It's a crazy Crain life!: #twinlife

Everything comes in twos these days. Our latest double trouble is car seats. This is actually a quadruple need because we need seats for both of our vehicles since Mitch drives the kids every morning! This is one of those #twinlife things that’s just a bummer! The good news is these car seats should last through the rest of their car seat-needing lives. This is just another of the many parts of the #twinlife that I’m coming to accept. Double the babies means double the diapers to change, mouths to feed, bottles to clean, naps to synchronize, and definitely means double the baby gear!!! It also means double the giggles, smiles, kisses, and all of the other sweet #twinlife moments that make it totally worth it.

In other news, the babies are 9 months…and close to 10 months by now! I haven’t gone to their 9 month appointment yet, so I don’t have all of their specs. They turned nine months and Maddex turned 2.5 the week that school started. I’ve finally decided things are slowing down enough to go to the doctor this week. So, pray for me because I’m taking ALL THREE for well visits on Friday! The twins will have shots, but Maddex won’t (let’s add double the shots to the above paragraph ;) ). I'll add a brief post this weekend with their info from the doctor and their official nine month picture.

Here’s a little random info about my precious babies…

Harper

-Harper now has four teeth! She has passed her brother up. I thought I’d miss her gummy grins, but I sure do love those toothy ones!

-Harper slept from 7ish – 6:15 one night this weekend. Then went back to sleep until 8. She won the “Mommy’s favorite” award ;)

-Harper sometimes speaks on demand. When we tell her to say “Mama, Dada or uh oh,” she’ll often repeat us.

-Harper thinks her siblings are so funny. She is always giggling at Major or Maddex. She also giggles at me every afternoon when I walk in to Mrs. Vickie’s!

-Harper is mostly crawling on her belly, but gets up on her knees juuuuuust a tad bit. She sure can move on her belly though!

-I have decided that Harpy is just a straight Mama's girl (and sometime's daddy). I'm convinced she just does not like people like she loves her parents. For this reason, I think Major is often the favored twin because he's so easy. This means Harpy needs extra mama-lovin'!
-Harpy Elle has also been playing peek-a-boo! She holds a blanket in front of her head then pulls it down...we say "peek a boo!" and she giggles and giggles. The other day she giggled so big, she fell over!

Major

-Major still has his two teeth – one top, one bottom. His other bottom tooth has been threatening to come through forever, but it will not break the gums!

-Major slept from 7ish – 4:45 this weekend which is not so bad! I think I’m close to getting some nights of uninterrupted sleep. I never imagined it would be almost 10 months of night wakings!!

-Major is a crawling machine and is beginning to pull up. Usually when we go in to get him out of his crib, he is standing. This also means he's getting stuck standing up & cries! This happened last night poor guy...I think he may have fallen back to sleep standing up and then woken up & cried some more because he was standing and exhausted when I went in there!

-Major man, in typical boy fashion, loves his food. He often cries when the food is gone, he’s done nursing, or the bottle is empty!

-My sweet boy become mega grump as soon as that bowl of food is empty at night...he is not happy during bath time, pajama time, and Lord help us if I have to put him down to take care of his sister!

Maddex

-Big sis is having typical two year old issues. We are battling fits of not getting her way often! This is such a tough age! She understands SO much, so I think we often expect her to understand everything. I think her fits often come as a result of difficulty communicating! And sometimes they’re just because she’s being a brat ;)

-Maddex looooooves her babies and loves to give them kisses and help them. The other morning Mitch asked Maddex if she loved the babies. She said “I love my buddy boy” and went and held Major’s hand.

-She.is.hilarious. Bedtime is our favorite because she says the funniest things to stall us from putting her down. Last week I wasn’t feeling well and actually went to bed before Maddex. She stood at my door to close it and kept saying the silliest things about swimming and my swimsuit. Then she’d follow it up with “I love you so much.”
-She is definitely a parrot of us...always calling the babies "buddy boy" and "sweet girl."

-Maddex loves jumping, singing, walking instead of being carried, playing games, watching Elmo & Wheels on the Bus, and making silly faces.

-As much as she drives us nuts, she’s so, so much fun!

Now for a few random, cute pictures of my kiddos lately...

I walked over to get a pic of them playing together and Maj looked up at me and made this face! Silly boy!

Check out those teeth - one top, one bottom on the same side

Same as brother, but opposite side! And y'all, this picture makes me die every time I see it. My sweet, sweet giggly girl.

Love my big girl - wanted a picture of herself after I was taking pics of the babies.

Holding his bottle - too big!

Standing in bed - too big!

Look at Maddex's tower that SHE built! I was ready to catch it if it fell :)

Kisses

Going in for that kiss

I took Maddex to a princess breakfast at a local performing arts studio. She wanted nothing to do with the princesses and just wanted to run around in this room and look at herself in the mirror.