6 months!

Charlie and Adella are 6 months old!  Can you believe it???   We were lucky enough to have my awesome Sister in law Rachel take photo's of them right on their 6 month birthday.   Here are a few of our favorites!

 

We still haven't worked out how to smile at the same time obviously, darn kids!   They both have the cutest grins and I would love to be able to have one professional photo of them smiling at the same time!!!  

A few days later I was able to take them for their 6 month checkup where they were again declared perfect!!   

As you can see their weights are still a bit low, but you wouldn't really know it by looking at them!  And for twins, they are great! (the % are compared to single babies).  Charlie is widening the gap on Adella, though most people look at her and think she is bigger because of those chubby little cheeks!

At 6 months these two can both roll around any direction (except backwards, but that's another post).   They can also scoot around pretty good and charlie is already very good at army crawling.  Both of them are soooo close to just full on out crawling, especially Charlie.  He is out of control and super fast!  He gets up on his hands and knees and can propel himself pretty darn good.  Neither can sit well unassisted; we try but they just want to run off and play!

This month they have tried green beans, butternut squash, sweet potatoes and applesauce (I think they still prefer the acorn squash the best!).   They don't make faces much anymore when we feed them, but sometimes they are definitely not in the mood for 'solids'

They love to be sang too, favorites are still Old McDonald, Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider (there was lots of Itsy Bitsy singing going on to get Adella to smile for her pictures) and Bingo - anything that has motions is a clear winner (I could use a few new ideas for those!!!)   Adella especially loves it when I sing primary songs/hymns to her.  Her face lights up EVERY night when I start singing to her in her crib.  She gives me the sweetest grin and calms right down.  Charlie likes it to I guess but doesn't ever give me any kind of reaction like Adella does.

We are almost bib free around here when its not meal time, though I still have to clean up spit ups alot (mostly they go on the floor anyway since they are crawling all over).   And teeth appear to be right around the corner as there is lots of drooling, fussing, ear pulling and chopping on anything that can fit in their mouth!

They are so fun to play with and make me laugh EVERY single day!  I'm so lucky to be able to stay home and take care of these two!!