Greetings Julia Bean and Master Luke fans. I titled this post "Rolling, Rolling, Rolling" because both of our dimpled munchkins have been on the move recently. At our last gymnastics class, Julia caught the eye of the development team coach. She was on the rings shouting "Push me higher Mommy!" and he asked me how old she was. Alex (the girl that teaches her class) then told him how she has been jumping off the 5' platform in the main gym into the pit when she was just over 1.5yr old. He observed her for the rest of the class and told me he was impressed with her motor skills and will be evaluating her for the development team "soon." I didn't get clarification on what "soon" means but it was exciting, yet somewhat scary. I don't know what age the club team starts but I would guess age 5. Who knows if she will want to continue to do gymnastics as she gets older (it's important to us to introduce her to different sports, like swimming and soccer) but right now, she loves it. 
Her friend Emma was at the house this weekend and the girls were doing backward somersaults off the couch...they taught themselves how to do it. In Luke news, he is rolling all over the place these days! He can really get his legs up underneath him and sometimes it looks like he might start crawling. He also plays with is feet constantly and likes his hands in his mouth. His 4mon check up was last week and he is doing great: 13lb 5oz (10-20th percentile), 25.5
' (75th). He coos all the time and is overall, a pretty happy baby.
He still isn't a great sleeper, but it's slowly getting better. We started feeding him rice cereal last week (he loves it mixed with breast milk). Since he eats about every 2Hduring the day, I haven't been able to pump. The pediatrician recommended we give him one formula bottle at night so I could pump, but our little man was none too pleased with the bottle or formula (I wish I snapped a photo of his "what the heck are you trying to feed me?" face). Luckily, there was 1 night last week where he had 8H between feedings and I was able to pump. He successfully drank a bottle with breast milk, yeah! It's progress!!
Let's see, what else is new. We went to the Houston zoo last weekend and got an annual family membership. We're pretty excited to go back-Julia is still obsessed with the elephants and loved the merry-go-round. Oh-potty/toilet training update. She has been about 100% trained for a few months now. She wears pull-ups at night and for naps only. Yeah!!! We've tried underwear during nap time a few times and it's hit or miss.
Amelia also had the mass on her leg removed last week and great news-it is benign. Poor thing has to wear a plastic cone (the "cone of shame" many call it) for 10 days (so she doesn't pop the stitches open). I speak for everyone in our family when I say we look forward to the day that thing comes off. It is loud (when scraped against doors)
and the plastic hurts if she walks into us.
Happy Friday everyone-enjoy your weekend! Here are some more adorable photos of the kids. I must say, I have the cutest kids in the world. :)
First Meal
Amelia and the Cone
Julia - She insisted on wearing a dress to the park
I forgot to mention it's been gorgeous here-sunny and 70 with no humidity. A tad warm for February but perfect park weather!!
I think most of the city is shut down right now, no joke. J.D. went to the grocery store last night and people were stocking up on water and supplies. I just have to laugh. I realize we don't have snow plows, salt trucks, etc. down here like the north but the sun is so bright everything melts super fast anyhow. There is a light coating of ice on the cars but the sun is quickly taking care of that. I was hoping for some snow to play in with Julia and Amelia, so hopefully we'll get some before spring arrives. 