4 Months Old

My oh my!!  The twins are four months old already!

Colt (L) and Luke (R)

Current stats:

Colt:  22 1/4" long and 10 lbs 9 oz  

Luke:  22 3/4" long and 11 lbs 3 oz

Jack at 4 months: 26 1/4" long and 14 lbs. 8oz

Their adjusted age is 11 weeks

They're smiling all the time now, and certainly when you make eye contact and talk to them!

They're cooing and babbling lots.

Colt loves tummy time and so does Luke - just not as long as Colt.  

They're just now beginning to wear size 3 month clothes. 

They're still in size 1 diapers

They love watching their mobiles

They both get swaddled for all sleep times and I'm trying to have Luke sleep lying flat sometimes.  Colt still sleeps at an incline to help with spit-up.   

They eat at 8am, 11am, 2:30pm, 4:30pm, 6:30pm, and 7:45pm followed by bedtime around 8pm.  YEA!!  We're starting to get some of our child-free evening back!

We had a break-through this past Tuesday night.  For quite a while now they've only been eating once at night.  What I miiiight not have mentioned was how many other times I was on paci patrol (like 20-30 times) or picking Colt someone up to burp them for the 25th time during the night.  Over the past little while, that's gotten better and they were waiting until about 4 am to eat instead of 2 or 3 am.  Well, this past Tuesday night I put the boys to bed at 8pm and I only got up TWICE to put in pacis!!!  NO bottles in the middle of the night!  Whoa.  So that's happened every night since with Luke and a few more times with Colt.  Since he's a bit smaller, I'm betting he'll make it through the night more consistently pretty soon.  

I've mentioned to several people I was going to make an effort to be super present in each and every moment (or stage) with the twins.  While I enjoyed the baby stages with Jack,  I do remember always anticipating the next milestone and waiting for it to manifest.  BOY!  What was I thinking??  As I've learned with the twins, you never know just how easy things are until they change, right?  Like going from one child to 3 overnight!  Can you say "learning curve"??  And that was certainly true with Jack too.  I never knew how easy I had it while he was stationary... until he became mobile.  I never knew how great it was that I had control of what he ate.... until he became vocal!  ha :)  And on and on and on...

So, aaallllll of that to say that I'm not wishing away the twins' baby-ness.  I promise, I'm not.  I definitely feel like I've been submerged in babyhood for quite some time.  They're sweet, they're cuddly, they're still tiny, and I'm loving it.  But I'm also ready to move on from Colt's spit-up dilemma, being prisoners in our own house and our constant routine that I have to be militant about.  And I know better than to wish for things to change... because that doesn't always mean things will be easier.  I mean... I can't even imagine what life will be like when the twins become mobile and I still have Jack running around.  That will definitely be my workout everyday.  

Jack acts like this all the time with the boys.
He's very affectionate with them and loves having them around.   

this was completely unprompted!!

Mommy is soooooo funny!! 

I hate that Luke wasn't showing more of his personality in these pictures.
He's typically a very smiley and bubbly baby.
I think he was camera shy :(