Olympic Training Part II

Definitly mommy's little girls...we do this everyday for at least 30 minutes.  Although they do have some of Daddy too, as they love to do push ups.  I'll have to get that on video too...it's hilarious!

Monkeys

The girls (well...more specifically Isabella) have really taken being monkeys to a new level.  Yesterday, when we were playing in the basement..they started this...

(oh..before you watch...please know that I am aware that this is very dangerous. Since they have decided they are going to do this on a regular basis, we have wrapped the treadmil in a comforter. SO..no comments about what a bad mom I am...I know...I shouldn't have been video taping this..I should have stopped them...bla bla bla...I'm working on training olympic athletes here, so sometimes you need to sacrifice for talent!) :)

Camera's back!!

So, all of the pics that I put in the last few posts were done on my phone (my NEW phone that I LOVE by the way!  How did I live without a smart phone before now?).  We finally did get our camera back though (they said it wasn't broken and the didn't need to fix it...it miraculously must have fixed itself in the mail...I think they just don't want to replace it since this is the 3rd time we had to send it in!  Jerks!  Oh well..camera works and that's all that matters. Wow...that was quite a long statement in parenthesis)!  Here's what was going on in our house this week...

Feeding Daddy a snack

Leah decided that the box of oranges was no good in the kitchen...

So she took them one-by-one and put them where she thought they should be..

I love these little patriotic skirts..
I bought them last spring and have been waiting for them to be able to wear them! Yea!

Leah posing..Bella not excited...

This cracks me up. 
Leah always sits on balls like this.  She's ready for her first soccer team post-game talk!

Oh how we love Tuesday and Friday mornings!  Can you see what they are so excited about?
We <3 Trash Trucks!

Guess I should feed them a little more...eating your toes is just not nutritious!

Daddy saying goodbye as he leaves for work..

And..the Funny Faces!  Bella has a HILARIOUS face that she always makes and I tried to capture it, but she gave me a few others instead.  Leah wanted to get in on the action too!!

Jealousy

Is it bad that I am SUPER jealous of my kids?  Never mind the fact that they get to set their sleep schedule, eat whatever they want, they have no wrinkles, and they get to play whenever they want...but the real reason I am jealous is because they are SO FREAKIN TAN!  Ugggh...I am absolutely the pale one of the family and it SUCKS!  The girls wear 50spf sunblock outside and yet they are a beautiful golden brown already...and school isn't even out for the summer yet. 

Man! 

I am jealous! 

My little sun goddesses

Bella..flexing her muscles

 




This is what the girls do EVERY day when Cesar gets home from work. 
They stand at the window and scream "Daddy" until he gets in the door.  It's very sweet!

Isabella Update

Yesterday we went back to the ear doctor to have the tubes checked out!  He said her ears couldn't look much better than they do and her hearing is perfect.  Yea!  I guess all this complaining the last few weeks has been about the daggers that are breaking through her gums!  Both girls have four teeth coming in..including the K9s.  Looks pretty painful...but I gotta assume that the pain will subside soon if this has been the problem for two weeks. We'll see....

Twinsomnia

Today on the multiples blog, they had some "twin" definitions!  There are quite a few that made me laugh, so I thougth I would repost them on here (see below!).  I especially LOVE the dumbask!  HA HA HA...people ask so many hilarious questions when you have twins!  It cracks me up. 
The main definition that I am loving today though is twinsomnia. This is us to a tee right now.  Isabella is really pushing me to the edge of my sanity!

