They can hold their own bottles! We no longer have to hold both bottles at the same time. I can't tell you how great this is! We've been waiting for this day to come for 7 months. Let me revisit the feeding situation over the past 7 months. In the beginning I was breastfeeding one baby at a time, which would take 1 hour and someone was always screaming for their turn. At 3 months of age we switched to formula, which allowed someone (not just me, yippee!) to feed both babies at once by holding both bottles as Cal and Teagan sat in chairs. Or, ideally, there were two people at home so each could feed a baby comfortably. After months of double bottle feedings in awkward and uncomfortable positions, I feel a huge weight lifted off my back now that I can just hand over their bottles and watch them feed themselves. Ahhhh.
The other equally fantastic development is...
SITTING!!!
Over the past couple weeks these two have been practicing sitting on their own! Let me just say that again because it is music to my ears: They are sitting up without my help! For the past 7 months I've been dreaming and talking about this moment. Until now I've been holding both babies at the same time, all the time. During their waking hours I've been using all kinds of baby seats (bouncy seats, swings, the Bumbo, exersaucer, boppy) to assist in taking a load off my arms, but after a while they grew tired of the seats and just wanted to be held in a propped-up position to play. This was getting tiring as they grew, especially now that they have a combined weight of 35lbs.
Everyone is much happier now that Cal and Teagan are sitting on their own!
What else is going on?Cal and Teagan are eating! We've only just begun feeding them set meals each day. We put it off as long as possible because we weren't ready for this next step. It's fun and cute, but it's a huge, messy production. We still have some kinks to work out with feeding twins. It's times like this that I really miss Solomon. He loved cleaning up after Ethan's messy meals and I don't think I ever washed the floor! :)
Here are Cal & T, ready for breakfast.
Overall, we seem to have found our groove with these two at 7 months, and we're really enjoying where we're at right now. We can even sit down at watch a little Sunday football...
Once in a while I'll get emails commenting on the blog and the only complaint I get it that I'm not in enough of the pictures. This is for you guys ;)
Once in a while I'll get emails commenting on the blog and the only complaint I get it that I'm not in enough of the pictures. This is for you guys ;)
Ethan took these pictures:
