Life with twins

I kept the twins schedule and just daily routine pretty much the same - I changed them the same time and feed them the same time.  We did baths together.  I tell many people its like having one big giant baby.

Travel was difficult - they love the car and stroller but it's always a production to really go anywhere.

For their first year my dad babysat every day - he came up to my house which was a huge savings and less stress for me.. it was Kenadi's first year of Kindergarten at South Abington Elem. and it was a pretty easy adjustment - My father in law helped out also with rides to and from school since the Kindergarten program is only half day.

The twins hit most milestones on track - Harper almost always did things before Patrick but he was never far behind.  Monkey see monkey do.

Their first birthday party was at Armetta's with closest family and friends.

My second year of school (which I am just almost wrapping up) we decided to put the twins into a home daycare for 2 days a week at Aunt Denise's.  Same babysitter Kenadi had.
It was the best decision - gets them out and about 2 days a week, gives my dad a break, and helps out with socialization.

Kenadi is now in full day 1st grade and really shining.

Their 2nd birthday was a home pizza party with about 10 people -- they loved it!!

I think I'm pretty caught up - so much other things going on and I am going to try and blog once every other week or so.  But for the most part we all have been busy working and raising our family ! Almost at the point where we can take a deep breath!

First 6 months of life and sleep

Birth and the first 6 months of life -- SLEEP

I have so much to catch up on.  It have been a busy few year to say the least.

On February 20, 2014 I had 2 (huge) and healthy baby twins.  Baby A (my girl) was a whopping 6 pounds 10 ounces.  Baby B (my boy) was 6 pounds 6 ounces.

I had a scheduled section which went according to plan.  I was very lucky..

The hospital was surreal to me.  I couldn't imagine all the love I had for these two babies, and I couldn't imagine life without both.  So many people came to the hospital to visit us.   Harper was born with a massive amount of hair - it was really something.

We adjusted nicely at home but we were not ready for the twin tornado that was ready to hit.  It was exhausting -- there were no breaks.  Babies were feeding every 3 hours.  We decided to keep them on the same schedule so when one baby ate the other one ate too -- it worked nicely and eventually we had a great schedule going.

When we got home I had both babies sleeping next to me in Rock N Plays.  They absolutely loved them.

The best thing I did w the twins and sleeping was read the book called "Healthy Sleep Happy Child".  I followed this book to a T - and the next thing I knew I had happy rested babies.

They started randomly sleeping through the night around 3 months.  I had some advice to try the Baby Merlins Magic Sleep Suit and it was exactly that......MAGIC

From the first night I put them in there they slept  through the entire night - BOTH OF THEM.
So it couldn't have been a fluke.

They loved these suits - slept in them until they were 6 months old.  But by then I had very healthy sleep trained babies.  JACKPOT!