4 month old babies

Pictures taken on Christmas day.

Little family o' five.

2 cutie babes.

heh heh.

Ivan in his cool new jammies-with dump trucks and excavators on them, of course.

Isaac has been off his oxygen for nearly 3 weeks now and is doing great on room air. He weighs about 12 lbs. He is the smilingest baby-so sweet. He has a few little coos but mostly likes to smile and giggle. Erik is about 17 lbs-built like a little sumo wrestler. He loves to coo and goo and also has an infectious giggle. Everyone comments on how blue his eyes are. They both have blue eyes but Erik's seem to be a little lighter-maybe they'll stay blue. We enjoyed some quiet holiday moments. We do allow grandparents to see them so we spent Christmas day with Lance's mom and dad and that was very nice. Ivan and I went to the Benjamin gathering on the 26th while Lance stayed home with the babes.

Pictures!

Lance took Ivan with him to Havre today so the babies and I are just eating, sleeping, and getting things done:)

Here's Ivan in his fab new sandbox. I try to get the babies down for naps at the same time in the morning so we can go play in it before lunch. I'm finally starting to get the hang of playing like a little boy-building roads, back, back back, dump, dump, dump. I was kind of lame at first (here, let's bake a cake, we'll use this stick for a candle). Sleeping cherub (Erik).

Isaac sleeping with his eyes still open a bit-doesn't want to miss out on anything!

All my men. Lance is a natural, don't you think? Looks like you've got it under control, honey! I'll be back in a few hours....

Babies are doing awesome! :)

I see my last post was exactly 1 month ago. Time flies when you're changing 400 diapers/day:) The babies are over 3 months old now. Isaac had an appt with the pediatric specialist today. He is doing great and will most likely be off the oxygen and the monitor in a couple weeks. Yay! Wireless by Christmas is the goal. He is 11# even. Erik is over 14 # now and cooing and smiling. Isaac is quick with the smiles but doesn't have anything to say yet. Ivan, on the other hand, keeps us in stitches with the things that come out of his mouth. I got after him the other day and he said, "Don't! I'm fragile!" He is quite helpful and likes to be involved with whatever is going on. He especially likes to make muffins or cookies-anything that involves dumping things in. We finally got some sand in his backyard sandbox (thanks to my Dad) and he loves that.
We had a lovely Thanksgiving. Stayed home and counted our blessings-and fed and changed them!:) We have so very much to be thankful for...
We have weekly clinic visits so my Mom has been coming to watch whomever is not seeing the doctor. We all enjoy her company and the change of pace.
When the weather was nice we would all bundle up and head outside for a walk. As you can imagine, it took about the same amount of time to get ready to go out as it did so enjoy the walk... I put Isaac in the front pack,, his oxygen in the backpack, Erik in the stroller and Ivan running along beside. I still have one hand free...maybe we need to get a dog or something...kidding! Of course, we can't go anywhere public but it works well to walk to the school after hours and walk around the track.