Random stuff

Samuel's new favorite word is "DD".  Samuel speak for dvd.  He is allowed to watch one "educational"(!) (Baby Einstein, Sesame Street) DVD every day.  We probably should allow more than one as they have helped him a great deal with his language development.  For those of you that do not know, he is also seeing an orthophonist twice a week.  Aurelie is Samuel's first girlfriend.  She is all he talks about.  Every time we tell him he is going out he says "orely" in a very excited voice.

We have spent the weekend washing, folding and putting away the six and nine month clothes for the boys.  Benjamin has already outgrown his 9 month clothes and needs to be in 12 month.  The 12 month clothes, in terms of length are a little big on Nathan but we are lazy and do not want to have to sort three different sizes of boys clothes so Nathan is also going into 12 month this weekend.

We have continued our laziness by keeping the boys in their pajamas on some days, instead of putting them in real clothes every day.  We figure this saves us 2-3 loads of laundry every week.

Nathan is very close to crawling.  He has begun to push himself up onto his hands and knees to the point where we can see space between the floor and his belly.

The cats hate us.  We have begun locking the cats in the basement over night.  Neither Julia or I are sleeping well.  Our sleep problems are not helped when every morning between 0400-0600 one of the cats begins a mournful wail that can last for more than a minute.  Our reaction was to put the cats outside every night but it has been falling to near 0 over night so we decided to be nice and only lock the cats in the basement.

The boys are doing very well with their solid food.  They get rice cereal mixed with formula at the 1100 feed. They normally eat almost all of the cereal.  The positive aspect is that we can give them their bottles and they are then still able to eat their cereal.  This was something that Samuel was never able to do.  If Samuel finished his bottle he was full enough and refused to eat after.

So far we have been very blessed.  The boys are sleeping through the night.  Samuel has slept through since he was two months.  We have been very lucky being in France where both Julia and I have been with the boys every day.  We also had the same fortunate circumstance with Samuel.  Julia did not return to work until Samuel was 18 weeks old.