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Just for you “Super N”

2010-07-22T14:25:00.000-06:00

I wrote this post about 2 weeks ago and before I posted it I decided that I just had to makeover my blog, don't ask me why. But if you read my blog and remember the whole issue I have with buying baby bedding, well maybe then you'll understand that sometimes I just think I have to do things and well that's what has to be done before I can move on haha. So enjoy this old/new update haha!

Well one of my friends kindly pointed out that it has been way to long since I blogged so here I go. I guess I will just jump right on in so who knows where this post may take me.

One of the biggest things that has happened lately is that we moved! Yup somehow in between raising 4 kids we found the time to list and show our house, pack up and move and unpack! (Don’t let that last word fool you heehee we are not close to being fully unpacked but right now we have done as much as we can. (Its been just a little over a month.) The new house is great, is is 2,010 square feet (vs our old one at 1640 where a lot of that came from our huge master bedroom) and the living room is so nice and big. The only drawback is that the kitchen is smaller which has been hard to adjust to but our last kitchen was unusually big so its honestly not too bad.

The person who bought the house before us must have caught it at framing stage because although the house was intended to be a 4 bedroom up, they decided to not put in one wall and extend the master bedroom making it a three up. Since we were looking for a 4 bedroom up specifically we decided to renovate and turn the big master back into 2 rooms so the three little ones could all have their own rooms. This process was kind of a pain in the butt but its all done now except for flooring, we are trying to match the carpet in that new room as best as we can to the old stuff. This new room will be jackson’s. There is also a nice big bedroom in the basement with its own ensuite and that is Kelsey’s room, talk about lucky girl!!

The street seems really nice and quiet and we are just a street over from a great park and we are just a few minutes away from all shopping too so it’s very convenient. (It’s also close to my friend Super-N so that’s a plus heehee.)

Our little Maddy is growing like a weed but is still nonetheless afraid of everything in sight. I am loving her little sentences she seems to be stringing together with ease and the cute way she is trying to start to sing now! Her tantrums are also out of this world but hey, she’s 2 now so what can you expect eh? Heehee! Her favorite outside activity…blowing bubbles and now that dad has taken the big scary door off her cute playhouse she is happy to be back playing in there too. She’s even ringing the doorbell she was previously afraid of thanks to her friend Sarah!

Jackson and Jae are growing for sure! Jae was 18 pounds 10 ounces about 2 weeks ago and Jackson was an even 18. These little guys are such cuties but are no shortage of work for their momma and dad! Jackson has been very very sick twice so far this year, once at easter and the next time right before may long weekend (right before our big move ugh!). The first time it was vomiting for a week, nothing stayed down and he ended up admitted to the hospital for 2 days for iv fluids. :( This was so hard and to compound things we were put in isolation so it was a rough stay. The nurses were adamant that he smelled like a rota virus baby and when we were discharged we were led to believe that is what he had (even though they said the test results weren’t written in his charts). After mother’s day maddy started vomiting which lasted for about a week of sickness for her too and yup you guessed it jackson got it next. This time it was eerily similar except he had a fever too. we took him to the ER twice and found out that although it wasn’t rota last time it was this time. So needless to say everytime he vomits we look at eachother and cringe thinking here we go again! Hopefully he is out of the woods for this season and next year he is 1st in line for the flu shot!!! Oh and after all the sleeping issues we had with him (ie screaming himself to sleep) we started him on zantac for reflux and it stopped after only a few days and he falls asleep as normally as babies do now. ;)

Jae oddly enough never actually got sick either of those times, she only finished about half of her bottles and was quieter than normal but otherwise she seemed ok. BUT she has issues all her own. This little chubby bunny still won’t/can’t eat solids yet at 10 months!! She seems to have a reaction to rice and oats which sounds a lot like FPIES to me since it is not a usual allergic reaction. We started seeing a pediatrician and had rast testing (a type of allergy testing) done only to have the results come back negative (although the doc said it might just not show up). This in itself was a huge undertaking as Jae is quite chubby no one could draw blood from her. We tried on 2 occasions and ended up having to meet the ped at the hospital to get an arterial draw done. Poor baby girl!!! Her arms were black and blue for a month! The ped has never heard of FPIES so he really hasn’t listened to me in that area yet although her symptoms fit it to a T, but he did hear of another condition called Eosinophilic Esophagitis which to me seems actually scarier than FPIES so I am hoping that is not what it is but at this point it would be nice to just know. So tomorrow we have a barium swallow for my little babe, if it is EE they can sometimes see rings in the esophagus which can lead them to further testing. I am worried she won’t drink the barium (afterall why would she since she won’t eat anything other than drink her formula) and they will end up having to give it to her via a feeding tube but we will just have to wait and see. (Update on this: her barium swallow went fine, no issues with her esophagus so now we are back to square one with her.)

Jae also has other issues, despite the fact that she should be able to eat other things than rice and oats etc (meaning she doesn’t present any reaction to some other foods) she simply will not take them. She clams right up when she sees the spoon and if you do happen to get any food in her she will gag and wretch and end up vomiting. So this little girl is just giving us a run for our money food wise. We also have an appointment for an occupational therapist in feeding next week to see if this area could be due to texture/sensory issues. (Update on this: what I thought was a feeding appointment actually was only a dietician, yeah many joys on finding that out, pretty much a waste of time.)

Well I think that is enough for now, phew I am tired just typing at all out. So do I get a pass on blogging now that you know all of what we have been dealing with for the past few months? Hahahahaha! I hope to start blogging more regularly soon.

Excuse the Dust...

2010-07-18T16:34:00.000-06:00

I want to start posting again but I just can't bear to post on a wintery blog theme so I am trying to bling my blog before I start catching up, all you ladies out there will understand haha! Hopefully be back soon!

because i haven’t posted in a long time

2010-04-29T10:26:00.001-06:00

here are some photos for my parents ;)

Jae doesn’t smile much, but i think her sticking out her tongue is her version, although if you look there is a smile behind that tongue heehee.

She looks like she is going to eat the parrot! ROTFLMBO!!!

Mr handsome smiling man! Don’t let the pictures fool you, this boy has 2 speeds…happy and smiley and hysterically mad haha. But when he’s cute he’s so dang cute!

And last but certainly not least, my miss maddy girl. oh what a beauty and ball of fire this one is! I LOVE those curls, her hair is actually quite far past her shoulders in the bath, its’ just that curly. ;)

This is Mads at HER park cuz she is such a fraidy cat and hates anything new, we tried to take her to a newer bigger awesome park and she ran for the van after only a few minutes there. This is the park and when you say you are going to the park it better be this park, HER park or else its not the park and thus it is scary hahaha, oh my little neurotic girl! ♥

Hopefully I can get back into blogging again soon, just been beyond busy!

Wow been way too long

2010-04-03T21:00:00.001-06:00

Its been way too long since I updated this ole blog, I know I have been neglecting it but I just couldn’t bring myself to blog. Guess I haven’t been feeling especially witty for a while. Having 3 kids 21 months and under is hard, more than hard, its excruciatingly and painfully hard. Some day I will write a post on it, no holds barred. I know how lucky we are to have such happy healthy children and I love each and every one of them with my life but that doesn’t mean I struggle any less. 7 months in and counting……

Here’s to hoping I can start to get back into blogging, if only to record all those funny, irritating, crazy, firsts and insane moments that are our life.

Irony

2010-02-17T10:50:00.001-07:00

Well since I haven’t posted in a while I figured that instead of posting this as my facebook status (ok you caught me instead of posting all of this as my FB status) I’d write it here to let you all know we are still alive haha.

