It's been awhile

So I know it's been a while since I've updated and I apologize for that. Since I've started back at work it's nearly impossible to find time to sit and update. Not a whole lot going here just the norm for the Larry's. Basketball season is in full swing, translation daddy's gone ALOT! It really wasn't too bad until this weekend. It all started on Wednesday night when the head coach's son was injured pretty badly at his own game. He ended up having surgery late that night and they discharged him around 3 or 4 in the morning. The poor kid ended up having a bad reaction to the anesthesia and got pretty sick at home. The next day both JV and Varsity tournaments were starting, so Jyusef stepped in to help so the coach could get some rest. Oh yeah and Jyusef had to drive the Bohemian team around in the midst of all this. To make a long story short I saw Jyusef on Thursday night and didn't see him again until 8:30 or 9:00 Saturday night. I forgot to mention that I've been sick as a dog since Friday. I was camp at my parent's until Saturday afternoon. It is so hard to take care of two babies while you have no energy and feel like you are about to barf. I almost called my friend in Tennessee for advice. She has twin girls, so I'm sure she's been here a time or two. Luckily, today my fever has broken and my stomach has calmed down a little. Enough about me, on to the boys. They are the loves of my life! Everyday I look at them and I am truly amazed. They are both rolling over, scooting, and sitting up now. It won't be long until they are crawling and then I'll really be in trouble. The talk and talk all day long and it cracks me up. Sometimes I swear they are holding a conversation with me. It's really funny when they talk to each other. The both eat like horses so I will be glad when we move to table foods. The are on 2nd foods right now and eat 3 containers each everyday. When it's time to get more food I'm gonna start them on mixed dinners and meats. Honestly the site of the meats makes my stomach turn. I said I would wait until 3rd foods before I tried making it myself but the meats might jump start it for me. Jordan is having surgery on Thursday to have his hernia repaired and it looks like they will make him spend the night. They want him to weight 15lbs in order to send him home the same day but he won't be there yet. I don't know exactly how much they weight but it's somewhere around 12 1/2 to 13 lbs. Please pray that the procedure goes smoothly. I promise I will update after surgery. I'm gonna go for now because I burned my hand pretty badly on the oven and it's starting to really hurt to type.

Finally!

Finally, I have time to sit down and update this thing. I started work on September 30th and I have been going full speed ever since. I'm an assistant director at a preschool so I take the boys with me 3 days a week. It was really hard for me to trust someone else to take care of the boys but, with me being their boss they know that they have to take extra special care of them. I am in and out of their room all day long. Of course within the first week of them being there, they got sick! I knew it was going to happen since they are around other children. They did get the first part of the flu shot a couple of weeks ago so they should be good to go. They get the second half of it in 2 weeks. They have also started with their synagis injections. These injections actually give them the antibodies that fight RSV. They will get these once a month for 6 months. My poor babies are going to be pin cushions by their first birthday.
We have advanced their diet so now they are stage 1 foods and we added oatmeal cereal. So far we have tried bananas, pears, peaches, applesauce, squash, and carrots. The only thing the boys aren't absolutely crazy about it the peaches. They will eat them but I think they are a little tart for them. We are going to try green beans and peas this weekend. I hope they taste better than they look. I had a really weird lady ringing me up at Walmart last week. I have 22 double packs of food in my basket and she says "do you think you got enough food there?" It might sound like a lot but I got through 4-6 containers a day so it's only 7-10 days worth of food. That was besides the point, the lady was a weirdo. What if I had a box of condoms and a tube of KY in my basket? What would she have said then " I know what you're going to be doing tonight." We will go a couple more weeks on the stage 1 foods and then move up to stage 2. It's funny because the boys are such big eaters! They eat oatmeal cereal and a fruit for breakfast and then still take 5-6 ounces of milk.
Jordan is currently weighing in at 10 lbs 8 ounces and is 23 1/2 inches long. Jaxon is 11 lbs and 23 1/4 inches long. Yes folks Jordan has passed Jaxon in length! The moved up to 0-3 month clothes for about a month and a half but now we are wearing 3-6 month clothes. Some of them are a little baggy but the need it for the length. Technically the weight range for 3-6 month is 12-17 lbs, but the length is starts at 23 inches.
I know I promised a certain someone pictures but I am not at home and I don't have my camera with me, so Kristen take what you can get! You can go to www.ashleyallenphoto.net, click on enter site, go to galleries and click on babies to see by precious babies as Internet models.

