Three Months Old, First Thanksgiving, etc. In Pictures

Vladi and daddy hang in the studio...
Waylon and cousin Anne in PA...
Daddy, Vladi and Great Aunt Francie in PA...
Thanksgiving at the McFarlands with Grandma and Grandpa Wood...
With the McFarlands on Thanksgiving...
With mommy and daddy - 1st Thanksgiving...
Vladi chilling punk rock style...
Vladi and Waylon doing the dance...

Waylon in his hat made by Grandma Wood...
Vladi in his hat made by Grandma Wood...
Three months old, Vladi and Waylon...
Preparing the morning bottles...
Waylon gets first bass lesson from daddy...
Waylon and daddy...

Here Comes Trouble - Vladimir 10 1/2 Weeks Old

Here Comes Trouble - Waylon 10 1/2 Weeks Old

Waylon in his new big boy outfit from Grandma Wood.

Ten Weeks Old - 1st Halloween

Vladimir Joseph

Waylon Bram

We are ten weeks old.

We are not babies anymore! Soon we will be giggling and trying to crawl. We weigh a lot and have double (maybe even triple!) chins. We make lots of "talking" sounds and smile more and more. We talk the most when we get into our cribs in the evening. Mommy thinks we are talking to each other, but we won't tell her what we're saying!

We are eating up a storm! Luckily for mommy we are eating more formula now so she is being spared. She is doing lots of pumping so that we can have rice cereal at every meal in a bottle. This has helped to slow down the vomitorium of a few weeks ago.

We have been spending more time in our Baby Bjorns and have gotten used to the idea. We can take a very nice nap while riding in them now. Much better than the first time we tried them at the Pumpkin Patch. Mommy and daddy wear us in them while they do work, wash dishes, eat breakfast, etc. It keeps us close at hand, keeps us upright after eating, and lets them use both of their hands. Don't tell them we told you this, but they can even use the bathroom while we are strapped into them!

We have finally begun to outgrow our Newborn sized clothes and are starting to wear the 0-3 month outfits. We can't wait to wear our jeans!

On Halloween we went with mommy to her office to meet all of her co-workers during their Halloween breakfast party. That was fun! We wore our Old Navy Halloween Onesies. Vladi pooped on his by the time we got home and that was the end of our Halloween outfits. Next year we will dress up for real!

At night we handed out candy with mommy and daddy until they ran out at 7:00. There were lots and lots of kids trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Then we went out to visit all of the neighbors in their colorful costumes. It was quite an evening. We stayed out past our bedtime - but we had to make our adoring fans happy. What's a popular pair of babies to do?

This week we also met our Great Aunt Noreen who is visiting from Colorado. She is so cool!

Here are some pictures of us this week. Including some with Daddy on Halloween.

Visiting Grandpa Germano

On Grandma Wood's 60th Birthday we went to meet our Great Grandpa Germano.
We wore our new fall hats.


We also hung out with Grandma at her house. Joan came for a visit and to have birthday cake.
Cheryl and Erica came to say hello, too.

Spit-up A-thon

...or Vomitorium, as our cousin Stephanie would say.

We like to spit-up. All the time. Dr says it is reflux or GERD. Mommy was so freaked out on Wednesday night when Vladi had a spit-up fit that she called the doctor. Vladi couldn't breathe because he was choking on the spit-up. He was shaking his head back and forth and flailing his arms and legs. When he finally expelled the puke from him mouth and nose he took a few seconds before he could catch his breath - then when he did he began to scream. He was scared too.

Doctor Levine said to begin to give us rice cereal in our bottles. So now mommy mixes a teaspoon or two of rice cereal in bottles when she feeds us formula or pumped breast milk. We did this for the first time on Thursday. We seem to like it. The first night I think we both spit-up more, but it seems to be helping now. Today is Sunday and the vomitorium seems to have quelled for the moment. Phew! Choking on spit-up is not fun. It made mommy afraid to feed us before bedtime because she didn't want us to lay down after we ate.

If the rice cereal doesn't help cure us we have to go see a GI doctor. I guess they like to send babies to specialists these days - we have already been to the Cardiologist! What did they do for babies with GERD in the old days before Zantac? Mommy and daddy don't want to givce us drugs or to have to take us to anonther specialist. Hopefully the rice cereal will do the trick.

I don't think we mentioned it, but we have started to do more stuff, like make noises other than crying. Vladi has started to use the consonant "M", and now when he cries sometimes he says "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!" which is great developmentally, but makes mommy feel sad because it sounds like he is crying out to her.

Lots of our clothes fit us now and we got some new pants. Grandma Wood bought us a pair of Calvins. Nice.

Godzilla, our cat, has become our guardian. He watches over us all the time. Daddy likes to call him "Child Services". He waits outside the bedroom door every morning and when we cry he wants to know why. He is a good guy and hasn't tried to get into our crib again since that one time in the first week.Vladimir decided that he would pray over his bottle the other day. Grandma Wood was feeding him and he began to pray "Please don't take my bottle away! Please don't let the bottle run dry..."

Swingtown

"...We've been working so hard,
we've been working so hard,
come on baby, come on baby let's dance (or sleep...)

Bud, duh, bum, bum, bum...... "

Yes folks, we have found Swingtown right here in our bedroom. And it is a very good place. Very good indeed.

Babies love swings.
Babies sleep in swings.
Swings are good.

Here is our swing set:



Our blue vibrating chairs are on the outs. Babies are bored with vibrating chairs. The swing is the thing man. Oh yeah.

Photos - Two Months Old

We went to Eden Farms in Stamford to see the pumpkins. We each got one. Mommy and Daddy carried us in our Baby Bjorns for the first time and neither one of us liked them very much.