5 month Update

Yes! Can you believe it the boys are almost 5 1/2 months old. I have been diligently trying to upload the cutest video ever but unfortunatly after 5 tries over the course of 2 weeks I have decided to stop trying.

Colston:
This kid eats just like his mother. Picky and could care less about food. He started out good but now hits nights where he doesn't want to eat anything. He'll just sit there and cry. We try to be very patient with him. He likes to find anything possible to do besides eat. We were feeding him in his bumbo so he would first have to play with his feet. Then he would have to see where Miles was. Then he will see what he can reach on the table to play with. once those items are done he will stretch. His last resort is to just cry. The last couple of nights he has been better so we may be over this phase already. To help eliminate much of this we assembled the high chairs. Now he can't reach his feet or anything on the table. Colston likes sweet potatoes, green beans, and carrots best. He hates bananas. Will spit them out as soon as they hit his tongue.

Outside of eating Colston still loves to sleep. He will wake up in the morning and be content just to lay in his bed for awhile. He also can sleep anywhere as long as he has something to function as a blanket and his thumb to suck. I say "something" because Colston has invented various things that he can use as a blanket. Sometimes it's a burp rag or a soft toy which makes sense. Recently he has gotten creative. One day when I was walking out of a store I put a bag with a cup at the foot of his carseat. By the time I walked to the car he had grabbed the plastic bag and was using it as a blanket. He also has been using the curtain that goes around his swing as a blanket. This does not work well as when the mobile is on the curtain pulls down on top of the mobile and it makes a noise like a machine gun. Colston isn't phased by this loud sound at all. Sometimes he thinks it's funny. He also can fall asleep anywhere! He fell asleep in the middle of playing in his exerciser on night. I went to give Miles a bath and when I returned he was dead asleep. He had a nice red mark on his face when I got him up. If he gets tired of sucking his thumb his second favorite is the suck the sunrays of a toy on his exerciser. I am not sure why he does this but it isn't because he is hungry....it can't taste good!

Miles:
Miles could be called "Mikey" because he will eat anything that you put in front of him. He actually would whine/cry when we didn't feed him fast enough as he was used to the instant gratification of the bottle. He has gotten better with this. He has an amazing internal clock. He knows down to the minute when he should be fed and he'll let you know if your late. (Colston is usually 30+ minutes behind Miles -- can you guess who he gets that from?). Miles is still having struggles with scratching his head. He does this to soothe himself when he falls asleep. Unfortunatly no matter how many times I cut his nails he still manages to cut up his head and face. The "mittens" that they make for newborns are only for 0-3 months. Aparently kids aren't suppose to have this issue past that age as Miles' chubby little paws could not longer fit in the newborn mittens. I looked into ordering him some winter gloves but we decided instead to put his socks on his hands. He wasn't too fond of them at first but now is used to them. Now it's like rubbing a blanket on this head instead of his nails. Miles loves rubbing/scratching heads so much that we have found if Colston is close enough he will do it to him. Colston doesn't really like this show of love. We also notice that Miles will do this same action on the arm of the recliners and our arms when we hold him when he is tired. Miles doesn't suck his thumb as much as he sucks two fingers. Miles has started to sit all by himself this past week. It's very cute to see him do this and even funnier when he leans over and and rolls like a weeble wobble.

All in all both of the boys are doing very well. We have had the last TWO nights with BOTH of them sleeping through the night. It has been a long road as it seemed when one would sleep through the night the other one wouldn't. As if they were tag teaming us. Hopefully this will continue this week! We are looking forward to having my mom and my brother in to visit this week. If the weather permits we are going to take the boys to the beach for the first time.