11 Months

Sigh. The last month of infancy. Though they’re not toddling yet, and hence probably can’t be referred to as toddlers, they’re something a little older than babies, right? Some kind of crazy baby limbo. Anyway. Updates.

Feeding

Still nursing four times a day. They have a big breakfast, while the rest of the sessions get shorter and shorter, maybe three or four minutes long. The girls launch themselves off the nursing pillow and just want to play. I’ve started wearing a  nursing necklace again to keep them on long enough to empty my boobs, which has helped some.

They go through six jars of baby food a day, as well as some finger/table food. I clip a lot of coupons.

Sleeping

Nothing new here — two naps a day, sleeping through the night still. I think that they’re wanting to stay awake longer between the morning and afternoon naps. Time to tweak the schedule.

Milestones

Standing unassisted is soooo four weeks ago. Now we’re cruising around and, as I posted a few days ago, Althea is practicing unassisted steps. I think she’s a ways from walking still, but she’s definitely interested.

Something strangely cool is that they LOVE drinking from a straw. They actually drank an entire juice box EACH. It seems so grown-up to me. How can I possibly have two kids that know how to drink from straws?

We recently attended some birthday parties — one for another set of twins, one for a big group of us from mommy group (early first-birthday party for us). The girls had pizza, juice and cupcakes and sat in little chairs at a table. It was effing adorable.

Oh, and they’ve decided to protest Winblows. We’ve got a couple of budding geeks here.

Sizes

By my non-technical calculations, Elise is about 18 pounds and Althea’s about 17.5. They’re in 12-month size clothing now. Still size three diapers. I’m convinced they’re never going to grow out of them. I wouldn’t mind so much, but the baby on the diaper box is  so freaking creepy looking.