Thirteen Months

Lucky thirteen!
The boos continue to grow and develop at an astonishing rate. I’m always glad to re-read the previous month’s post, as the snapshot of “where we were” even a month ago fades so quickly. Of course, that could be sleep deprivation talking.
They’re crawling everywhere these days. EVERYwhere. Trying to climb [...]

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Twelve Months

My little monkeys are a year old!  Their birthday party is this afternoon (3 pm, prime after-nap playtime) featuring a jungle theme, monkey cakes (for them) and the old-family-recipe chocolate cake for the grownups, and lime punch for everyone.
The girls just continue to amaze and delight me.  They crawl at a high rate of speed [...]

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Eleven Months

Tempus is definitely fugiting.  My two little wombats are eleven months old, which is astonishing enough, and their first birthday is only a month away.
Both girls are crawling now, and can move at quite a high rate of speed when they want to.  Emma’s crawl is a one-knee, one-foot, one-elbow, one-hand sort of affair (vs. [...]

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Ten Months

Toothless Joe and the Hamster* have officially turned the big 1-0.  (That’s Emma and Chloe, respectively, for the more formal individuals out there.)  They’re growing (14# 8 oz for Ms C, and 15# 12 oz for Ms E) and constantly moving when awake (except when anesthetized by Baby Einstein & mum-mums) and eating me out [...]

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Nine Months

Three-quarters of a year already. Yowza.
The peanuts are growing and changing every day at this point.  They’re well into 3-6 month clothes now, and Emma’s starting to outgrow the size 2 diapers.  And the newborn shoes are now officially too small, although we can still make the open-toed sandals work.  Otherwise, we’re in size 1 [...]

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Eight Months

Eight months old.  Whoa.  Two-thirds of a year, gone in seemingly five minutes.  I’m currently planning their baptism party (and starting to look at options for first birthday themes – “jungle” featuring lions, tigers and zebras is a top contender) and enjoying their last few weeks of relative immobility.  My hunch is that at least [...]

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Seven Months

I’m writing this a week late.  It’s been busy around here, with Grandma’s illness and Great-Aunt’s move to assisted living, and lots of time in hospitals and doctors’ offices and picking up the slack in a million tiny ways.  It’s good distraction, but still distraction.  I worry that I missed a lot of your seventh [...]

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Six Months

Half a year.  How in the heck did that happen?  I celebrated by singing them half of “Happy Birthday.”  The first two stanzas, for the record.  Emma wasn’t particularly impressed, and Chloe was too busy sucking on her fingers to notice.
It’s been a big month for my little monkeys.  They sleep unswaddled now, on their [...]

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Five Months

My gorgeous girls are growing up! They’re now right at 11 lbs, and filling out their 0-3 month things nicely. Emma actually crept ahead in the weight department at their last ped visit (by 1/4 oz) which is her first moment of being “ahead” since the days when she was gavaged in NICU [...]

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Four Months

I can’t believe that it’s been 1/3 of a year since I gave birth to these two little darlings.  I can hardly remember life before, although I seem to recall something called “sleeping through the night” and something else involving being able to quickly leave and run an errand without regard to feeding/changing/sleeping schedules or [...]

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