“What me? I didn’t do it yo!”

What’s with cords and babies? Why are they so interested in them? It’s a shame you can’t use a lamp cord or a laptop cord as a baby toy. Stupid strangulation hazard! But guess who decided it would be fun to jump out of his crib? Tobie and I were in the Cole’s room brushing Paige’s teeth, when all of the sudden I see Cole hoisting his feet over the rail. It was like watching him fall in slow motion. He hit the ground pretty hard, but is fine. His new thing now is to grab the top of the rail and alternate trying to lift each foot up. Bring on the crib tents! When do we get a break? 18, 19 years?

Is it possible for the babies to be going through their terrible twos early? They just put up so much resistance to everything. It’s great they have little personalities, but come on, do you have to whine about everything?

Cole’s is just begging to start walking. He tries so hard. Our PT says there is no way he’s going to be walking before the end of the year. It’s hard to believe that prediction will hold true, but she was right on the money with predicting when the babies would start sitting. Paige is still crawling and rolling. It’s kind of sad because she really doesn’t enjoy crawling. She might be a little scared when she crawls.

Speaking of Paige, her anxiety is so bad. She has stranger anxiety, basically when she’s around anyone but us, she can’t stop crying (today’s episode was 40 minutes of sobbing and crying). She also has separation anxiety. She has to be near Tobie, almost to the point of Tobie touching her so she’ll be calm, ALL DAY LONG. It’s the damnest thing. Tobie’s mom said she is going to start coming over 3 times a week for one hour to help with the stranger anxiety (Tobie will leave the house with Cole during that time). Maybe a couple of weeks without Tobie around for a little bit and she’ll grow out of it. Dr. E has recommended a baby psychologist who deals with separation/overattachment issues (who knew they made such things!). Anyone dealt with these anxiety issues before? I would love to hear about these types of situations and how you dealt with them.

Tobie here: Seriously, Eric was not over exaggerating about Paige. She wears me out with her tantrums and flailings if I’m not next to her. It’s so sad because when I am playing with her or hanging out next to her she’s the happiest kid and gives me smiles and kisses and can’t get enough of me. God forbid if I need to go to the bathroom, feed Cole, or anything else that requires me to be away from her.

I had another OB appt today. The baby is doing good and I’m still feeling really good so we decided not to do any more fetal fibronectins. There were a lot of high-fives at the appt for making it past 30 weeks, but my OB said the real victory will be making it to 32 weeks because a baby born at 32 weeks has the same survival outcomes as a full-term baby. Not so sure about that….but sounds good. We also discussed that I’ll probably only have one more ultrasound before the baby is born which will be in 4 weeks. Even though I still have over 9 weeks until my due date, I can’t help but get excited that it’s getting so close and reachable!! Something else that is odd is that I only gained 1 pound over the last two weeks. The odd part is that I’ve eaten well over one pound of ice cream in the last two weeks (dang super chunky cookie dough flavor) but again it’s the cumulative weight gain that’s important and I’m an overachiever in that area.

You guys are so lucky I’m feeling creative lately! Here’s another video. I’m a little lazy though, so it’s the same song as the last video, but a different artist (who doesn’t like Jack Johnson?). Enjoy.

A girl and her dog!
(why is Moxie always licking her lips around her?)

Paige’s first official toddler owie!
(look at her right arm)

Cole’s doing much better on the new formula. Our goal is 30 ounces a day, he’s at about 20 ounces a day. Before the switch he was around 10 ounces a day. This formula switch also coincided with us changing the delivery method of his prevacid. Now we know he’s getting his full dose. So what’s the true reason he’s eating better? Don’t know, but I’m sure I’ll be writing a post next week on how crappy his eating is. It’s a vicious cycle!

Today when I came home from work, Tobie and the babies toddlers were in the front room. Cole was standing up on his walker and totally got excited to see me as I walked through the front door. How cool is that? Then later when I was in a different room talking to Tobie who was with Cole, Cole was pissed he couldn’t see me and was calling out to me. How cool is that? Cole’s really starting to interact with us. If we clap, he claps. If we bang on the table, he’ll bang on the table. If we go “hey”, he goes “hey”. We could do that for hours! He’s also on the verge of walking. He’s able to cruise the couch with just using one hand for balance. I’m sure one day he’ll just be walking.

And Miss Paige our little chatterbox. She’s so proficient at saying “dada“, and what’s even more amazing, I think she actually says it in reference to me. She’s also rolling and crawling all over the place. No where near the proficiency of her brother, but she’s making the progress we knew she was capable of. Her stranger anxiety is still around. She’ll still freak out around certain people. We’re trying to leave her alone more during the day. She’s not happy about it, but seems to adjust once she realizes she’s on her own in the baby zone.

We also went to get new eyeglasses for Cole. Don’t worry this isn’t going to be another crazy eyeglass store experience. We found a new eyeglass store. One where they don’t close for lunch, and one where it’s 1/3 the price with a much better warranty. That’s right, Cole’s new specs cost 1/3 his previous pair, yeah. How cool is that? They’ll even warranty any damage to the pair for a full year. The other place only had one lens replacements within a year of purchase. Why the eye doc told us to go to that first store is beyond me (especially when he said he’s heard some bad customer service stories from his patients). We should get that new pair shortly.

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Enjoy!