Monday, July 21. 2008Week 33
Another week has gone by and we have made more progess on settling into the new house. It's been slower going since I started my new job this past week (which has been going pretty well so far). I've now replaced every bulb in the house that I can with energy saving bulbs. The only ones I haven't yet are the recessed lights in the great room. The reason I didn't yet is because the ones I bought are not dimmable and the lights in that room are all on dimmers. Since we use the dimming feature all the time at night when feeding the girls, I won't replace them until I can find decent dimmable energy bulbs.
Yesterday the girls tried pear for the first time and they LOVED it! Pear seems to be right up there with applesauce, which is apparently in a neck and neck race for favorite food. They also tried oatmeal cereal this week and did alright with that as well. It's no pear or applesauce, though Friday night, we headed up to Hampton Beach (in New Hampshire for those that don't know) to hang out with Jen and Steve. Jen's family has a great house on the beach up there, and every year Jen has all her college friends up there for a weekend getaway. A few years ago, we made plans to go up for a weekend, just the four of us. Since then we've been going up there every year with Jen and Steve. It's great fun to just relax and get away from home for a weekend. A sort of mini-vacation. This year was, of course, the first weekend we made the trip with all our girls! Grace was there, and Karina and Kathryn came up with us. It's an old house and is not air-conditioned so we were slightly concerned about how the twins would handle the heat, but fortunately, it wasn't that bad Friday night and Saturday morning. The house is right off the water, so there's a great breeze that blows through the house, keeping it pretty cool inside. We only stayed till mid-afternoon on Saturday and then headed back home. The plan was to go to the beach with the girls for the first time, but by the time we all got our act together it started raining a little. We opted to just head home, but Jen, Steve, and Grace did go to the beach after we left for about a half hour, and Grace had herself a good time. Kris is having her annual college girls trip up to the house in a few weekends and she might take the girls up then... so they might still get into the water up there soon enough Yesterday, we decided to have Grammy and Grampa come over since they will be headed to sunny Florida later this week and will be gone for a few weeks. The girls played with them and had a good time, and eventually got tired and went down for bed. When they finally went to bed, we had a nice dinner. The weekend has completely flown by with our trip up to Hampton, working on the house, and Grammy/Grampa coming over. I can't believe I'm back to work already! [Thumper Photos] [Hampton Photos] [Week 33 Photos] Sunday, July 13. 2008Week 32
It's been an incredibly busy couple weeks, and lots has happened! As most of you now know, we moved1 into our new house last weekend. A BIG thank you to Niral, Dave, Randy, Steve, and Grampa for their help! We are still in the process of unpacking and settling in, but for the most part we're doing very well. The girls adjusted easily to the new house, but the cats didn't do do so well. They took a little longer than expected to get used to the new house, especially Grady... but they're doing much better now, a week later.
My brother came down on Saturday (visiting from California) to help with the move, and my parents came down on Monday. All three of them stayed until Wednesday afternoon. While they were here, we got a LOT of things done around the house. My dad and brother were incredibly helpful in putting together the patio furniture and grill, changing various light fixtures in the house, unpacking (as was my mom for this one), etc, while my mom was more than happy to watch the girls. Once Wednesday afternoon rolled around, we were left to ourselves to continue unpacking. We love our new house, but there are a few things we are still getting used to. For one, there are too many stairs to deal with. Most of our time is spent in what we've been calling the "great room". It's a large family room above the garage. To get to it, though, you have to go up 7 stairs. So whenever we want to go to a bedroom from the great room, we have to go down the stairs, then up a full flight of stairs. On top of that, the washer and dryer are in the finished basement, which adds to the number of stairs to go up and down. Traversing all these stairs all the time gets to be a pain. Ah well, we'll get used to it... and maybe lose a pound or two? We're also developing our green thumbs as we have a lot of beautiful plants and flowers that surround our house. My mom brought us five plants, and she showed me how to plant them and gave me tips on taking care of what we have (she's definitely got a green thumb!). I picked up a lot of tips from her, and hopefully I can keep the lawn and garden looking