3 months old!

Our little dudes are getting bigger every day.  They hit the three month mark last week and it is just so hard to believe that the time has passed so quickly.  Really just wanted to post a lot of pics because I love to look at these guys! 

Presley

Cy

(don't they look a lot alike?  I had to look several times at these

photos to make sure I labeled them correctly!!)

Cy smiling

They were smiling so much before I took this picture but every

time I pulled the camera out Presley would become fixated on

it and would stop smiling.  Cy did not seem to have that problem.

A little side note about Presley's hair.  This picture below is after I have worked VERY hard to comb it down.  We generally spike it up because thats what it wants to do naturally, but seriously check out the poof his hair gets.  It is out of control!  Cy on the other hand has very cooperative hair except for the very ends.  His hair lays so smoothly on his head and then the very end pieces will kink out away from his scalp at a 90 degree angle.  It is too funny.

Presley, the buddha baby

Happy Cy

This is how we do it at the Oler house.  It looks like a happy picture from the back but if you could see the faces of the boys you would know they were NOT happy campers at the time of this photo.  (Cy on left, Presley on right)

The Oler men (Cy left, Presley right)

They are both getting so strong during their tummy time.  Cy looks so inquisitive here.

Presley was thinking it was time for a nap and he was not so excited with having to exercise.

I don't like having to choose one favorite photo from a series so instead I am just going to post them all...

both smiling!!!

Cy was constantly linking his arm with Presley's during playtime.  It was so cute, although I don't know that it was necessarily an intentional move on his part.

We are about to start adding bumbo time to our daily exercise routine.  This was just an experiment to see how they would do.  Probably will wait a few more weeks before they really start spending time sitting up.  It seems to be a little too much effort at this point.

Presley

Cy is definitely into the hand holding, arm linking, touchy-feely thing.  He just really loves his brother!!!

Cracks me up!  (Presley)

Cy

Visitors

The revolving door at the Oler house continues to spin although our out of town visitors have slowed down considerably. For the forseeable future, Grammy is our only visitor every week from Sundays to Tuesdays.

Several weeks ago though, we welcomed Paul's dad (Grandpa) back to visit and also our good friends the Wigintons. Grandpa first came to visit a week after Cy and Presley were born. He made another trip to Texas to visit us right around their two month birthday! We did get to spend Father's day with him which was very special and the boys enjoyed their playtime with Grandpa! There is a video at the end (hope it works) of him spoon feeding water to Presley. It was so funny to watch how Presley instinctively knew to open his mouth as soon as he saw the spoon. These kids are geniuses, I'm telling ya.

Cy on the left, Presley on the right

We also got a visit a few weeks ago from Janice, Kaylee, Tyler and Alison. We have been looking forward to introducing the boys to them ever since they were born. Tyler was a bell ringer in our wedding and Kaylee and Ali were flower girls. They are such special friends to us and we know the boys will love them!

Kaylee and Cy

Tyler, Ali, Janice and Presley

Ali and Cy

4th of July

After our week at the lake we all headed back to Round Rock for 4th of July weekend. We didn't participate in any 4th of July activities this year, but hopefully next year we can hit a parade or two and see some fireworks. We did all try to get some patriotic pictures though...

Paul with Cy, Me & Presley

"I love America!" (Cy)

"God bless the USA!" (what patriotic boys we have...)

Evie and GP were being silly with their flags.

The boys love Aunt MP (w/ Pres) and Uncle Ryan (Cy)

and we love Miss Evie!

"Hey bro, how's it going?"

"Not bad...I could really use a hug though"

"alright, dude. I got a hug for you. I love you man..."

Cousin love

Whiteside Family Lake Trip

The last week in June we took a Whiteside/Oler family vacation to lake LBJ. My parents rented an awesome log cabin on the lake and we just relaxed, went on boat rides, swam, etc. This was our first overnight trip with the boys and I was curious to see how they would do. They had just started sleeping through the night and they continued to do so on the trip. Neither of them seemed the least bit distrubed to be in their new surroundings. Paul and I enjoyed all the extra hands to help give us some relief during the day too!

