Eight Was Pretty Great

Wahooooie - 8 months was fantastic!


Whoa - what is Mason doing infringing on MY exersaucer time?!


Do you know what I'm talking about, Mr. Penguin?


Luci Clinched Being Thing 1 By 9 Minutes

Sometimes You Wake Up Smoothly...And Sometimes You Don't

Nothing like a Warm Bottle and a Photo Shoot!

Do Whatever, As Long As I Can Still Eat

Downside to Being Boy-Girl Twins Wearing Different Sizes? Having to Cross-Dress In Each Other's PJs.

Wow - 2010 has been pretty great to us! We did many things during our eighth month, including:

• Perfected our Raspberries: We've broken new records for splatter radius - its quite impressive.
• Talked/Yelled/Laughed: There's a whole lotta 'mamamamamama' and 'dadadadadada' going on. Sometimes at a normal volume, sometimes at a yell, sometimes when happy, sometimes when not. But its still music to Momma and Daddy's ears. There's also a ton of laughs and squeals that make everyone happy.
• Grew Teeth: Well, Mason sprouted one this month and looks 'like a hillbilly', according to Daddy. Luci still only has her bottom two.
• Self Fed: We're rock stars at feeding ourselves bottles. Sometimes we have dots of milk all around our face, but we always get the job done. We're also working on feeding ourselves Cheerios and meltaway puffs. Luci likes to pick up food and put it in her mouth, but Mason prefers to be treated like a Saudi prince.
• Bounced: We like to stay trim by bouncing in our doorway jumpers every day. We like to jump in sync and twirl around (as demonstrated in the video below)...especially if the washing machine is running.
• Snotted: We both got colds again this month and are getting quite tired of the snot sucker thingy. Luci tried to take matters into her own hands one night (as shown above), but it didn't turn out so well.

Play time!

Our First Holiday Season!

Tom the Turkey provided a soft landing.


Say cheese, Mr. Turkey!


First Christmas gift with Grannie.


Christmas Eve chatter with Papa Loo


Oh the agony of Christmas morning


Busy little elves


Playing Where's Waldo with our Christmas Tree (we just bought a 6.5" tree on sale after Christmas)

Happy New Year!

We had a very busy - and fun - holiday season!

• We spent Thanksgiving at home with Grannie and Papa Ernie, playing Daddy's new German board games and eating a lot of Grannie's "salad". ("Salad" = brocolli, cauliflower, mayo, sugar, bacon, cheese and onion).
• We spent Christmas at home, too. Papa Loo and Bubbette (aka Erin) came over for Christmas Eve dinner and to play with us. Then it was just the four of us at home on Christmas Day - hanging out in our PJs, eating leftovers and talking to all of the family by phone. While we wish we could have seen everyone in person, it was nice to have a lazy holiday and a chance to create some new family traditions.
• On New Year's Eve Day we visited another set of Montana twins - we saw the Church family in North Bend! Cassidy and Addision are just about 3 months older than us and we had fun seeing all that they could do and playing with them and their fabulous toys. Plus Julie and Dave are pretty funny and made us laugh.

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas, too!

Lucky 7's

Double down on 7's!


Rocking the Christmas long-johns from Santa


Thankful that Momma censored this photo.


Whoa..lake...big lake.

The Bookie and the Swedish Chef

Embracing the wonderful world of tummy sleeping.

Do I have anything on my face?

Holding our own bottles is serious business!


Month seven was pretty fun, we have to admit. We're both sitting up now, which gives us a much better view of how many toys are scattered across the floor of our bedroom and allows our spit-up to make a much better splat. We're both twisting our tongues (something that Daddy can do, but Momma can't no matter how hard she tries) and Mason is blowing raspberries with gale wind force that makes you want to take cover. Luci got her bottom two teeth right after our 7 month birthday and decided to utilize them inappropriately while nursing. Momma said words like "owww!" and "cut-off" several times and seemed upset, so Luci agreed to take it easy for awhile. We're holding our own bottle now, which makes simultaneous bottle feeding just a tad bit easier on Daddy - unless Luci gets distracted, which happens a lot. We're eating a ton of cereal, veggies and fruit, too. The fruit makes us pucker up and shiver, but water is the absolute worst of all and it makes Mason gag and shudder every time. We love to spend most of our time playing in the neglect-a-saucer, we mean, exersaucer and jumping in our doorway jumpers. Its so much fun and it makes us laugh and laugh and laugh. As for sleeping, we're still great sleepers...except for one week when Mason would roll over onto his tummy and then be very, very angry about the situation until he was rolled onto his back (guess he forgot he could roll back). Thankfully, he decided to choose the path of least resistance and embrace being a tummy sleeper.

The Loud Jumper

The Laughing Jumper

Baby Gamers

This is Ken here, reporting live with breaking news that Luci and Mason are officially card sharks. Put away your monies, people!

The Green Monster

Green Beans Are Pretty Good!


Blowing Snot Bubbles in Protest

After cereal, Luci and Mason's first food was green beans. Luci gives them two thumbs up, but Mason is still warming up to the idea. :) We're guessing that they're going to be way more responsive once we get to the orange vegetables and then the fruits. But first, we've got to get through peas...we'll see if they like them as much as Papa Ernie!

Luci and the Green Beans

Mason and the Green Beans

The Dragon and The Butterfly

Just Getting Limber for Our Halloween Party


Momma and Daddy Showing Us Off


Despite What You See, Dragons are NOT Scared of Butterflies...Ok?

Given that Ken and I met at a Halloween Party (Jolly Green Giant vs the Fembot) and we got married in October, we have always loved this time of year. It's even MORE fun when you can dress up your adorable children and show them off to the world. While the Dragon costume won out this year for Mason, Ken was considering making Mason go as Friar Tuck. How would we pull that off? Take one bald chubby boy and add a brown robe, tied with rope, and a cross. Tadahhh! But the Dragon costume was already on its way and was easier, so there you go. Luci loved looking at herself in the mirror in her costume...the antenae were fascinating to her. Now we're off to think off family costumes for next year!

We're Six Months Old!

...and its exhausting!


See - we're six months old!



Go Griz!!

Just lounging

Well, we turned six months old on October 30 - yay for us! We've been flirting with the idea of rolling over, but don't really like to do it on our own. Momma asked our Dr. Graham about it and she said something about how we're strong enough to roll over and are perfectly on track, but that we seem to have a "lack of motivation". Daddy thought that our absence of motivation was really funny and referenced that similiar feedback was given on him by all of his teachers. Momma didn't laugh. :) But we are loving standing up, playing in our exersaucer and doorway jumpers, and are really finetuning our dorky kid laughs. And we're eating like champs - see our other blog posts on that.

Here's the six-month stats:

Luci: 16 lbs, 13.5 oz (50-75%) and 26 7/8" (90%)

Mason: 18 lbs, 8.5 oz (50-75%) and 28 3/4" (97+%)

Dr. Graham says that we're just perfect and are obviously destined to be very tall like our parents. Then she left and another lady came in and gave us a whole crap-load of shots. We didn't like her so much. But Momma said we don't need to go back for another few months. Yay!