Tummy Time

They look a little bit alike, no?

(Jacob's on the left, as in the previous several photos)

Four Months

If 3 was the hand-eating month, let 4 go on record as the month for ear-to-ear grins. Such fun!! To me, they're looking more and more alike every day. If it weren't for Joshua's few leftover long locks (that never fell out), I'd really have to stop and think hard about who's who.
The little guys had their 4-month well visit this morning. Jacob has caught up with Joshua on length (25", 50th percentile) and head size (17", 72nd percentile) and is gaining ground on their weight difference. Joshua is 17lbs 5oz (88%) and Jacob is 16lbs 4 oz (75%). Both handled their shots like the little troopers that they are, and now mommy is enjoying a rare day at home with two babies. Think I can get them both down at the same time and sneak in a nap? I'm not going to hold my breath... The sleeping one just yelled out. Time to go!

Check out that vertical

Pure Glee.
 
Here, let me zoom that in for you.

Duck, Duck, Goose

Noah learned Duck, Duck, Goose at school and eagerly awaited his cousins' visit so they could play with him. The 10 to 14 year-olds are so sweet to humor their little cousin!

Smiles x 2!

It's pretty easy to tease a smile out of these happy boys lately, so finally I got some double smiley photos! Can you tell who's who?

First Week of "School"

 

Noah and Mia started school this week (preschool, daycare, whatever you want to call it). They are both loving the playtime and being around kids their own age. If you ask Noah what his favorite part is, every day he'll tell you "naptime!" The first day he didn't sleep during naptime, and he woke up Tuesday morning still exhausted. It was a struggle (haha, at the time it felt more like WWIII) trying to get him out of pajamas, but by the time we were ready to walk out the door --later than planned, of course-- he was fine. Guess what day 3 was??? Pajama day! We all laughed at the irony of that one. Days 2-5 he took a good long, much-needed nap, thank goodness. We celebrated the first day, and later the first week, with a trip to Baskin Robbins, where Noah pointed out the have 32 flavors, not 31. Gotta love it.

Joshua and Jacob have spent this week with the home daycare provider that has watched the big two since Noah was 8 months old. Thankfully, it was not their first week also; they've been visiting her a few days a week for the past month or so. That's going well, by every measure I've got: Ms. D enjoys having them, they're no more or less fussy on post-daycare evenings/nights, and they're drinking their milk just fine.

My own classes don't start till tomorrow, but I'll be optimistic and say we might be able to pull this off.

Mom & Babies

I don't know that I've had a photo with these two since we left the hospital. Thanks, Mom/Grandma, for thinking to snap this one.
 

HEBuddy

Gotta say, HEB is pretty brilliant for all the marketing they do to kids. Mine beg to go to the grocery store!

3 months

Three months.
 

Henceforth known as the hand-eating stage.
 

Joshua smiling.
 

Jacob smiling.
 
(only 58 shots in this shoot...)

Out of 73

Joshua and Jacob are smiling a lot lately, but I have little photographic evidence of it. Out of 73 photos, I managed to get one of each smiling, just not together.
Joshua's smile:
 

Jacob's smile:
 

A compromise shot...
 

This one is for Aunt Susan, last week in their Double Trouble outfits: