Hooray for Cereal!

With any baby, the first experience with solid food can be both interesting and, of course, very messy. Well, the Babies are now on Rice Cereal and sort of taking to it like ducks to water with very little issues. Unless you consider cereal all over your face an issue….

Here are a few pictures of the Babies taken during the Great Cereal incident of 2005. You can see Aron has already been cleaned up, which was a task in itself. He is now attempting to re-enact a scene from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy while Alyssa can be seen practicing her "YO!"

Thumbsuckers Anonymous!

Good news, everyone! Aron weighed in at 15lbs 3oz and Alyssa weighed in at 13lbs 11oz on Tuesday 11/22/05. They are now 2/5 my total height at 24" each. (Great, not even 4 months old and they are already giving me a run for my money in the height department!!!)


Alyssa has joined the Thumbsuckers Anonymous club. She has a problem that has shown up mainly around feeding time but has increased to anytime she can put her thumb near her mouth.

Of Babies and the S. Sisters...

The Babies got a treat yesterday when they were visited by our favorite pair of sisters in the world yesterday evening. Amy and Chrissy stopped on the way home after hosting a baby shower in the area. It has been a while since we got to see them. I think the last time the Babies or myself saw either of them was a little bit after the Babies arrived at the end of July. Aron kept trying to get certain people to flash everyone else in the room while Alyssa just kept alternating between a smiling and solemn facial expression. However, the Babies sure had fun. They slept a large amount today because I think we wore them out yesterday. I still feel like I did not get to get anything done today, though.

The tale of “Senorita Butt Trumpet…”

Let me share with all of you who visit my site a small but stinky thing that I enjoy getting at 2a in the morning:


Picture this if you will. A baby wails at 2a, waiting for her midnight feeding. As usual, the first thing to be done is a diaper change, which is always a little bit of a challenge in a dimly lit room. With this baby, the initial thing you hear as one picks her up is the continuous punctuated flatulence that coincides with vigorous leg kicking as she wakes up. To top it all off, the baby issues a huge grin as she lets each one rip. Then, finally, the back-end is quiet for a few minutes. So, OF COURSE, you believe that it is finally safe to change her diaper. NOT!!! As you position your face in the general vicinity of her bum so you can put the fresh diaper in its proper position, she turns her head to you, cracks a big toothless, gummy grin, and farts in your face. Hence Alyssa's new title, Senorita Butt Trumpet…

Smiles and Ton-Tongues Toffees...

I am pleased to share that the Babies are now smiling on demand. Alyssa smilles pretty much whenever you look at her and smile while Aron needs a little coaxing. This coaxing is done by playing with his tongue, hence the title, Ton-Tongue Toffees. (Fred and George Weasley would be proud.) I hope to get a picture of both of them smiling in the same picture and put up soon so every one can see their wonderful smiles. Right now, I just have two separate pictures. Aron is still getting the smiling thing down because he seems to put more tongue in his smile, while Alyssa gets more gum but they are both cute anyway.

Larry, Aron, and Moe...

The picture does not exactly match up but you get the idea. :-)

The babies are still sleeping in the same crib, but they are now at an angle instead of vertically in the middle. Well, this is now about to change. As I went in to see why Aron was crying this morning, I was surprised to find him parallel to the back of the crib with his head in the corner and his feet kicking Alyssa in the head. In addition to his new position, he had completely shed his blankets as well. I guess the occasional use of the second crib will now become a more permanent bed for the almost rolling over but still mobile Mr. Noodles.

Oodles of Noodles and Things...

It has been brought to my attention that a few of the below blog entries were derived from comments and input by my cohort in crime, “J.” While I am far from the Silent Bob in this relationship, I must give him his credit where it is due. The following comments on this blogsite were derived and/or directly resulting from the J.

• "Keep firing, a&%holes!”
• The long lost sibling of Dom DeLuise.
• The long lost sibling of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man and Ollie Williams.
• The “ROTTEN PUMPKINS!” name tag from Halloween.

In other news, Noodles (AKA Aron) appears to be halfway in completely rolling over. Alyssa had a rough night last night where, starting at 2a, she decided that she did not like her dinner and preceded to spit/vomit it all up. I actually had to wake up Joel for help because Aron decided to scream and wake up as well but he did not want Daddy to feed him. (What a mama's boy!!) However, she has now surpassed Aron in sucking all the food down in record time and is obviously feeling "much better now."

Halloweenies strike again!

Hello from the 'Weenies!

Not too much to say this time, just some pictures of the Pumpkins to put up. We had fun with a lot of trick or treaters last night, as well as taking some Pumpkin pictures. It was interesting when the Treaters were ringing the door and the Pumpkins were going "GUH!" on me, hence the code word, "ROTTEN PUMPKINS!" Next year, we may have a unique costume idea that involves some old-school appreciation for cartoons. Hopefully we can pull it off and actually get to go Trick or Treating. :-) (And yes, the third pic is one of them in a laundry basket. There was not too much room though.)