The twins are 4 months old!

My sweet babies turned 4 months old on August 27th.  All of the sudden they are looking like big ol babies and not itty bitty babies that you have to cradle all the time.  Where does the time go?  

no smiles out of Benton man today :(

Sleeping:  I guess we will start with sleeping.  The babies are really doing good here.  We do have some rough nights but overall I don't think I could ask for things to be going better.  Typically we put them to bed between 8 and 9pm and on a good night they will sleep until 5 before eating again.  On a bad night they (Benton) wake up at 3 to eat again.  
    

• Emery:  This girl is my good sleeper.  She would sleep all night long (at least 10 hours plus) if her brother didn't wake up to eat before then.  She goes to bed well and without her pacifier.  I still have her arms in the swaddle because she flails about and wakes herself up still but once I swaddle her up she goes right to sleep.  For naps she sleeps good but needs a pacifier to get to sleep then.

• Benton:  Oh Benny.  Honestly he is a good sleeper but if anyone is going to be waking me up 3 hours into sleeping it will be him.  Most of the time though he does good and sleeps until 4-5 am.  On a really bad night he wakes up at midnight-2am and wants to be in bed with me before he calms down.  Those nights are hard and happen about once a week or so but I do love the snuggles and that he wants to be close to me.  He loves holding my hand with both of his hands while he falls back asleep. 

Naps:  The babes still take a nap between each feeding.  They are about to be able to make it from one feeding to the next without a small nap but not quite yet.  About a week and a half ago (while we were at the beach) they started taking a long (2.5-3 hour) nap in the afternoon.  I feed them about 12-1230 and they stay awake for about 10-20 minutes and then they go right to sleep.  They want to sleep on their tummies for this nap so I let them.  

• Emery:  I always have to wake her up from the nap and I hate that.  Benton always wakes up first and I try to pacify him until she wakes up but usually he is about to lose it because he is so hungry.  
• Benton:  This boy is starting to not sleep as much during the day.  He takes an awesome nap in the afternoon though which I love.  I kinda forgot my love of the nap but holy moly it is great.  

Feeding: still breastfeeding and pumping.  They get a one bottle a day or every other day of breast milk just to make sure they still like the bottle.  Emery has decided that she doesn't want to eat when Benton eats and she screams her head off.  So I am mainly feeding them individually.  I don't mind that at all but sometimes I would like to spend a little less time feeding, ha!  We keep trying and I know soon she will get over it (please?)

Diapers:   wearing mainly cloth diapers (prefolds with covers).  I did pull out all of Blakely's pocket and one size diapers the other day.  Benton can fit in them but Emery is still a little too small so we are sticking with the prefolds and covers until we can both make the switch. When they wear disposables they wear a size 2 and it is a little big on Emery.

Clothing:  Clothing is so weird.  Then clothing with cloth diapers is super weird.  

• Benton wears a 3-6 month with cloth diapers on but he can fit in some 3 months stuff with a disposable on.  When I packed for the beach it was all 3-6 months stuff and it was a little big because I didn't take cloth to the beach.  

• Emery is in 3 month stuff no matter the diaper.  She is almost outgrowing some of it with cloth on.  I give her a couple of weeks.  

Weight: Benton is 13 lbs even and Emery is 11 lbs 4 oz.  Wew go back in a month for a weight check although our pedi says they are 

Height:  Benton is 25 inches and Emery is 24 1/4 inches

Hair Color:  Well they are both pretty bald!  

• Benton has less hair all over.  In pictures he looks totally bald but he really does have hair.  It is very light but I can't tell if it is going to be blonde or light brown like Blakely's.  
• Emery has more hair than Benton but still not a whole lot.  She has a big bald spot in the back and then a triangle patch of hair under that close to her neck.  Her hair was darker at birth but it seems to be coming in lighter?  Hard to tell right now.  

Eye Color:  They both have blue eyes with Em's being a lighter blue (like mine) and Benton's a darker blue (like Lonnie's).

A few other things I want to remember:

• We took our first trip to the beach with the babies.  It was crazy and wonderful all at the same time.  I'll put all those details in another post but I am glad we did it but I will not be driving that long again.  
• They are both rolling from front to back.  Emery did it on 8-3 and Benton on 8-6.  
• Emery did a full on belly laugh for the first time on 8-15...while we were at the beach.  She has done it a few times since but mainly just little giggles here and there.  
• The twins got to meet some of their new friend babies this month!  

My friend Katie had her baby girl (her son is 5 months younger than Blakely).  Hannah weighed 9 and a half pounds and already outweighs my sweet Emery!  

And our friend Keisha had her baby girl, Kollyns, and she was also 9 lbs and will very soon outweigh my petite Em.  (E was hangry)  

• Emery notices Benton all the time.  She will just stare at him and watch what he is doing.  He is basically oblivious that she even exists.  Not really.  He would just much rather watch me.  Or the fan.  Or Blakely.

• I always let Blakely pick our their pajamas each night.  Well Emmers has A LOT more pajamas than Benners.  He has 2 that fit and 2 gowns that fit.  One night he didn't have any clean so Blakely picked out the purple ones and went on this big spill about how boys can wear purple and he looks good in purple and on and on.  It was pretty cute.  Since then she picks out the girly pink ones for him about 1/2 the time! 

Boy looks good in purple!  

• The twins got to meet Uncle Matty (my brother) this month!  We stopped in Alabama to see him on our way to the beach.  

• They don't hate their stroller.  I love this thing but we are rapidly needing a new double stroller instead of just this frame.  I literally can not make a decision about what to get. I need something that maneuvers easily and they can use right now as well as when they are much bigger.  Too many options!

• I have a feeling we are getting another Daddy's girl.  Emery will be fussy as can be before Lonnie gets home and then he walks in the door and talks to her and she is fine.  

• Blakely still wants to hold the babies a lot.  But when she is done she is done and she just plops them off and gets up!  I keep telling her she has to tell me and wait for me to pick them up but she's already over it.  :/

• I took them both to the eye doctor with me one day.  I thought it would be easy breezy.  It only takes about 30 minutes and I fed them right before.  I figured they would be happy or even go to sleep.  Nope.  They cried.  And cried more.  I don't know what the deal was except maybe the bright lights and weird place freaked them out?  Basically I am traumatized to take them anywhere by myself ever again.  

• We are liking tummy time these days!  

Daily Routine: We are getting into a steady routine.  But I know all too well that once you get comfortable things will change!  But for now we have about the same routine as last month.  7 feedings a day.  First one about 7 to 730 am and down for the night between 8-9pm with one middle of the night feeding.  

Happy 4 months my sweet sweet babies!  I still sometimes look down at the both of you and have a mild panic set in that I have TWO babies!  How did this mama get so lucky?  I love you both so much and you bring so much joy to my life.  I love making you smile and being able to comfort you.  I can't wait to watch you continue to grow!