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I thought it was time I blogged.

Elliott actually rolled over on his half birthday and Aaron did the following Thursday...from back to belly...they have been rolling from belly to back forever!!! Elliott hasn't really done it since but I know he can. He gets about half way and stops. He sleeps on his side so I guess he is comfy there. Aaron went through this thing were he rolled over in his sleep and then I would go to check on him and he would be on his tummy with his nose in the mattress....scary!!! I would just flip him over and he would stay sleeping. A couple times we have woken up to fussy babies and found them on their bellies....it seemed they couldn't remember how to get back to their backs!!! Silly babies!!!

In other news...Grandma Bock took the boys to have their first professional pictures taken. I think they are super cute but can't really remember because it took so long for them to come in!!! We took the boys to Penney's for their 6 month pictures. I picked them up yesterday and they are very very cute. We didn't get any of the boys alone but we did at the grandma Bock photo shoot...I really can't wait to take them at 9 months. They will be able to sit and will be so fun. They are really interacting a lot now and it's super fun to watch. We play this game during bottles. When I am burping Aaron, I lay him over my leg and it puts him at Elliott's feet. He always plays with Elliott's feet. I say things like "he's gonna get you" and Elliott gets all happy and wiggles around. Aaron laughs and tries to chew on Elliott's feet. I love it!!! They are super fun to make laugh and they laugh all the time.

Aaron has been puking alot more lately. I thought maybe it was because we started solids...oh we started solids!!! It was oatmeal first...they didn't like that. My mom told me to put a little sugar in the oatmeal and I was like...NO WAY CRAZY LADY!!! But then aunt Sharon was here during the food time and put a little sugar in and they liked it much more!!! I know that it's not what you are SUPPOSED to do but I did it!!! I am making their baby food so next they got to try avocado. It seemed they liked that at first but by the end of the 4 days they were not eating it so well. Next was sweet potatoes. They are kind of weird about them. One day they love them and the next they can't even eat one cube together!!! They did pretty well today. I think that I have to get the texture to what they want or they won't eat it. Such picky little babies!!! Tomorrow we get to try bananas..I have high hopes for the bananas. Aaron makes this face the first spoon of whatever it is....it's like he is eating poop or something. He looks sooo very disgusted...I don't know why...I tasted the formula...it is gross...oh so very gross!!! ANYWAY....Aaron has been puking much more lately...I know he brings up some of the solid food because after the solid food the milk puke is a little bit the color of what he ate. But it's not projectile. I made Andrew call Dr. Maini today. She said to give him zantac in the morning and at night. I hope it works. The poor kid can barely stand to eat the last bottle of the day and he is spitting up the ENTIRE day!!! I am not exaggerating about that. It's so sad and he is so smelly by the end of the day!!! Sometimes I have to change his clothes 4 times!!! Other times I just let him wear pukey clothes... I keep my pukey clothes on...

Today the boys did not want to nap at all. If Elliott was asleep, Aaron was awake and grumpy....if Aaron was asleep, Elliott was awake and grumpy. We have not had a day like this before and I pray we don't have another one!!! At one point Elliott had woken up and I had just put him back to sleep when Aaron woke up. I was hoping Elliott was asleep enough to put back in his crib but as soon as I stood up he was awake...but so tired. So I held on to Elliott and picked up Aaron (this is not as easy as it was when they were 4 pounds!!!). Elliott went back to sleep and Aaron just fussed. At one point Elliott started laughing...I mean really laughing!!! I looked at him and he was totally asleep!!! I was happy that he was having a good dream =) Finally it was time for their last bottles and bath and bed....I was so happy when both went to sleep in their cribs rather quickly...I was able to wash the bottles and make more formula for tomorrow...now I am hoping and praying that Aaron will sleep until 2am...I think his tummy has been bothering him...he wakes up sometimes as early as 11:30. We bring him into bed with us and he tosses and turns for what seems like hours...then he wakes up and does it all over again. I wish we could help to poor little guy..what am I saying...he is not little!!! He weighs more than Elliott now...by 3oz....both are over 14lbs....can't remember exactly what they were and I am soooooo not going upstairs to get the info!!!

