snacks

my sister wanted me to do a post on foods i feed my kids so that she can get ideas and so that you can share your ideas with us...so help!

what do you feed your babies (9-18 months)? it can be your children, your grandchildren, kids you babysit, nieces, nephews, etc. etc. please help me (and my sister) add to this list; i feel like my poor kids eat the same thing all the time.

i guess i should point out that my kids rarely let me feed them. they like to feed themselves.

they WILL eat
blueberries
grapes
apples
pears
bananas
carrots
green beans
broccoli
hot dogs
sausage
ground beef
chicken
pork
quesadillas
cheese
yogurt
pudding
crackers
milk
juice
freeze-dried snacks
corn
peas
bread/rolls

pineapple
watermelon
olives
pickles
raisins
craisins
fruit leather
fruit snacks
chocolate chips
cereal
vanilla wafers
graham crackers
jello
popcorn

they will NOT eat
strawberries
beets
sweet potatoes
pasta pick-ups

and that's all i can think of at the moment. i would love more ideas! :)

oldies but goodies

i think i may have posted these pictures of the twins already (my mom brain can't remember for sure), but they're just so gosh-darn cute that i had to share them again! i love their faces.

this was back when tummy time was the big thing going on 'round these parts. (these were taken in may of 2012.) now i'm chasing two toddlers around. yup - that's right! reagan is now walking, which means i have to walking toddlers. time for backpack leashes? maybe so. :)

happy birthday, brynn!

brynn would have been 2 years old today. i can't believe it's already been that long (a little over 2 years) since she briefly joined our family.

i usually plant flowers for her in the spring, around her due date, but it's been entirely too cold to go out and do it. we'll do it soon enough. and, when we move into our new house, we intend to plant a tree for her - something a little more lasting. :)

kix

i don't know what it is about my kids and food, but the fun never ends.

i particularly like how reagan tries to put the kix in her toes and how austin puts the kix back just to dump them out again. :)

mac n' cheese

if we don't like something, we put it on our head. naturally.

i don't know who started this because i wasn't in the room when it started. (i've found that sometimes the twins will eat better if i'm not sitting there. silly, i know. it's almost like they won't try something new or something they don't like if i'm in the room. or eat, period. so fun. don't worry, i'm never far away, just enough that they can't see me and get distracted.) i do know that my kids are very into copying other people. lucky me. i guess that's what having a twin sibling is for!

funny note: reagan got mad when she ran out of macaroni to put on her head. i gave her more and let them finish having their fun, then it was straight to the bath! i have a video of this blessed event. i'll have to put it on the computer and post it for you at a later date.

it's (getting more) official

tyler and i like to drive out to our home site to check it out, just for fun. nothing's happened yet. it's still just a piece of dirt, except now there are construction materials from our next door neighbors all over. it's fun to see our neighbors' house go up because they're building the same floor plan we are. we're excited to see ours start!

and it will, soon enough.

when we drove out to the site a week or two ago, we saw a pleasant surpise.

see what the sign says? SOLD! oh yeah! sold to us!

so technically we signed to purchase the house back on march 6. i know, forever ago. construction on our house couldn't start, however, until we had our "design center" appointment, which we finally had today. six hours later we have flooring, paint, appliances, doors, baseboards, railing, counter tops, etc. picked out. the design center appointment was so much fun but also so exhausting. it will be fun to see everything put together in our finished house!

tired baby

this is what happens when we refuse to take our morning nap. lunchtime sleepies.

sooooo tired. (it almost looks like she's faking or playing a game by closing her eyes, doesn't it?)

and conk.

i'm still trying to figure out if the twins are ready for one nap. so far, i'm thinking no. they miss (well, rather, refuse) a nap here and there, but mostly they sleep for about an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. two naps is nice, but i'm thinking one (hopefully long) nap sounds even better. :)

poop

i hate poop.

don't worry, i won't post a picture.

but here is why i hate poop:

1) i get to change two babies' worth of poopy diapers. and each of my kids poops at least 3 times a day, if not more. i fill my diaper genie faster than any family should have to.

2) poop wakes reagan up. i'm not sure exactly how...i don't know if the action of pooping wakes her up or if having poop in her diaper wakes her up. either way, it wakes her up and it drives me NUTS. it will wake her up even if she's only been asleep for 20 minutes. not cool. i dread putting her down for a nap when she hasn't pooped yet.

3) fruit makes poop yucky. but i like to feed my kids as much fruit (and veggies) as they will eat, so i guess this one's my fault. i take the blame for this one. sacrifice for health, no?

4) some poop is very ... tenacious? sticky? holds on for dear life? wiping the bump of a squirming, screaming 15-month old while trying to get all the poop off is a magic trick. austin particularly likes to squeeze his legs together and bounce. oh. the. humanity.

5) it leaks. i think fruit's to blame for this one, and thus me, but ugh. austin or reagan will go through 3 outfits a day on a bad day. which means i get to do more laundry because we only have so many clothes. nothing is worse than picking up a baby and feeling wetness on your arm.

6) smell. whew-ee. tyler has gagged/almost thrown up changing a poopy diaper. i can't say the same, but they can be p-o-t-e-n-t. like, you can smell them in the next room.

...ok, i think you get the point. poop = not fun. double poop = double not fun.

wanna know how i came up with this idea? i'm pooped! in the tired way. hahahaha. as i sat down to blog, i thought "i don't want to do this, i'm so pooped. hey, wait a second, i'll blog about poop!"

so there you have it, folks. a blog about poop from a pooped momma.

his mother's son

i checked on a napping austin the other day to find him sleeping like this:

it warmed my heart because that is how i sleep! i love to get all wrapped up in my blankets when i sleep (which is quite opposite of tyler, who likes his sheets neatly tucked in and straight).

a nice little seat

austin and reagan thought a hunt's snack pack pudding box would be the perfect little seat. looks like it is the perfect size for my twinners.

p.s. do you like austin's goose egg? first of many, i'm sure. :) it looks aaaaaawesome right now. hah!

the kitchen sink

or the bathroom sink, whichever.

both are great places to take a bath when we're not at home to do it! (and a bathtub is not available or the best option.)

usually i bathe the kids one at a time in the smaller portion of my mother-in-law's sink, but we thought it would be fun to stick austin and reagan in the bigger portion together. it was still a tight squeeze, but at least we got our bath in.

and don't worry - i always clean the sink before i go stickin' my kiddos in it. :)