one-year checkup

well in keeping with tradition, i've got to share the babies one-year stats! zachary weighed in at 27 lbs 3.5 ozs (95th percentile) and measured 32.5 inches (above 97th percentile). zoe weighed 21 lbs 4.5 ozs (50-75th percentile) and was 31 3/8 inches long (above 97th percentile). per our nurse, we've got a football player and a model in our midst!! :) ha!!

we did have a big scare new year's day with zach. he didn't wake up till almost ten that day and was really fussy, which is really unlike him. i ended up putting him in our bed for a nap and layed with him hoping to make him more comfortable. well...he slept fine, but when he woke up i thought i felt him shaking, but wasn't certain. so i waited a couple more minutes to see if that was really the case and sure enough, he was. i grabbed him, ran upstairs to let jason know what was going on, but as soon as he saw him, he freaked out, and said he was purple! so there we were, me with zach, he with zoe...knowing we needed to get to the hospital, but so freaked out we didn't know what our next move was supposed to be!! we quickly got our act together, got the babies in the car and headed to the ER. i was an absolute mess...i really thought that he was having seizures!

at the end of the day, he had a temp of 104.9 and a double ear infection. even the doc was shocked that his temp was as high as it was, since to touch him you never would have guessed it. thank god that's all it was...my mind was just racing with a million worst case scenarios!! so ten days of antibiotics and my little guy was back to his normal self!! :)

as far as development goes, zoe is walking all over the place and into everything! i didn't know a room could get into such disarray in such a short amount of time! she really can communicate with us now by pointing and walking to everything she wants...it's nuts!
she's got this bad habit though of biting when she's mad. we'll be putting a stop to that very soon if she keeps it up!

zachary is officially crawling!! he does this army crawl and gets around pretty swiftly!! he's got these huge "strides" with his arms...looks like the next michael phelps! he's so proud of himself and now always needs to be where all the action is!

they are both starting to really acknowledge each other...it's so sweet and fun to watch. they'll call to each other, "hold" hands, pat each other...it's cute!

i officially stopped nursing in november and it just so happened that was when they both got their first bout with colds. perhaps coincidence, but sure seemed suspect! believe it or not, we battled it almost the entire month of december and then we had the ear infections to deal with in january. it finally seems as though we're on the up and up again!!