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5 Months old

The babies are now 5 months old. They continue to grow and learn new things all the time. Jack is becoming more vocal and enjoys cooing and spitting :-). Mackenzie is still the more outgoing one...she loves to be heard and prefers to not be in one place for too long. Now a days I often put her on her back only to watch her roll to the other side of the play area. Sometimes she will roll over and grab Jack's toy and roll back-luckily he doesnt seem to mind for now. Jack just prefers to watch. They are both working on sitting by themselves and both love to stand.


Up until a few weeks ago we were still swaddling the babies at night. Jack kept breaking free and getting his arms out so we just put him in a sleep sack and he slept just fine. Mackenzie still prefered to be swaddled. Well, the other night we heard her crying so we went in to check on her...only to find her on her belly in the corner of the crib. Needless to say she is now unswaddled as well and loves to sleep on her belly. Unfortunately she will occasionally wake in the middle of the night and "forget" how to roll back onto her back; so we go flip her and she falls right back asleep-and then of course rolls back onto her belly. Jack enjoys sleeping on his side.

Mackenzie is still struggling with feeding. The GI changed her med so hopefully we will see some improvement. We saw a speech pathologist this week to see if she needs some feeding therapy. Unfortunately that appointment was pretty worthless-I was told to keep doing what we're doing and hopefully the new med will help. If not, come back in a month. So, we will see.Sadly Jack too has started to show some reflux symptoms...a few weeks ago he started crying through his bottles. We took him to the pediatrician and she put him on some medication. Luckily his reflux seems more mild and he will still eat!

Babies are still working on solids...Jack LOVES it and gets pretty excited. Mackenzie smiles and gets excited (she gets excited about everything) but then only swallows about 5 bites or so...atleast she isnt crying!

Our adventure and other updates

We've had quite the adventure over the last few days. We got a bad snow/ice storm here early last week-they even closed the university. Wednesday our power had been flickering all day and it finally went out for good around 6. We called the power company and were told that our power would be back on Saturday around 8pm. So, we got a hotel in Athens for the night. The first night did not go well...babies were up late, sleeping in a new place, sleeping in their pack n play instead of their bed-they both eventually ended up in bed with mom. The next night we tried to get a hotel in Athens but no rooms were available. We then tried to head for Michigan to stay with my sister...it did not go well-babies crying and mom and dad were both tired. So we ended up staying in a hotel in Columbus for the next 2 nights. We found out that our power came back on Friday night and headed home Saturday morning. It was very nice to be home!

Some other updates-
at their 4 month check up Jack weighed 13lbs 4oz and Mackenzie weighed 12lbs 3oz. They were both in the 25th percentile for their age. Jack was in the 75th percentile for head size-his head is so big to hold his big brain :-)
Jack one day decided he was ready to roll over-since then we've been working with both of them rolling back to front. Mackenzie gets almost all the way but just needs some extra umph.
Babies are both doing well with solids-Jack devours his and Mackenzie takes it a little slower.
Mackenzie seems to be doing OK with her reflux. Unfortunately she has gotten to the point where we have to feed her while she is asleep, she will not take a bottle while awake. This problem slowly evolved as she would occasionally take a bottle while awake but now will not accept it at all. Our GI is reffering us to a speech pathologist as well as an occupational therapist for feeding therapy so that we can get this problem under control right away. What a nightmare!

Here is a recent picture of the twins...the bibs say it all-seriously

Its feeding time

At the babies 4 month check up our pediatrican told us to go ahead and start some solids...cereal first then move on to veggies.

Jack didnt know quite what to do, but he got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Mackenzie already has a little eating aversion due to her reflux so she didnt care for it much

Since these were taken the babies have started veggies...well, we're still on our first veggie which is carrots. Jack loves it-crys when you dont feed him fast enough and he eats a whole jar. Mackenzie is doing better with this as well...she eats 1/4-1/2 a jar at a time and even smiles during feeding time. Of course they generally wear a good deal of their food.