3 Years

Three years ago today Eric and I were married! What a wonderful three years it has been! We have so many things to be thankful for and it all starts with each other. Looking back at August 11, 2007...

Ahhh then we started our lives together in St. Croix. Eric and I really want to take Parker and Presley there some day...

Off to watch our wedding highlight video... =)

5 Months!

Today my little cuties are 5 months (3 months corrected age.) They are growing and changing so fast! Here's what they're up to these days...

Playing with Daddy

Daddy loves to play, "I'm gonna getcha!" He then smooches their necks and they love it

Watching some cartoons

Loving our "lovies"

Having fun in the bathtub

Being a little monkey

Using our hands

Which means...we put EVERYTHING in our mouths!

Even our brothers arm! Eric said to me, "Heather!! Look at her! She's got his arm like it's a turkey leg!" I laughed forever about that

 

Parker LOVES his twin sister so much. You can't see his face completely in this one but he's smiling at her as usual

He always has his hands on her =)

Or his feet. haha

AND we are transitioning OUT of the 4 ounce bottles and into the 8 ounce. More and more the babies are taking 5-6 ounces! yay!

Mommy and Daddy LOVE YOU Parker and Presley! You are growing up to be such happy, sweet, cuddly babies! You love to coo, smile, and squeal! You are really starting to be attached to each other as well! =)

Off to go check on you napping now...

Little Piggie

Eric and I have been laughing at this Geico commercial since we saw it last night. Hilarious!

Slumber Party

Last week before Parker was feeling bad I tried to get the babies to nap together. I thought... hmm maybe they will comfort each other. Well, it didn't work like a charm like I had hoped. I think it's a little hard to fall asleep with someones arm flailing around at your head or someones finger in your eye. Haha! As soon as one baby would get sleepy the other baby would move around and wake him/her up. Eventually, they did both fall asleep in Parker's crib and it was so sweet.

I tried again the next day in Presley's crib. Presley went to sleep even though Parker was kicking all around. =) I eventually just picked Parker up because he wasn't falling asleep.

Look at those sweet chubby legs!

Looking Back

I was looking through videos from the past since I learned how to post them and found this video from when the babies were in the NICU. The babies were around 35 weeks gestationally here. I think Presley was close to 5 lbs and Parker 6 lbs. They usually stayed about one pound apart. Presley looks so different!

Itty Bitty Rolly Polly

I just figured out how to post videos! Yay! =) Please ignore my voice. haha

Parker's Tummy Issues

Poor baby Parker has still not been feeling well. I mentioned before that we took him to the doctor (a week ago) for a bloody diaper. Our pediatrician said he had a milk allergy and to switch him from breast milk to Alimentum formula. Ever since then Parker has been in awful tummy pain. He's not acting himself or eating like his usual. He hasn't been as active or cooing like he used to. We took him back to the pediatrician Tuesday and he said to up their Zantac dose. Eric and I expressed concern to the doctor and that we didn't feel it was his reflux that was causing the problem. Parker has always been a very relaxed, playful, easy going baby and lately he's been very uncomfortable. Last night we went to dinner for Eric's birthday while Gramma and Grandad stayed with the babies. Parker had been upset while we were gone and we decided last night that enough is enough and we wanted a second opinion. We were very worried it could be something more serious than a milk allergy. We loaded him up and took him to the Cooks Urgent Care that is right by our house. Thank goodness this Cooks is never busy and there were only two people ahead of us. The doctor at Cooks said she doesn't think it's a milk allergy but a bacterial infection. She seemed surprised that our pediatrician didn't do a culture on the diaper we brought in. She is doing a culture on the dirty diaper he had while we were there last night. We will know in a few days if there is any bacteria in his intestines. She said how rare milk allergies are to breast milk and she said it would have shown up much earlier. Whether it's an allergy or not I'm just glad they are running the culture so we can find out some answers (I hope!) It kind of makes sense to be a bacterial infection since he hasn't been acting himself. Who wants to eat or play when there sick?