I made my own baby food. Yes, I know, I can't believe it either. After buying Gerber for Jonah and always rolling my eyes at all the perfect mothers who cooked their own baby food I have joined the ranks :) Why? Well, turns out it's not really that hard, hehehe......I know, that is what everyone told me, but I never listened.
Actually our pediatrician suggested it. She said that you control what goes in the food as well as the babies get used to eating what your family eats - just blend up whatever you eat. In addition to that, there are no additives, preservatives or other yucky stuff she said that we want to avoid giving the twins.
Elias and Bebe are now almost 5 months old and approved by the Pediatrician to start on food. And the funny part is, they don't just start on rice cereal and then add one thing at a time anymore, we go head first and just throw everything at 'em at once. Supposedly that is better for forgoing food allergies. This discovery actually made me feel better because I never introduced one thing at a time for Jonah, it was just too big of a pain in the ass and I was NOT organized enough to remember what I feed him the week before :) With that said, Jonah seems to have no food allergies and no food issues at all. He eats like a champ! Guess I was just ahead of my time.
Back to Elias and Bebe, though, they do not like their food that much yet. They much prefer sucking and the spoon just throws them off. I think they'll get it (never met an adult still drinking out of a bottle) but it might take awhile. Elias actually liked a banana/rice cereal combo today, so we have a start.
Ok, now I will back up and report that the twins 4 month apt went great and they are both in the 25% for weight. Elias is an inch longer than Bebe and 1/2 a lb heavier. The pediatrician told us to "cold turkey" their night feedings and they will sleep through the night no problem. We've had a few fairly good nights since then, but it is much more difficult than we had hoped. Having two just really complicates things. And, as it turns out, they are very strong willed babies and Elias has cried for as long as 4 hours straight!!!! Yes, 4 hours in the middle of the night because he wanted to eat. Needless to say, I broke down and fed him for sanity sake, but I did feel like quite a failure. Oh well, at least he shut up and I got over it quickly :)
Christmas was great. We drove the kids to Indiana, believe it or not the drive was not too bad. We had all three kids christened on Dec. 20th and Nathan's parents came too. We had such a great turn out to support the kids and it was so nice to have so many loved ones together.
Nathan's parents left and we stayed with my parents for Christmas. The best part was watching Jonah get so excited about all of his gifts. What a great age for Christmas. The twins really cooperated and slept through Christmas morning so we could run around after Jonah and keep everyone safe and sane.
We drove back the day after Christmas and had a few days to regroup before we had the Campbell side Christmas on New Years Eve. Jonah was even more excited the second time around because he knew what to expect (that's what we think). We now wonder if he thinks Christmas happens once a week. He will be sorely disappointed next week if that's the case.
So, that's the brief. I will attach some pics of the above mentioned events (except the baby food, I didn't actually take a picture of that - it was carrots, though, so just imagine orange mush).
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