Six Months Old

Six months old…..181 days…..25 weeks. Anyway you look at it, it seems amazing that time has by gone so fast. I know this will be a recurring theme as parents, but for the first time it really does hit you that these guys will be in high school before you know it.

All our friends who have had kids before us said, “just get through those first six months and everything gets better.” We can safely say we made it through these six months no worse for the wear, except now everyone with twins tell us, “just make it through the first two years and everything gets better.” There is always something around the corner!

Always something new around the corner was certainly the theme for this month. The boys seemed to be coming up with new “tricks” each day it seemed. Colin started the month off by learning to roll over. This was a fun, new experience for him and us, until he started doing it in the middle of the night! Then it wasn’t as much fun for us anymore. For about a week, he would roll over between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning and wake himself up. This was coming on the heels of three straight weeks of both boys sleeping through the night and we were starting to get used to that! After a week of putting him in the swing or getting up with him, he either learned that it wasn’t so much fun anymore getting up that early or has mastered the art of rolling back over to go to sleep.

As we are begrudgingly learning with twins, the milestones don’t exactly come at the same time. After a week or so of Colin waking up early because of rolling over, we settled back into a full night’s sleep again until two days ago when Jake learned to roll over in his sleep! Now we are back to square one with him and getting up at 4:30 because he thinks it’s funny to roll over!

They are both at the stage where EVERYTHING goes in their mouth. As you can see sometimes that means that your brother’s arm is fair game. Colin got his two lower front teeth in this month and the top two front ones are coming any day now. He was bothered by the lower ones coming in a week ago and then seemed to be OK with them, but now the top ones are giving him a little trouble too. Jake’s bottom teeth are on the verge of coming through as well and someone may lose a finger in the process. He loves biting down on your hands and fingers and even though he’s all gums right now, it still hurts! I know there are parents out there reading this saying we can’t let him get in the habit of biting people and we are curtailing that practice. Believe me, after letting him bite my fingers with his gums a few times, I stopped putting those hands near his face!

Each month has brought more and more animation from each of them. This month their personalities really shined through. When I get home from work their day is usually just winding down and sometimes one (or both!) is having a little melt down. But it is such a great feeling to have them break out of their funk and give you a big smile because you’re home. They’ve got a close circle of people in their lives and you’re starting to see they really recognize people.

So we are six months down and moving into month seven. The boys are getting to be little people and not just eating and sleeping machines. The parents are starting to get the hang of things - - emphasis on the starting to part. Looking back, this has been the most enjoyable month so far and by the looks of what could be in store for us next month, we should have a lot of fun watching these two boys grow.

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