Stats and Pictures

Well, no one ever put a bottle in front of Nicole that she couldn't finish, right? My little eater is in the 90th percentile for weight. Go figure. I think we were kind of expecting that. They aren't concerned yet though because she went up in all the percentiles, indicating that she's just growing. I'm certainly not going to be upping her formula intake anytime soon though. HA!!! She's 75th percentile for height. Awesome. I think that's great that she might be tall.

Kaitlyn is 60th percentile for weight and 55th percentile for height. Those are both improvements from last time too. I was particularly pleased to see her height go up.

So, what does that mean? Well, Nicole weighs 15lbs 12oz - that's exactly a 10 pound gain in her lifetime. And she's 25 inches long. Kaitlyn weighs an even 14 pounds. That's not quite 10 pounds for her yet, but it's close (4-9 at birth). Boy, I can tell a difference when I hold them too. Kaitlyn is definitely lighter. Kaitlyn was 24 1/4 inches long. She's gaining on bigger little sis!!!

Here are some pictures of the girls in their Halloween costumes that we took this weekend. Our neighborhood had a Halloween parade followed by pizza and drinks at the clubhouse. I organized it!!! Mom of the year, right, cause my kids really aren't even old enough to participate. :-) I enjoyed it. (I stole the idea from Brad and Ceylese's neighborhood, who also had their parade the following day, so the babies were actually in two parades this weekend.) We were elephants. How funny!!!

above: Kaitlyn - how adorable. And below: Nicole, also adorable. See how we're starting to figure out that we have hands. They're actually now starting to grab at things rather than have us put something in their hands to hold. Very good progress.

And just a few other random pictures. In order, Kaitlyn, then Nicole - this is their CNN outfit by the way. Not a great view, but you can get the idea well enough to possibly recognize them if you see it. There's another photo below with both of them wearing it.

Nice drool!!!!

Below: K on left, N on right, then opposite for next photo. Then, the last three are all K on left, and N on right.

4 Month Appt Today

Check back tomorrow for stats. I'm excited to find out how they're growing. It's obvious that they're both putting on weight, but I'm curious how much. I'm particularly interested in Nicole since she's my eating champ!!!!

FOUR Months Old!!! Whoo Hooo!!!

Nothing big to report. Just excited that my babies are 4 months old today. We have our doctor appointment next week. More shots. Boo hoo for mommy.

A Big Moment!!!! Take Two!!!!

Nicole rolled over tonight from her belly to her back. YEAH NICOLE!!!!!!!!! And Kaitlyn seems to be getting better at it. I hadn't seen her do it since the initial evening. Joanna (our nanny) said she saw it one time last week. Anyway, I saw her do it three times tonight. Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

How fun that we get to see all of this twice. Although this might be our only shot at all of this. We may not get to do it again like some of you in two or three more years. The jury is still out on that one....

Just Throwing This Out There

Two favors:

1) My brother has a friend looking for a job in IT. If anyone has a heads up on an opening, please let me know.

2) My nanny needs a car. We've been able to work stuff out for a while, as I knew she didn't have a car when I hired her. She said she thought it would take about a month to buy one. It's only been three weeks, but every lead they've followed up hasn't panned out. She doesn't have a lot to spend...probably $4,000 or less. If anyone knows of a friend trying to sell a car, please let me know. She would prefer 4 doors (and so would I since she'll probably take my twins out at some date way in the future).

CNN Film Stars!!!

I told everyone a while back to keep your eyes peeled on CNN for my girls but I never told you the story behind it. Here goes, because Michelle told me the other day that she was pretty sure she saw them on CNN. Their first formal TV debut. How Fun!!!

I have a friend,Trisha, who works at CNN. That's my "in" and why the girls were chosen. Basically, CNN was doing some story about infants, and they always keep stock footage of lots of things so that when stories come up, they just go to their film archives instead of having to go out and shoot film on short notice for emerging stories. Anyway, when they did this infant story a while back, the producers (or someone) was disappointed according to Trisha, as their infant stock footage was nearly 10 years old at this point. They felt like they needed a fresh film approach and more current stuff. So, the girl they asked to gather the footage sent out an email to several of her CNN friends (one of whom is Trisha), asking if they knew anyone with infants that could be filmed. Trisha called me and asked if I'd mind if they taped Kaitlyn and Nicole. Of course I didn't mind.