I had been doing a little diaper research because I originally wanted to find a cheaper place to buy Pampers...I just love Pampers!!! I ran onto gdiapers and read about them. They are a hybrid between cloth diapers and disposable diapers. They look like cloth diapers but have a disposable insert that you can flush!!! I decided against my very old and wise sisters advice to try them. I think I love em!!! They do not leak and it's fun to flush baby poop!!! It takes an average of 500 years for a regular diaper to biodegrade in a landfill...that is a long time and we put and have put very many diapers in the landfill!!! You can also compost the peed gdiapers...they biodegrade in like 50days....much better than 500...we don't compost because I don't know how to do it and it kind of seems gross, but we are helping the environment if we flush them or even if we add them to the landfill. The problem is that I was trying to save money but have ended up loving diapers that cost .20 cents more a diaper. That adds up pretty quick. Not to mention that the started kit came with only two little g's (that is what the outer cover that looks like a cloth diaper is called). We need more than that because its not convenient to have to put the disposable insert in the little g at every changing..I am not sure that we will be able to keep using them which makes me sad. Also they babies get a red mark on the front of their tummies. I don't think is irritated...just red. It goes away pretty fast. They are just so cute!!! Check them out at gdiapers.com. I think that is enough diaper talk!!!

On other news....my friend Ashlee that was my best friend while in Elkhart has totally pushed me out of her life. It was all over a misunderstanding...I guess....let me tell you the story. Her husband and her were selling their house. There was going to be a short period of time when they would be homeless...their house was sold and the people were moving in and the house they bought had not closed yet...We had told them lots of times that they could stay with us if they needed to. Well...she texted me (you should not text when its super important) and asked if they could stay with us for a few days or weeks. This was the same time we were getting our house ready to sell. I told her that I didn't know how Andrew would feel about it since they have 4 dogs (two little ones, one rottweiler and one pit bull) and 3 cats. The big dogs chewed up their couch and the dining room chair legs!!! We don't have a lot of nice things but our couch and dining room table and chairs are nice. Neither Andrew or I wanted the dogs to chew them up. Ashlee said that either her or Dusting (her DH) would be home except for like an hour or two a day. I asked her (still texting) if she could find a place for her big dogs since we were trying to get our house ready to sell and I didn't want our table and couch ruined. She stopped texting me...I didn't hear from her for a month at least. I thought we were okay because she started texting me again but I was wrong. We moved to Illinois and I wrote her an email. She wrote back but I didn't see it for a long time. I found it when I was in the hospital around Thanksgiving. She said that here and Dustin were upset because nobody would let them stay with them and they thought we were their friends. They ended up staying in their relator's basement. I wrote her back and said that I thought it sucked that we weren't friends anymore and we never said that couldn't stay with us. I said that I missed her and explained that I was freaking out in the hospital. I heard nothing until a couple weeks ago. She sent me a message via myspace to tell me she was pregnant. I instantly wrote her back exclaiming my delight in her big news. It should be knows that we were both trying to get pregnant at the same time. She and her husband had been trying for about a year longer than Andrew and I were. We were both taking clomid at the some time and I got pregnant and she didn't. I think she was jealous and upset about that (I understand where she was coming from there....I hated everyone that got pregnant in the two and a half years we had been trying....I didn't hate Julie!!!) So...also in this email she let it be known that she got pregnant "without fertility". I thought that was awesome and said so in my response. When she didn't respond back I felt pretty yucky like she was trying to make me feel like less of a mom or something because I wasn't ovulating....the worst part is that I really do miss her and I can't stop thinking about how I wish she would just be my friend. I feel pathetic. It's her loss right?!?! RIGHT??? I am not so sure about that.....

Sorry if you read all that and really don't care....this blog is called elliottandaaron......not jen's issues.....well...I guess I am going to look at her myspace page now and try not to buy her baby stuff.

Jen