Two months!

An example of my day, one screaming....

... and now the other. :)

 

The second month has been a lot of fun.  The babies have truly developed personalities- especially over the last few weeks.  They both love to smile and will "talk" with you.  When they make "cooing" noises we will make the noises right back at them and keep the conversation going. I have only been able to catch a few of the smiles on camera, but I love each and every one of them.   They have started sleeping a longer stretch at night, from about 9:30pm to 3:30am which has helped the exhaustion some.  They are napping less during the day which means I feel like I am in constant entertainment mode.  I never knew I could make so many silly voices and random noises, but if they get me a smile I will do them for hours.  I have also found to willing participants to listen to my singing.  Eventually they will be able to crawl away, but until then they are subjected to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" several times daily.  That being said, they love listening to music and it calms them down quickly.  They both like the swing. Riley loves tummy time and even managed to roll herself over at five weeks.  Landon hates being on his stomach, but we have been forcing it on him as much as possible.  Riley has great head control and she loves to push off things/stand now as well.  Her daddy things she is going to skip the crawling and go straight to walking because she is already pretty determined to stand.  Landon is not as great controlling his head, but he is making progress.  The poor guy has a pretty big head to control so we will let it slide for now. :)

They are currently taking about 3oz at each feeding 6-7 times a day.  At their two month check up on September 12th they were both close to nine pounds! I took Riley to the hospital for a swallow test as well due to her waking up choking during the night.  We weren't sure if it was reflux or just a result of her tracheomalacia.  She passed the test and has no issues with swallowing or reflux, so that is good.  She continues to be a very loud sleeper and heavy breather, but hopefully she will grow out of it sooner rather than later because sometimes she just sounds so pathetic-like she is straining to breath.  Overall, we are very lucky that the babies are so healthy and we hope to be able to keep them that way through the flu season.  As of right now, we do take them out in the community, but that is about to change as the weather is getting colder and people will be getting sick.  They do pretty well in their double stroller and we even managed a trip to Savannah on Labor Day weekend.  The babies got to see the ocean and dipped their little toes in.  Landon seemed to love it as he squished his toes in the sand...

For my first workout after having the babies, we decided to climb the 178 stairs to the top of the lighthouse... needless to say I had to take several breaks along the way and it is a whole new experience walking down that many stairs with a baby on your chest.

 

They also caught their first baseball game and in the tradition of the Hubby we got their picture with the mascot.  

 

My mom and grandma came for another visit and it was great to see them and to see my grandma holding the babies.  There are four generations in this photo. :) 

 

The babies were a little more cooperative for the two month photo shoot.

Riley showing off her skills... Landon, not so willing to lift his head up for me.