10-9-14
Here are their stats:
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Adelyn
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Clara
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Weight: 25lbs 9.2 oz (98%)
Height: 2’8” tall (100%)
Head: 46.5 cm (87%)
Loves to mimic people
Crawls everywhere
Loves to stand
Walks behind walker
Steals Clara’s toys
Understands what NO means
Sleeps with giraffe and sucks
On tail
Very PICKY eater
Loves blueberries, raspberries, crackers
Says: mama, kiddy, no,
dank yu, daisy, sista
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Weight: 25 lbs 14.1 oz
(98%)
1st time
Clara weighs more
than Adelyn!!!
Height: 2’8.5” tall (100%)
Head: 47.5 cm (97%)
Very TALKATIVE
Favorite word: NO
Doesn't crawl but scoots
Sleeps with pacifier
Loves most foods
Doesn't particularly like:
Blueberries,
raspberries,
Plain oatmeal
Loves cheese, veggies
Says: mama, kiddy, no,
dank yu, daisy, wow, ah oh, weee, sista
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WOOOOOOWWW!!!! We have made it a year. I cannot
believe that it has already been a year. This time last year, I didn't
think I was going to survive. I was suffering from severe sleep
deprivation and I didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. The
babies were up every two hours and their routine consisted of sleep, eat, poop,
repeat.
As time went on,
things got easier and it has been an absolute joy, honor, and treasured
experience to watch the girls grow. Their personalities have developed
and they have become their own little people.
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| Adelyn 's brain is always thinking |
Adelyn has a spunk that lights up
any room. Her sense of humor is sharp and she can just look at you and
give you that twinkle she has, and she has you. It doesn't matter how bad
of a mood you are in, she will make you laugh. She gets it. She
reads you, and does exactly what you need to make you smile. Along with
her fabulous sense of humor, she loves to shake her head no...but she does it
with a smile... she looks at you, smiles with her mouth and eyes, and then
shakes her head no...how can you be mad at someone who does that...you can't! She LOVES LOVES to pull herself up onto
EVERYTHING. She will crawl to whatever and then pull herself up to a
standing position. She has even walked by herself behind a baby walker
for a short period of time. Any day now, she is going to be off running,
instead of crawling and then I am in trouble. Adelyn also picks up clever habits. Her latest one is to cough at you. If she is ever lost in a crowd of babies, I
can easily find her because all I will have to do is cough twice…cough cough…
and she repeats it back. She does it on
her own first sometimes too…after she coughs twice she looks around to find me
and when I cough twice back at her, she gets a huge grin and giggles. WOW! Little amazing brains!
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She left the hat on for about 3
seconds so I could take the pic |
Her vocabulary is limited but she does say,
kiddy (kitty), die die ( bye bye), mama, hi, waz zat (what’s that) and my mom
swears she heard her say "sister" the other day. She is a SUPER
picky eater as well. I don’t know if she
has a keen sense of smell and immediately is turned off by the food or she is
just stubborn. Probably a little of
both. She will squint up her face and
sputter out air as you are trying to put food in her mouth. She locks up that mouth of hers pretty
tight. While she does that, I turn and
feed Clara and eventually Adelyn opens her mouth for a bite. 70% of the time, she actually likes the food
that she originally protested against.
The other 30% of the time, she legitimately hates the food we try to
give her.
Clara
is very different than her sister. She has a very high vocabulary. Every day
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| Clara has eyes that can look right into your soul |
she seems to learn a new word. She says mama, no (which I think is her
favorite word), woooow, ah oh, kiddy (kitty), daisy (dog...my mom's dog's name
is Daisy so now every dog is named Daisy), die die (bye bye), hi, waz zat; her
sister tends to steal most toys she is playing with so she has gotten really
good at saying NO! She yells "NO!" and then shakes her head no
and waves her arms across her body to mean no. She even tells our dog,
Nalla, "No" when she gets too close to her while she is eating.
In many videos I have taken of the girls, you can hear Clara in the
background yelling "no" to someone or thing :). She also is
sooo polite. Whenever you take something
from her or she is down with something she will hold out the item, and say “thank
you” (sounds like dank yu). Toooooo
sweet!!!!
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Clara is such a character! She just makes
me laugh all the time |
Clara is such an observer. She pays
careful attention to what is going on around her and never forgets. She
can see you do something once or put something somewhere and she won't forget. In
addition, Clara is very dramatic. If she doesn't like something she will put
her hand to her head and shake her head no.
