6 months!

Ok, I am self admittedly a terrible blogger! Nothing for two months, there is no excuse (well except for the changing pooping diapers, mixing bottle after bottle, running after Emerson and now making baby food for two!).

It has been a busy two months and the twins have changed so much. They are definitely turning into little men with their own wants, needs and ATTITUDE!! They are fulfilling the Bonk legacy of complete crabbiness until feed (however I think that is characteristic not specific to a Bonk but more all males in general). They love looking at each other, and their big brother of course, and when given the opportunity they enjoy 'exploring' each other (ok sounds bad but it is true).

We started feeding them store bought rice cereal around 5 1/2 months. At 6 months we began the Super Baby Food Diet of homemade cereals, fruits and veggies (as we did with Emerson). So far their distinct palates have enjoyed brown rice cereal, avocados, bananas, winter squash, sweet potatos and pears. The process of making food is pretty easy: steam, mash, feed (or freeze for future use). And it is truly so economical, I think total we have spent around $20 on produce, if buying jarred food I would have spent well over $60 by now.

Halloween was a blast, Emerson was in awe of the fact that he got candy for simply saying Trick or Treat. Now when he sees his pumpkin in the basement he says, "My pumpkin, lets go trick or treatin!" However, Halloween is in the dust and he has moved onto Santa in a major way. He can already explain to you where Santa lives, how he arrives and what he is gonna to bring (a blackbird and a super guppy).

John-Adam has started the interview process for residency. So far he went to Augusta GA and Gainesville Fl. In two weeks Eastern Carolina and Wake. And in three weeks it is the Ohio - Pennsylvania tour.

I am most pleased to give a shout out to the newest little rock star born, Wilder Davidson Grace. Matt and Sarah made an amazing, beautiful little man and I was so pleased to have almost been there for his arrival (I was literally less then 5 minutes late to his birth). They are all doing great and are a beautiful family. Here are some pictures...

Check out more pics of the Wilder at www.minigrace.com

I promise to try and do better with the blogging (JA has off next month so he can help too). The boys are all changing so much everyday, I just try to keep up with them!!

Finn & Oliver

6 Months

A glimpse into the good times over the past two months...

Carrowinds (last) time...

Emerson using his 'half birthday' money from Aunt Sherri!

His prize...

JA's face = "Do I really have to ride this bleeping Boots ride again?!?"


Meal times...


Trick or treat time...

Finn is the giraffe and Oliver is the zebra (or white tiger)

Emerson is ready for the action!

Emerson and his bestie, Sadie!

His favorite, a sucker...


Bath & bubble time


Snoozin' time


Time to look adorable...


Outside time

(could that be a stroller ad or what)


Goofus time


And in our spare time, we solved NASA's financial problems...

Sponsorship by Pampers!!


Happy Thanksgiving,
Love,
The Bonks

What a difference time makes...

It has only been 4 months and the twins have changed so much already. They have already tripled - yes TRIPLED - their birth weight. Weighing in at their 4 month dr visit Oliver is 14 lb 2 oz and Finn is 12 lb 13 oz. They smile, talk and laugh already. Oliver rolled over today, front to back, for the first time and Finneus is the master at hovering in the middle. The sleeping arrangements have been improving also! They go to bed at 9:30 and sleep until 6:00. If we did the same we would be in better shape, but then there would be no time for True Blood :)

4 month pictures...
Can you guess which one is which?
(answer below)

Here is Olly 4 months ago....


Here is my sweet Finn 4 months ago...


Oliver rocking his tummy time...


Finneus fresh out of the bath...


This was a big day at the Bonk household...
John-Adam brought out his He-Man toys for Emerson to play with!!!

I guess this was the last month of summer seeing as our favorite summer activities are over, the water park is closed, Carrowinds is only open on the weekends, but we took advantage of the last few nice weeks. We went to Wisconsin for a 'pool party' at my brothers, had a great visit with Grandma & Grandpa Joseph, made it to the zoo with NaNa & PopPop and co-hosted an amazing baby shower for Baby Boy Grace!!!

