6 Months

My oh my! My boys are half a year!  

This picture just makes me laugh with their facial expressions. They are sporting their "hi" shirts I made them. Since they can't talk I will put what they want to say on their shirts.

6 months ago I was as big as a whale waiting for my babies to come. Everyone told me I was so small for carrying twins, I believed them until I saw this picture.

This month we have loved the fall weather and the leaves! We took a drive up Payson canyon and took a few pictures of the boys with their first autumn leaves.

                                               

We also welcomed in fall with some cute pumpkin baby butts. 

 For fall break we spent a few days in St. George. We drove my cousins BMW down to St. George for him. Matt LOVED it. He was like a kid in a candy shop. It was definitely a fun ride!

We spent a day in Zions doing all the stroller accessible hikes. We had no idea that twins were so popular in Zions. every. single. person. wanted to look at them and talk about how they love twins. It was fun, most of the time.

We also went to the St. George temple visitor's center.

 It was a fantastic trip! And we only had about an hour of screaming on the drive home! 

This month the boys were finally able to meet their Aunt Chin. They love her! And it was so fun to finally see her again! California is WAY too far away!

We also worked on our playroom for the boys. The room was our dumping ground for junk. Of course I forgot to take a before picture. Matt put up the rain gutter shelves and I organized everything. 

I love that we can open the double doors if we want to extend the space and then close them if we want to hide the clutter! 

We went on a twin play date. It was a lot of fun getting together with twin moms and the boys liked interacting with other babies, although they weren't quite sure what to think about all the girls! 

Halloween

The boys had many offers to take them in. 

My family did a Halloween party while everyone was here from out of town. It was such a fun party! All the kids dressed up and we played tons of silly games and ate Halloween food. 

For the party I dressed up as Eric. Boink! He dressed as Wesley from the Princess Bride. 

Their beards grew in just in time for Halloween. 

 We ran a haunted 5k with the boys. The weather was perfect and the boys did so great! We had a lot of fun taking pictures with all the Halloween decorations.

Next month will be fantastic! We are going to San Francisco for an early family Spanksgiving. Let's hope those boys behave on the flight! 

Hey Girl, see you next month.

5 Months

For the first time I shed a tear when I realized my boys were going to be another month older. Time is slipping away! But we are enjoying every moment!

We had quite a few firsts this month. At their 4 month check up the doctor approved them to start eating solids aka mush. They don't really know what to think about food, we are still working on it.

  As always Jameson's face says it all.

So far they have had peaches, applesauce, rice cereal and carrots. Carter is a better eater than Jameson, Carter especially loves applesauce.


At their check up they both weighed the same- 14lbs, but Carter is now an inch taller. They are already so different.

Carter is a thumb sucker. It is adorable now, but not when he's 5 years old and still sucking his thumb.

He has really pretty blue eyes and is super sweet. He will just look at you with is big eyes and melt your heart.

You have to work harder to get him to smile, but he is so adorable when he does smile!

Another first is Carter is now rolling. His main form of transportation is rolling. He rolls into the corner of the room and then gets mad that he is stuck.

 Jameson likes to smile and laugh and be really goofy. 

Jameson's hair is growing. Its getting longer and it gets really fuzzy after baths.

He is also very giggly. 

I usually put the boys in their bumbos while I do the dishes or clean the kitchen. I like to face them towards each other so they will have twin time and get to know each other.

Then when I catch them talking to each other one of them will usually look over at me and give me the look as if to tell me to "butt out".

Here is a slice of a day this week, which is also a very typical day

10am- Boys are in the bumbos on the table watching me do the dishes. I see Jameson do his poop face, then he goes back to sitting and staring at me.
10:10- Boys are fussy and ready for a nap. Having forgotten about the poop, I put both boys down in their cribs.
10:11- I go back into the living room and sit down on the couch. Then I smell poop. I sniff around and realize its on my arm. Culprit- Jameson.
10:12- I change Jameson's poopy diaper. It got all over him and the crib sheets.
10:13- I change the crib sheets.
10:15- Finally put Jameson back down and go back to the kitchen. Then I see the bumbo. It was also affected by the poop attack.
10:20- I clean the bumbo. The poop some how managed to get on the straps and on the inside of the clip.
10:30- I decide to hose the bumbo off in the tub.
10:35- The poop is still inside the clip and I spend the next 10 minutes cleaning it out with q-tips.

Almost the exact same thing happened the next day, it was the same baby but the other bumbo.

But who cares about the poop when you see these adorable faces?!

We went to my Grandpa Johansen's art exhibit at BYU with my family. The boys are very cultured now and have an appreciation for fine art.

My dad with the boys at the art exhibit. They are sportin' their manly men shirts.

The boys have also started enjoying all 3 hours of church. And when I say "enjoying" I mean they are fussy most of the 3rd hour. Last week Carter stunk up all of Sunday school with his LOUD stinky farts. Matt and I thought it was more hilarious than it should have been and laughed for a good 10 minutes about it.

We went to the park and tried out the swing made just for the boys. It's definitely a twin thing.

This month has been really great! We are enjoying all the new tricks the boys can do and can't wait to see what next month brings!

Instead of a goofy Jameson picture to end the blog post, I will end with a goofy Carter picture. This picture just makes me laugh.

4 Months

These silly sea lions are 4 months old! And this month as been an adventure!

The boys are talking, laughing and sleeping through the night mostly. Carters sleeps an average of 10 hours every night and Jameson sleeps an average of 7 hours. I stopped waking Carter up to eat with Jameson and ever since he has slept a solid 10+ hours every night. Now if only we can get Jameson to do the same.


We spent a Saturday afternoon enjoying the sunshine at Spring Lake. The boys had fun watching the ducks and walking around the pond.

Eric came home from Delaware and starting teasing the boys like usual. They like playing with him until he makes them cry. 

The boys were able to meet their cousin Gracie for the first time! They love her and she is always so helpful when it comes to feeding and taking care of them.

They were also able to meet their Uncle Scott for the first time! Carter now has the nick name "Carter Farter" thanks to Scott. 

The biggest victory this month was taking the boys camping in Bear Lake for 3 days. I was excited and dreading this trip all at the same time. Sleeping in a tent for 2 nights with 2 babies. Two babies that get really ornery when they are tired or hungry or if you look at them the wrong way. But it turned out perfect!  They slept great and did so well in the cold and wind. The boys are now "camping boys" as my dad likes to call them.

                                                 The boys snug and warm ready for bed.

                                                          All the cousins together

                                                                 The Camping Boys

We were able to get some family photos taken. They turned out so cute! And the boys did really good!

Matt and I laugh because Carter (left) likes to use his eye brows when he talks. And sometimes it looks like we penciled his eye brows in.

                                                           

Month 4 has been really great for us! I love how much fun they are getting. And to end the blog post with a goofy Jameson face.