I am once
again a week late on getting this month’s post up. On the 22nd our little guys turned
seven months old! Personalities have really
started to develop, as our pictures will show.
Aaron has proven to be our serious one, while Ethan is definitely our silly little
guy!
There have
been so many firsts for the boys this month as we entered the busy fall season. We’ve taken them to the apple orchard, the pumpkin
patch and the zoo, and now we are looking forward to their first Halloween!
Aaron also
got his first tooth this month! He actually
got two teeth in one week. Ethan has two shiny bottom teeth and is working
really hard at cutting a top tooth. I'm waiting for it to poke through any day!
As far as
development goes, we have seen HUGE progress in sitting up independently this
month! The babies pretty much got the
sitting up thing under control. We still
surround them with soft pillows, only because we don’t have carpet in our
house and they still wobble over from time to time. Three or four weeks ago, neither baby could not sit up independently at all, so they’ve come along way this month.
We are also
pretty sure Aaron is going to start crawling soon. He can move 360 degrees when put on the floor
and can also scoot himself a few inches.
As soon as he figures out how to stay in crawl position, he’ll be on the
move! I think it’s time to baby proof
the house this month! YIKES! We’ve been looking forward to this and
dreading it all at the same time!
Ethan has
no interest in crawling. He still won’t
stay on his stomach. I’ve said all along
that he will probably skip crawling and go straight to walking once he figures
out how to pull himself up. His legs are
strong. He stands in his exersaucer
without leaning on it for a good while, and he can bounce the heck out of the
jumperoo for 30-40 minutes at a time!
But for some reason, he will NOT stay on his stomach! He rolls to his back as soon as he is put on
his tummy.
Sleep
patterns this month are pretty much the same as last month. Ethan goes to sleep at 8:30 and wakes up at 7:00 almost every single day. Aaron goes to sleep at 8:30 and wakes up after 4-6 hours most
nights. We still have to pull him out of
the nursery when he wakes up, because he is loud. Once I get him back to sleep we try to put
him back in his crib, but honestly there are some nights where we fall asleep
before he does, and the next time he wakes up, usually around 5am for a bottle, we realize we still
have a baby in our bed. So there is
still some work to be done with Aaron, but compared to where we were when he
was 4-5 months old, we’ve made great progress.
The babies
are also eating more this month. I
pretty much make all of our baby food unless we are out and about
somewhere. I’ll try to get a blog post
up about making our own food sometime. There
isn’t anything they won’t eat, and I’m looking forward to starting them on soft
table food in the next few months
I want to
finish this post by saying that this is the first month where I think I can say
that this twin thing has finally gotten easier! That’s really another post for another time. I’m not saying we don’t have crazy days
around here or that I’m suddenly no longer living with sleep deprivation. I’m just saying it’s gotten easier…that’s all:)
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