Speaking of time passing by,
this is Emerson at the zoo last summer...

and this summer...

He is a stinking KID already!!!

More pictures from the zoo...

Love,
5 Bonks!

Answer: Oliver is on the left, Finn on the right

Happy 3 Month Birthday

Well the last three months have flown by! We have been enjoying the summer and keeping busy with fun activities like water parks, picking blue berries, playing outside, riding roller coasters, going swimming, etc. John-Adam is now doing his away rotation in Charlotte, so we miss him terribly (although we spent the majority of last week down there at the Bonk's house -- thank you!!!)

Oliver and Finn have already changed so much! They give great smiles and talk to you about all the important things in life, like: milk, pooping, sleeping, etc. We are close to sleeping through the night. Last night we put them down around midnight and they slept until 7:00, but the night before they woke up at 4:00.

Here is their picture from 2 months...Just for comparision, here is Emerson's 2 month picture...

And three months...
Oliver is weighing in at 11 lbs 4 oz & Finn at 10 lbs 6 oz.

Here are some more pictures and videos from our summer fun, http://picasaweb.google.com/melaniejbonk/July2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCNbs5PeGr4SByQE#

We also cashed in John-Adam's clunker!! How exciting! Here is our new car...
Hope ya'll are having a great summer!! More to come...

6 weeks already!!

The lack of posts on the blog should be the first indication of how crazy life has been!! Sorry about that, we will try and do better. It is hard to believe that the twins are already over 6 weeks old already, however sometimes it feels like 6 months :) They are being typical babies: eating, sleeping, pooping, repeat.

The last two weeks have been very challenging, both boys have been extra fussy and whinny. I did a little snooping on the internet and apparently that is normal from weeks 3-6, so hopefully it will be over soon. I don't remember that with Emerson, but that was when life was simple with just one baby. The 'brothers' are very good at synchronizing though so it is two babies screaming their little heads for 30 mins and then two hours of quiet.

Feeding them has also been a challenge. In a perfect world I would love to have 20 mins of 'alone' time with each baby to nurse, snuggle, etc. As mentioned before they synchronize well so they want to feed at the same time. Tandem nursing has not worked yet for us, maybe when they are bigger. Also Finn has given me some trouble latching on so there is a lot of pumping and feeding with bottles which is extremely fustrating. But they are getting their breast milk and growing well. At their one month apt Oliver was 7 lb and Finn was 6 lb 2 oz.

We are all adjusting and doing pretty great. We leave for the Outer Banks in 4 days for vacation and CAN'T WAIT!!!! Oliver and Finn's first trip to the beach!!

Here are some professional pictures...

O.T.B.F.W.B.

5 Bonks -- first picture together!!

This is actually the first picture of all 5 of us! I didn't even realize that we hadn't taken a picture of the entire family yet. So here it is...

Emerson's new favorite thing in life -- the "rocket slide."

The 'brothers' chillin' at the water park.

Emerson is starting to get affectionate with the twins, here is first hug and kiss with Finn.

This is Emerson's new shower routine...caution this video contains nudity :)

Three weeks already

Oh how your world can change in just three short weeks!! It already seems like forever ago since we were all in the hospital. Now we are pretty established in a routine, unfortunately the routine does not include sleep. The boys eat every three hours and are growing great.

Emerson is doing great also, he using his big boy potty everyday. We try to give him mommy & daddy time as much as we can, which included a trip to the water park this past weekend. He loved it and even went on a water slide all by himself.

I have been trying to keep track of how many bottles and diapers we go through a day. Unfortunately I loss track, I blame it on a lack of sleep. So here are some averages...
20 bottles a day + 2-3 nursing sessions
30ish diapers
Now we are run the dish washer daily to clean all the bottles

Here are some pictures from the paste weeks...

Just chilling together

Gpa with two look a likes


Emerson pointing to "the brothers"


Holding hands - sort of


Ready for bed...see you in three hours mom

First bath time, Oliver wasn't too happy so he decided to poop in the sink...

After that he felt much better!


Finn airing out


Thanks for looking and more to come soon :)