Scott and George are now 8 months old and amaze me more and more every day. George finally started eating cereal and now he's a machine that can't be stopped! We've worked our way through all the fruits and veggies and are starting to get the hang of puffs and sippy cups. Both twins have 2 bottom teeth and I believe the top 2 aren't too far off. I estimate both twins to weigh in around 20+ lbs, and I think Scott has a slight edge on George too! They are starting to look like little boys and not babies anymore.
Scott can army crawl fast as lightening, while George moves his arms and legs and looks like he's swimming but still doesn't get anywhere. George is content to sit and play with whatever is right in front of him. Scott has to be on the move at all times (just like his dad!) and just this week learned how to get back into a sitting position from his stomach. I walked into the nursery last night and he was just sitting up in his crib, which is not how I had left him! Needless to say, we recently lowered the cribs to the bottom for fear that as soon as Scott learns how to pull up, he'd hike his leg over the side and off he'd go.
The boys love day care, and their teachers love them! Scott always gets in trouble for taking off and eating his socks; George is just happy-go-lucky and will go to anyone. They hardly ever fuss or cry, and I know their teachers appreciate that! The twins graduated from their infant room at Christmas and will start in the Koala Bears room in the new year. We've been fortunate that the boys only brought home 2 viruses from day care and have otherwise been healthy. But one virus was a doozy and was passed around all of our family, including both sets of grandparents and some out of town friends that happened to be around that ill fated weekend! I hope to not experience that ever again!
In October we took the twins to a pumpkin patch and of course dressed them up for Halloween:
Sunny Acres Pumpkin Patch
The finished product of their pumpkin picking.
Our little tigers!
November brought much to be thankful for, including two great days of Thanksgiving with our families:
Boehnlein Family Thanksgiving
All the VanMetre grandchildren
We also had a photo shoot in the park for 6 month (almost 7 month!) pictures. Scott was our little Zoolander and posed for everything! George wouldn't have any part of it, cried the entire time and did not want to participate. Still, the photographer managed to get a few good pics, although not of the twins together.
Scott III
George William
The holidays were so much fun this year. The boys had a blast with all the Christmas festivities:
Posing for a Christmas card pic
But posing with Santa...not so much...
Santa (and family and friends!) were very, very good to the twins this year. They had fun helping tear paper off the packages and then sticking it in their mouths. The liked the boxes almost as much as the toys! More pics to come of the twins and their Pottery Barn chairs, red wagon, and their many, many other gifts received. It still amazes me how kind and thoughtful everyone has been to us throughout our journey, and continue to be as we navigate through this first year and beyond.
I hope this catches everyone up on what's been going on with the Boehnlein twins! I don't usually make New Year's resolutions, but I do intend to get back into blogging about life with twins in the new year. Here's to a happy and healthy 2012 for all!