I have 4 books in my wishlist at chapters, one of them is Healthy Sleep Habit Happy Twins…cuz you know with 5 month old twinfants and a 20 month old I REALLY have time to read about how to get more time to read, thus the title of this post. ;)

I also thought that Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More might be an interesting read, but alas reading for fun is relegated to the 20 minute bath I get once every 4 days, at that pace it would take years to get through it and I already have 2 books that my wonderful hubby bought me waiting to be read first, sigh.

Now THIS book, It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I had a Baby, A Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita, I just might make time for, (heck I just may leave the house with all 4 kids in tow just to buy it today!) substitute her baby for twins and I bet you’d have our life hahahaha although I don’t really know since I haven’t read it yet. ;)

And last but certainly not least is The Pioneer Woman Cooks, heaven on a plate I tell you! I LOVE her recipes and wit and her photos are amazing. I used to read her blog a lot but now I have to try to do it while nursing one of the babes and surfing on my netbook with my other hand. Speaking of which, it is fast becoming an extinct art as the babies have decided they love to stop eating and stare at the magic box with all the colors and fanciness. ;)

There, now that you all know what I am dying to read I bet you can sleep better at night, now if only I’d buy that stinkin books and read it maybe the twins would! Bwahahahahaha!!! ;)

Just a few quick pics

2010-02-09T23:06:00.001-07:00

the babes are 5 months in these, wow do they look different and have done sooo much growing!

5 months

2010-02-02T21:12:00.001-07:00

Happy 5 months Jackson and Jaelyn I cannot believe it’s been that long! Love you both soooooo much!!!

Thank You

2010-01-22T09:45:00.002-07:00

Maddy was being such a ham the other night, as always. She decided it was fun to go back and forth bringing daddy and sissy books and then taking them back. She said thank you for the first time this night and it was terribly cute!

She says soooo many words now its amazing and adorable! Here is a small clip of her hour long “thank you book escapade” heehee. Oh and at one point in time she says “one” while picking up the books, daddy taught her “one, two” last weekend…too cute!

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I love the way she says “no” now, I wish I could get it on camera. (She didn’t realize I was doing this last night or I’m sure she would have stopped and wanted to play with it haha.) When she hears the babies crying she says “uh-oh babies”, she also knows what their bumbos are (and loves to try and sit in them). She says suckie which is what we call her pacifier although it used to be guckie (I miss guckie haha). She says hat, circle, apple, horsy, santa, snowman (noman) and so many others I can’t even remember them all. Oh and the big one, help which sounds like elp, no more whining since we taught her elp haha, ahhhhhh much better! She also says K now right after she says help, that one came from her asking me for help and me responding with K, she is so funny answering herself! She also says nack which is snack, being mommas girl (loving her food) she will even go to the pantry door and bang on it and ask for a nack haha. Or she will keep coming to you with her snack cup 3 times after dinner asking for another nack. Man she cracks us up! Well I gotta run and get the morning routine started but enjoy and thank you heehee. ;)

A tale of 2 babies

2010-01-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

Jae is a spitfire like Maddy, trouble all the way! She was the troublemaker in the womb too so it’s no surprise. Jackson is just how I pictured him from his personality in the womb too interestingly enough, laid back, quiet and sweet.

Jae does not like to nap, she does not like to do much of anything but be cuddled and held and sometimes play, she is a little stinker but ohhh sooo cute, her saving grace heehee. Crazy enough she fights her naps all day but is an absolute angel to put to bed at night (must be too exhausted by then hahaha). She is usually asleep within 1 minute of laying her down in the crib (thankfully!).

Jackson on the other hand, who is by all accounts an angel all day and naps almost as soon as you put him in his swing, is a horror to put to bed at night. Ok not really a horror ;) but he can cry and fuss for up to 45 minutes at times before he falls asleep. It’s like they switch personalities at about 9 pm at night, seriously. It’s sooo weird hahaha!

Jae loves to chew things and grab onto things, Jackson usually sits there with his little hands folded and likes to look at things vs play with them. They are such a funny pair. Jae does well sitting up in her bumbo and jumperoo, Jackson however is still quite wobbly in his bumbo many times listing to the side (with his little hands still folded heehee) man he is cute!

The other day Jackson had already been put down for his nap and Jae was going to follow soon, I was just giving her a bit more time to play when I noticed things had gotten very quiet. This is the 2nd time she has started to fall asleep in her bumbo only this time she did so with her favorite toy in her mouth. Thought it was cute (especially given her general fondness for naps ya know heehee) so I had to get it on video.

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Enjoy!

By the skin of our teeth

2010-01-19T21:04:00.001-07:00

is how I’ve been describing things lately, seems to describe things nicely since teeth don’t have skin. Wanna know what I did tonight? Well actually why don’t I make a list of a few of the dumb things have sadly started to feel like second nature lately.

Tonight I changed Jae’s diaper, came out to the living room and wondered why her sleeper and my shirt were wet…….I forgot to put a new diaper back on, didn’t even put the old one back on either. Just did up her sleeper naked and all and didn’t even notice. WOW!

The other day I was makin chili and could not for the life of me get the automatic can opener to work. It was just working on the previous 2 cans! I tried about 10 times before getting mad and digging through the drawer for the hand can opener, still no friggin luck ugh! So I dug some more and whad’ya know the can openers were staging a revolt! That was at least what I thought until I realized I had been trying to open the can upside down. I say again…WOW!

As hubby will tell you I am a McDonalds addict, more accurately on days when I leave the house I don’t have time to make lunch when I get home before all 3 kids are screaming from hunger so we usually get McD’s on the way home for Maddy and I. Maddy always gets a happy meal with a milk. Since I have too much to carry into the house I always put her little milk carton in my purse. Now since I always do that you would think I’d remember to take it out of said purse wouldn’t you?! Wrong! There’s something sad about saying “I have go to stop putting milk in my purse”. WOW!

Oh and did you know that your sugar container is NOT your coffee cup? Apparently I didn’t get that memo either.

There’s more but I’m tired and I’ll save that for later wouldn’t want y’all to bust a gut laughing too hard.

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most. (And time to pee and change my underwear but that’s a different story!)

Happy 4 months babies!

2010-01-02T16:01:00.001-07:00

I can’t believe you are 4 months today! We love you both so very much!!!

Transitioning to the crib

2010-01-02T15:59:00.001-07:00

I should preface this by saying that Maddy slept in her bassinet til she was like 6 to 8 months, yeah way too long but I am a total suck what can I say. ;) When the twins came home we tried the crib the first night (in our room) and they hated it, although they hated everything that first night home, somehow they ended up in the bassinet side by side and there they have stayed ever since…they will be 4 months tomorrow.

So while hubby is off on vacation we decided to try to transition them to their crib finally, you know…before they fall through the bottom of the bassinet due to their combined weight and break some of their cute little body parts that I would miss too much. If the bassinet was rated for their weight you know they’d still be in there haha! So we tried the night before last night, it was a miserable failure! Mr Jackson hated it and cried most of the night off and on and as in true fashion when he finally stopped towards the early morning Miss Jae started up. Wow we were seriously lacking sleep yesterday and so were the babes. Now you would think that would make for a great day in which they would catch up on their missing sleep but that was not the case. It was a horrible day and seriously had us scrambling for ideas on how to make them more cozy in their new home.

So Maddy and I went out shopping to try and find some stuff to make the twins, once again, snug as two bugs in 1 rug (did you like that? heehee, cuz seriously you almost needed a shoehorn to get them outta the bassinet.)

Off we went to walmart, I seriously hate this store and have been trying not to go there lately, it’s a long story and someday I’ll fill you all in on my love hate relationship that is wally-world but for now I need to stay on topic. ;) $50 later I bought one of these thinking we could lay it in the crib and they could still be snug as a bug in 1 rug (i’m gonna wear out the cuteness on that if I keep saying that aren’t I?). The 2 of them actually did fit in there side by side…ahem snug-ly.

