NEW NURSERY!  Although you may not be able to tell too much, but their sailboats are on the floor still and things are not totally in their place.  We just moved into our new home exactly one week ago.  It has been very busy!  Everyone, including myself, is adjusting to our new home.  The boys had a few nights of waking up.  I wasn't sure if it was just teething, being in a new environment or a combo?  Either way, things are improving!  I'm still waiting for this new place to feel like home.  The good news is that the boys room DEFINITELY feels like home.  I basically recreated the same nursery and just added the mural, which turned out AMAZING!  Their room is very cozy!  Here are a couple pics...

Can you see Maximus peaking his little head up?

Busy Busy

BUSY!! We have been EXTREMELY busy getting our home ready for moving I haven't had time to breath!  Carpet, paint, getting a new washer dryer, meeting the pool man, Gardner, changing our address, cleaning the new place, and the old place (we are renting our town home out), packing, and of course taking care of my adorable twins!!  Geeze!!

This Sunday is the BIG MOVE and we will be sleeping in our new home.  As excited as I am, it is bitter sweet.  This town home is where we started our lives together as a family.  My husband bought this town home as a bachelor a few months before we met (and yes it WAS a bachelor pad in every aspect.. with beer pictures on the wall and in desperate need of cleaning!), but with a woman's touch and lots of TLC (remodeling) it became our home.  I had always said I wanted to grow out of our home before we moved and I wouldn't until then.  After two and a half years of TTC, we finally did it.  For a while there I really thought we would live in this town home forever!  I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to have children. But low and behold two bouncing babes entered our lives and this home.  We started our family here!

Gods given us the GREATEST two gifts... My sweet babes light up my life every day.  I could not imagine a day without them now!  I am excited to move and see them grow up with more space, and a nice back yard to play in.  I am also recreating their nursery in the new home so there is not so much change for them to endure, plus I LOVE their nursery!  One thing I am adding to their room is a mural my brothers girlfriend is painting for them, which is going to include sky and clouds on the ceiling, a bay with sailboats and a light house behind their cribs.  I am going to move their sailboats with their names over the changing table.  I am also putting wainscoting up again.  Here is a progress pic...

Seeing their room coming together, once again, makes me so excited to start our lives in this new and foreign place we will call home!  We are bringing home with us!

P.S.  We're 7 months old!!!!

And we got the keys!

We got the keys to our NEW HOUSE today!  C and I are both extremely excited!  Although this house is TURN KEY, there is still so much to do!  First we need to replicate the boys room.  I love their nursery so much I don't want to change a thing... except maybe the color of blue.  I'm putting up the wainscoting  again too.  One of the bedrooms I'm making into a playroom for the boys and I'm having my brothers gf paint a mural, she's and artist!  There are a bunch of other little things to do, which I won't bore you with, but I'M STRESSED!!!!

My sis-in-law, who helps us out with cleaning, etc. had emergency surgery Sunday to remove her appendix, she is out for TWO WEEKS!  My brother and sis-in-law welcomed a baby girl, Karis Makana!  She is perfectly beautiful!  However she is in the NICU for breathing help.  Prayers for my baby niece please!  They thought my sis was 38 weeks, and she needed an emergency c-sec for pre-eclampsia (her third time!), however she was a little younger than that.  Anyways, lets just say we have A LOT going on! And no help! UGH!

Here is a pic from today... the first day in our NEW HOME!!!

Solids equals poop!

When I complained about the poop during the newborn phase everyone said "just wait until they start solids!"  I really didn't understand what that meant completely.  I thought that the consistency would obviously be different, and of course the smell, but the frequency?  That had not crossed my mind.

Once the boys started eating solids at about 6 months we have been blessed with uninterrupted sleep.  However, after about a week, their systems started REALLY working again!  I'm back to changing diapers like crazy!  These boys are poop machines and I'm not exaggerating!  At bedtime I change about FOUR diapers!  After bath time and feeding, they poop!  Then at night they wake up because they poop (I put them back to bed with a pacifier), sometimes at 2 in the morning!  And lets not even get into the blowouts! Each baby had a nice one for mommy today! Its poop central here!

Prior to this they were pooping once a day.  I think its getting better and I'm assuming the solids are a shock to their systems and it will eventually even out and hopefully go back to once a day.

Here is a pick of my "poopy" boys I took yesterday...  How can so much poop come from these sweet little angels!?  Its moments like these that make all this poop worth it! ha ha.  They love holding hands!

 

I Just Haven't Felt Like It!

I always said if (when) I had kids, I wouldn't be one of those bloggers who just quit blogging!  I felt like I would have so much more to write about.  I would want to document all that is going on with my baby(ies).  Well, it looks like time and my two little babies have got the best of me.  I dread having to get on the computer... and write!  Why is that?

I would much rather sit on the floor and play with my lil guys.  They are staying awake so much longer now (2 hours!) and then when they do nap, I either have to get ready for the day, clean up, check a couple emails, plan dinner, catch up on the phone with friends, etc.  Lets just say the day gets filled up pretty quick.

I am STILL breastfeeding.  However, I did get VERY sick with Mastitis, plugged ducts and all.  My milk supply took a big hit.  I was in tears thinking I was drying up!  I had a fever of 101.4 body aches and all.  I was about to give up, because I DID MAKE IT 6 MONTHS!  But I some how found the motivation to pump again, take Fenugreek, and drink 1 beer a day.  My milk is back.  However, I am not producing enough to feed two exclusively.  I have one booby boy and one temperamental baby.  Rocco I am exclusively breastfeeding, Maximus I still beast feed in the morning (when I have the most milk) and he also gets 1-2 more bottles of breast milk a day and then the rest formula.  I honestly don't think he was eating enough before, because all of a sudden he is gaining weigh again like a champ.  Rocco is CHUBBY, Maximus was long and lean, but is now filling out some.  He also fought with reflux, and had a slight case of pneumonia (both didn't help with his eating).

I have made all of their baby food.  My freezer is stocked... Organic Yams, Green beans, Peas, Yellow and Green Zucchini, Butternut squash, Acorn squash, Apples, Pears, and Banana's.  They also love their cereal.  It makes me feel so good to give them the best!  I love how VIBRANT the colors are in comparison to store bought baby food (which there is NOTHING wrong with giving your baby!).  However we are saving tons of money by doing this as well.  One jar of earths best is $.99.  They eat three meals a day that would be $6/day!!  I can make 14 servings of organic fresh food for that price!  Plus I enjoy cooking. So its easy:)

My freezer...

Other news...

We bought a house!  It has been an emotional roller coaster.  We did a 60 day escrow.  All was going great, but then 5 days prior to closing my husbands company decides to close the Mortgage dept.  I.E. My husband loses his job.  Luckily, he had a tip off from someone hire up in the company and had another job lined up.  We almost lost the house (MY DREAM HOME!!!!) (due to an employment verification) and we had to cancel the Kauai trip (boo!), but we are currently in beautiful Palm Springs making up for it... our first family VACATION! We get the keys to our new house on March 1, but we aren't going to move in for a couple weeks so we can paint, carpet, etc.

Here is our new home...

Isn't a beauty!?!  We own our town home so we are going to rent it out.  We already have a renter lined up... Thank you Craigslist!

For the boys 5 month photo's we did "Mommy and Me"(Most of the photo's my Mommy)...

Rocco and Maximus

Maximus

Rocco

Maximus's first time on the grass and LOVIN IT!

Rocco's first time on the grass

For their six month photo's we did "Dadddy and Me" (photo's by Mommy)...

I hope you enjoy!!!  Miss you all!!  I'm going to TRY to blog a little more often! :)