So, CNN came out to our house for about 45 minutes one afternoon while I was still on leave and taped them in their cribs, me changing their clothes, them doing tummy time on their boppy pillows, them in their stroller and them on their activity mat. I believe I was the only set of twins that they taped, and the girl said she was only taping about 5 families. So, there's a really good chance that if you ever see a story regarding infants on CNN that my girls will be a part of the film footage. And if you see twins, it's almost a shoe in that it's Kaitlyn and Nicole.

Just so you can be a little more sure, when they were in their cribs, they were just in PJs and filmed individually. I don't remember what the PJs looked like. So, that's anyones guess; however, our furniture is dark wood, and we've got the white bead board with green walls. And their bedding is yellow, green and pink. But after I changed them, all film was taken of them wearing a khaki jumper dress with pink embriodered flowers on it and a pink floral onesie under the jumper. I didn't get around to putting socks on them. Bad mommy. :-( So, if you see some barefoot twins with a khaki jumper on, that's them. Some of the shots, they zoomed in to just get one child at a time, so even if you don't see twins, it still could be one of them.

And I was wearing black pants and a black, white and red striped shirt. Michelle said that's how she figured out it was them (cause she saw the Georgia colored top and figured that was me). I assure you I didn't wear Georgia colors on purpose. I was still on maternity leave with some baby weight and black is a flattering color. :-)

Our stoller is black and white, our activity mat is yellow and has the design of a lion's head on it, and our boppy pillows are covered one in a hot pink print and the other in a purple print. Those should be some additional clues if you were curious.

Bye, and keep watching!!!!

A Big Moment!!!!

Kaitlyn rolled over tonight from her belly to her back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! We were getting ready for bath time, and I figured, hey, why not some tummy time. So, I laid out a pillow and propped their arms and torso on the pillow with their hips and legs hanging off onto the mattress (just to give them a little height to see better). Kaitlyn looked like she might actually roll over, so I quickly grabbed Nicole (as she was in Kaitlyn's path). Sure enough, she rolled over. I yelled for Mike. He ran in and I thought, no way she'll do it again. She did! We tried a third time. Again!!! So, then I was thinking, is it the pillow? Does it give her momentum? So, I put her just on the mattress. She did it a 4th time. HOLY COW!!! She didn't do it a 5th time when we tried, but hey. This was a fantastic night.

We of course tried with Nicole many times thinking they might both roll over at the same time. Not quite yet. She'll get there though.

Here are some pumpkin patch pictures.

Our first ever hay ride. What fun!!!

This next one is my absolute favorite. We tried to prop them up against a pumpkin so we could have a photo of just them without us in it. Didn't go so well as you can see. I love it!!!

And Elizabeth, I'll be thinking about you tomorrow. If you need a friend, just call.

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

Dum, diddie, dum, diddie, dum, dum, dum. (That's an old kids' book that I had when I was little.)

Anyway, back to the point. We've definitely found our hands, fingers and thumbs in our house. Kaitlyn has turned into quite the thumb sucker. It's SO CUTE!!! She doesn't curl her fingers in a fist when she sucks, so her four fingers just kind of consume her whole face. I have a picture of her a while back in an older post. (Of course I have more pictures too that I can post soon.) However, back then, it was just kind of a random thing. Now it's all the time.

And as for Nicole, she doesn't thumb suck. She just sucks her whole fist. It's so funny. She opens up really wide and tries to shover her whole fist in her mouth. That obviously doesn't work, so she ends up sucking on what she can.

And they've both figured out saliva. Boy, the drool is crazy. So, when their hands, fingers, thumbs, whatever come out of their mouth, of course, they're soaked with spit. Ah, the joys of parenthood. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

Last thing, we went to a pumpkin patch this weekend with my whole family. It was toward North Georgia. In hind sight, we should have made it a weekend up at the lake as well because we were probably more than half way there, but oh well. Anyway, I have lots of cute photos from that. I'll post them tonight or tomorrow when I get home.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

I celebrated my birthday this weekend. I'm getting up there. Kaitlyn and Nicole got me a very cute picture collage (one for each of them) to put on my desk AT WORK...boo hoo on that. I love them. They're so cute: the girls and the pictures. :-)

I'm adjusting at work. I haven't cried since the first day. I do go home at lunch though. I'm planning to cut back this week and maybe only go home 3 or 4 times. Then next week, I'll try to cut back to 2 or 3 times and so on. I do plan to go home one day every week though on a regular basis. Why not do it if you're lucky enough to live close to work, right?