We didn’t use it and it’s going back today.

I was also looking for a bumper pad for the crib to help make them feel more secure and I thought I had seen them sold separately but no such luck. I searched the mall and they only came in bedding sets, so what’s a mom to do? Buy a bedding set of course! Now to most moms this would be thrilling but to me this is a choice that will shape the entire personality and life of the new baby, this is not something to be taken lightly if it will shape their whole future…no? you don’t think so? Well I don’t actually either but you would think I did by how much thought and indecisiveness goes into making a purchase like this for me, ugh I’m slightly on a tangent here.

Anyway, we needed a bumper pad and so I had to make my decision and fast. No internet shopping for the perfect set and waiting for it to arrive, no browsing through the catalog and getting it just right, nope just buy it now and take it home which in this town (especially when you’re me) is next to impossible.

While I was at Sears I had seen a boy set there that I liked before, sure enough it was still there, they had one left. I grabbed it, put it back, grabbed it, put it back and then decided to take a picture of it and the others so I cold go home empty handed and make my hubby help me decide. (poor man!) I made it a few hundred feet away and decided to just throw caution to the wind, to heck with it, make my hubby proud…I’d just BUY IT, cue the music! So I turned around, scooped it up and took it to the register. (I did of course ask if they had the matching mobile, they didn’t darn it, but I found one on ebay, my life is now complete hahaha!) So here is a terrible picture of what it looks like. It really is cute in person and the cars and planes are pieced together out of felt. (It was a great buy too!)

For now the 2 of them will sleep in one crib so that leaves me with a few more months to find “just the right set” for Jae rofl *wink *.

I really do like this set, although that didn’t stop me from second guessing it when I got home and showed it to hubby. By then I had realized that I could probably borrow a bumper pad from a friend and take our time ordering the perfect set online, he convinced me it was just right for our little man…see why I need him?! HAHA!

Update: I started writing this post a few days ago and just finished it today. I am happy to say that after all of the hulabaloo over bedding and making their crib cozy with their new diggs they decided they liked it yay! It was only one awful night and I am so proud of them for moving to their big bed. :) Now what do I do with the used moses basket we bought to fit in the crib rofl?!

Twin Moments

2010-01-02T15:31:00.001-07:00

Last night hubby and I were each holding a baby, we stood in front of eachother and they actually seemed to really see eachother for the first time! They each smiled and started cooing to eachother, it made our hearts melt amidst the chaos! Thank god for these moments. ;)

Santa Pics

2010-01-01T08:34:00.001-07:00

As you can tell my the radio silence (to say things have been busy around here is a huge understatement! ;) I will be working on a few posts for you all with recaps of Christmas and such but here are a few pics of the kids with Santa to tide you over (is that how you spell and say that? seriously I would hate to be one of those people who says stuff like “for all intensive purposes” rotflmbo! Oh well if I’m wrong I can blame it on the fact that my kids have sucked my brain away heehee!)

Maddy loves Santa, until she meets him in person that is, what a little cutie!

Mommy and Santa or “tanta” as Mads would say, trying to bribe her with a candy cane and coloring book…didn’t work haha. Well since she isn’t freaking out still I guess I should say it worked a little bit now shouldn’t I?

Trick photography as suggested by Mrs Santa, she’s actually sitting on my knee but it looks like she’s sitting with Santa. ;)

And here are the twins aka Mr and Mrs Clause. Adorable!

These are probably the best pictures of Christmas, no family photo this year as all the kids were sick except Kelsey and we literally had to run out after Christmas dinner due to a frantically screaming child, ironically that’s how we started Christmas dinner hahahaha! Hopefully more to come soon and since it’s new years day Happy New Year to all my friends and family, I hope 2010 brings you more than you could ever want!

Commence Radio Silence

2009-12-17T15:54:00.001-07:00

Well it appears my right arm (aka my netbook) has decided to take a holiday vacation despite how much I rely on and love it. Apparently it no longer wishes to be used to leisurely surf the net as I nurse/feed babies or while I cook, displaying those gorgeous recipes I love to at least drool over even if I don’t cook them for my loving family, finicky friend isn’t it?! LOL! So expect radio silence for a while as I can’t get to my desktop a lot. It is still under warranty but who knows how long they’ll have it, guess that’s better than no warranty at all and no netbook at all. I am off to start my grieving process now. :(

For your viewing pleasure

2009-12-10T14:43:00.001-07:00

I have finally found a few seconds to upload some cute video clips. First and foremost Maddy is WALKING!!! Ok so it’s still only 1/3 of the time so far but that is a step in the right direction considering she is 3 days shy of 18 months. What a girl! She is the light of our lives!

Oh and before you enjoy these videos please please disregard my awful mommy on video sing songy voice yikes…its baaadddd! ;)

Maddy Walks!!!

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In keeping with the season and to have some fun we bought some of those vinyl cling-ons and Mads sure does love them. She even knows who Santa is check it out its adorable. :)

Santa

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Jae is our high maintenance baby just like her sister Maddy was. She doesn’t talk much yet, although sometimes she may be and it just sounds like her cranky noises so we don’t pick up on it. You really have to see her face to know if she’s happy or not LOL but we caught her here talking. When she does smile though it lights up her entire face, she is such a beauty! Oh and her poor little face in this video, the night before I had put some new cream on her since she seemed to have some pretty bad eczema and wow did it turn her red, I mean fire hydrant red. I felt sooooo bad! (So much for baby eczema care lotion!) So as you see her face here, keep in mind this is the day after. :( We were going to the doc the next day anyway so it worked out great, we got some hydrocortisone cream prescription to apply once a day and some glaxal base cream to use the rest of the time (at every diaper change I’m doing) and she looks like a new girl! Perfect skin! Anyway, she’s adorable check her out!

Jae Talks

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And last but certainly not least is my little man Jackson! Oh my how a little man can melt a mommy’s heart! I am so blessed!!! This is the first time he is sitting in his bumbo, a chair that lets babies sit upright when they can hold their head up. As with Maddy the twins get to sit in theirs for a few minutes a day and build up their strength for longer play sessions. Maddy used to sit in hers and rifle through her toybox and smash the toys on the accompanying tray at quite a young age, it was adorable and I just can’t wait til these little ones can too. Jackson is quite the little talker (he is also my happy baby) and I just love watching him and listening to him talk. So here he is, mommy’s little man!

Jackson talks

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And with that I am off. I hope you all enjoyed these videos.

I don't have much time

2009-12-02T16:16:00.000-07:00

but after getting "lost" in a grief forum at a regular forum I frequent and finiding out someone who was pregnant and due around the same time as me lost one of their twins I just have to publicly say...
I am the luckiest mom on the face of the planet to have 4 happy healthy children. Having twins could have had a far different outcome than 2 happy healthy beautiful babies and I am just so thankful for these little joys that I am blessed with, all 4 of my kids! Those 4 sweet faces, among the chaos I am blessed! With all my ranting and laughing and complaining I may do here about my crazy life, I wouldn't trade any one of them for the world!!!!

Stepping out of the box

2009-11-19T08:32:00.001-07:00

Normally when I make chili I throw kidney beans, mushrooms and tomato sauce in the crockpot with a seasoning packet and some ground beef and call it dinner. I never really thought there was anything wrong with that, until now.

For those of you who know me I am no culinary goddess, I lack serious skills and I also lack adventurous tastebuds, this combination my friends leads to many a boring dinner in our house. (My hubby will also say he does most of the cooking but from my boring menu…shhhhhh he’s right LOL!) But being on maternity leave seems to bring out the Susie Homemaker in me (it did last time too) and I just had to try this recipe regardless of the time crunch that dinner has become with newborn twins. Yeah I am crazy like that.

