5 months old!

It seems like just yesterday I was writing the 4 month post! It's crazy how time flies. The babies turned 5 months old the day before Thanksgiving. Here are a couple pics I took of them on their special day!

I just love the look she's giving me (she was having a crazy-hair day!)

Jeffy looks so concerned! 

My little angels! I tamed Jozlynn's hair ala the "Mom" thing, licking my fingers and smoothing it down. Ha!

The babies are getting much more mobile, and love to roll around on the floor. When laying on their backs, they are both able to flip over to their stomachs. This doesn't usually last for long because they don't like to be on their stomachs! The past couple nights I've woken to the sound of Jozlynn fussing, I look at my video monitor only to find that she's flipped herself over in her crib and she's mad about it. It's too funny! I flip her back over, give her a pacifier and she goes back to sleep. Although, one night she flipped about 4 times - every 10-15 minutes or so. That was a little exhausting because I was constantly checking on her (and getting up to flip her back over!)

The past 3 nights we've made great strides in the sleep department. Knock on wood, both babies have been sleeping from 9pm to 7am. Last night they actually slept from 9pm to 7:45am! But I think it was because they were worn out from the Thanksgiving activities :)

Speaking of Thanksgiving, I was a little concerned about them getting cranky since we planned to be out almost all day. We went to Jeff's parents' house around noon, then onto my aunt and uncle's house around 4:30pm. Jozlynn took a mini nap at Jeff's parents' house and both babies slept in the car on the way to my aunt and uncle's (40 min drive). Much to my delight, both babies were absolutely perfect at both places! They didn't fuss at all!! Our family members kept commenting on how good they were being, and didn't believe me when I said they usually don't do so well without their scheduled naps! We got home around 9pm, just in time for baths, bottles and bed. :) Tomorrow we have plans to go to my friends' daughter's birthday party. I'm hoping the babies behave there as well, they seem to really like when there's a lot of commotion, people, and things to look at!

And now I'll leave you with our first holiday family photo, taken at Jeff's parents' house:

God Bless Jozlynn & Jeffrey!

The babies' baptism took place this past Sunday, which also happened to be my 26th birthday! It was a very memorable day. Since the babies have been born, we have only made it to church a handful of times (unfortunately). It seems like almost every single week we *try* but either feedings get in the way, the babies are napping and we don't want to wake them, we're beyond exhausted, etc. The times that we do make it we are usually at least 30 minutes late or feeding them during the service. In any event, the logistics of getting them to the service this past Sunday not only on time but 20 minutes early (as the church requested!) was quite the task. But I digress...

We arrived with plenty of time to spare, got them dressed in the outfits Grandma Lynn had made for them and got to relax a little before heading out to the sanctuary. Normally the babies nap between 9am and 11:30am, and here we are...they've been up since 9am, they only napped in the car (a 20 min drive) and the service started at 11. Jeff and I sat down in the pew and he whispered to me, "I hope they do the Baptisms first." I told him I thought they would, since we have seen them in the past... and sure enough they did. The church must know that babies don't last very long before getting cranky (or at least mine don't!)

The Baptisms went perfectly! Jozlynn & Jeffrey were the first ones to be baptized. I think they did them alphabetical by last name - ours starts with an A. They were angels the entire time we were on the altar. There were 8 additional babies being baptized and we all stood up there until the end of the baptisms. We sat back down in our pew for the remainder of the service and Jozlynn only lasted 5 more minutes before she started to fuss. I made it to the back of the church just in the nick of time as she prompty had a 10 minute screamfest and then fell asleep. Jeffrey stayed out in the sanctuary with Jeff for the entire service! Jeff later told me he could hear Jozlynn screaming from his seat in the front... at one point I had shut the door to the room I was in, but someone else opened it again before Jozlynn stopped crying. Oh well.

We had a little get-together at my parents' house after the service. Here are some pics we took!

Jeff & I with the babies

Love Jeffy's expression, "7 more months and I am totally devouring one of these things!"

Note the fact that they each had their own cake, these were the 2nd 'set' of cakes my mom got, the grocery store messed up on the first 2 cakes (font didn't match, they spelled Jozlynn's name wrong and fixed it with the wrong color frosting, the designs were completely different...despite the fact that my mom ordered them at the same time, apparently someone didn't get the note that these are for twins and the cakes would be sitting right next to each other...) Anyway, the store let my mom keep the 'messed up' cakes and she had also gotten me a birthday cake. 5 cakes total. Suffice it to say, there was plenty of cake to spare!!

4 generations

Jozlynn says, "I like to stand up!"

This was a couple seconds after Jeffy kicked his foot and got blue frosting all over his bootie!

What a great day we had!

Thanks to everyone who were part of the babies' (& my) special day! And a special thanks to my mom for hosting the party and making the babies' gorgeous outfits!!