rice cereal

well, we've started the next phase of the babies' lives: solid food!!!  i really really wanted to be able to breast feed these babies until now or even 9 months or a year... however, they had other plans and i ended up pumping and doing half and half formula/breast milk.  let me tell you how THRILLED i am not to be having to pump anymore, although i do wish they were still getting breast milk, but that's a whole other issue that i've pretty much gotten over... almost :)... so since we've gone to just formula (hello bankrupt), we've been having some constipating issues.  i wasn't sure when i was going to start the solid food because even though they're going to be six months this month (i know!), they're still adjusted and i didn't think i needed to rush it.  well, again, they (or their digestive tracts) had other plans.  so a couple of nights ago, we started rice cereal!!  it was a bit difficult, considering they're not able to sit up yet and still bobble their cute little heads a bit, but they actually did a lot better than we thought they would... we haven't gotten their high chairs yet, so we ended up putting one in the carseat on the floor next to us, and bryan held the other while i fed him... let's just say it will be nice to get the high chairs! :) enjoy these messy boys!!

finn, who did a tad better than his brother

liam, who was already cranky and wasn't very patient

these two pictures are ones i just had to share immediately: although we can't leave them on our bed unattended anymore (oh, like you haven't done it once or twice!! : )) because liam is a rolling machine, i went to the nursery to get a pacifier and came back to find them just hanging out like this... i'm hoping finn's always okay being bulldozed by his brother- i have a feeling it will happen a lot! and of course, they can't ever smile at the same time so here is the same picture twice, just one difference... :)