It turned out really good and I now have to wallow in the embarassment of my previous chili making skills, especially now that I have admitted how I used to make it on the internet for all to read haha. Seriously I don’t know why I had never thought of putting any other meat in there besides ground beef, duh! So without further ado I would like to take this time to apologize to my family for making them eat my crockpot goop (though I bet I’ll still make it from time to time LOL!).

Now normally making chili wouldn’t come with pictures but in this household…you bet it does. At least now that doing so is a monumental task rofl!

So how do I chop, chop and chop some more with newborn twins and a 17 month old? Well it’s simple, you let the 17 month old play in your tupperware and try your best not to trip and fall while she plays under your feet…

You wait til your twins are in their bouncy seats happy as clams…wait did I say happy ugh?! You run back and forth plugging suckies in (all the while trying not to trip on tupperware and Maddy under your feet) while chopping, chopping and chopping some more. Oh yeah and to make it more fun take pictures along the way roflmbo!!! (Poor little man, I promise I didn’t poke him to make him cry nor did I let him cry excessively for this picture I just snapped away while grabbing the sucky in the other hand. No babies were harmed in the filming of this chili experiment…only mommies HAHA!!!)

Well one is as happy as a clam that ain’t bad!

More roadblocks and tripping hazards of the noisy variety…chop, chop, chop

clang clang clang

here we go again, traverse the tripping hazard obstacle course to plug a sucky in

still sleeping like an angel…is this really Jae or did she get replaced with a sleepy little alien? (she’s my high maintenance one usually.)

More tripping hazard fun for mommy

yay the chopping is done…commence cooking!

Gloriously noisy fun!

And finally the finished product!

Phew I’m tired again just typing all this out! I will definitely be making this chili again despite all the work vs my old recipe. Maybe if I don’t take pictures next time it won’t be quite as hard LOL!

I love my life and my kids, I truly do and I love how they are making me be a stronger woman. I have no choice but it feels good!

Post Catch Up

2009-11-17T08:34:00.001-07:00

Wow how time is flying! We are so busy around here that we barely have time to think! Everyone is doing well, no sickies yet so that’s good! We all got our h.1.n.1 and regular flu shots so hopefully that will help keep us all healthy.

Since I have limited time I’ll get right to the good stuff, pictures. I know that’s what you prefer over the ramblings of a crazy insane mother of 3 kids under 17 months LOL.

Jackson moves his head around alot in his car seat, it makes his cute little hat move around too. This is how we found him when we got him out of the car and into the house the other day, he looked like a pirate, ROFLMBO!!!

Can you say “Argh, Ahoy Matey!”

And here are the two of them hangin out side by side. They have both just started to smile within the last 2 weeks although it’s not super often yet. And Jackson has started “talking” too, it’s rather adorable!! Comon Jae you can’t let your bro start talking before you, you better get on the bandwagon. ;) I actually caught Jae smiling here. What cuties!

I don’t know why but the sight of them in their carseats always brings out the camera, maybe it because it’s the easiest way to get 2 babies still to take pictures LOL. Jackson is smiling in this one, I’m pretty sure that’s what made me grab the camera.

And with that I’m off to start my day folks! Enjoy!

2 months old

2009-11-02T15:28:00.001-07:00

Wow I can’t believe that the twins are 2 months old today! Time flies by! These 2 babes are the sweetest, cutest little things and despite all of the work and exhaustion I could never give either one of these 2 little bundles up! They are my sweet little treasures and I love them more and more every day!

Sweet little princess Jae is still losing her hair but she definitely has peach fuzz growing on the top again now, we think she’ll have very thick hair when it comes back in. Her eyes are definitely still blue but they are very dark so she may actually end up with dark hair and eyes…imagine that…one of my kids actually having my coloring, we’ll just have to wait and see.

And my little man Jackson is starting to lose his hair now on the top sides so he is kind of getting a little red mohawk going on heehee. His eyes are still a gorgeous blue too. I would definitely be surprised if his hair doesn’t come back in still red but hey you just never know.

I just love these two, I wish I had more time to just enjoy each one but that’s life as a twin I keep telling them. ;) Happy 2 months my sweets! I can’t wait to see you both grow and blossom!!!

Halloween 2009

2009-11-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

So Halloween 2009 here was total chaos haha, what else would it be with 3 kids under 17 months?

Kelsey decided to go out with friends so her night started early, so no photos of both kids together but that's how it goes when things are crazy :( We had dinner and then got Maddy ready to go to Grandma and Grandpas and Auntie and Uncles and of course while this is happening the doorbell starts ringing, the 2 dogs go insane and the twins are stirring not to mention trying to get Maddy ready and take pictures still LOL. So we put the dogs in their room for the night and daddy took off with Maddy. I stayed behind with the twins and gave out candy, we had probably between 40 and 50 so not too bad. When Jackson got fussy I held him and answered the door and had one guy tells his son look she's dressed as a new mommy heehee. When daddy got home I got to take Mads out for a little stroll around our block, we really only stopped at like 5 houses of the neighbors we know and are friendly with and then back home but she had fun. She didn't say trick or treat but she would say hi and bye and babble a bit too LOL. We didn't dress the twins up cuz franly they are too young still and the costumes are not really sized for teeny babies so next year they will get to enjoy their first real halloween. So here are a few pictures, enjoy!

Kelsey as a Vampire (she had an awesome wig but apparently it was itchy, bummer!) She looked awesome! My goodness how she is growing!!

And our little pumpkin (dad insisted that she be a pumpkin this year) and she is freakin adorable!

And this my friends is how her hair looks after it comes out of those cute piggy tails, it is hilariously crazy messy as it always is now. She sure has a head of hair our little one and it's so curly in the back!

I hope you all had a great Halloween, what started out as a crazy chaotic mess sure ended up being fun, both ouir girls had a great time and the twins did too even if they didn't get to trick or treat. ;)

Some Pics for the Family :)

2009-10-27T15:35:00.001-06:00

This is my life…

2009-10-26T10:30:00.001-06:00

sitting on the couch feeding baby jack

baby jae is still in bed, she’s crying now but i can’t get to her (i hate that!)

maddy is pulling the barrette out of her hair and sticking it in her mouth, i try to get her to bring it to me (cuz i’m still feeding baby jack) but she won’t…she just pretends to dip it in some dip and stick it back in her mouth and say mmmmmmmm with a smile (this is what she does now when eating or drinking)

baby jae still crying

baby jack is done-ish

get up to burp baby jack and see what maddy is doing at the end of the couch so quietly

hmmm she’s sitting smack on top of the dog!|(poor nelly)

baby jack is changed and in his bouncy

baby jae is now feeding

maddy is at the end of the couch out of sight again wonder which dog she is sitting on now

baby jae is needing to be burped and changed

now that i stand up i see mads is yet again sitting on nelly poor nelly

baby jae spits up all down the back of me and the hallway floor

change jae and return for second part of feed

maddy is now sitting on the corner of the dog bed, playing with her toys…good or at least better than sitting on the dog

continue feeding jae

maddy decides to be good and come stand by mommy, much better…ok maybe not, now she’s coming after the netbook

close netbook and put out of reach

finish feeding jae

burp jae

maddy sits on my leg and bounces trying to ride it like a horsey, maddy be careful be very careful

finish

put jae in bouncer

pour more coffee

deep breaths deep breaths…patience is a necessity

repeat every 3 to 4 hours

I love my kids

my days however are a crazy chaotic mess ROTFLMBO!!!!

