Half a year old!

The girls turned 6 months old on Friday. To me, it seems like there have been so many changes in the past month. In general, both girls are eating and sleeping very well. They dropped their nighttime feeding, so we are getting more sleep (yay!). They go to bed around 7 PM and get up around 5:30/6:00 AM. They are still waking up randomly some nights, but mostly just for a quick pacifier fix. We started solids and the girls have liked everything they've tried. So far, no ma-ma's or da-da's, just lots of yelling and screeching. The girls get SO loud when they are playing. I wonder what people walking in our hallway must think is going on in our condo! They love music and get a kick out of us singing and dancing for them (you would, too, if you saw the stuff we come up with - ha!) They are still very interested in the other one and grab at each other if we lay them close together.

Morgan's stats: Weight = 16 lbs 9 oz, Height = 26 in, Head = 43.4 cm
Her height and weight are right around the 50th percentile, and her head is closer to the 80th percentile. Morgan is still our smiley, giggly girl. At night, if she gets overly tired, she is especially giggly - kind of like slap-happy. It's cute, but not usually a good thing. She got her first tooth this past week. If she doesn't want something, she gives it a huge swat away, usually with her left hand... bottle, paci, toy, your hand messing with her nose/face/ears, whatever. Her hair continues to grow straight up - our little fuzzball!

Avery's stats: Weight = 15 lbs 12 oz, Height = 25.25 in, Head = 43.6 cm

Her weight is a little below the 50th percentile, her height is around the 25-30th percentile, and her head is closer to the 80th percentile. So, basically, she's a shorty. Never thought a kiddo of mine would be below average in height! No teeth yet for Avery, but there's a bump and we think one will be popping out soon. She blows raspberries all the time. The worst is when she's eating and decides to do it. This is partly why she is the messiest eater! Also, because she loves to "help" when we feed her... she grabs the spoon or uses her hand to push the food in her mouth.

Matt and I are having such a fun time watching these girls grow and change! Every day they do something sweet that makes us smile or something crazy that makes us laugh!

Loads of pictures of my favorite people

We got the pictures back from our photo session a few weeks ago. I love them! Check out our Shutterfly site for the rest!

Easter Bunny

I mentioned I went shopping on Sunday after music class... well, there was an Easter Bunny at the mall. Erin convinced me to get a picture of the girls with the bunny. I was surprised they didn't cry! They do look a little freaked out!

Weekend

Matt took last Friday off to watch the NCAA tournament, so we had a 3-day weekend together. Since the nanny still works on Friday morning, we decided to go on a breakfast date and check out The Little Goat. I had been there once before, but this was Matt's first time. Very good breakfast food! We want to try it out for lunch sometime.

Bloody Mary!
Yes, Matt, you are still in the picture!

We took the girls over to Clint's for a little NCAA tourney watching on Friday afternoon. Avery was in her "I only pretend to like sports when I'm with Daddy" shirt... and I forgot to get a picture of it. Morgan was all decked out in orange and blue for the Illini game. And this was the only blue onesie I had... definitely a hand-me down from Samantha/Meredith!

Go Gators!

I L L - I N I

On Saturday, we celebrated Sabrina's first birthday. She wasn't so sure about all the singing and the crowd at the party, but she eventually dug into her smash cake. I think she played with it more than ate it, but she had a good time. The girls loved watching all the kiddos run around.

On Sunday, I took the girls to music class in the morning. This week, the teacher had bells and the girls loved those as well. The girls are testing out different sleep/eat schedules these days, so they were more awake for the class this week. We also did a little shopping at the Lincolnwood mall in the afternoon. I had grand plans of grabbing lunch at the Olive Garden, but the wait was way too long.

Music

On Sunday, I took the girls to a music class for babies. We were joined by cousin Grayson and Aunt Erin. No green beer this year for St.Patrick's day, but we had green onesies and lullabies. My how times have changed!

I was a little worried about how the girls would behave because the class was smack dab in the middle of their long nap time. They were a little sleepy. Avery almost fell asleep during the slow soft music, but they both seemed to enjoy the class. Their favorites were the rain stick and watching the class leader play the guitar. I need to brush up on my nursery rhyme songs. When I sing at home for the girls, I just throw in words that sound like they rhyme/belong... but, in a class where other people can hear you, that's kind of a bad idea.

More interested in the guitar than my singing

Loving the rain stick

Avery kept trying to grab it!

Grayson loved the class too!

Yum!

We fed the girls cereal for the first time tonight. Morgan figured out how to eat off the spoon pretty quickly. Of course, she wasn't so sure about the cereal. Avery had a harder time with the spoon and just tried licking it for a while. Once she figured it out, she LOVED the cereal. She kept grabbing the spoon to get more.

What is this stuff?

Can't decide what she thinks of this

Trying to figure this out

Ooohh... I like this stuff!

Don't want to leave any on the spoon

More please!

Five Months

The girls were 5 months old a week ago, so this is a little late. We didn't go to the doctor this month, so I don't have any updated stats. Although, the girls seem to be getting bigger by the day!

Morgan -  5 months

Morgan has become quite the silly girl! She is always smiling and giggling! And she loves to get smiles out of us, too. Her hair continues to grow and stand straight up - she's a fuzzball! She tries to hold her own bottle and is actually pretty good at it. (This is one skill I would love the girls to acquire!) She has found her voice and is using it! She's giving Avery a run for her money on who can babble/screech the loudest!

Avery - 5 months

Avery has a couple of new tricks she's mastered this past month. She grabs her feet and puts them in her mouth, which she now does ALL the time. Another new trick of hers is "blowing raspberries". The first time I heard her do it was over the baby monitor in the middle of the night. I could not figure out what was going on, so I went in their room to check it out. There she was, wide awake, just blowing raspberries. She looked at me and smiled, like she was so proud of herself. A surefire way to get her to giggle is to play peek-a-boo! She gets such a kick out it!

The girls are very "grabby" lately and nothing is off limits. If their hands aren't in their mouths, they are grabbing at our mouths, clothes, faces, my hair and especially each other. We are so entertained just watching their antics!