6 Months

Girls hit the big 0.5 this month. Had our 6 month appointment at the doctor as well, and everything is looking great. They've also been learning some new skills as well:

Playing the Piano


Cosplayer




And champion MMA fighter


You can definitely see development happening. We can play peek-a-boo with both of them now with some success, and they're happy to play on the floor by themselves for pretty long stretches. They've also been on "real food" for a while now; from cereals through most veggies, all the way up to chicken this week. Haven't seen any crawling yet, but they do try to get their legs underneath them to push off every once a while, so it shouldn't be too much longer for that as well.

Behind The Camera

I know I’m biased, but I think we have some cute pictures of the girls. Anyone with kids will tell you that it’s not always easy to get that perfect shot the first time. Try doing it with two little ones, and it becomes more difficult. I’m amazed that anyone actually gets good family pictures!

So those cute pictures that we have? Yeah, we worked for them. At the hospital, the photographers there took pictures of the girls. They turned out okay, but before they started, we took some of our own. The girls were less than cooperative – but hey! They were only 3 days old!


The purple outfit picture is one of my favorite early pictures, even though we had Megan on the left instead of the traditional right. But in this not-so-perfect shot, Kayla is practicing her evil-twin look – and Megan is about to smack her if she doesn't stop it. Well, it least that’s what it looks like to me….


Our birth announcement photo turned out really nicely. But this earlier shot shows the struggle we had that day keeping the girls from hiding their pretty little faces. But they look so cute, almost as if they're giggling about it!


At Christmas, cousin Nathan was very patient as we tried to get a Christmas photo of him with the girls. Megan—not so much.


It’s always a challenge trying to prop the girls up so they don’t look funny. It doesn’t help when the squirm and slide around – which happens nearly every time.


And sometimes, they just tip, and look at you like, “Mommy? Where am I going?”


The girls have a tradition of spitting up as soon as we put them in an outfit for a picture. I think it took three different nights before we got a good shot for the Valentine’s card. It’s one thing to have to wash the front of her dress, but it’s a whole different ball game when Kayla gloats about it…


Sunglasses on the girls are always a challenge. You have to be quick, because they move, and you end up with a look like this that just doesn’t have the same cool-girl effect.


And sometimes, you get multiple issues. Here we have the aforementioned sliding issue, accompanied by the mid-blink look.



Sometimes, the out-takes are as fun to look at as the successful ones! Just a little reminder of how life isn't always perfect, but that's okay.