We really thought her sleeping problems were because of her ear pains and that the tubes would rectify that!  Ha ha...she sure proved us wrong.  She has gotten SO MUCH WORSE since the surgery!  She flat out refuses to go to bed for me and now won't even go for Cesar.  When we put the girls down at night she turns into a CRAZY MONSTER!  Really!  You have to see it to really understand what I am talking about.  She screams bloody murder, jumps up and down in her crib, even hits her head against the side of the crib or throws herself into the side of it.  She is just FURIOUS that we are putting her in her bed.  "So let her cry it out," you are probably thinking.  Yea...tried that...doesn't work.  She just works herself up more and more the longer we leave her.  Cesar let her go for almost an hour the other day and she was still just as crazy as the second we put her down.  I guess that is going to be our only option soon and I know that no kid has ever died from crying.  But...the question is...has a mom?  I feel like someone is stabbing me when she cries like that!  I just can't stand hearing my baby suffer so much.  I know she isn't "suffering" in real terms...but she sure makes it seem that way.  We had to let them cry it out when they were little and we were sleep training them...but that wasn't like this.  She never got this hysterical.
Poor Leah has just learned to go to sleep through the madness.  I am very close to separating them from each other, but I just don't want to.  I don't know why.  Deanna and I didn't share a room and we survived.  But there is just something special about twins and their relationship.  I think they should be together.  Maybe I'm just crazy, but that's the way I feel!  So..that will be the last resort!  For now...I am just trying not have a nervous breakdown every night as I try to get my little monster to fall asleep!  *Note to Isabella..when you read this as a teenager..you better give me something REALLY nice to make up for this.  I'm thinking...day at the spa, nice lunch date with your daddy, and then a quiet evening at home while you and your sister go off and do something good...like babysit for a parent of young multiples!!

TWINSOMNIA (twin-SAHM-nee-uh) n.:: The lack of sleep a mom of multiples experiences when her kids sleeping schedules fall out of synch.


STAYDATE (STAY-dayt) n.: The luxury/burden of always having a built in friend for your multiples to play/fight with any time they’re home together.

TWINGUISTICS (twin-GWISS-tiks) n.: The unique language that baby multiples use to communicate with one another that is completely indecipherable by anyone else.

DUMBASK (DUMM-ask) n.; A person who asks if your Twins who are a boy and a girl are “identical.”

TWINTERFERENCE (twin-tehr-FEER-entz) n.: When one multiple distracts the parent while the other pulls a fast one


TROUBLESUM (TRUBB-uhl-sum) adj.: The increased amount of trouble that can be found when multiple children work together to find it.


COORDTWINATE (co-ORD-twin-ayt) v.: To dress your multiples in matching outfits.


TWINIQUITY (twin-ICK-witt-ee) n.: The fundamental unfairness inherent in having multiples, due to the fact that you have to take care of more than one baby after only getting to have sex once.

MULTIPLOY (MULL-tuh-ploy) v.: When Multiples band together and deviously conspire against their parents.

Pics from Daddy's Phone

So our camera is broken AGAIN!  I sent it into Nikon last week, so hopefully we will have it back before we go on vacation in a couple weeks.  In the meantime, we may not have many pictures.  However, last night I was going through Cesar's phone and found these pics. 

Abuelita and Leah getting ready for bed

Sweet Bella in her car seat

"Hi Daddy!"

Me and Leah after a race I ran a couple weeks ago



A few runners after the race (and Leah!)



Last Week

These are some random shots from last week.  I was so preoccupied with the surgery that I forgot to put these up.  The first few are from our friend Priscila's house.  The girls LOVED her little kitchen.  We have one in our basement, and the girls love to play with it, but after seeing Priscila's in her kitchen, it made me think I should do that.  It would definitely give the girls something to do (other than fuss and pull each other's hair) while I am making dinner!!

OK, so, one of my many fails thus far as a Mom is the fact that I have not been very diligent in making my kids use utensils to eat their food.  I do give them forks and spoons, but I don't give them things they really MUST use the utensils for.  They usually try to use them for about three seconds and then put them off to the side or throw them on the floor and start using their fingers.  SO...I bought these little cups of applesauce with the though that it would force them to use the spoon (and in my crazy head I pictured them using it perfectly and not making any mess).  So..here was my first try at giving them the cups.  As you can see...it didn't go exactly as I had planned!

"Who needs a spoon...I can just dip both hands in and lick!"

Leah finally decides to pick up the spoon after the cup is just about empty. 
She's very proud of herself!

"Wait...forget the hand AND the spoon, I can just drink this thing!"

Bella was a trooper and tried to use the spoon early on...

Then resorted straight to the drinking method

And, just like her sister, is very proud of herself!

The girls still love to read more than just about anything.  Usually, they INSIST that you read to them. But, thankfully, Leah is starting to be OK with "reading" by herself occasionally.  This is one of her favorite books right now.  She doesn't really like when you try to read the words to her...she just wants to look at the pictures and make animal noises (there are pictures of a farm in the book).

One of my all time favorite pictures!