Wild haired dudes sharing a nap (Presley, Cy)

Both boys really seemed to enjoy their first boat ride but they expressed their excitement in different ways. Cy grinned and stayed awake and seemed really intrigued by the wind blowing in his face. He kept opening his mouth and smacking his lips. I had a video but it was taking 10 years to load on blogger so I finally gave up.

Presley took the opportunity to take a great nap while on the boat. As soon as we started moving he fell asleep, but anytime my dad would slow down or stop the boat he would wake up and cry until we started moving again. I don't have a lot of pictures of Presley since I was holding him and was also in charge of the camera. It was too hard to get his picture while he was all wrapped up. Here he is with GP though prior to his nap.

Evie loves the water and loved the boat. I think she was on the boat every single time it went out on the lake.

Cousins! (Presley, Evie, Cy)

Whiteside family

(Evie has a new smiling technique she has been rocking with one eye pinched closed. So funny!)

Oler family (Me & Presley, Paul & Cy)

GP & Grammy having fun with Evie

Evie is so wonderful with the boys. She loves to help with anything and everything, so one afternoon she gave Presley a bottle and helped burp him. She was also always ready with a pacifier as soon as one of the boys started crying.

One of my favorite new pictures of Presley. This is what you call a smile!

Laughing

My mom just called me to say that Cy laughed out loud for the first time! Paul and I both missed it but that just means we will spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to make him laugh until it happens again!

2 months

The boys are actually 3 months old as of tomorrow, but let's pretend that I posted this on time at their two month birthday... Lots of changes happened for us at 2 months. I will start with their stats:

Presley: 10 pounds, 1 ounce (10 percentile)

23 3/8" (75 percentile)

Cyrus: 9 pounds, 7 ounces (5 percentile)

23 3/8" (75 percentile)

So basically we have some tall, skinny dudes on our hands (hmm...sounds a lot like their dad). They each got 6 shots, although one of the shots was a liquid shot that they had to drink. They loved that. I am pretty sure both of these guys would eat/drink anything you tried to give them (more on that in a minute). The actual shots themselves were very quick and neither of the boys cried much at all. They are very tough!

Here are some pics of their war wounds:

Cy is on top, Presley on bottom

We had planned on starting the boys on a little bit of formula around the two month mark. I would be going back to work soon and we wanted them to be comfortable with formula before they started Grammy daycare and regular daycare. Our pediatrician suggested giving them 2-4 ounces to see how much they would eat and how they liked it. Well...knowing that they were big eaters we fixed 4 ounce bottles for each of them. I really thought that they might not like the taste at first so I didn't think they would take the whole bottle. I could not have been more wrong. They both sucked the entire 4 ounces down like it was the best thing they had ever tasted. I will admit that my feelings were hurt. Of course I like to think that I am their favorite and only source of food, but I got over it and am glad to know that they will take the formula because that makes life easy on us too. The major bonus of feeding them formula? Sleeping through the night! Yep...after that first night of taking a bottle of formula as their meal both boys slept all the way through the night. So what do we do as the loving, yet sleep deprived parents that we are? You better believe that we started giving them some formula every night! And they have slept ever since. It is such a wonderful thing...maybe my proudest moment as a parent so far because this accomplishment has changed our quality of life in a drastic way!!! In additon to the extra sleep the formula has definitely helped with their gassy stomachs. They very rarely if ever cry anymore unless they are tired or hungry and both of those things are easily fixed. We are very lucky to have two easy babies on our hands these days.

All the moms I know take pictures of their kids with some kind of stuffed animal as a marker so you can compare growth over time, so I though maybe I should be doing that too.

Cy is on the left, Presley on the right

Mr. Cy

Smiling and talking are the other two big developments that we started seeing around two months. Once you start talking to them they will just grin and grin! They get so excited to see familiar faces and hear their voices. They both also like to talk back to you and their little cooing noises are so sweet.

Presley

Cy

Presley

Cy and Presley

Lastly -- I told you the boys will eat anything you put in their mouth and that has included medecine and formula so far. This video shows Presley being spoon fed water by his Grandpa. I was amazed at how he knew exactly how to respond to the spoon and how much he enjoyed something as basic as water.

Still several more posts to come in the next few days...stay tuned!