9 Months

The babies turned 9 months old August 11!  Can you believe it??!!  My little babies are growing up, sniffle.  

Just look at my baby girl!

 I love her big grin.  Speaking of big.  Kira is growing!  We bought her 6-9 month clothes and they fit!  She's eating 8 ounces regularly and sometimes 9 or 10 ounces in the morning and at night.  She still doesn't care to eat any other food.

She is sporting 2 front top teeth now.  She's a pretty good teether.  She's only grumpy about one day.

She can get into a sitting position by herself now and still does her funny army crawl to get around.  

She loves to be outside.

Kira started to say Ma ma.  She gets very serious when she says it--almost a whisper.

She doesn't care to wear headbands as you can see in the picture below.

 She likes to be teased so she can laugh and smile.

 She's becoming a little more adventurous in order to keep up with her brother.  She loves to follow him around.  See she is attacking the sign like Isak.

 She loves sucking on toys and play sucking on pacifiers.  She's not attached to a pacifier, she just likes to play with them.  She's just a sweetie.

"Noooooo, not another photo shoot!"  Off to a rough start...again.  :)

Isak is our Indiana Jones.  He climbs on everything and is happiest when he's exploring.  He loves to stand up next to the couch, cupboard, sliding glass door, chairs and especially our legs.  He crawls to get everywhere else.  He only plays with a toy for a minute and then goes onto something else.

He has four teeth and one more on the way.  This last toot has been terrible.  Lots of tylenol and a runny nose.

He still says Da da and other syllables.

This was the best picture I could get of him.

He is an excellent sleeper and eater.  He eats puffs now and loves baby food.

He LOVES to be outside.
He is still my little snuggler when he's not on the move.

 Together...can you see Isak behind the bear?

 I don't know what Isak is doing with his arms.  I must have captured him mid motion of throwing his arms up and down.

 I love Kira's happy face with her hands clapped together.

 Kira telling Isak how it is. :)

 Isak is wondering what the pink thing is on Kira's head and if he can grab it.

 Finally, they are both looking at me.  But I cut part of Isak's head out of the picture.  Oh well.

 Beautiful Blue Eyed Girl

 Handsome Blue Eyed Boy

I didn't even try the laying down pictures!  I was exhausted after just doing the above pictures.

Wrap for July

Random pictures taken in July 2013.

I gave the kids magical measuring cups, and they were happily entertained for a good 15 minutes!  That's why the cups are magical.  :)

This was one of the first pictures that show Isak's two front teeth.

Isak and Kira seeing their new toy for the first time.

I love how Isak is all over the toy and Kira is leaning forward to look, but not touching it yet.

Kira trying to get into a sitting position.

Isak standing next to the couch.

Isak.  Look at his adorable cheek!

Kira loves this soccer ball.

Isak woke up way early one morning.  He played around in the bed while I read the driver's handbook.  He wore himself out and ended up falling asleep on my feet.  Both Nels and I had to take the driver's written test in order to get our new licenses for North Carolina.  I'm glad that's done.

Red cup anyone?  Very entertaining.

The babies love to be outside.  We try to go out every morning while the patio is shaded.  One morning they had fun exploring the tractor sprinkler.

For a short time we bathed the babies together.  They were so cute and just talked and played.  We don't bath them together anymore because Isak stands up and falls down.  We need both arms just for him.

Kira woke up early and spent some time playing in bed with me.  She didn't fall back to sleep.  When she's up...she's up.

When Nels is home, both babies are glued to him.  He snuck into the bathroom and both babies crawled to the door and waited for him to come out.  haha.

Nels loves his babies.  He can make them laugh like no one else.

All together.

Kira wore this adorable pink tutu outfit.  She just looked so cute I had to take a few pictures!

Flies are annoying, but one day I was grateful for a fly that kept Kira's attention for a while.

Baby Indiana Jones at it again.

Kira and her favorite stuffed animal Kayla.

July was a busy month with Nels traveling (3-5 days a week, 3 weeks in a row!), unpacking the house, getting driver's licenses, registering the car, oh and throw in my birthday too.  :)  

Sleeping

One day I crept into the babies rooms and took pictures of them sleeping.  I love these pictures.  

Here's Isak:

Isak is my little sleeper.  He takes really good naps.  He plays hard when he is awake and goes down easily for naps.  He used to cry and cry and it took forever to get him to go to sleep.  But now we sing a song, lay him down wide awake and he does the rest.

Isak will usually take 2 to 2 and a half hour naps.

Isak has the cutest little snore.  :)

Oh, sweet Isak.

Oh, sweet Kira.  Aren't all babies sweet though when they are sleeping??

So peaceful.

Kira has always been good at putting herself to sleep.  She's just a little angel.

She likes to sleep vertically in the crib just like when she was a newborn and sharing with Isak.

Kira is my short napper...1 hour to an hour and a half.  She rarely sleeps more than that and sometimes she sleeps less.

Neither of them sleep with a blanket or toy.  I am too paranoid about SIDS to leave anything in the crib.

I hope they continue to be good sleepers.  I pray for it every night. :)

Pictures taken in July 2013.  8 months old.