Grabby little hands

Dear Luke, (you get to go first this time, it's only fair)

You are putting your sweaty little hands to good use! (Yes, your hands really are sweaty, it's kinds weird) You now grab the toys hanging over your play mat. Today you learned how to hold your sleeve and wiggle your arm out. (picking you up and one sleeve is empty was quite a surprise for Mama) When Dad feeds you, you love pulling at the hair on his arms. Dad is not as thrilled as you are about this. What's your favorite thing to pick up? Jeff!!! You love grabbing him with both hands and rubbing him on your face.

Luke rubbing Jeff on his face and Calvin pulling at his clothes.

Dear Calvin,

You are using your hands to grab things, too. As long as what you are grabbing is attached to your brother. You love pulling his ears, poking his eyes, and putting your fist in his mouth. You have also become a bully. The other day you pulled Luke's pacifier out of his mouth making him cry. I assumed it was an accident. I put his pacifier back into his mouth and you did it again! I'm hoping you learn how to use your hands for good instead of evil.

This week Luke obviously learned how to read. After pleading with him to take a decent nap, he slept for two hour the next afternoon! It was wonderful. The boys have also started sleeping through the night. We cut out the 11pm "dream feed" and they have been sleeping from 8:30-5ish, eating, then going back to sleep until around 8. Calvin's dimples have been getting deeper and deeper. He is starting to look just like Garrett. Luke has learned how to suck on his bottom lip, drooling all over himself and making the oddest slurping noise. He's such a funny baby!

More elusive than Loch Ness

Dear Calvin,

I will buy you your first car if you let me get a glimpse into that mouth. You have all the signs of teething. Sometimes. You are cranky. Sometimes. You are a drool faucet. Sometimes. You chew on your entire fist. Sometimes. Your crankiness is instantly calmed with a frozen pacifier. (you can thank your Dad for that brilliant idea.) You are constantly touching your head. Maybe you like how your fuzzy hair feels. I would love to get a look at those gums without you putting your tongue EXACTLY where I need to look.

Dear Luke,

Ya know how good you feel in the morning? After your 11 hours of sleep at night (by the way, thanks for being a champion night sleeper) How happy and smiley you are? How Mom and Dad are hilarious and you love everything we do? Well, your entire day could be that much fun if you would nap for more then 20 minutes. I promise we will not have any fun without you. You won't miss anything if you nap for say, an hour. Jeff can even nap with you. Deal? (Oh, and if you could stop waking up your brother, who would easily sleep 3 hours, that would be great.)

What's more elusive than the Loch Ness monster? In the Fuller house it's dimples! We have had three separate dimple sighting by three different people. First was Garrett who during a late night feeding claimed he spotted the beginning of dimples on Calvin. To this I thought, yeah right! First of all we are in a dark room. Second, Calvin's cheeks are way too big to see dimples. However, I saw the second dimple sighting during some morning play time with the boys. The third dimple sighting was by my sister Mary. She was not aware of the previous two dimple sightings and while playing with the boys asked if Calvin had dimples. It seems like Calvin may have inherited Garrett's dimples. Back to stalking Luke's cheeks for dimples...

So cute I will forget it's 4am

Dear Calvin,

You are thrilled by your body! You love shoving your fingers in your mouth and squeal with delight watching your feet. I'm glad you are getting so much joy out of something I spent a lot of time making. You have started scooting around your crib at night. You move so much I won't be surprised if I find you across the room in Luke's crib.

Dear Luke,

Not even your best game-show-host smile will make me forget it's 4am. But it helps. A lot. Since Jeff has come into your life your projectile spit-up has stopped! Maybe your little body has matured. Maybe you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of Jeff.

This week in twin land the boys officially turned 3 months old! We can't believe how quickly Calvin and Luke are changing. They are smiling and laughing at everything which thrills Garrett cause he always has an attentive audience! Calvin is tolerating more tummy time on the Boppy and Luke is very involved in his new relationship with Jeff (who already needs a bath...) Calvin loves watching us. He will watch us fold laundry, try and eat a full meal, and spend some time with Jack the forgotten child. Luke watches Jeff.

This week there was also a small intervention in the Fuller house. I love to read and will read anything. When I was pregnant I read tons of pregnancy books. Which Garrett tolerated. When I was put on bed rest, I was tired of everything pregnancy related and read a few from the New York Times Bestsellers list. Garrett was pleased to not see a book with a pregnant woman on the cover in my hands. Now that the boys are here I'm slightly (completely) obsessed with books about twins. Every few weeks a beautiful brown box arrives at our door from Amazon.com containing lovely, glossy covered, cleverly named books about twins. I have collected an entire shelf full of book about raising twins. Garrett has had enough. To give Garrett some relief from my twin books obsession I have started making crafty little things for...wait for it...my twins! I've started making "cool" bibs for Luke "the drool king" Fuller. (Yes, I know the "cool" in cool bibs is quoted. Lets face it, bibs can only get so cool.) We will see how long my crafty-ness will last...