What active little girls you have become. You are both crawling and pulling up on everything! You have learned to play peek a boo with each other. Which you think is so funny. You are playing with each other and even teasing each other by holding a toy up infront of your sister's face and then moving it away right when she goes to grab it. You love to watch Mickly Mouse Club house on TV. Hadley, you bounce your little body when the songs come on. You must have dance moves like your daddy. You are not doing a very good job taking a bottle anymore. I think it is because you would rather be moving and playing than having to sit still long enough to drink the whole thing. You have woken up a few times in the night this month. That is how I knew you had an ear infection. For the most part you still sleep 12-13 hours at night and take 2 long naps during the day. You are wearing size 3 diapers and going through them quickly for some reason. You love to eat and make a mess on the floor. It is hard to go anywhere right now because you always want to get down and crawl. I am looking forward to watching for your first few steps someday soon.
Namy and Grandbobby took all of the girls to see Santa. Rudolph was resting for his upcoming responsabilities so Santa was flown in on a helicopter from the North Pole. He landed on the 4th hole of the golf course.
We watched him land, had lunch, and drank hot chocolate. Then went to see the Big Man!
The girls did MUCH better than I expected with Santa. They sat on his lap and asked him for their two front teeth for Christmas. We posed for a few photos and then let McKenzie have a turn with Santa.
I think Kenzie was just disappointed that Santa did not bring Rudolph . She told him how she felt.
Martin was not home last night for our dinner/bathtime/bedtime routine, so let's just say it was not pretty at times. There was a good bit of crying, mostly because the girls were tired and wanted to be held. I could not hold them both at the same time and make dinner, put on pjs and change diapers. We managed to get through our routine and put everyone in bed. A few minutes after I put them in their cribs, I heard them laughing. Their laughing got louder and they could not catch their breath. I ran upstairs to look in the monitor and found them playing their favorite game, peek a boo together. They took turns bending down and popping back up. I could not catch the initial excitement and laughter on the video, but I did get the end of their game.
This is all from the monitor screen.
Hadley kept falling down. Harper was waving "hi" to her sister.
The girls have had a runny nose for a few weeks now, and I have debated taking them to the doctor. They have not really ever had a cold before. I knew they would not do anything for them until it had been a few weeks. Last night, I finally decided that Hadley may have an ear infection. She woke up in the middle of the night and that rarely happens. She was pulling on her ear, but she never had a fever or really cried.
So I decided to make two appointments this afternoon for both girls. I was right, they both have double ear infections and Harper also has a sinus infections. After the appointment it got a little crazy. Martin was working late so I took the girls to get their antibiotics. It took them 45 minutes to get their prescription filled. Both girls had a full diaper and wanted out of their car seats. I ended up sitting in the pharmacy parking lot, in the back seat, between their car seats feeding the girls mac n cheese with my fingers there was food everywhere. This is a great memory for our first of many colds...
This is what 2 sick babies look like....
This is how we usually eat dinner....Naked. It is just easier to strip them then to scrub stains out of their clothes. We have been doing this ever since they were old enough to eat baby food.
Well, Harper started to shiver during dinner, so obviously I would rather have stains then for her to be cold. I just put any clothes on her that were in the diaper bag and this is what we ended up with.
I am trying to catch up, and update all of the picture we have taken this month. My camera is broken so I have had to use my camera phone..pictures are not as good.
The girls had their first Thanksgiving 3 times. We celebrated and ate a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the family, then some of the family, and then some more family. The girls loved all three of their Thanksgiving meals.
I have been waiting a long time to wear these little turkey outfits.
We are sooooo blessed to have a sweet friend who allows us to borrow her girls' clothes.
Hadley tried macaroni and cheese for the first time. She LOVED it. She was shoveling it in faster than I could put it on her tray.
Harper was full after all her turkey and mashed potatoes.
Hadley and Namy, "walking off" their meal together.
9 months old has been so much fun!You girls talk and laugh all the time.I so enjoy lying on the floor with you, tickling and rolling around.You shake your head No No No when you want to play, because you know it always makes us laugh.Your absolute favorite game to play is Peek a Boo.You laugh out loud every time we say “boo.”You play it by yourself and you play it with each other.
You girls have your first cold.Two sick babies is a lot of work. We called poison control for the first time this month because I gave you Benadryl before bed……and so did your dadJ. It was no big deal, but we called just to make sure.
You can both sit up on your own very well and with great posture. You pull up to your knees.Hadley, you are days away from pulling up to your feet.Your favorite show to watch is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.I like to hear your daddy sing all of the Mickey Mouse songs.
You are still taking 2 naps a day.You sleep 12-13 hours at night.Your naps last about 2 hours sometimes 3 hours. We put you to bed around 6:30 or 7pm.And you sleep until 7:30ish in the morning.You are wearing 6 months clothes and some 9month pajamas.You wear size 3 diapers.We go through about 10 diapers a day and an extra large canister of formula in 5-7 days.You are starting to drink less formula in your bottles and eat more table food (4, 6oz bottles a day).You girls have tried a lot of new foods this month and you are pretty good at picking up the food and putting it into your mouth.You mostly eat peas, green beans, bananas, strawberries, macaroni noodles, cheese, chopped up chicken, scrambled eggs and still some baby food like sweet potatoes and apple sauce. And your FAVORITE snack is veggie straws.You hate your car seat, especially you Harper, so I am constantly passing Veggie Straws back to you just to avoid screaming.
Hadley I love that you smile when you hear someone else laughing.You have such a happy spirit.You crawl into the playroom by yourself and get out your favorite toys and books to play.I would say that you are the “ring leader” of the head shake No No No!You do it all the time, because you always want to play. You LOVE to eat.You and Harper smack your lips and makes this “mmoop” sound when you are hungry.It cracks me up. Hadley, I did the Heimlich on you this month, I was passing a banana in front of you and you chomped down on it, getting a big bite as I moved it past your face. I did not know you were so fast. Your spitting up has gotten so much better. We started giving you an anti acid medicine that has helped A LOT.It taste horrible, you are a champ at taking medicine….unlike your sister.
Harper, you LOVE to be held especially at the end of the day.You will crawl into my lap and whimper until I pick you up.You raise your arms up when I say “so big” you always wave “hi” and “by” when we tell you too.You talk all the time in such a sweet high pitched voice.You are the “ring leader” in getting your sister to play with you through your cribs when it is time to take a nap.You girls will pull up onto the rails and face each other in your own crib.We can hear you talk and laugh in your cribs for over an hour during nap time.I watch the video monitor like it is a Television and laugh out loud. You still have some stranger danger…but getting better. We have a basket of diapers out living room. Your favorite thing to do is to pull all of the diapers out of the basket. You pull them out one at a time and throw them behind you. You probably do this 10 times a day:)
This age has brought on the challenge of trying to figure out how to hold you both when you crawl into my lap crying at the same time.I am getting pretty good at picking you both up and the same time and carrying you to a new location. I think this is my favorite age to far!
Capturing your picture is getting more challenging:)
