Twins Turn 1!!

June 17, 2016

We made it! Everyone said if you can survive the first year with twins then you're good to go.  It was honestly all such a blur.  At one year Carson weighs 20 lbs. 6 oz (33% for weight) and he's 30.25 inches tall (65% height).  Cole is 22 lb. 2 oz (62% weight) and 29.75 inches tall (44% height).

The boys are so fun, busy and into so many things. They are obsessed with trying to get into the bathroom and unroll the toilet paper. They love to put everything in their mouths. They love their bottles.

It's been quite an adventure trying to shop with the twins. We use the "buggy bench" to add a second seat to our cart but then there's not enough room for all of the food we need. Cole has figured out that he thinks it's pretty funny to throw food out of the cart and taste all the produce. So Kaden has to get a "kid cart" and we put all the produce/Cole's favorite things in Kaden's cart so it'll actually still be there when we're done shopping.

The twins love to pass food back and forth at meals. We often have no idea how much either of them has eaten by the end of a meal.  They share cups, utensils and all kinds of finger foods.

They love to drink their bottles next to each other in their bouncer seats and often will pass them back and forth once they're done.   They're so wiggly that the bouncers are the only way we can get them to hold still long enough to finish them. It's not usually very successful for one of us to hold them.

Some of the twins' favorite friends are the Lowe twins-their lady friends that are a week younger than them that live across the street from us.  It's always quite a sight when we go anywhere with all 4 babies, especially because Lucy has 4 older kids and I have Kaden.  Between the 5 other kids someone always needs to go to the bathroom or something so one of us will watch all the babies while the other takes the older kids potty.  That's when we really get a lot of looks/questions.  "Are these babies all yours? Two sets of twins? You're sure brave. You've got your hands full."

I tried and tried to get pictures of the twins for their first birthday. They wouldn't ever really cooperate with my attempts to go to a cool location with balloons, etc...  We finally set this up in our front yard and I had Curtis help me one night after he got off work.  I didn't necessarily want this chair in the picture but they both liked it so much that it was the winner in getting them to both stay put.  

Doing their cake smash was a hoot. Missy made them their cakes and before I could even get one picture they had both destroyed them. Ha ha. Typical, busy boys I guess. Carson was absolutely terrified of his cake. He sobbed the whole time and wouldn't even try tasting it.  

Cole on the other hand, took the liberty of eating not only his cake but Carson's as well. We practically had to pry him away from it and throw him in the tub. He LOVED cake!!!

I think Carson was probably just tired but he stayed as far away from cake as possible.