No clever title ;)

2009-10-22T13:51:00.000-06:00

Well I just thought I'd pop in and say again, yes we are still alive! Things are super busy around here as I'm sure you all can imagine. The babies were 7 weeks old yesterday! I cannot believe it! On the one hand it seems like just yesterday but on the other hand it feels like they've been here forever! These little ones are sure hard work but little sweeties. They also have very different and distinct peronalities.

Jackson is our laid back little fella, he has his moments but overall is pretty good. He is my sweet little man! He is the one who is usually wailing on the way home from the store for lunch, we should have called him (starvin) Marvin. I think it's sooo cute how his hands and feet are so much bigger than his sisters. Having never had a boy it's kinda cool to see the differences like that. He's also my spit-up boy and has had a few moments of projectile vomiting from his chair. He's a noisy little sleeper and it seems like he's taught his sis to be so as well. They are both always grunting and groaning awake or asleep.

And Jae, she is the more spirited little one ;) shall we say. She usually has something to say and boy she'll let you know. Her feet are super tiny like Maddy's were (her feet didn't really grow til right when the twins were born and then they really grew skipping a size!) I have a feeling Jae will be the same. She has the sweetest little looks and I just love how she purses her little lips and looks at you with her certain look. She's pretty cute! She keeps us on our toes for sure, a lot like Maddy did. She actually reminds me a lot of Maddy.

They both have a fussy time that can start anywhere from 5:30 pm and it usually lasts til their last feed at around 10:30. Thankfully they usually calm down if they are held so we all play hot potato with the babies and Maddy in the evenings. ;) It's exhausting but it could be worse for sure! (I seem to remember a little girl who liked to scream during those same hours each night heehee.)

This is all very very very hard work, there are days I feel like sobbing but for the most part I keep focusing on how proud of myself I am that I am making it through each day with twins and a 16 months old. (Nothin like tooting my own horn eh?) I'm not saying I'm perfect, not saying the house is clean and meals are cooked (my poor hubby!)I'm just amazed that I am still here in one piece and so is everyone else. ;) Some lady at the store yesterday asked me how I could be so happy with 2 newborns and I told her COFFEE LOL!!! Today Maddy went to daycare and so I went out shopping to a store other than superstore and walmart and ran into a lady who had 5 year old twins. It's funny how you can feel a kinship and just start chatting with a stranger. It was nice to hear some of her perspective on twins and getting through the first few months. She said that someone once told her that the days seem to go by slowly but the months fly by and that is so true!

Maddy is getting funnier each day if that is possible. Yesterday I caught her putting her cup on the endtable but not before putting a coaster down first, LOL! It was intentional too, guess they really do watch us. :)

Yesterday when Kelsey came home she asked me if there was a reason that there was a bunch of toilet paper and a sucky in the tub...hmmmm...oh yeah Maddy was playing in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready in the morning and that must have been her handiwork LOL! Ohhh our little girl, she keeps us in stitches for sure! I LOVE this age of hers, full of giggles and laughter for everyone. :) She is also obsessed with puppies, she will wake up and play in her crib and almost every single word she says is puppies, puppies, puppies it's pretty cute!

We are exhausted and busy but oh so blessed!

Maddy took her first steps!

2009-10-15T19:04:00.001-06:00

So yesterday was the day, Maddy finally took her first steps. Three to be exact. Maddy has been standing a lot lately and has really been practicing standing by herself in the middle of the room. Well yesterday she was standing for a minute or so, she was distracted by watching a tv show and she took 3 wobbly steps to her sister! NO WAY!!! Try as we might she hasn’t taken anymore but she will… one day LOL! Here’s to hoping she does it again soon.

And with that I’m off again, babies are crying and need to be fed. But I couldn’t let any more time pass before sharing and recording this milestone!!!

Videos :)

2009-10-13T16:19:00.001-06:00

Well I figure I will try uploading a few videos quickly. Because my hubby is so dang awesome (I know you read this so what else would I call you…LOL! Just kidding hun you’re the best!) he got us…ok me heehee a Sony Snap Camera for uploading videos of the kids online.

He got this before the twins were born so that we could take it to the hospital with us as it’s a camcorder and a camera and that meant way less (and big and cumbersome) stuff to lug with us. :) I am so happy he managed to get some footage of each babe after they were born since I didn’t get to see them until later. So even though it’s just a few seconds each here is Jackson and Jaelyn after they were born. :)

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Oh and here’s something I don’t want to relive but I thought it might be good for some laughs…the last picture of me pregnant with the twins on August 27th, about a week before they made their arrival. My friend took it and asked me to stand by my van…you know, as a size comparison! THANKS A LOT!!! LOL, I was huge though. :) SO glad to have a normal body back.

More pics soon, I promise! Gotta run!!

Time for an update :)

2009-10-12T22:04:00.001-06:00

We’re still here alive and kickin heehee. Life is pretty busy and this past week was my first with all 3 little ones alone so not much else besides taking care of kids got done. We are settling into a groove now though. I cannot believe that the twins will be 6 weeks on Wednesday, how time flies by!!! Speaking of the twins, we got their pictures taken today and I am sure they will be awesome!!! The photographer was awesome and soooo patient and it went really really well. As usual mr. man did better than miss Jae but he is just naturally more laid back than she is. She can’t help her diva attitude heehee. ;) Nah she did well too and when they were put together she really did well. It should be about 3 to 4 weeks before we get our pics but the photographer should post a sneak peek on her blog soon so I will link to that once it’s up. I cannot wait!

In other twin news mr. man had his first episode of projectile vomiting last Thursday. A friend was over visiting and we hear splat…wth? No way, I’ve never had a baby do that before and he did it again tonight, all you hear is the tell-tale splat as it hits the kitchen floor. I hope it’s just a once in a while thing but then again he is my mr spit up like Maddy was. ;)

Speaking of Maddy she has been standing up by herself in the middle of the room lately, not using anything to do it either. We all clap like crazy and say Yay Madison and she claps and smiles too with her oh so proud look on her face! What a joy she is! So this may mean walking is coming soon, then mommy will be in for it I’m sure!

This weekend was Thanksgiving here in Canada and do we ever have a lot to be thankful for. All of our little ones (and not so little ones) are so special and I couldn’t be more thankful for them and the rest of my family! Life is good…crazy and chaotic and busy and tiring but good! :)

4 1/2 weeks

2009-10-05T11:48:00.001-06:00

Wow can the twins really be almost 5 weeks? Holy cow that has gone by fast! Today marks my first day at home alone with all 3 little ones and so far so good. The twins are a bit fussy today as they both seem to have a touch of a cold but thankfully it doesn’t seem too bad. What’s the latest? Not much, just trying to make it through each day.

The twins are somewhat showing signs of a schedule. Their last feed is usually around 10 to 11:30 and that ends up being bedtime so that’s much better than the 1 or 3 or 6 am that they were doing. ;) That last feed is also a formula feed as they are usually quite happy after a bottle, can you say milk drunk?! LOL! And they usually sleep around 5 hours or so til the next feed so having 5 hours in a row is quite nice!!! Now that I am alone at home we are planning to do a lot more formula, I need to be able to tend to Maddy and spend quality time with her and take care of her so that is the reality of things with twins and a 15 month old but hey so far this morning we managed breakfast for Maddy and nursing for the twins morning feed so that’s good! :) I figure the lunch feed will be a bottle and by the next feed big sis Kelsey will be home to help with Mads so I think I will nurse again. I really want to make sure they still get some b.milk especially since they are a bit sick right now. I still plan to nurse at night as long as my milk holds out.

