Big Kids...

We are now eating like big kids...using plates and forks!! Their favorite meal right now is either the Gerber Pasta bite or chicken nuggets (all natural of course) along with organic apples, bananas, strawberries or grapes.

This particular day, Ella didn't want her picture taken she would shake her head no when I tried to to take her picture. lol

Anyway, that's why I don't have a close up of her...Elijah on the other hand was very proud to show off his forking skills.

Twins Schedule

I just thought this might be fun for us to look back on one day.

Twins' Schedule
Awake at 6:30
8 oz. bottle
Oatmeal and a fruit at 7:30
Nap at 8:00 to about 10:00
Rice cereal and a veggie at 10:30
8 oz. bottle again at 11:30
Nap again at 12:00 til about 1:45
Go get Evan at 2:00
Rice and a meat at 2:30
8 oz. bottle at 3:30 or 4:00
Snack while the family eats
Bath at 6:30
8 oz. bottle and bed at 7:00
Evan to bed at 7:30
Ahhhh, peace and quite!

Snack Crackers.

Yesterday, I gave the babies some very soft and very fast disolving snack crackers. They love them...especially our little piggy Elijah!


Whenever, we feed them, Elijah grunts and fusses at you for every bite that his sister gets and he doesn't...you can't feed him fast enough.


Today, we're starting solid food 3 times a day, instead of 2!




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Cereal Fun

When Mommy first gave us cereal a few weeks ago we didn't like it, but boy do we love it now.

Man!! That's good stuff...give me the whole bowl!!

Spoon Feeding....

Our Twins are 5 months old today! They had their first taste of cereal from a spoon today. It was super messy and super fun! Here are some pictures from our milestone.

Elijah's First Bite...

Ella's First Bite...

Okay, this isn't too bad...we're starting to get the hang of this...

Can we play with the spoon, please?

Elijah started to really catch on towards the end and wanted more and more. He was doing a great job slurping it off of the spoon. I was holding the spoon in front of his month and looking at Ella, Elijah grabbed the spoon and pulled it towards his month and wouldn't let go. It was so funny! While Elijah wanted more, Ella decided that she wanted her bottle.

This is too much work!! I want to lay back while Mommy or Daddy holds me and I drink my bottle!!!!

Eating

Didn't you notice

a bottle makes me hush?

So why did you fill

my mouth with this mush?

For this, you'll see,

Revenge will be mine

The floor will be covered

Along with the high chair and blinds.

You know this is true

But I won't stop there

If you feed me another bite

You'll wear it in your hair.

I don't want cereal

And don't even try peas.

Come on, get the hint...

A bottle is fine with me!

--Crystal Dawn Perry

Diapers and Formula...oh my!!

Unbelievable is the first word that comes to mind when I think aobut how fast we go through a pack of diapers and a container of formula!!

Just over a month ago we received an anonomus gift on our frount porch. It was a jumbo pack of diapers and a box of wipes wrapped in pretty baby paper. I've been meaning to post here just to say how thankful and EXCITED we were to find it in case it was someone who reads our blog.

Thanks to everyone who gave us diapers as gifts we are now buying diapers and realize now more than ever what a great gift they are. It's a shocker for sure on how fast we go through them. When we first got home we had to buy premiee diapers and now our babies have grown to size 2!!

Formula seems to amaze me even more than diapers, I guess b/c of the price. When the babies were around a month old we had to swithch both of them to Enfimil's Nutramigin Formula due to what the doctor believes is a milk allergy. Nutramigin equals big bucks!! The cheapest place to buy it that we've found is Wal-mart and it's just under $26 there...THAT'S FOR THE SMALL SIZE CAN!!! We go through a can every 2 days! And sometimes more now that the babies are eating more. We spend about $100 a week on formula alone for the babies! So Enfimil coupons are always welcome at our hoem! We get so excited everytime we get one in the mail or from a friend who no longer needs them!

We had such a God moment with Formula back in February when I hit a deer in the van. I was really bummed about the cost and kept reminding me that, that is why we have insurance. Our deductible was $200 and kept making the comment to everyone, "Well, that's $200 worth of formula." At the time we weren't getting any coupons so I called Enfimil to ask to be added to their mailing list for possible coupons. The girl asked me which formula that we were using and I explained ot her that this was our 3rd Enfimil brand and that we had twins. She put me on hold and came back and said that she was sending us a case of formula, and really I thought okay, sure, but didn't expect to get more than a sample can. About a week later we received a whole case...about $190 worth of formula.

I wanted to post this here to remind myself that God does provide and it was very evident in the anonymous diapers and formula from Enfimil. I need to remember than very often especially on days like today when I had a Wal-mart checkout for $200 and it was all formula!!