Who knew?

Well last week was pretty crazy around here. Tuesday morning my mom sent me a text saying to call her asap because she needed my help. When I called her back she was frantic because my little brother had a date to homecoming(which was on Friday, as in 3 days later) and this was the first any of us heard anything about it. His date's mom called my mom trying to get details. So I spent all morning in the flower shop trying to get a mum ordered for this poor girl. The rest of the week was spent getting details and all that good stuff. The funny part about the whole situation was that Michael just thought he would go on Thursday night and pick up a mum. Boys are so clueless! Everything turned out wonderful and Michael and Gabriella looked so cute together(but they are JUST FRIENDS)! I can't believe how grown up he looked in his suit and tuxedo vest. Apparently just wearing the vest is the in thing these days. Wow, I feel so old saying that!

Well in the middle of all of this homecoming drama we had a few appointments for the boys. Jordan had ANOTHER appointment with the eye doctor. I was really confidant that this would be the last one, but the wind was quickly taken out of my sail. He wants to see him one last time(he promises) just as an exit exam. We saw a different doctor this time, who I liked allot better. He says that Jordan's eyes are stable and clear but he just wants to make sure we have crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's. What they don't realize is that my poor child is extremely cranky for the rest of the day after these exams. I don't blame him because the exam looks like cruel and unusual punishment. His poor little eyes are all puffy for the rest of the day. So hopefully this man keeps his promise and this will be our last visit to the torture chamber. Originally, this was the only appointment for the day but, I had to make a last minute appointment with the pediatrician. Mr Jaxon is losing his hair! Everyone kept telling me that it was normal and that all babies go through this but, I knew something wasn't right. First of all, Jaxon had already gone through that stage and it wasn't nearly as drastic as what is going on now. We all thought that he had a bad case of cradle cap so I have be treating his head for that(olive oil 15 minutes, scrub with cradle cap brush, and then regular shampoo). I started noticing that his hair was coming out in the brush and then it got to the point where I could just pull his hair out straight from the scalp with no effort at all. His scalp is also extremely dry and somewhat crusty looking. When I told all of this to the nurse when called she told me come in. Well when Dr Savrick looked at his head she took him to see her partner to get her opinion. She came back and said we both agree that is it RINGWORM! I just kinda looked at her like "did you just say ringworm?" Apparently it is extremely common in kids and it's a fungus, not an actual worm. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how he got it so I started doing some research. You treat ringworm of the scalp and beard differently that ringworm on other parts of the body. There is no topical ointment or lotion for it. You have to attack it from the inside out. So Mr Jaxon is taking a medication for the next 8 weeks! The doctor said that it is important to take it for the full 8 weeks even if it seems to have cleared up. I also can use a medicated shampoo for a week to stop it from spreading on him and passing it to other people. I also learned that ringworm is an airborne fungus and someone can be carrying it and never be symptomatic. So he could have caught it from someone that held him or just in the air. Don't worry he is not contagious , just in case you are around us. The worst part of all of this is that he will probably lose all of his hair before it is over. I'm soooooo glad we had their pictures done already.

If this ringworm thing wasn't enough Jaxon has also been acting like he doesn't feel well lately. So he's been very clingy and decided that he doesn't want to take a bottle anymore. All he wants to do is nurse. Oh did I mention that I start work tomorrow. Great timing Jaxon! I was getting really nervous yesterday because I didn't know what I was going to do if he wouldn't take a bottle. I remembered that I have some playtex drop-in bottle which are shaped like a breast. Eureka! It worked! It's funny because when I first tried these bottles he wouldn't have anything to do with them. I believe that Jaxon is going to be my picky child.

All in all the boys are great! The are talking up a storm(baby talk that is). It's really funny and cute. They are a handful but we have fun and I love them to pieces.

