9 months.

Wow. I can't believe it has been 9 months since these two little monsters... er, wonderful children... came into the world. We have had our battles the last month or two with teething, ear infections and day light savings time (just to name a few) that have made these two a little more ornery than I would like:). We had finally been able to put them down around 9 and have them wake up at 730 the next morning (instead of 11 or midnight and waking at 8) and those two weeks were ah-mazing! Then all previous battles that were mentioned hit pretty much at the same time and we were back to square one. Darn. But now we have adjusted to DST, George's tooth FINALLY popped through and stayed (her first!!) and I think we are over the ear infections. Hoorah.

We took all the kids to the park last night so I lugged along my camera since the lighting would be just about right to snap some 9 month portraits of the girlies. Elizabeth wasn't very cooperative. Turns out she woke up today with a fever so she probably wasn't feeling so hot last night.

We were on a hill so she rolled down to the edge of the blanket and stayed there. She, well they both, HATE the grass.

Elizabeth is still our fussy girl. She just loves being held. All.The.Time.

She has mastered pulling herself up on furniture, sitting back down and even cruising along. I am NOT ready for them to be walking.

She tends to be more chill than George, George is constantly moving but Iz is content to be still.

She weighs in at a whopping 21 1/2 pounds. Though Ben thinks she probably weighs more since her arms and legs were off the scale when she was measured.

She is kind of over baby food, she will eat it but it isn't her favorite. She much prefers to eat off our plate.

Then there is Georgie. She is a mover and a shaker.

After a month of watching Elizabeth pull herself up and take steps, she decided to try it out and within a few days went from pulling herself up to taking steps. Yep, Elizabeth went for a week or two of just pulling herself up to her knees, then a week of pulling up to her feet, then taking steps and eventually figuring out how to sit back down. Georgia went from knees for two days, then to her feet for another day or two then taking steps. Whoa. This is how they roll. Elizabeth figures things out first, but Georgie masters them faster.

Ben made a make-shift playpen (turns out a normal play pen isn't built for two babies;) and she is perfectly happy to stay in and play, it is quite nice. Elizabeth HATES being in there.

She is still my mini, and weighs just 19 pounds.

She could care less if she eats real food, which is probably why she is so much smaller:)

They both still nap twice a day, (Yay!!) they love their walkers and being outside. They are in 6 month clothing and size 3 diapers.

Three more months until their birthday, holy moley!!

Attack of the giant babies.

Jack loves trains. That is no suprise. What you don't know, is the babies also love his trains. The girls typically nap from 10-12 and Jack watches Word World and Sesame Street and builds his trains- that is his safe time, ha! Nice and quiet and he can get his toys out without worrying about them getting drooled on. He left them out after naptime was over and the girls went straight for them!

They have hit the 'let's bang everything together' stage. It gets dangerous when they try to bang toys into each other.

Ah, pretty much her only happy moment today.

And like typical siblings they tend to fight over the same toy. Usually a ball from the ball popper.




George can be so mean. They now 'cruise' along furniture and George will drag Iz down All.The.Time. Then she climbs on top of, chews on appendages, pulls hair or ears, hits... you get the point...


George is on top. Really for no reason at all, she wasn't going after a toy or anything, just looked like fun.

What a cutie:)

But lately Elizabeth has been giving it right back to her. I have to put them in separate play areas many times during the day.

Finally he just got sick of them "ruining all his things!!!" and went in his bedroom to play with legos. It is funny, because for the longest time he refused to play in his room alone, but lately he goes in there just to get away from the girls. Or to play legos, that is the only place he is allowed to play them, at least that is what I tell myself. He loves his sisters, but everyone needs a little space sometimes, right?

My sewing journal.

In my perfect world I would keep a notebook next to my sewing machine and keep detailed notes on the fit of each garment, what I liked about the pattern and fit, or what I didn't. Well, I do have said notebook, but NEVER write in it... Well, I did for about a week... So I decided to start a seperate blog for my sewing projects so I could link my flickr account to it and comment on other blogs without having a bunch of strangers look at my family blog. Doesn't mean strangers don't look at this blog, but if you don't know us, why are you reading?? ;) So anyways, the link is http://sewingforfour.blogspot.com. Check it out, if you want.

The girlies.

I thought this was funny because usually Georgie is the one attacking Izzy, well lately Iz has been giving it right back, ha! But then a few minutes later, George fell and pulled Iz down with her, so she got it back this time.

Surprise! They stand! For the last 4-5 weeks Elizabeth has been pulling herself up on our make-shift play pen, and in the last week or so she has started to take steps along it! Georgie has only figured out how to pull herself up this last week, buuuut she went from pulling up to her knees for two days, to her feet for three days, then taking steps. So she went from nothing to steps in a week. Whoa! I am so not ready for this, they are not even 9 months yet!!

Fun with Jack.

He loved crushing the oreos!!
Looks good to me!
He wasn't quite sure he wanted to taste it at first, but he loves oreos, pudding and gummy worms, so they must be delicious together, right?

Yep! They were delicious together. He loved "swishing the worms" (as he called it) around in the pudding then licking them off before slurping them down.

Which led to the above photo. He was absolutely covered from head to toe in pudding... and so was my counter!