Mason And Ike At 16 Weeks

It's hard to believe that Mason and Ike will be 16 weeks on Sunday. It really does just seem like yesterday that I was decked out in medical scrubs in the delivery room holding two newborns who didn't even know how to open their eyes yet (I'd say that wide-eyed Mason has certainly mastered that task pretty well!). Now we have two pudgy little babies who are smiling all the time, cooing, rolling over and knocking back about 7 ounces of formula per feeding (we're still waiting for the sleeping-through-the-night part to set in). Before we know it they will be crawling and pulling up on furniture and making us keep an eye on them every waking moment. I don't know whether to look forward to these milestones or dread them...Mason and Ike are kind of fun how they are right now, but I guess Brooks and I don't have a choice.

When I realized that Mason and Ike were at the 16-week mark this weekend I started thinking about how much their appearances change on a daily basis. Whenever my parents and Brooks' parents go a few days without seeing the twins the first thing they comment on is how grown up they look since the last time they saw them. Of course, Brooks and I see them on a daily basis, so it's hard for us to comprehend this rapid transformation.

So I decided to go back through all of my photos of Mason and Ike since the birth on July 13 and got the idea to put a collage together illustrating how quickly they are growing up (see below). The first collage is of Mason (Ike's will come next) and contains 12 photos taken between the birth and this week. The photos move chronologically from left to right in each row. The first photo in the upper left corner was taken in the delivery room and the last photo on the bottom right was taken this week. Now I finally see what people have been talking about!

UPDATED: As you can see, I've added Ike's 16-week collage.