Little Rock

Well it's been a little crazy since I've last updated. I experienced my first hurricane(well that I can remember, I survived Alicia as an infant). We all fared well, which is amazing considering some of our friends had some serious damage. I can't even imagine what the other side of Houston and Galveston is going through. We still have friends that have no power and Jyusef has been out of school since last Friday. He will go back tomorrow but the students won't return until Tuesday. Since Jyusef had some what of a vacation we decided to go to Little Rock to visit friends and family. We ended up flying because continental was running an awesome special ($69 each way). Yes, the boys had their first airplane experience. I will have to say they were wonderful. Both flights they were very good boys. People kept saying "I forgot they were even babies on the plane. I was a little nervous about their ears popping but we had some ear drops that numb the ear-thank you Melissa! On the way there I gave them Tylenol just in case the drops didn't work, but on the way back we just used drops. The only bump in the road we had was Jaxon spit up all over me 15 minutes into the flight in the way back. I kinda had a feeling he would because he was very full wouldn't burp. Combine that with the turbulence and pressure you get baby vomit. We had a great time in Little Rock and of course, the boys are now spoiled rotten. Between family and close friends the boys we held all the time! I really want go to Searcy and visit Harding but time just got away from us. Hopefully we will get to go to Spring Sing.

On another note, my little brother turned 18 today! I am having a hard time with this one. It seems like I woke up and Michael is all of a sudden a man. I am going to have to brag a little now. Michael is such a good boy! I know that makes him sound all of two but he really is a good kid. He makes such good decisions and you never have to worry about he getting into trouble. He's such a good example to his friends and his nephews. I love watching him with my boys because I know he would throw himself in front of a bus for they. I can already tell they love their Uncle Mike. So happy birthday Michael, I love you very much.

We're back!

Many of you have been all over us about updating so here I am. Life with twins is definately an adventure. These boys constantly keep me on my toes but I wouldn't have it any other way. They are doing absolutely wonderful! We have been free for oxygen for a little over a month now. The only doctor that we are still following up with (besides the pediatrician of course) is the eye doctor for Jordan. He still has a tiny amout of residual ROP left. It is inactive but it until it is all cleared up we have to follow up for eye exams every 2 weeks. It is quite a pain to be honest with you. No matter what time we make the appointment for we end up waiting at least 2 hours to see the doctor (who is in there a whole 5 minutes tops). The entire time he is torturing my baby. Other than that, the boys are 100% healthy! They just started with rice cereal this weekend and they seem to like it. I will post pictures of this experience below. I am giving it to them before bed so they will sleep longer. Right now they sleep for about 5 hours which is great. Jordan is knocking on 8 lbs and Jaxon is knocking on 9. They are both hungary right now so enjoy the pictures!

Jordan tasting cereal for the first time

He loved it!

Jaxon tasting cereal for the first time

Jaxon full of cereal

Okay, okay we hear ya!

Let me just start off by saying the JYUSEF was suppose to post an update when Jordan came home, but apparently I have to be super mom and wife (hehe)! The boys are doing absolutely fabulous. We had our first big outing on Sunday to church. Everyone swarmed us and it was so great to the reactions on their faces. I kept hearing everyone say "oh they are so tiny" but I'm thinking THEY ARE SO BIG! We have taken alot of pictures since they've been home and we will post them soon. As happy as we are to be home we are kinda sad that we didn't get to say goodbye to one of our favorite nurses, Erica. We were really hoping she would be the one to discharge Jordan but they didn't need her that day. We did, however, have Lija and she is another favorite of ours. These two were our primary nurses and we couldn't have asked for better people to care for our sons. We miss you guys! We have had a couple appointments already and so far so good. Last week we have eye exams and Jaxon got a clean bill of health(no more ROP). Jordan still has a little bit left but the doctors says it's looking better and better every time he sees him. He will go back next week for another exam. We also have seen our pediatrician and she is WONDERFUL! She was just amazed at how well the boys are doing considering how early they were. Both boys are growing and developing right on track.

Well I think that is that. Sorry about the delay but I promise we will get "life at home" pictures up soon.

Just a growin'

The boys are doing great! They are getting so big and developing so well. It's hard to believe how tiny they were when born! Jyusef got to hold both boys together today and it was so cute! Of course it ended up turning into a photo shoot (thanks to yours truly)! As you can see, I placed the boys side by side so you can see, they do indeed, look ALOT alike! That's about all for now, enjoy the video!