Dear Eirin & Liam,
I know that I say this every month, but the weeks sure are flying by quickly. I cannot believe how the first five months of your little live have literally flown by. I must say that this has been the quickest month yet. While caring for you has been very hard work, I cannot imagine life without you and I am extremely thankful for the wonderful time I have had with you. I will always treasure the early memories of our little family and have sorely missed our daily time together.
In the past month we've settled into a weekly (M-Th) routine. I get up at 4am to pump and get ready for work. I wake you at about 5am to head out the door. The drive to Brookline is about an hour long, we listen to either NPR or classical music on the radio. The classical music is quite relaxing, I hope you find it as soothing as I do. Once at your Bilita's house, you drink your first bottles of the day. I don't see you again until my lunch hour, which is usually at around 1pm. When I get there you are sometimes awake and sometimes napping. I have just enough time to pump and give you a quick hug. Your Bilita says that no 2 days are alike. On any given day one or both of you will not settle down for a nap or sometimes take a really late nap. I pick you up after work at 4:30pm to head home.Once at home, it is time to put you down for the night. You are generally really good about settling down after you nurse and have your bedtime bottles. Some days though......oh boy, it takes forever to get you to settle down to sleep. I must admit that there are days when I love that it takes just a little bit more effort & time to get you to sleep. It means I get to cuddle with you for longer. When this happens one of you will fall asleep snuggled up on my chest, the other one will snuggle next to me. I probably hold you like this for much longer than I really need to and often fall asleep myself. There have been days when your Papa has come home to find the three of us asleep like this and will wake me so we can transfer you to your crib.
This month you have moved on to eating a variety of vegetables and fruits. Carrots, peas, squash, green beans, sweet potato, apples, pears, peaches and bananas. You generally have a vegetable and rice cereal meal in the morning and a fruit meal in the afternoon. We are no longer swaddling you at night because you were escaping the swaddle regularly. Although you started moving around in your cribs at night last month, I think you are moving even more now. I never find you in the same spot, needless to say it is never the spot where you started off the night. You are also both rolling over from back to belly easily and consistently. You sometimes roll from belly to back, but this must be more difficult because you do not do it with the same frequency as back to belly.
I bought a jumperoo this month which you both really enjoy. I love watching you play. Eirin, you are my little explorer, you are interested in all the toys on the exersaucers, examining and inspecting each one to find out how each works. Liam, you love making everything move. You jump around like a little monkey making all the toys jostle about and making a huge ruckus. The major milestone this month is that you are sitting up on your own for longer periods of time. There are still some occasions when you lose your balance and topple over a bit but for the majority of the time, you are very good about keeping yourselves up right.
Liam, you are my sweet boy, quiet and a bit shy but sometimes very, very cranky! This means you are always getting picked up or are carried around in the baby bjorn for "extra" attention and more hugs and kisses. When you sleep, you tend to like covering your face with one of your hands or with your lovey. It is a bit frightening to find the lovey covering your face, so I generally don't let you sleep the whole night with it.
Eirin, you are the sweetest, happiest baby. You are all smiles...morning, noon and night. I just adore your beaming face when I get you up every morning. On the weekends, I love listening to the sound of your sweet voice as you patiently "play" in your crib until it is time to get up. You are a really good natured baby, easy to please and rarely cranky. There have been the occasional meltdowns but mostly because food was not coming fast enough.
There are so many new things you are doing, you amaze me every day. Watching you both grow and transform from newborns to little babies full of personality and curiosity is such a delight. One of my favorite things is to watch how you interact with each other. You have been aware of each other but this month you began to reach for one another, hold hands, pull on each others clothes and smile at each other. How wonderful that you have each other to grow with, laugh with, talk with, play with...this is what it means to be a twin, you will always have each other and be the best of friends.
You are also interacting more and more with the fur-balls in our lives. You spend your days with Cosmo, who is such a docile dog that he lets you pull/grab his fur without complaint. Kei and Shiro are more rambunctious and you are so curious and interested in them, smiling and reaching for them every chance you get. For the record, my favorite sound is that of your baby laughter, it is enchanting and makes me love you more and more each day.
xoxo
Love,
Mama
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