6 Months

About a week ago, Ashton and Addy were six months old. Wow! I can't believe how quickly that time has gone and how much have they have changed during that time. They get to be more fun all the time and you can really see their own little personalities. It is so fun to go through each little stage with them together, I get to see who discovers something new first and then how long it take the other one to figure it out too. They are so different and they are each so special.

Ashton at six months has decided that it is okay to eat real food after all. He hated it at first.


He had a hair cut recently and cried the entire time.


He is pretty much sitting up on his own.


He loves to pull Addy's headband off. He has two teeth on the bottom. He wants something to play with all the time. He has finally started sleeping through the night, most of the time. And best of all, he is a mama's boy and I love it!!

Addyson at six months is also sitting up on her own.


She loves real food and cries when it's gone. Her hair is finally long enough for me to put a curl on top of her head. Jesse said it looks like a faux-hawk (spelling??). I might have to agree.


She loves her thumb.

Jesse thinks she is his little princess but honestly she like her mommy the best too!!


However, the biggest change in the last six months in my children would have to be the rolls of chubbiness on their arms, wrists, thighs, cheeks and the double chins where their necks are supposed to be.
This was what they used to look like:





This is them now:)


I prefer the rolls!

Here are some other fun pics of my sweethearts

Christmas 2009

This year Christmas was great!! It was so fun spending time with our families and having Ashton and Addy this year made it that much more special. They were the best Christmas presents we could have asked for. We did all the usual stuff like matching pajamas and the pajama parade on Christmas Eve and the Hales' house and my family came over Christmas morning and had breakfast with us. For our pajamas this year we had personalized t-shirts for each person so mine said all I want for Christmas is two babies sleeping at the same time, jesse's said a tutor for the CPA exam, Addy wanted more hair bows, and Ashton wanted more meat and potatoes!! They were so fun and everyone's said something different. Ashton and Addy really liked their presents. We got them a tickle me Elmo (Addy really loves it) and this ball game that looks way fun and some other fun toys. However, their favorite thing on Christmas morning was the wrapping paper!! I had it all picked up in a garbage bag and Jesse decided it would be fun to dump it all out on their heads. It entertained them for quite awhile and they may have eaten some of it, I'm not sure!!

Christmas Pictures

I had Ashton and Addy's pictures taken this weekend. It was so fun to get them all dressed up and the pictures turned out great. Addy especially smiled a lot!!

Peas!!!

Since Ashton and Addy have been sick they have had a hard time drinking their bottles because their heads are so stuffed up so I thought I would try feeding them some baby food. So the other night I tried feeding them so peas. It was quite the experience! First I tried feedibg Ashton and lets just say he didn't not enjoy it at all. He started crying and spit them all over me!! It was nice. So then we switched and tried Addy. She was a little hesitant at first but then she decided she really liked it. She would get mad if I didn't give it to her fast enough! It was pretty funny. She loved it and Ashton hated it. I guess we'll have to keep working on him; although those peas didn't smell or look like they tasted very good:)

Two is Better Than One

I'm sure you've heard the saying that two is always better than one ex: two pairs of shoes is better than one, two pieces of pie etc. I believe that having two babies is better than one most of the time. It's twice the smiles, laughs and loves, which are great!! It is also twice the work, stress, headaches!! This past week both Ashton and Addy have been sick with colds and Ashton is getting a whole mouth full of teeth. Two have already broke through and he has at least two more coming in. Two teeth at a time must be better than one:) Needless to say they are both pretty miserable and the days and nights are pretty long without a lot of sleeping happening. Infant Tylenol and miracle Teething Tablets have been life savers! I can't believe my little baby is getting teeth. They are both getting so big. Anyway, usually I think that two babies are better than just one, I'm just grateful for naptime to catch up on sleep!

Well, other news Thanksgiving was great this year. It was the first time since we've been married that we just stayed in home for Thanksgiving and it was so nice to spend time with each of our families. We ate with the Hales' and then went and visited my family later in the day. Ashton and Addy weren't too impressed with Nan's dinner because all they got were bottles of icky formula.

They also just turned five months old on Monday. They are learning new things so quickly it's amazing. They are both so close to being able to sit up on their own, they are holding their own bottles (finally), Ashton has two teeth, they are fascinated by the Christmas tree, and they are both growing like weeds.

Some fun pics

Halloween

Normally I'm not a big fan of Halloween, but this year it was super fun to dress up Ashton and Addy and take them to see our family and friends. We dressed Ashton up as a tiger and Addy was a pink leopard, complete with whiskars and everything! They looked so cute. They also had matching pre-costume outfits that were super cute too. It was by far the funnest Halloween I've had in a while.

The pre-costume outfits:





My cute little tiger and leopard and very cute daddy!




Carving our pumpkin

What's New

So it's been a few weeks since I've posted and things with Ashton and Addyson change daily. They are learning new things all the time. For starters, they have discovered that they have hands and Addyson more specifically has discovered her thumb. Despite my efforts to keep her from sucking on her thumb she manages to find it in the middle of the night and when she is tired. It's really cute but it's a habit I would prefer she didn't have: Just a thumb for Ashton is no good, he likes to suck on his entire fist. He slobbers all over making quite a mess of his clothes! Last week I got Addy to laugh for the first time. It was so hilarious I was laughing so hard at her cute little laugh. I loved it. She has laughed for Jess once and me a couple more times. There were no laughs from Ashton until this morning and i got him laughing (and snorting)it was so funny. I love to hear them laugh. Ashton also as a new trick, he can roll over. Yesterday while he ws on his tummy, he just rolled over. I was like whoa, he just did that. So I put him back on his tummy and he did it again then started crying like it had scared him. It was so cute. So I tried to get him to do it again so I could have pictures and video but no luck yet.

Loving his fist!


My thumb sucker!


Funny story, we ran a couple of errands and when I got home and got her out of the car this is what I found. She'd fallen asleep with her headband over her eyes! Poor Thing!!


One more picture of our two BYU fans. It's super hard to get them both looking at the same time for a picture so this the best I could do.