9 months









I’m a little late on the post, but the girls are 9 months old. I am loving every single minute with them. Have you ever seen such a fun, adorable set of red headed twins in your whole life? I don’t think so!


Cora and Ruby weigh about 17 lbs now. I’ll have more specific measurements next month at our doctors appointment. We signed up for new insurance, so I had to find a new pediatrician. It’s too bad, I really liked Dr. Marshall. I’m sure this new Dr. will be just as friendly and reassuring. 

 The girls have lots of fun tricks, like waving, fake crying, and pulling each other’s hair. They love looking at each other and just smiling and talking. They really love FaceTiming. If they hear the FaceTime call ring tone from another room they race over with big grins, ready to greet whoever we’re talking to.

Cora is crawling like a champ. Ruby can crawl, but if it’s for long distances she prefers to army crawl. They pull themselves up on everything, and I think couch cruising is not too far off in the future. They’ve recently discovered the stairs. It is TERRIFYING. They haven’t figure out how to climb them yet, but they’re pulling themselves up on the first step, reaching for the second, and a few times they’ve hoisted a knee up there too. It won’t be long. They get stuck standing and whine until someone helps them get back down.


Eating solids is going great. They eat 3 meals a day and usually a snack or two. I’ve discovered that meal prepping breakfast and lunch is a life saver. I’ve never really loved preparing food for myself and Clayton, and it turns out that didn’t magically change when Ruby and Cora started eating. But I’m 1,000 times for motivated to provide them good healthy options, and meal prepping has been really helpful. 

Abe has found the prime real estate during meal times- right under the high chairs. He’s been getting fed really well too lately. 

Because they’ve been eating so well they’re also sleeping really well. We went from 30-45 minute cat naps during the day to 2 hour naps. Hallelujah! They’re sleeping through the night, although that is not 100% consistent. Every time we travel somewhere they take a week or so to sleep all the way through the night again. Also, they’re teething like crazy. I’m sure that’s been effecting their nights too. 


Ruby and Cora are the sweetest little pumpkin faces ever. They’re so happy and smiley and so fun to play all day with. They bring so much joy to my life.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

First Day of Kindergarten

Image
Cora and Ruby were so excited for school to start today. They woke up extra early thing morning and came into my room with their uniforms already on. We made German pancakes for breakfast, during which Cora spilled some syrup on her shirt and had to change it, and rode bikes outside to burn off some extra energy.  I just dropped them off at the school! The high school football team was waiting outside the elementary school (the high school, middle school, and elementary school are all on the same campus and share a parking lot) and formed a human tunnel for the kids to run through while they shouted “welcome to school!” It was cute. Ruby and Cora both ran through went straight to class without a single tear or complaint. In fact they didn’t even turn around to wave goodbye 😢. Now it’s just Darcy and me at home all afternoon. 
Read more

To Kathy

Image
Last Tuesday we were having a Johnson family conference call when Scott told us that Kathy's health was really going downhill and that he thinks we need to be there soon. We booked flights that night and flew to Utah the next morning. We were picked up from the airport and drove straight to the hospital where Kathy had been for several weeks. We had been getting updates about her from the family ever since she was diagnosed with brain cancer last October, but there was always a disconnect since we live so far away. We were never there to watch the progression of her sickness, and we think the family may have been downplaying how severe her symptoms and complications were. When we came to her hospital room she was in a coma and was having a lot of difficulty breathing. She had contracted pneumonia and had been in a comatose state since Monday. The doctor's had her on the strongest antibiotics they had, but it was going to take 2-5 days for them to kick in. In the mean time ...
Read more

Reconstructed ACL

Image
When's the best time to get surgery? January! Because then you hit your deductible, and your health insurance will pay for the rest of the year of physical therapy appointments! Yay! Clayton tore his ACL playing basketball a couple months ago. After an MRI and a few visits with a specialist, he was told that he would need knee surgery. He was surprisingly cheery about it. The nurses at Cleveland Clinic really liked him, they said they wished that every patient was like him. After he was sanitized and hooked up, the nurse led me to the back to see him before the operation. As we were walking she asked me if Clayton is usually a chatty guy. I said yes, and she said that she thinks he's a little nervous because he is talking everyone's ear off. haha. Sure enough, I go sit down next to him, and he's cracking jokes and babbling about nothing the whole time. In fact, that hyper chattiness didn't die down until 3 days post op. Percocet reaction? Everything...
Read more