We made it a month!

Well, the girls are a month old already! We as parents have not succumbed to lack of sleep and turned into walking zombies and John has not withered away due to lack of attention (although more on that matter later). Rebecca and Natalie are doing great. They are eating well and putting on weight, and are usually getting up just once a night to feed. Mind you, that is one time a night each. They are really starting to hold their heads up and look around and be more alert. They are pretty much on the same sleep/awake schedule, although there have been a few rough days where Rebecca will sleep while Natalie is wide awake and vise versa...it makes it a little hard to get anything done besides hold babies.

John loves his little sisters. He is always wanting to hold, kiss, and hug them. He also has a thing about holding their hands. He will just sit by me on the couch reading a book or singing and hold one of the babies hands and my hand the whole time. We have been noticing though that he is definitely getting more jealous, especially in public. Twins seem to attract A LOT of attention when we go out, and people tend to ignore John while they are cooing over the babies. I try to make an effort to introduce him first, and make a fuss over him while they look at the babies, but he's not falling for it. Every time someone comes over to see them, he takes the opportunity to do something for attention, and it is usually not something good. At the hair salon the other day, as soon as a woman came over and asked about the girls he ran off and climbed under their huge product display almost knocking the whole thing over...it's great fun. We also had our 1st incident at home yesterday where he was throwing the worst tantrum I have ever seen. It got to the point where I was just holding him in a bear hug for almost 10 minutes while he thrashed and screamed. When I finally let him go he got down on the ground and started banging his head on the ground. It was scary, but I tried to keep the mindset that if he was really hurting himself he would stop. Hopefully that was an isolated incident and we won;t have to go through that again.

Here are a few updated pics of the kids.

John at gymnastics class - the last 2 weeks of class they are putting on a show and having a medal ceremony, if anyone wants to go, let me know and I'll give you the details.

Natalie looking extremely uncomfortable in her bouncy seat

Natalie - 1 month old (making a bit of a strange face)

Rebecca - 1 month old

John and Natalie