Monday, May 09, 2011

Happy Mother's Day

This totally made my Monday!!  Kelly made these adorable videos with the girls today!
(For some reason, when I uploaded it onto blogger, the sound got a little delayed..but you'll get the point!  Oh, and If you know how to fix that...I'd love the help!)

Mother's Day

My mother's day was great...not exactly how I had planned it, but great non-the-less.  I ran a 5k first thing in the morning, went to church, went to Mom's with Deanna's family, went to Nana's and then had a soccer game that night.  The girl's were AMAZING all day...they played for hours at Grandmas with Kai and all the kids had so much fun.  There was no whining, no clinging..nothing.  Somehow...they just new it was mother's day and they were supposed to spoil me!!  However, they didn't nap much during the day, so when we got home from Grandma's, they were EXHAUSTED!!!  I brought them in the house and the were out cold on the couch...they NEVER do that.  If you wake them up from the car, they are up...they never go back to sleep.  I tried to wake them up an hour later and they wanted NO part of it...they ended up taking a 2.5 hour nap (which resulted in a 9:45 bedtime...ughh).  But...it ended up being good because I got to spend a lot of time with them after my soccer game!


I realized yesterday the the most important part about Mother's day is being with these sweet babies...nothing else matters!  Spending a day with my mom, my babies, and the best mom I know (Deanna) was just the best gift I could have received!  I love you Mommy, sister and babies!!

Friday, May 06, 2011

Big Girls

This is a day I have been waiting for since I started registering for baby stuff!  My babies are DONE with their nasty high chairs.  I have always had an aversion to high chairs and really did not want to get them at all.  They just gross me out.  I don't know why...it isn't like I am a clean freak or anything...but the thought of crusted on food in all those little crevices just makes me crazy!  So, while we were in Savannah, it occurred to me that the girls were doing fine with the booster seat that Grandpa had, so I went ahead and ordered the girls their own booster seats for the house.  They are still a bit short for them, but they can reach their food and they really seem to like sitting at the table (and I like being able to sit with them!!). 


Now that we have moved the table back to it's normal place (it used to be against the wall in order to make room for the high chairs...yet another reason I am excited!), we have to be very careful to push in the chairs at all times.  Both girls are very good at climbing up on the tall chairs...this is what Isabella did the very first day we had it back in place...they are such monkeys!

 Tonight after dinner, the girls were still hungry.  I offered them cinnamon cheerios (don't judge..I know it has a ton of sugar...but it was on the counter, so I thought I would see if they wanted it).  Nope..they didn't want that...but they kept pointing at the counter asking for something...what was it?  Broccoli.  Only my kids would beg for broccoli as an after dinner snack!


 And finally...yesterday I captured some pictures of playtime.  They were running all around the house and deck holding hands...it was so cute!!


This is one of their favorite things to do...they each get on one side of the door and make faces at each other.  They scream and stick their tongues out.  They do this all the time and it always cracks me up!!



Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Crib Tents!



This is the new look of the girls' bedroom!  Crib tents!  Finally!  Necessary!  A little scary!
Since we have been home from Savannah, our nights have been rough to say the least.  We have not had a single night of good sleep!  Not one!  The girls are up all night long and to add to it, my little monkeys have been climbing out of their cribs when they wake up.  That led to me having to sleep on their floor for three days in a row this week!  We even changed their cribs so that the only way for them to get out was to climb out over the top of the high bar on their crib (the one that is well over their head when they are standing in the crib...yea, that one) and somehow, Bella still managed to get out!  So...that is what led us to the crib tents.  I was very hesitant to do it because I hate that the girls can't touch each other when they play as they are preparing for nap, but...safety and peace finally won out and we decided to put them up.  Our wonderful nanny put them together yesterday while I was at work and last night was our first night being zipped in!  The girls did wake up crying quite a few times, BUT...they stayed in their cribs and we all survived the night!  Hopefully, they will get used to it and learn to love them like Lauren's tripplets do and we will get a good night's sleep sometime in the near future! 

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Fun in the sun (and water!)


It was a hot day at the playground today, so after the girls got home from playing this afternoon, Kelly broke out the bathing suits and put some water and Tupperware out on the deck!  HOW FUN!  The girls look like they had a great time.  Oh, and can I just say how awesome it is to not only have a fun, young nanny, but also one who takes great pictures and seems to be as picture crazy as I am!!  We are really going to miss Kelly next year!!










Kelly and I think alike! 
I was just thinking yesterday how cute it would be to paint their toes...
and I came home to this today.  YEA!!

 Grandma bought the girls these adorable outfits for Easter so I had to take a few pictures before I went to school this morning. 





Easter (a week late!)

Because we drove through the night Saturday night (into Easter Sunday) and because Deanna and Mom were either out of town or busy, we did not do any kind of Easter egg hunt this year.  I was a little sad about this (as was my good friend Heather who thought I was a HORRIBLE mom for not even getting the girls Easter baskets), so when Mom offered to host an Easter egg hunt/lunch date for the kids, I was very excited to say the least! 
So...on Saturday, we went to Grandmas and participated in our first Easter egg hunt!  It was the PERFECT day!  The weather was beautiful, the kids all did great looking for and finding eggs, we had a great lunch and then we walked the kids to the park to play on the playground.  I could not have asked for a more perfect afternoon!  Hanging out with two of my very favorite ladies and my four favorite kids was just awesome! 


Kai showing the girls how it's done!


Bella discovering the treasure inside




Leah with a mouth full of jelly bean! 
Taking after her Mommy...we couldn't get her to stop eating the sugary yumminess!

"Is there a bean or a peep in here??"


This picture is really funny because that is such a Leah face that Bella is making!


Grandma blowing colored bubbles for the kids

The whole gang!

Kai always has the best faces!


Little Beauty!

Leah looks so big in this dress...the wind must have been blowing under it!

Yuck...peeps are NASTY! 

Bella loves Demi!


The kids playing with the neighbor's dog

Leah laughing hysterically at the puppy!


And Bella too...


My kids just love puppies!!

Lunch time..check out the cool table Grandma bought!