Milestones

With having twins there are several milestones that you look forward to, work hard at, dread having to do and celebrate when you reach them. I suppose it's like that with each child you have, but like most of life with twins it is magnified when you have to do it x2. I would say getting them both to nurse well was the first thing, then comes scheduling naps, sleeping through the night, eating solid foods, crawling, walking, and finally potty training. I am so happy to say that Hudson and Brooklyn are both more or less potty trained! It is such a wonderful feeling although we spend a lot of time in the bathroom! I was completely dreading having to potty train two kids, but I ended up following the advice of my good friend who has triplets and worked with them one at a time. Brooklyn was first and caught on within a couple days. Hudson followed after about a month of cheering Brooky on. He too had it down with in four or five days.

Showing off their big kid underwear!

Another huge milestone I was dreading was getting rid of cribs. Hudson and Brooklyn have been awesome sleepers overall and love their cribs. I could put them down for naps and bed time without any objection and if they weren't tired they would just chat with each other. Along with getting rid of cribs meant making a girls room and a boys room. So not only did we want to get rid of cribs, we put together bunk beds and painted... All last weekend, the weekend before the last week of school. Not great planning on our part, but we wanted to get them moved before we go to Canada in a couple weeks and Hudson was climbing out of his crib at least every other day. So we decided it was time. Overall it has gone well, but it is an adjustment for everyone to get used to new roommates. Morgan has expressed that she misses Ethan, and while Ethan would never admit it I'm quite certain he misses Morgan as well. I'm looking forward to the "adjustment" period to be over, that will probably be just in time for vacation;)