Right now, I’m really digging doing baths like this.
If you have double sinks and Bumbo seats, give it a try! It’s also nice if you have a sprayer, but not necessary. This would also work just fine for a single baby too, of course, but it just seems to be especially helpful for me these days with two.
You’ll get your shirt a little wet lifting them out to get their behinds, but you save your back, not bending over the tub–it’s the trade-off. There’s always a trade-off, right?
I always have their towels, washcloths, diapers, lotion, and clothes all collected and ready for after the bath, too. That way they (hopefully) are less fussy afterward.
Orison’s school has an assembly every Friday where each teacher names a VIP for the week. Orison thinks it’s all very cool, especially that he knows what VIP stands for.
Very
Important
Person.
He thinks it’s so cool that he’s started naming family VIPs.
It happened Saturday morning. He had been at his little art table for awhile, working on a project (not uncommon). Then he called the family into the living room for a presentation (also, not all that uncommon). He held his yellow piece of construction paper up and read this handmade certificate:
Mom and Dad would like to recognize this big girl for always smiling at her brothers. Cadence Felicity.
Is that sweet or what? I think Orison might be the family VIP just for that.
And the spelling??? I love it so much. We’re totally hanging this in her room.
He’s such a character, though you can’t tell from this picture. He loves to move and would spend hours in the Johnny-Jump-Up. And if he’s not in there, he wants to be in the exersaucer, playing with toys. He’s almost never relaxed, just one big flexed muscle all the time–totally different from all his other siblings in that regard!
He has recently demonstrated that he can scoot himself backwards if he’s laying on his tummy. Already showing signs of mobility? I’m scared!
He has a much shorter attention span than his twin sister, always wanting to move from activity to activity. He’s also very content in the Ergo around the house.
His smile is super cute, just lighting up the room. Everyone who hangs out with him ends up loving him.
Right now both babies are protesting their confinement in cribs, so I must fetch them.
Unscrew the colored soft plastic portion (it’s squeezy).
Fill that with baby food or cereal.
Screw it back onto the clear plastic spoon.
Squeeze the desired amount onto the spoon (there’s a small hole at the base of the spoon).
We have two of them, one for each baby. Here’s why I think I’m gonna love these (and you might, too):
You can throw them in the dishwasher.
There’s a little cap (not pictured) that fits on the spoon portion for travel.
When you’re feeding two, things get kinda crazy, especially if you have to mix one baby’s cereal with soy formula and one baby’s with regular (like me). If you get two different colors, you can keep them separated easily.
Less chance of spilling (if you’re anything like me).
And here’s a short video presentation, brought to you by Whitsun & Cadence:
I’m still having trouble wrapping my brain around having the time to give them solid foods. Right now we’re only doing it once a day, around dinner time. If you have any tips on this topic, please share how you did it with twins!
I’m teaming up with my friend Kristen from We Are THAT Family for a Works For Me Wednesday post, and I did a video! [hooting, hollering, lots of raucous cheering, please]
I met Kristen when I went to Birmingham for the Deeper Still event. I was sporting a new-to-me scarf that a friend had just given me, and I had it tied all fancy-like. I passed on what was of first importance, of course, and showed all my girls how to do it too!
Now, I’m not very good at accessories or hair. Seriously. I found out how to do this fancy scarf thingy by stopping a cute college girl at church (who happened to be a stranger) and asking her, “How did you do that?!?!” This very un-hip momma of 4 needs all the help she can get! She was gracious and showed me this fun new look!
So pop over to Kristen’s blog and see how it’s done! I promise you won’t be disappointed, even if you already know how to do this trick (hint: there’s a guest appearance at the end).
Last night, per Morrow’s request, Abraham was having wrestling time with the big boys. I positioned Whit’s bouncy seat in a place where he could safely survey the action. Cadence and I were in the next room, snuggling and talking on the couch.
Orison came to the door and announced, with a big smile, “It’s boy time in here, and girl time out there!”
Then a couple minutes later he ran out to the “girl time,” kissed Cadence, and said to me very brightly and happily “I wish Felicity was right…[pointing to the empty space on my lap] there.”
He flashed me his million-dollar smile, backed up a few paces, then jumped, face upturned, and kissed the sky.
We miss you, little girl. And we’ll throw kisses at the sky for as long as it takes until we see you again.
I’m very excited to announce that, starting tonight, we will have live-in help with the kids! One of the best babysitters we’ve ever used will be moving in with us and helping with childcare a couple hours a day.
And not only is she great with our kids, she also loves to knit and watch the Pride & Prejudice miniseries. I’m expecting this arrangement to work out pretty great.
On a practical note, one of the ways that Abraham and I are affording a nanny is by putting a bit more effort into making a little money from our sites.
A really easy and free way you could help, if you want to, is to do your Amazon shopping through links at this blog. We’re a part of their affiliate program so that whenever you click through to Amazon and buy something, we make a small percentage of what you spend.
I’ve put a link on the sidebar to make it easy to find, if you’re ever interested.
I’m not going to make this site about making money, of course, but I know some of you love shopping and love me, so this is a good way to combine those two things. :)
Thanks a lot for supporting this site! You all are the best.
This video is of our church worship team this past weekend covering an awesome Tom Waits song called Come On Up to the House. It was so stinkin’ good, I just had to post it.
It was amazingly timely, too, because last week, a family in our church suffered a 35-week-gestation stillbirth. And for a relatively young church who hasn’t experienced much death or grief, people came around them so well.
I was particularly struck by the line:
Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?
Come on up to the house.
The seas are stormy
And you can’t find no port.
Come on up to the house.
What I took from it was a simple confirmation to just come to Jesus. I feel like I can hear it in ways I wouldn’t have been able to when we were so freshly living our tragedy. I also felt like I was able to call to mind times that I was able to “come on up to the house” in the last three years that changed me in such deep, irrevocable ways.
And I’ve experienced his welcome every time I’ve come on up.
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