Go banana, go-go banana...banana spit!

Tonight provided us a little entertainment at dinner.  Jaxson has started to blow raspberries while eating...gross!  I managed to catch some of it on video...check it out below!

Besides the blowing of the bananas Jaxson sat up unassisted today!  He went from a crawling stance to sitting all by himself!  Foster has started getting up on his knees and rocking...also very exciting!

Check out some pics snapped today and video!

 Foster.  I don't even know what to say about this face!

 Jaxson.

 Jaxson sitting up!

Foster doing a little stretching!  

Rub-a-dub-dub two babes in a tub!

Here are a few more pics from our 6 month photo shoot!  

Happy Half Birthday!

The boys are 6 months old...hard to believe!  They are growing so fast and getting so big and strong.

We have introduced quite a menu of "solid" foods into their diets and they are LOVING IT!  So far we've tried peas, sweet potatoes, mangoes, carrots, squash, pears, applesauce (of course), and bananas.  Jaxson really loves to eat...if you don't feed him fast enough he lets out a deafening squeal until you shovel more food into his mouth.  Foster, on the other hand, patiently waits for his next bite and doesn't leave a drop.


I'm so amazed at their development and how they are adjusting to each new stage.  Jaxson is so close to crawling, he has the army crawl down and can move backwards just fine...it's that forward movement he keeps having trouble with!  Foster has discovered his toes and loves to put them in his mouth!  Foster also has two teeth coming through on the bottom...I made the mistake of letting him chew on my thumb the other day, lesson learned!

We go in for their 6 month check up this week...I'm anxious to hear how much they weigh and how long/tall they are!

Check out some of the pics from our 6 month photo shoot!

Hit the road Jack...

Things have finally settled down in the Ayers household...at least a little!  I am finally able to blog about our first road trip to Louisville over Christmas.  

Christmas morning we loaded up half of our house (at least so it seemed), opened what Santa Claus had left, and then hit the road for our first 8 hour long road trip.  Unfortunately I didn't receive the reaction I was hoping for from the boys when the "discovered" their wagon under the tree.  Instead of looks of wonderment and surprise I was greeted with screams of hunger!  So we quickly video tapped the event and proceeded immediately to the nursery for bottles.  Christmas was over in less than 5 minutes...hoping for a better reaction next year.

So, once the boys were fed and clothed we loaded up and hit the road.  We met Nana and Grandpa in Hickory and began our journey.  The boys did great!  We stopped briefly for diaper changes and feedings but they slept most of the way.  We couldn't have asked for better travelers.  We did stop just north of Knoxville at an IHOP for lunch.  This was the ONLY place open on Christmas day and I had already mapped out this location prior to our adventure.  We had to wait in line for a table and it took nearly two hours to eat and get back on the road.  There wasn't an empty seat in the place plus a huge line out the door.  IHOP was hoppin'. 

We arrived in Louisville that evening and introduced the boys to their great aunt, uncle, grandfather, and cousin. However, our blissful travel experience was about to come to an end.  Foster had a MELTDOWN.  He cried himself into exhaustion.  We tried everything to calm him down...rocking, bottles, pacis...nothing helped.  We assumed that his reflux was acting up again and that we would give him his tummy relief drops and presto!  Except that I forgot to pack his Gas Relief Drops and EVERYTHING was closed.  I literally packed almost everything in our house except for those damn drops.  Way to go mom.  Foster finally calmed down and fell asleep.  Meanwhile, Jaxson was upstairs with his relatives hamming it up loving every minute!  In the midst of this mini crisis and meltdown I managed to get zero photos.  I am so disappointed.  

The rest of the trip was fairly mild.  No more meltdowns.  All in all we had a great trip I'm just sad that my grandfather didn't get to spend much time with the boys, well Foster anyway.  

Santa's delivery!