And....We're Back

At long last another blog post.

Birthday Cake

Our girls are 1 year old now! What a year it has been, it is funny to think of sleepless nights and endless feeding and first smiles, first rolls, first food...those babies who used to just lie there and wave their arms are so busy doing this and that now.

They are standing on their own and take a couple steps everyday, they love to walk around holding our hands and climb on anything they can.

They are learning to sign to us and can now say 'please', 'thank-you', 'more' and 'all done.' Sometimes they interchange please, more and thank-you. J's current favorite is 'Thank-you'

Recently they have become terrified of water. Terrified. They hate baths, pools, kiddie pools...My strategy is to give them more frequent baths until they love them again then attempt a pool again when they are not so scared.

There is a quick 1 year update, look for more posts about camping, flying, diapers and more soon!

The Nap Drop

As of yesterday my girls are single nap babies. I was not looking forward to this happening but now it is not so bad. Their morning and afternoon naps were getting to be 45 minutes each at the longest. Yesterday at nap time they were still as happy as can be so I gave it a shot and in the afternoon they slept more than 2 hours after being relativly happy all morning . Success! Today they were not so happy in the morning but are sleeping currently.

Goodbye morning nap, you will be missed. 

Cloth Once More

I officailly began using cloth diapers again, ran out of diapers, washed diapers and have not stuffed them and began using them since being cleaned. It seems my will power is lacking. I intend to stuff them today and get them back on them.

Before beginning to use them I had to do a good wash to get the yeast out of them that was giving my girls rashes. I found this article on the Babes in Arms FB page and tried it out. I think it worked for it's purposes but I think some amnonia remains so now I am going to work on getting rid of that.

In other news, I love being outside with my girls and Jael likes looking like she is straight out of the Newsies.

Standing is the New Sitting

My girls are really enjoying practicing all their new skills, they crawl like pros and are climbing up on everything.

I decided last week that they are old enough to eat what we eat so since then they have had sweet and sour chicken, quinoa, spaghetti, fried rice, mango chicken, rice, burgers, meatballs, grilled cheese etc.

and they are loving it!

Treasure Trove

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."

-James 1: 17

The month is over and just look at all the good gifts God has given me! Praise Him! I hope you have enjoyed following this and have been looking for things to be thankful for every day.

Until next time....

Treasure Trove - April 30th

Today I was planning to have my treasure not be our kids or our house for the sake of variety but then Jael decided to change my mind. Jael cuddled with me this morning, which is something she basically never does. And incase that was not enough she then signed 'more' for the first time just to make sure she got on here. Sweet Jael is my treasure today.

Treasure Trove - April 29th

As you may have gathered I like babies. I enjoy gatherings of babies and watching them interact while chatting and hanging out with other mommas. One such babyfest was my treasure today.