I have to say that I do feel somewhat guilty and hesitant on actually pulling the trigger on more bottle feedings but we still managed to get 4 1/2 solid weeks of nursing into them and that to me is success, it’s just that pesky nagging mommy guilt that I have to learn to deal with. ;)

So far having twins is not too bad, it is coming with a lot of exhaustion in this house but at least hubby and I haven’t pulled our hair out yet (although we’ve come close LOL). I’m am sure there will be days where I will but so far we are doing quite well handling all that comes our way (if I do say so myself!). So I have to say thank you to everyone who has helped us make it this far! My parents who all came to stay with us and help us with cooking and baby holding and babysitting! My in laws for watching the kids while I was in the hospital and for cooking and bringing meals! My friends for meals and visits too and everyone who has helped so far, it is MUCH appreciated and has truly helped us get to where we are today!

I am still working on photos and will hopefully have some to share soon, I am a BIT busy these days so I have to just try and squeeze in some time to upload them and tweak them here and there. But soon we will have some professional pics of the twins and that is exciting too. Next Monday we are getting them done so I can’t wait!!

Ok well I better run, kids need to be hugged loved and generally tended to heehee. Be back soon…hopefully!!!

Life is Crazy!

2009-09-24T16:14:00.001-06:00

Ok so I don’t have any new pics of the twins to share, it’s so hard to find time to upload them and edit them! But I thought I’d share some cool new finds that I am waiting on…oh internet shopping…how I have missed thee, LOL!

Since we have a carload of kids carseats and seating configurations are a HUGE issue for us. We needed a second carseat for Maddy to have in daddy’s car and instead of buying the same one she currently has we actually decided to replace her carseat with a new one and use her current one for daddy’s car. The new carseat is on its way with my dad and step mom and will arrive this weekend and I can’t wait to see how it works for us. If it is as good as we think we will buy 2 more for the twins when they outgrow their infant seats. So without further ado here is a pic of Maddy’s new ride! Meet “The Radian”, a very highly rated carseat that is very cool!

Why is it so cool? Well it can accomplish this arduous task…..

and THAT seating configuration my friends is worth its weight in gold!! (If it works heehee.)

Ok since I am low on time let’s move on. ;) I have heard that the Miracle Blanket is a must have and since our twins love to be swaddled (with little success LOL…ok so hubby is better than I am…I can admit my shortcomings heehee) I have finally broken down and ordered these babies. They look like they make swaddling a breeze! Just check out the video on their homepage! So we have ordered one for each of them and I can’t wait to try them out!

For Jackson

For Jaelyn

And last but not least I have 2 adorable hats from Maddy’s baby days so those are being handed down to Jaelyn but Jackson, well he needs to look cool and stay warm too now doesn’t he?! I just ordered this baby today off Etsy and cannot wait for it to arrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully the weather will hold out til we get it, we don’t want his poor little head to get cold or he may have to wear one of his sisters LOL! (Just kidding.) He will look ADORABLE!!! I ordered it from PDX Beanies, the same store I got one of Maddy’s/Jaelyn’s from and even one for Kelsey a while back. I am still holding out on one for myself but I REALLY REALLY want one. ;)

So there you have it. Some MUST HAVE baby/kid items, like you needed any more of those right?! LOL. And with that I’m off to clean up before my darlin hubby gets home!

Pictures of the Twins

2009-09-09T19:19:00.001-06:00

Just have a second but the twins are here and I wanted to show some pics. :) They couldn’t look any more different. Jackson Garrison was a tiny bit smaller than his sister at birth but is now just a tad bigger. He doesn’t look bigger but he is. He also seems to have perfect copper colored hair in the sun so we shall see how that plays out, if it stays or lightens/darkens. Jaelyn Grace has quite a bit of fuzzy dark brown hair almost black. Although she has a receding hairline right now heehee. She is also more of a reddish skin tone as opposed to her brother and she has the roundest face. She looks huge but it’s only from the shape of her face she’s a stick everywhere else. The two both have nothing below their waists, they are tiny stick people with no buts at all LOL changing their diapers is like microsurgery on a stick figure rotflmbo!! Anyway they are fussing again so I better run. Hopefully the birth story and more pics etc will come soon, as time allows…now THAT’S funny! Enjoy!!!

Jackson

Jaelyn

Going Home Day!

Cuddling

Jackson

Jaelyn

Baby Update

2009-08-25T16:22:00.001-06:00

HOLY COW can you guess how much these babies weigh? 6 lbs 10 oz and 6 lbs 13 oz…a mere 3 to 5 ounces from 7 pounds!! No wonder why I am falling apart!

My doc appointment went ok, my blood pressure was up around 130 something over 90 something so it is starting to creep up on the bottom number , and there was some protein spilling into my system so these are both things to watch. My belly is also measuring 47 weeks at 36 weeks.

We do have a tentative induction date of September 8th however the doc said that if my body is showing signs of readying for labor and my blood pressure is still not perfect then they might talk about inducing me after my appointment next Tuesday so maybe the following day. I am thinking once he gets the ultrasound results he may just do that cuz if we end up with two 8 + pounders with one being breech the chances of a natural delivery might not be as good but I’m no doctor LOL.

They both scored 8/8 on their tests again today and again were seen practice breathing so yay!!! Oh and Baby Girl B on the last 2 ultrasounds has shown us some hair too. ;) How cute!

I am anxious to not be pregnant anymore, but still nervous about labor delivery and having 2 newborns! But I need my body back, I am just useless right now and getting worse and can’t stand it. I know I will be tired and stressed once they come but at least I will be able to move 2 feet without being out of breath, LOL. I will update Thursday after my non stress test. :)

Figured I'd update again

2009-08-21T15:41:00.000-06:00

I couldn't remember if I updated or not so I figure I'll just add a litgtle bit and maybe some random thoughts.

I had my NST yesterday in labor and delivery. I am always so scared I will get someone in labor who was noisy like me in the bed next to me to make me run for the hills LOL. Nope it was all good and quiet. ;)

Babies did well. Baby girl has still not really showed any huge highs and huge lows which I guess they like to see but her heartrate is still good so that's great. I had quite a few contractions while I was on the monitor too, probably about 10 to 15 minutes apart...wait maybe a bit less since I was only hooked up for about 45 minutes and there were probably about 5 or 6 or 7 good ones. Anyway whatever the math things are a happenin but only in prepparation not the real thing ... yet.

I have had a few energy spurts the last few days, despite those spurts you still can't ompare them to normal peoples' energy spurts LOL. Just means I have managed and had the drive to get a few nagging little things done. I have also started feeling that ever so familiar back cramping that always comes along with my past labors (yeah I havew horrible back labor and am expecting it again) so I am starting to wonder if they will make their entrance soon. I hate not knowing LOL!

I am planning on washing their newborn clothes today and maybe just maybe washing some of mine. We shall see. I am also trying to get Kelsey a few things for school but we have to do a little at a time so someone may have to help us with that if the twins come soon. She does have a few things but not enough. At least she has some basics.

Well maybe I should go and do some preparing instead of blogging...I just have this feeling and am trying to get a few things done otherwise I will be naked at the hospital without phone numbers and cameras and such...but hey I'll have shampoo and conditioner! ;)

Baby Update

2009-08-18T14:39:00.000-06:00

Well not much new but I guess that's good. Babies looked good, my belly is measuring 45 to 46 weeks and I am currently 35 weeks!!

To get my next non stress test I have to go to LDR Thursday or Friday and then next Tuesday I have another regular appointment and have an ultrasound right aferwards so that day will be busy busy!! Hopefully it all keeps going with no more scares.

I am off to relax for a few before I have to pick up my Maddy girl.

Maddy Update

2009-08-17T23:37:00.001-06:00

So since it's been a while I thought I'd give a Maddy update. :) Our little princess is growing up sooo fast!She is soooooo much like her daddy too, it's adorable! She is also the biggest daddy's girl! Even mommy doesn't rate heehee.

