our weekend

I think we are past our sleep issues with Jakob.  We determined that Jakob is definitely waking-up in the middle of the night because he is hungry.  So we tried giving Jakob a couple of extra bottles at night (2.5 oz at 10 pm and 2.5 oz at 2:30 am).  It seemed to work for the most part.  It at least stopped us from having to hold him in the middle of the night.  Then about two nights ago it appeared that Jakob might not need the extra 10pm bottle so I started to just give him 3 oz at 2:30 am.  And it seems to be working just fine.  And in fact today is Day #1 of trying to switch the boys to five 6 oz bottles during the day (7:30 am, 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm).  We started this today because both boys slept until 7:30 am.  And for those keeping track at home this means Mr. Alex went from 7:30 pm until 7:30 am without a bottle!!  He is such a "professional baby"!!!  So cross your fingers ...

The boys have been eating vegetables for over a week.  We feed them a vegetable around 8:30 am (after their morning bottle).  They seem to be getting the hang of it.  We can already tell that we might have some picky eaters on our hands.  We started with sweet potatoes.  We tried sweet potatoes exclusively for one week.  The verdict.  Mr. Alex - "Mmm.  I love sweet potatoes." and Mr. Jakob "Where is my bottle?"  This weekend we introduced peas.  The verdict.  Mr. Alex - "Help!  Someone stole my sweet potatoes and replaced them with some nastiness." and Mr. Jakob - "It's about time you gave me something good to eat!"  So needless to say our current favorite food choices are Jakob - Peas and Alex - Sweet Potatoes.  Just don't remind Alex that he has to eat peas for a few more days before we can throw the book at them.

And the biggest news of the weekend ... Alex rolled over (belly to back) for the first time on October 19th.  I am so proud!!!

We had a really nice weekend.  I had the boys dressed for Halloween this weekend.  Of course it only lasted for two hours because Jakob decided to gag himself after finishing his 11:00 am bottle and proceeded to vomit all over the Jumperoo and his cute Halloween outfit.  It might be a while before Jakob learns that sticking all four fingers down your throat will result in an unfavorable reaction.  I did manage to snap a picture.

The boys are wiggling all over the place.  We often put them on the floor side by side when we are changing diapers.  It allows for a quick diaper change and plus we can interact with them both during the diaper change.  But now they are scooting everywhere so of course they are not always in the same position when you return from doing something.  This is not how we left them ...

And of course that picture was taken after Mr. Jakob's wardrobe change!!!

So we have very few family pictures.  It was a beautiful fall day on Sunday so we went to Creekside Gahanna with the grandparents and we managed to snap a few (or a few hundred) pictures of the boys.  The boys personalities shined through in each of the pictures.  Alex was serious in almost every picture.  And only on occasion would he start looking at something else.  Jakob on the otherhand giggled through most of the pictures.  But that was only after you made a bunch of noise and jumped up and down for 60 seconds to get his attention.  Are you familiar with the movie UP?  Squirrel! That would be about the attention span of Jakob.  We got a lot of good pictures.  This is one of my favorites.

I feel blessed each and every day.

Mary