1 year old!

                                                      6-29-2013 Happy 1st Birthday!!

 It seems as if the birth of the twin was just a few weeks ago. I can't believe how much they have grown, not just their height and weight, but also lots of developmental milestone they have achieved. They are tiny tiny complete human being. Just amazes me how fast they learn new skills. I teach them something one day and they try to do it or can do it by themselves in a couple of days.

On their birthday, we couldn't take off from work so I baked cake-vegan- for them. That was their first time eating something THAT sweet!

CJA--

Allergy--This month, we confirmed Cja's milk allergy. What I didn't know was that she was also mildly allergic to Egg White. Something I fed her caused rash/ bumps all over her back. I note all the new food I introduce to the girls everyday, so I suspected the egg in their birthday cake caused it. For a while I used only egg yolk for their cooking. Later the allergy was confirmed. No milk products and no egg white for her for a while.

Growth spur-- Cja went through growth spurt this month. When she eats like horse at every meal and many screaming night (growing pain?), I notice this is happening. Later on, sure enough she looks taller and face looks fuller. 

Walking--She was the long time scooter and sitter when Kaci was up crawling and walking. This month, Cja has accomplished both at the same time.
walking with assistance to walking with hands up
photo shoot


Kaci--

Walking -- She has been walking about 2 months now. Not running quite yet. She used the walker toy very little but rather used anything and everything around the house to push around. --video

Emotional development-- She has started to understand the concept of  good, bad,  what she can get away with and what she needs to cry for.  She understands us a lot more than Cja these days. Her thing this month was "act of crying".  Especially when daddy is around, she cries to be picked up extending her hands out. He walks away then she stops crying, gets up and go like nothing happened. Then daddy reappears. Then the act starts again. But surely she gets her way at the end.

hate diaper change
still sucking thumb
demanding?

10 MONTH OLD

HOORAY! Time flies. Because I am sooo behind on my blog, I FORGOT many of what I wanted to write on this post. So I will just paste bunch of pictures.. hahaha
Since 9 month old, communication with the girls has been much fun. Their personality have been blooming! Can these twin girls be more different!? OH they are just opposite when it comes to everything! Twins are a lot of work I admit, but thankfully and interestingly, they take turn to be fussy, be sick, and be restless at night. I am still here today happily sane because they balance me taking turn being needy everyday!
This month, my mom came back from Japan ( went home for 6 weeks). So the gals don't need to go daycare full time anymore, though I liked that they got lots of interactions with other people and lots of activities there, and that they didn't get sick every other day anymore, and that they had a routine going.  I can't really afford full time daycare for two month after month so the gals will go daycare twice a week, back to part-time. 

Cja ---

 *Weight-18lb.
*Food - Cooking for her is a bit tricky. Since she seems to be allergic to dairy, I have started to use coconut milk and dairy free butter for cooking. I am 100% hands on when it comes to their cooking. I have not given jar food since birth. Buying dairy free products or its taste are new area to me. I am always on Internet searching for yummy recipe for her. She is still on 100% breast milk in a bottle.
*Clothes - 12 month and #3 diaper
*Teething -- no new development this month

*Activities -- She has come around a lot. Now she scoots around and doesn't just sit at one place any more. She still have trouble crawling as she doesn't get the concept of " one knee forward after the other" part. It's funny she does great on walker though! Many times she runs over crawling Kaci since Kaci does not like to be in walker much.

More pictures of Cja

This is when she had eye infection. Had lots of eye buggies

Just came back from Daycare. Teachers did my pigtail hair for me

I am still so small, I can be put away!

First staycation at local hotel. Cja was the perfect behaving baby this day

Ooops!

Im a Nacar Driver in making!

Kaci --

*Weight - 17lb 4oz

*Teething - upper teeth coming in! One of the two is taking forever to grow in. Her two front teeth has a gap and look so cute!

*Food - Anything and Everything! She eats a lot. We call her 'the bottomless pit'. As much as we give her food, she will keep eating, but yet she is 1lb smaller than Cja. Where all the food go??

She is also 100% on breast milk in bottles still.

*Activities - She wants to walk so bad. One day we bought a toy for assisting her walk. She got the hold of it and started walking!!

first time in pool that is bigger than bath tub

first time in real pool!

Practice walking with assistance

Shopping!