So being like daddy means she is somewhat quiet and reserved. She can say a lot of words but she will only say them once in a while when she feels like it. (Have I mentioned how stubborn she is lately heehee?) SO new words to add are kitty and puppy along with all her good old favorites. She still never says momma or mom or anything, only like 4 times ever but I know she loves me, on the other hand when daddy comes home she scoots down the hall and to the gate screeching daddy yay or dad, dada! What a girl! Considering the upcoming birth of the twins it's probably best that she's a daddy's girl right now anyway. ;)

And her latest and greatest escapade is standing up!!! YAY MADDY!!! Now I know many babies reach this milestone a few months earlier than Maddy has but she is following a typical pattern that starts with stubborness! ROFL! We are sooooooo proud of her and she is too. We all clap and say yay when she pulls herself up, it's only been like about a week and a half since she really started liking doing this and she has gotten so good at it already! She even does a little shake and shimmy dance to show she’s excited and proud of herself. We are hoping she moves on to the next step soon, as usual with our sweetie she does things only when she is ready and no sooner so we will just have to wait and see. ;)

This little girl of ours is also a little terror in her highchair, she will just grab and toss whatever she wants over the edge or put her hands on the tray and just sweep it all around and off the tray (much to our dogs’ pleasure). So I started pointing at the tray when she would pick up a piece of food to throw, I would tap the tray with my finger and say put it back on the tray Maddy. Well about 2 weeks ago she grabbed a piece of food, threw it as usual and then looked at me and smiled tapping the tray with her finger just like mommy! What a little stinker heehee! I couldn't stop laughing at my little mischief maker, especially with that smirk on her face. Ahhh she is gonna be trouble LOL!

As I have said before Maddy doesn't crawl in the traditional way she "bum scoots" and this is seriously affecting our pocketbook! She has now gone through quite a few pairs of shorts and the replacement shorts are one wash away from the holes growing big enough that you can definitely see them. What a kid!!! I now have to stop being so lazy and just use specific pants or shorts at home and leave the good ones for going out in, how sad is that LOL.

I spent some time editing some pics to quickly share with you so here they are. :)

Maddy’s first ruined pair of shorts, they went from teeny tiny holes that you could hardly see at the beginning of the day to this, no kidding. It only takes about 2 weeks if that to go from brand new to this point. What a girl!

We have to now put the dog dishes up, I tried to get her used to them but she just will not stay away…notice Rotten Roxy eyeing Maddy’s cracker on the floor.

Here’s our little messy haired girl after a bath :) She has a ton of hair

Mohawk Time

Chillin at the Stampede Parade this year

And that’s about it. :)

I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning so I will update the baby situation then ;) And I can’t believe that Kelsey starts school on the 31st! WOWZERS! Time flies and my how the kids are growing!!! (And so am I roflmbo!!!) I’ll post a pic of me soon, I promise…maybe ;)

Surprise it’s a baby shower!

2009-08-16T16:43:00.001-06:00

I had been holding off on posting about this because I wanted to show off the thank you cards I made and didn’t want to show them here until they were printed and sent but I think I will do it without those now since I ordered more to send to others as well. ;) I do finally have them printed and sent, yay!

Printing was a nightmare, if you want to upload your own image in its entirety, as in having the whole front of the card be your image, then it makes things a bit more difficult. Costco is great for printing but alas even their cards are printed as photos and have that Fujifilm logo all over the back…who wants that on your cards? And their “blank” card template really only applied to half the size of the card so hmmm my design was way too small. I FINALLY got it done at Staples, as a real card and was happy it didn’t take the full 5 - 10 days it said when I uploaded and ordered. I think they turned out cute too (if I do say so myself LOL). Although the girls have probably I forgot all about them by now! Sorry guys, had my heart SET on doing them myself. ;) (Nola you know what I mean heehee.)

Anyway let’s get to the reason I needed them! You have all heard about my Mommy and Me Group, we met when our babes were only a couple months old through our local health unit, they had classes each Wednesday morning on various baby topics and I decided to go to one. Well our class was sooo chatty and enjoyed each other’s company so much that when the classes were done we took down each others phone numbers and emails and have kept in touch via facebook and monthly get togethers. So all our kids are around the same ages (give or take 3 months) and they have not only been fun and company but also support, I am sooo happy I met them all! I have to log on to facebook at least once a day to see what they are all up to or I feel so lost LOL! And by now we have celebrated almost all of them turning one already! How time goes by! I have truly enjoyed getting to know them and look forward to many years of watching all of our kids grow up and welcoming a bunch more new ones! :)

So these sweethearts collaborated with hubby to throw us a surprise baby shower and it was SOOOO NICE!!!! I can’t tell you how touched and happy I was/am! It was so nice to know just that they were thinking of us enough to go to all that work. What a great bunch of gals! I came in and heard voices and when I came into the kitchen and saw them I started crying. So seriously sweet of them!!! We had a great afternoon visiting and opening gifts! Not only were these friends SO GENEROUS but they even brought food to freeze to make dinners and snacks easier after the babies come!!! Seriously awesome!! I have had to use restraint to not pop them into the oven already! ;)

We took lots of pictures but since my blog is open to everyone I won’t post them here as I don’t think they’d like their faces plastered on the net but once they are edited I will post them on my facebook page for my “friends” to see.

So a HUGE thank you to my gals, you made my mat leave so much fun and I can’t wait to watch our kids all grow up and keep in touch with all of you! You all mean so much to me and I appreciate it soooo much!

PS – A big shout out to hubby for cleaning the house for the party and getting me out and about that morning. You rock, but then again that’s nothing new! ;)

Baby Update

2009-08-06T23:13:00.000-06:00

So I had a doctors appointment on Tuesday and everything went fine. Baby girl is still breech...the stinker. The doctor gave me a prescription for diclectin again as my nausea and vomiting seem to be back again. :( In fact I had lost a tiny bit of weight since my last visit (yeah that would be the vomiting) but he wasn't concerned. Ironically enough I filled my prescription and took it that night and the next day was absolutely unbearably sick. How's that for irony! Thankfully I woke up back to "normal" today (that's my normal not actual normal LOL) cuz yesterday seriously knocked me on my butt.

I had another appointment today but only to do a Non Stress Test or NST. They hooked me and the babies up to the machine to show and record the babies' heartbeats and to see if I was having any contractions. Surprisingly enough I was having a few contractions that I couldn't really feel (about 3 to 4 in a half hour) but the nurse wasn't concerned so I guess that's ok. Babies did well too. Baby girl actually stayed put for 95% of the test! WOW! Baby boys patterns were great, he showed highs and lows as they like to see and baby girls were ok, she didn't do such highs and lows but still performed well. :)

And now I bring you the dumb mom moment. It finally dawned on me that what I have been feeling lately are indeed contractions even though they are not painful per se. What I thought was just somehow the babies stretching really hard against my belly to make it all hard is (DUH) most likely braxton hicks. My belly turns rock hard and it's a bit hard to breathe and a lot uncomfortable to walk etc and then about 30 seconds later they pass. Hmmmm can't believe I didn't realize that til today but yeah I didn't. Hey in my defense I have never had any in my previous pregnancies so I would only know what the real thing painful contractions feel like. I guess since my uterus is stretched much further than with either of those it would inevitably start to get irritable LOL.

Oh and I forgot to mention, I can't believe I forgot to mention, but alas I did forget to mention (LOL it's late and I'm feeling goofy) that at my last appt. my belly is measuring 40 weeks and I am only ahem 33 weeks, the miracle of twins LOL. So normally women this big would be havin their baby by now but we still have 7 weeks til my due date, yeah it's pretty comfortable around here...NOT. Ooops another thing I forgot to mention, I can't believe I forgot to mention, did I tell you I forgot to mention (ok, ok I get it, you don't think it's funny anymore LOL) but we also set my induction date just in case for September 8th.

