Trip to Florida (Part 2)

We had a few more pictures of our trip to Florida on Ty's phone.  We got to see Ty's sister and her family very briefly in Tampa and the cousins had a great time hanging out.

Megan and Crew

Sadie "holding" Carter, with just a tiny bit of help from her mom

Megan, Sadie and Crew

Ty, Sadie and Crew

We also took some pictures of how we entertained Anderson at a restaurant.  He became obsessed with Ty's hat, so we let him wear it and style himself however he saw fit.

Trip to Florida

Ty and I took the boys to Florida to visit their grandparents (Ty's parents) and great-grandparents.  It was a great week to relax by the pool, see the boys swim for the first time and realize what life is like with two mobile babies.  That's right, they both learned to crawl fairly well, just in time to crawl right towards a pool.  Vacations aren't quite as relaxing with two infants, but we had a great time.

Here are some photos of the trip:

Anderson and Bama enjoying the pool

You can gauge how much fun Anderson is having by how much of his tongue is sticking out of his mouth.  The more tongue that's visible, the better

Anderson and Poppy

Anderson loved to fly above the pool

Carter liked to entertain us while we were swimming

Mostly by curving his body into a backwards C (all that baby yoga is really paying off)

Calm, cool, and collected

Carter and Poppy

Carter showing off his Speedo

Showing off his Speedo and a little bit of a plumber's crack

The boys and their grandparents

Coolest Ohio State fan around

Caped Crusaders

I already posted one of these photos on Facebook when I originally took them, but I thought it was also probably important to include them on the blog.  You know, to forever immortalize these little tooshies for the boys (and future girlfriends).

The boys love to play naked in their room after a bath.  One day I left to go clean up the bathroom and came back to find this:

While Anderson was humiliated by the entire experience, knowing it would all be posted online, Carter was quite happy to take a few more pics for the future ladies in his life

Smiling with his eyes

Really excited that we are finally capturing his best angle

International Man of Mystery

Bluebonnets

Although I myself am not a Texan, I do occasionally feel compelled to recognize that my boys are Texans and therefore are subject to normative rites of passage for Texas children. One such experience is being plopped down in a field, with lots of wildflowers, which also means lots of bees and butterflies, which may or may not be close to a very busy road, only to have a few photos snapped by your parents.  Who am I to deny my children this birthright?  As Tom Petty put it, you belong among the wildflowers...

Happy Easter from the Schlegel Boys

Thanks for the sweet hats Dan and Andrea!  The boys will love you for this later in life.

10 months!

Many apologies for the lack of posting for the past month.  The boys are doing great and really starting to get their own personalities.  We have also had some great news on the medical and developmental front.  Since they are so different, let's do individual stats first:

Carter weighed 14lbs, 3 oz and was 26 inches long at an appointment around his 10 month birthday (and is now up to 15 pounds).  He eats 3 meals of solid foods per day and his favorites are yogurt, bananas, mango, avocados, sweet potatoes, apples, carrots, quinoa and squash.  He isn't doing so well on the milk drinking though.  We try to feed him throughout the day and on a good day, he probably drinks about 16 oz of milk.  He is supposed to be getting at least 10 more ounces than that, so we're working on it.  He really just doesn't seem hungry for milk (and we have tried every possible combination of milk, formula, oatmeal, sippy cup, different bottles, etc.).  Perhaps the biggest news for Carter is that he is now CRAWLING!  He started doing it a few days ago and is just starting to really understand it.  And his parents are just starting to understand how different it makes their lives to have mobile children.  We got some of the initial efforts on video, so I will try to post those soon.  Some other cool things that Carter has learned how to do:
- Drink from a sippy cup
- Feed himself small finger foods
- Steal every toy that his brother is playing with
- Wave bye bye
- Talking and yelling much more often
- Sitting up much better
- Has 2 teeth!  It's the two bottom front teeth and the doctor says the ones on top are not far behind.  He loves to use his teeth to bite anything, but his favorite target is his brother's foot

Anderson weighed in at 16 pounds and was 27 inches long.  He is not crawling quite yet, but is definitely close (I know, I've been saying that for 2 months now...).  He does a little army crawling and his scooting backwards has become extremely efficient.  He may never even decide he needs to go forward.  Anderson can also:
- Feed himself small foods (although he'd prefer that you just put it in his mouth for him)
- Cry very loudly when his brother takes away his toys or chews on his foot (and yet he doesn't move away, he just cries for someone to help him)
- Sits on his own really well and is learning how to transition down to laying down without crying

On the medical front, we have been released from several doctors with a clean bill of health!  The eye doctor said their retinas look great and do not need to be checked again until they are 4.  The occupational therapist was so satisfied with their development that she also released us.  Woohoo!  


We did however gain one more doctor; Carter had to go see an immunologist for some concerns regarding his blood work and Immunoglobulin G.  Unfortunately, the lab had not sent over the results of his latest blood work when we went there for an appointment this week, rendering what I am sure was a very expensive appointment very useless (and making their mother quite unhappy).  So we are headed back to the immunologist after his 12 month appointment to see how he is reacting to his shots.  


We also have survived our first real colds and a double ear infection with a torn ear drum (poor Carter; Anderson cried more than Carter though, lots of sympathy tears).  Today we head back to the doctor to check out some rash that Anderson has which will be our third trip to the pediatrician in the past week.  Hopefully its nothing serious.  


We tried to take some 10 month pictures in these awesome seersucker outfits that their Grandma Jean made for them, but they were not super into smiling this morning.  They are also now old enough to rip the sign down, so we may have to think of an alternative way of taking the next two pictures.  Anyways, here are the 10 month photos:

You want us to do what?

Okay, I won't touch the sign, but I won't look at you and I definitely won't smile

I just had to grab it

Look at all of the fine motor skills I am using to do this.  Please celebrate my accomplishments Mom instead of stifling my development.

Oh, what you got there brother?  I am only interested in it because you are playing with it.

Look, we can share it.  See how awesome this is?  Two boys, two sides of the paper

Psych!  I want it all for myself and I've got an evil world-domination grin on my face to show it.  (Please also note that Anderson is shocked and dismayed at this behavior from his beloved brother, even though this exact pattern happens every time Anderson picks up anything and tries to play with it within 10 feet of Carter.  So sweet, it surprises him every time that his brother could do such a thing.)

Carter quickly loses interest and Anderson sees an opportunity.  Carpe Diem!

Sweet Sweet Victory is Mine!