good. Ok, enough with the house... on to the girls! The week before last they tried sweet peas for the first time. They weren't fans... especially Karina, she was NOT fond of the peas. She literally started gagging, eyes watering. Last week they tried applesause and they both seem to love it! So at this point they will eat the stage 1 sweet potatos, bananas and applesauce. It seems like they need to be in the right mood for it though, because Kris says sometimes one or both girls will push the food out with her tongue instead of eating it, while other times they eat really well. Both girls are able to sit up on their own now, although Karina only lasts about 10 seconds until she leans over one way to reach for something and she topples over. Kathryn seems to do much better and can sit for minutes, playing with toys, reaching for them, etc. Kathryn is this close to crawling, which is pretty cool. She is constantly getting on all fours and trying hard to crawl. She's mastered every part of crawling, except for the part where you move your hands to get that forward motion. Instead what she generally does, is scooch her legs up and then lunges forward... usually face planting into the floor. She doesn't mind it though. She's constantly rolling around and moving via this half-baked crawling method, so much that her knees are always red. She's giving herself rug burns from moving around so much!! We are at the point where we need to seriously consider getting our baby gates installed (and purchased, for that matter). She is going to be correctly crawling in a week or two, I'd say. Until then, though, here's a video of our li'l Kathryn trying oh so hard to crawl... Kathryn tries to crawl 2 Something else Kathryn started doing a week or two ago is grabbing her bottle when we're trying to feed her and just play with it. She'll take it with both hands, sometimes just one hand, look at it, make noises, and then she'll actually put the bottle in her mouth and drink from it! It's pretty cool... and cute... Kathryn feeds herself When the girls are playing with each other, if Kathryn gets too close to Karina's head, she will just grab her hair with both hands and just PULL! Kathryn just LOVES pulling hair. She actually did it to Karina earlier today and poor Karina started bawling. I'll put her up on my shoulders, and all she does is grab at my hair and keep pulling. I don't mind it as much, but when she grabs a fist-full of Karina's hair, it's not pretty. Karina, for obvious reasons, does NOT like it. Kathryn also pulled Grace's hair when Jen and Grace came by on Friday. We're going to have to keep a close eye on her. Karina pulls other people's hair (like Mommy and Daddy's) but not Kathryn's for some reason. As you may know, I was off of work this whole week to work on the house and settling in. It's been an incredibly productive week, and it was nice being home all day every day, but it's back to work tomorrow. What a lot of you may not know is that I'm actually starting a new job tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about this new endeavor, and hopefully it's a rewarding experience in which I can learn a lot. [Week 32 photos] [Biren mowing the lawn photos] [Jen & Grace visiting photos] 1 There are a few new photos in the Big Move gallery I posted last week, courtesy of Randy. Thanks Randy, for the photos! Tuesday, July 8. 2008Week 31Monday, June 30. 2008Week 30Kathryn smacking her lips Last week, I mentioned Kathryn's teeth were coming in, but I failed to provide video of them like I did for Karina. So, to make up for that, here's a quick video of Kathryn's teeth! Kathryn's first two teeth Kathryn has been a jumping lunatic in her Jumperoo lately. She will literally jump non-stop in the Jumperoo for over an hour straight squealing with delight! She just can't get enough of jumping and bouncing... but jumping up and down like that for an hour will surely tire you out... So from time to time, she'll take a break and suck her thumb for a bit, but then it's right back to the jumping! Check out this video as Kathryn tuckers herself out from relentless jumping. This video was shot over the span of about 20-30 minutes, but I've edited it down to about a minute... and keep in mind that before I started taping, she had already been jumping for about 45 minutes!! Kathryn in the Jumperoo [Week 30 Photos] [House photos] Sunday, June 22. 2008Week 29In baby news, Kathryn is just a rolling lunatic. She'll just roll all over the place like a log. She is able to rollover from back to tummy and vice versa with such ease now. Karina, on the other hand only seems to roll over from back to tummy. She will lay there on her tummy for long periods of time, just looking around or playing. She has on occassion rolled over to her back, but it's quite infrequent. We have to watch Kathryn now, though, because she's quick - the next thing we know she's on the other side of the living room! Karina says "dada" and plays with her feet [Week 29 Photos]
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