Nap time at Daycare

Next up, 11 month update!

7 month old!

I am writing this looking back the days of 7 month. They look chunkier compared to now. From the morning till night they sure keep me busy, non stop! Everyday is a survival game but these smile just make me forget all the hardship at times. I will do anything to keep them smiling!


Cja

in a walker, just "in" it.

good time with mommy, playing with camera

how do i look with new hat!?

*weight-- 16lb +
*clothes -- 9month clothes and #2 diaper
*Teething.. This month is all about her top front teeth. Total of 3 broke through, in addition to the bottom two she has already. Upper teeth seemed to be quite painful that we gave tylanol and orajel to ease the pain at times.  The upper 4th one gave her the hardest time, she was crying like no tomorrow one night.
*Food -- all 4-6month food clear! She is still exploring 6-8month food, continuing onto chicken, turkey, yogurt, maybe tofu if her tummy can take it. She did not like applesauce. Maybe I will have her try some other time !
*I taught her 'mama'. She answered "dada". She speaks her own language right now.

Kaci

sat up for the first time by herself!

Kaci won't let mommy eat her lunch!

hi baby!

*weight -- 14lb 4oz
*clothes-- 6 month clothes and #2 diaper. Kaci ends up with Cja's hand-me-down a lot... Sorry Kaci!
*Teething.. nothing yet!
*Fever-- had it twice this month. Her immune system is still up and down, not quite stable. She had on going low grade fever for a few days at times, but her activity level was just fine. One night her fever was 102, warm bath and Motrin helped that night.
*Activity-- In walker, Kaci kicks the floor with both feet together, going backwards. (7.5m)   Sits up by herself and scoots around.
*food -- Kaci so far dives into many food, including apple sauce Cja does not like... She sure has more appetite than Cja.
kaci is a lot more vocal. Now says "bwah bwah bwah",, which was what Cja was saying last month.
Kaci flips her head side to side like she is saying NO!

A video clip from this month :-)

Me,at 7.5 months, start really weaning process. 4-5x a day to pump. and reduce the length of pumping session each time.  now supply and demand is breakeven.

Thank you for keeping up with Kaci and Cja's fast growth! Next up is 9 month blog post!

Cja's TOUGH 8th month

Cja has been having tough 8th month. It started out from her eye check at pediatric. She gets eye discharge every once in a while so I went in. The doctor thought blocked tear duct so he referred us to opthamology. It was in fact the blocked tear duct. In a meantime Cja has been suffering from on going teething,,causing mild fever and loss of appetite. When that was going on, she got stuffy and runny nose for a few days which had lead to upper respiratory infection, acute bronchiolitis. We found that out by going to ER one night. Her fever kept climbing and meds weren't helping. So she got prescribed the breathing treatment via neubilizer from the ER. We followed up with our Pedi a couple of days later. He switched the actual meds for the treatment saying that the one ER gave was too strong and had more side effect. On this visit, we took Kaci because she was showing similar symptoms as Cja. Sure enough, Kaci caught the bronchiolitis from Cja.  So both girls were on the treatment twice a day for a week and half. This whole ordeal made her lost more appetite. There were days she only had less than 10oz milk only, for entire day, when she used to have 23-24 oz milk plus a few oz of solids. I was so distressed and worried about her that I hardly could work.

Cja on Neubilizer

Cja at ER

Feverish Kaci,,

Cja recovered from bronchiolitis and felt better for a few days. Then she had started waking up crying 2-4 times in the middle of the night. She wouldn't let us put her back in the crib so it took us over 1 hour each wakening to put her down. First I thought her teething pain kept her awake but last night she gabbled the whole bottle at midnight, which never happened before. And she kept kicking her legs and touching them as if something is bothering her legs. Then I thought she might be going through some growth spurt. I looked up online to see what other moms are saying. I might be right on this.
Also sleep regression is common in 8-10 month old babies. She did not co-sleep with us, did not let us put her down in crib... she only slept in our arms or in swing those days. My husband and I took turn sleeping on the floor and couch by her crib in the living room. 

They just turned 9 months! Kaci has been so good all around. Cja still has ups and downs when it comes to milk and solids consumption. But she feels so good and so happy these days. It seems I hadn't seen her being this way for a long time. She was such a trooper to concur her sickly days!