The Scooter Pies’ eye color is a source of ongoing fascination and debate to us because all our other children have brown eyes. It gets hard for us to know if we are really seeing gray or green, or if it’s just wishful thinking on our part.
I am pretty sure these eyes will turn brown just like all the other kiddie pies’ eye did. But the Man of the House and his mother insist that the eyes will be blue.
It is true that none of the other kiddie pies had these dark gray eyes for this long.
Guess we will see if black and white sidewalk chalk washes off yellow paint 😬😅😅
I was out with the twins and decided to quickly get some groceries…just a few things.
I have now downgraded my dinner plans twice to easier (less healthy) options,
and I’m currently attempting to recover on the couch with a bag of chocolate chips.
#twinsarefun #butineedanap
Skeeter found a great place to store his blocks.
Zeke thought it looked like a good idea, so he tried it too.
The Scooter Pies are 18 months old! Where has the time gone? Stinkin’ cute little cheesers
In another year and a half, they will be 3 years old! Life will be so different then!
Zeke (wearing orange) weighs 23 pounds and 13 oz and is about 31 inches tall. (The nurse wasn’t very careful, so I don’t trust this measurement.)
Skeeter (wearing blue) weighs 25 pounds 5 oz and is about 32 inches tall.
I have moved them into size 2T shirts because suddenly all their 18-month shirt sleeves were about 2 inches short. They are still wearing size 18-month pants because they have skinny little bums.
I am excited for spring to come so we can spend many more hours a day outside. The Scooter Pies have already learned way too much about things like Nintendo wii and tablets and smart phones. I want them to learn about bugs and sticks and dirt and rocks.
We went to the park last week, and they didn’t even try to eat the gravel! yay!!! This summer is going to be fun.
I thought I had the scooter pies trapped in the kid zone at the library.
Zeke found a way
Skeeter tattletaled
True confessions time: the Mommy thing I really don’t like to do is spooning baby food into babies’ mouths.
Spoon the mashed whatever into baby’s mouth. (Baby immediately spits most of it out again.) Scrape it back off baby’s chin. Spoon it into baby’s mouth again. Repeat endlessly. The process makes me want to scream. It makes my skin crawl and my brain feel like it’s shredding.
With my other 7 kids, I decided pretty quickly that the whole baby food thing was over rated. My babies were breastfed. They were already getting the best nutrition any baby could get. I waited until they were old enough to put things in their mouths by themselves and then let them just feed themselves stuff like small banana pieces and Graham crackers.
The twins are on formula. So this is a whole new ball game. Carrots and sweet potatoes are a more natural food than the engineered formula powder. Plus if the Scooter Pies eat baby food, then they will need to drink lees formula.
So when they were 6 months old. I started attempting to feed them rice cereal and then sweet potatoes and applesauce.
It has been a little crazy making. I’ve always complained a bit about the fact that most of my day revolves around feeding the horde of kiddie pies. Get up in time to cook breakfast. Serve breakfast. Clean up from breakfast. Snack for preschoolers. Make & Serve lunch, clean up from lunch. After school snack. Cook dinner, serve dinner, clean up from dinner. Day Gone.
But I reached new levels of food slavery this spring.
The DH would come home from work and ask, “what’s new?”
“Nothing is new,” I’d say. “I spent the last two hours spooning food into babies’ mouths.”
Mercifully, the scooter pies are now good enough at swallowing that I don’t have to feed them the same spoonful of food several times.
They can feed themselves crackers and bread bits. So that is awesome.
Also feeding them both at the same time is less boring than feeding one baby. Someone is always ready for their next bite. I don’t have to wait for chewing & swallowing.
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 