Six Month Well Baby

The girls had their six month well baby appointment today.  They are both doing great, but Tannah has her first ear infection.  In the last month I have taken both girls to the pediatrician for suspected ear infections, and neither had one.  Today, she was exhibiting no symptoms, but there it was. Oh well.

They did very well with their shots, and I even managed to get some decent pictures of them this afternoon.

The girls both have horrible rashes around their mouths from the massive amounts of drool they produce every day.  I think teeth have to be coming soon, but so far no sign of them.

Now for the stats:

Birth

Harper - 6 lbs 6 oz (30th percentile), 21.5 inches (75th percentile)

Tannah - 7 lbs 7 oz (60th percentile), 20.5 inches

2 months

Harper - 11 lbs 2 oz (40th percentile), 23 inches (75th percentile)

Tannah - 12 lbs 4 oz (75th percentile), 23.25 inches (80th percentile)

4 months

Harper - 14 lbs 2 oz (50th percentile), 25 inches (75th percentile)

Tannah - 14 lbs 14 oz (70th percentile), 26 inches (95th percentile)

6 months

Harper - 15 lbs 11.5 oz (45th percentile), 26 3/4 inches (80th percentile)

Tannah - 16 lbs 1 oz (55th percentile), 27 inches (90th percentile)

The girls are so much fun right now.  I know I say that every month, but they just keep getting more fun.  They are developing their own little personalities. 

At six months:

• Both girls are rolling.  Tannah can roll a good 5 feet.
• Tannah can turn herself 360 degrees while on her belly.
• Both girls still love the exersaucer and the jumperoo.
• The girls love to play with Sophie, their Say Please tea pot, soft books, and Freddy the firefly.
• The girls are happy little babies who love to giggle when we make funny noises.
• Both girls are so close to sitting on their own.  They can both balance for short periods of time.
• They have had oatmeal, sweet potatoes, acorn squash, bananas, and avocados.
• They have both slept all night long, but not consistently.
• They generally go to bed around 7 pm and get up around 6:30.
• They still don't take very good naps.

They bring so much joy to my life, and they make everyone around them smile.  Love these girls so much!

Six Months!

My babies are a half a year old today!  It's strange, but it feels like they just got here yesterday and at the same time like they've always been a part of our family.  They are developing their own little personalities, and today those personalities were not so into getting their pictures taken. 

I had an appointment scheduled to get their pictures taken, but they both started screaming almost immediately upon being put down.  After feeding both of them, we managed to get a good shot of each girl individually, but nothing together.  I had grand plans to get pictures of the girls in their cute little dresses and then to do some in their Halloween costumes.  Yeah, that didn't happen.  We ran over our session time (which is way too short for twin infants) in just one outfit.  And, the lady taking the pictures actually mentioned to her assistant that she usually had a parent to help with posing the baby.  Again, this is why I just need hire someone to come to our house.  I'm thinking about hiring our wedding photographer to come do family Christmas pictures.

Then I tried to take their picture this afternoon in their dresses.

Cute individual pictures, but put them together, and they'd rather eat each other.

Finally, we moved onto month sticker pictures, and this is how that went:

Already going in opposite directions.