Pears and Crawling and Teething...Oh My

Well, it's been a busy week so I don't have any pictures or videos to upload. What I do have is a short list of stuff that's happened over the week:

• The kids have gotten their first taste of pears and avocado. The pears were a big hit, Trevor was eagerly sucking it off the spoon. They didn't seem to mind the avocado that much but they have only had it once so far.
• Rebecca is getting very close to crawling. She has had good head extension for a while now and she just started getting her legs under her. Unfortunatly when she does get her legs under her, she doesn't keep her arms in place and ends up with her face on the mat while her legs push. It's only a matter of time now.
• Trevor is teething, I can feel a couple small bumps at about where his lower canine teeth would be. He is fussier than usual and just had a terrible time staying asleep last night.
• Charlotte has taken to a lot of crying at bed time. As soon as I lay her down in the Kiddopotamus, she flips out and it takes a while to calm her down. Once she is calm, she is fast asleep, so I'm sure it's just her way of fighting sleep.
  

Terms and Phrases

I realized last night that my wife and I had started using various terms and phrases as a short hand when talking about the kids. Some of them are kind of cute, so I thought I'd share them.

• squiggle or squigglet - This one started in the NICU and came from us watching the kids trying to move. It wasn't quite a wiggle but was more than an squirm. I'm not sure who, but one of us put the 2 together and ended up with squiggle. I think it refers to the child and not the motion.
• pants - As in making pants or pants face. It's exactly what it sounds like, and I think we adopted it because it was easier that saying "dirty diaper" at 2am. Pants face refers to the look the child gets as they try to make pants.
• squirrel - Ok, so you have your child swaddled in a Kiddopotamus ( or whatever) and they manage to get a hand free just loose enough to be moving around in the swaddle and maybe even poking out on top.... That's a squirrel because somehow it looked like something was running around in the swaddle. Versions of this include:
  
  • "this child has squirrels" - hands are just starting to break free and you can see it running around in the swaddle.
    
  • "squirrel attack" - one or both hands have broken free just enough to let the child get handsy with itself but not completely out of the swaddle.
  • "squirrels stole her binky" - hands have broken out of the swaddle and are stuffed in the childs face, usually resulting in a lost pacifier.
    

That's it for now....Oh, I've changed the way I do headers since the blog keeps track of the publish data anyway. Now the titles should speak to what I'm talking about in that post. - enjoy

Art of the Swaddle

So, it was kind of a long weekend...or at least it felt like it.

As the kids get bigger, we started trying to put them to bed without being in their swaddle. [side bar: I highly recommend the Kiddopotamus SwaddleMe. They made swaddling so much easier than fighting with receiving blankets at 2am.] So far, the boy, Trevor, has been doing great. Even though he started out the smallest, he seems to have the most mature nervous system. Charlotte does ok for a bit, but about 50% of the time she gets very cranky about going to sleep and only calms down when swaddled. Rebecca however, can't seem to do without the swaddle at all (so far).

What makes all this worrisome is the fact that the kids are getting really close to rolling over on their own and we want them to have their hands free if the roll in the middle of the night. Trevor rolled completely over last night, but it was while we were getting ready to feed him so my wife was right there and flipped him back over very quickly.