She has a “sigh” down pact and just melts your heart with her smile…all
two bottom teeth of hers. (which by the
way, hurt like HELL when she tries to give you a kiss and bites down on a part
of your cheek…I am pretty sure my face is permanently scared from all the scratch marks from the
girls and bite marks.)
Unlike her
sister, Clara eats everything. She is so
willing to try new foods and
on rare occasions, she refuses to eat certain things. You can tell the food must truly be bad, if
Clara won’t eat it.
Both girls go to my mom’s house for daycare. I can’t even express how blessed I
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| This was taken the morning of their birthday! Such happy girls |
am that my
mother lives close and can watch the girls.
Mom’s house is set up as a home away from home for the girls and they
have their routines down to a science.
Every morning I get to my mom’s around
6 am. Mom has their bottles and
breakfast ready. I help feed them and
then we take them into the play room to change them. I leave around 6:15 and usually around 6:30
Lloyd comes down and eats his cereal in the play room. The girls love to huddle around him on the
floor and he feeds them bites of his cereal.
Mom keeps the girls entertained all throughout the day and I love
hearing about how her day when I pick them up around 3. The girls make Mom (Gramma) laugh everyday
and I enjoy hearing about all the day’s activities. I don’t know if I have her enough but I am
soooooo truly thankful for all her help!
There are people in this world that would drop anything for you and help
you out in a time of need. I don’t have
too many people in my life like that and she is one of them! Thank you Mom! You are an inspiration and I hope that I can
be as good of a mother to my girls as you were to me. You are my rock and role model and the girls
are so lucky to have you as their Gramma!
The
other day the girls had their one year check up. I have learned that I have to plan for a long
stay wherever we go, just in case and sure enough, I was glad that I did. Our appointment was at 3:30 but we got there
at 3:30 to check in. They got us back
pretty quick and the doctor was very happy with their progress. It was the first time that Clara actually
weighs more than Adelyn…on a side note, Clara has been sucking down her milk
like no tomorrow.
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| Happy Birthday |
After the
appointment they told us there was a 30 minute wait at the shots room. We could either come back tomorrow or
wait. I wasn’t going to have my mom
bring the girls in for their shots on her own, so we waited, and waited, and waited. I think we waited about 40 minutes. Luckily, I had packed food and snacks so we
were able to keep the girls busy until they called us back. Finally around 4:50 they called us back. The moment of dread!! I took Adelyn first while Mom had Clara in
the hall. There were two nurses and they
decided to give the shots at the same time.
Adelyn needed six shots (three per leg).
The nurses were FABULOUS and did the best they could but despite their
careful touch, Adelyn started screaming.
I was holding her in my lap and had her arms pinned to her chest while
she screamed in my ear. I am a STRONG
believer in vaccinations and the ends justify the means but man, it tugs on
your heart strings when your child is in pain.
After the shots I hugged her and she buried her head into my
shoulder. I had to pass her off to Mom
so I could do Clara. I could hear Adelyn
screaming “mama, mama mama” in the hall.
It was the first time that she has actually called for me and I couldn’t
help her. She has never called for me
before and man, that was tough.
The
nurses repeated the procedure for Clara.
Unfortunately for me and the nurses,
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Gramma and Granpa Marquardt got the girls chairs for
their birthday and they LOVE them. Clara has such
perfect posture whereas Adelyn just melts into her chair |
Clara has a high pitch scream and she
didn’t disappoint. I think my head still
hurts from her cries. She actually
recovered after the shots a lot faster than Adelyn; she cried for a couple
minutes but then was back to her normal self .
We didn’t
get home until around 5:45 so Mom stayed to help give the girls baths and
bottles. The girls slept “like babies”
all night. For the record, whoever
created that term, “sleep like babies” wasn’t a parent. Slept like a baby is supposed to refer to a
solid night sleep…that is so far from the truth as you could get. Most babies wake up every few hours and even
my girls wake up every 3 hours starting at 12 am…sleep like babies, my
behind. Anyway, I digress…they slept so
well, I actually went up to make sure they were still breathing.
10/18/14 update: Clara actually sat up in her crib for the
FIRST time ever. She has been struggling
with getting up if she is lying on her back.
She just can’t do it. We have
been going to PT once a week for a couple months and it is helping soooo
much. Today, I went into their room
after nap time, and Clara was in her crib, SITTING, and looking at me. I thought it was a onetime thing, but she did
it again after her second nap! YEAH
CLARA!!!!
Adelyn
actually got herself from the floor ONTO the couch and then stood up on the
couch while she looked over the back of the couch! OMG!
She was strong enough to pull herself up! I am in trouble! Today marks the day that life with the twins
has taken a new turn on our adventure.
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