Oh yeah and we moved Kelsey to her new bedroom last weekend, she's in love with it! So dear hubby spent all last weekend spackling, sanding, painting and carpet cleaning her old room for the new nursery. :) It's so much nicer now! Thanks babe, I can always count on him! Sorry ladies he's taken. ;) We also got a bunch of bankers boxes and organized the clothes that we have for the twins by size and boy or girl so we should be able to find clothes easier now when we need to move sizes when the babies start to grow.

Well there's lots more I could tell you but I am pooped! I will try and update again soon. We have an ultrasound next Tuesday and another NST Thursday so I will let you all know how those go. Off to bed, or at least the couch. ;)

Kelsey’s Birthday Pics

2009-07-29T22:39:00.001-06:00

Yes I am guilty of neglecting my blog but honestly I am soo tired and yucky feeling these days that when I do get a spare moment I am either napping (which I hate wasting time but I feel better if I do) or just vegging on the couch. I need more hours in a day but then I would probably have to spend those relaxing or sleeping too heehee.

So once again I will break my rule on talking about my oldest on here once again. Her 11th Birthday was great. Since they were still in school we let her open 1 present (a new outfit she could wear to school that day) in the morning. That night we went to dinner at Montanas. she had her choice and wouldn’t choose so she’s lucky dad didn’t win and take her to McDonalds, heehee. He’s such a joker! Afterwards we went home and opened the rest of her presents.

Here is our birthday girl

Spongebob cards, she’s obsessed with him LOL.

Sissy’s little helper (messy faced and all!)

It could be the spongebob card or the mall bucks inside ;)

Typical teenage attitude talking back to dad about something…like totally LOL!

She had been bugging us for a skateboard since before Christmas so she finally got it.

I can’t believe how fast she’s grown up and what a beautiful girl she is!!! She is such a good sister too and I have no doubt she will be to the twins as well! We love you honey!!!

HOLY COW!!

2009-07-13T19:36:00.001-06:00

The babies are each 3 lbs 9 ounces so just a tad over 3.5 lbs each! That means I have a total of 7 lbs of baby in here at only 30 weeks! Holy cow! How am I gonna manage to make it to 38 weeks? I really will be toppling down and/or bedridden by then! Keep in mind that I am also chasing a 13 month old around the house too. It’s definitely good that the twins are growing so well (they are measuring 31 to 32 weeks) but this definitely scares me. I could very well end up being induced at 38 weeks with 2 giant babies! Oh my! Everything in me says they won’t last that long if they are bigger but the rest of me says, not so fast…you will be waiting and waiting with these 2 like you did with Maddy. Oy!

Baby boy a is still head down and behaving as always, baby girl b is still the troublemaker and still breech. Cervix is still perfect at about 3.8 despite all of my braxton hicks lately so that’s good too! I’ll update again tomorrow after my OB appointment. Let’s hope everything goes as smoothly as it seemed to at the ultrasound today. :)

Maddy’s First B-Day Pics

2009-07-13T12:24:00.001-06:00

Well I finally edited some pics! YAY!!! I saw on the Windows Live Writer site that you could get a plug in to just transfer photos from Facebook so I downloaded that figuring I could save myself some work and phooey it won’t work for me. I must have the wrong version of something. So here I go again uploading pics one by one, it was worth a try. ;)

Maddy was quite shy this night as the whole family was over at our place. She’s not usually a huge social girl anyway so it’s not surprising heehee. She did really enjoy Uncle Paul’s help opening her presents! She had warmed up to him quite a bit by the end of the night heehee.

My 2 BEAUTIFUL girls!!!

Kelsey helping Maddy open a gift.

Maddy’s first birthday proved to be all about balls, she got big balls, little balls, a ball pit, a ball popper and she LOVED them! (We hadn’t given her any previously cuz I thought the dogs would wreck them. )

More balls LOL and her piano.

She just won’t let go of them!

That’s our girl! LOL!!! :)

Maddy LOVES books! She will go grab her favs and lock eyes with me and butt scoot over to me so I can “read” them. She never lets’ me read a full page before she starts turning the pages but it’s so dang cute! I just love watching her scoot to me book in hand!

Yes she even brought the balls with her outside while waiting for her cake!

My 2 beautiful girls again! (Sorry about the harsh light/shadows, I could have spent hours editing this one but don’t have the time.)

Maddy and her first pinch of birthday cake! We thought she’s go crazy but she started out tentatively LOL!

Still not that much of a mess…

Maddy loved these noisemakers so Sissy helped her out and entertained her with hers!

This little girl was definitely spoiled! And she had a great birthday!

quick ;)

2009-07-13T10:07:00.001-06:00

Just a quick little note that I have an ultrasound today. Can’t wait to see these little ones! ;) Since I am feeling soooo big lately I am thinking they are probably around 3 lbs each which is typical for a singleton at 30 weeks. They have actually been measuring a bit ahead each u/s so they may even be a bit bigger than that, we’ll see. That might explain a few of my discomforts and breathlessness. Measured my belly last night and it was about 50.5 inches around, yeah you heard that right! I am officially a weeble wobble although I am not sure I won’t fall down LOL! Will be back later tonight to tell you all how the babes are doing! Wish us luck! :)

Catch up Again

2009-07-10T14:17:00.001-06:00

Well there’s nothing like playing catch up and that seems to be all I do these days LOL! Sorry still no b-day pics, was busy on Wednesday but hopefully soon!

Maddy had her 1 yr checkup yesterday and it went well. Dr H said she’s doing great. She is 22 lbs, and …oops I just went to calculate her height and head in inches (vs centimeters) and ummm lets’ just say apparently the nurse didn’t get it right. My baby is apparently only 11.5 inches tall…NOT, so I guess I don’t know how tall and big her head is right now LOL. Guess I will have to measure her myself for her baby book. At least the weight is right though. LOL!

What else is new? Not much. I have an ultrasound on Monday and a Dr’s appt on Tuesday so it will be a busy 2 days. I can’t wait to find out how much these little ones weigh. It feels like they weigh a ton already! I also finally ordered my maternity nursing bras, yeah I’m excited about that….do you think that’s weird? I LOVE getting packages in the mail!

Mommy is doing ok. I am finding things getting harder and harder by the day physically and thus emotionally. But I guess that’s to be expected. Today has not really been a great day.

Disclaimer: If you are opposed to pregnant women ranting and raving then you may just want to click that pretty little red X in the right corner of your browser now LOL. No it’s not that bad but seeing as how just moving is getting harder even the smallish things upset me lately.

I haven’t been able to wear my wedding rings for sometime now, it bugs me, it REALLY REALLY bugs me. I feel naked and judged without them. (I am pretty sure that has to do with being a single mom my first pregnancy and all the comments I heard back then.) Anyway, so once again today I went to scour the mall for any fake wedding type rings in sterling silver (since I can’t wear anything but that or gold) and again no luck. :( Since I had fat fingers BEFORE I got preggo they are really fat now and all the glamour rings etc only come in sizes 6, 7 or 8 I was told today at every store I went to. Man, nothing like makin a big fat preggo lady feel good about herself. I mean it’s not bad enough that I am growing out of all my clothes, that my belly is that of a 39 week pregnant lady at only 29, that I can’t do any housework or take care of my family properly or do much of anything really, that I am sick all the time, that I have gained way too much and half of it seems to have gone to my face, that I just want to feel normal again but you have to add this insult to injury???? Ok now I’m crying, yes very stupid but no one ever said pregnancy was easy I guess.

So there you have it, miracles come at a very hefty price, it’s hard to take, it’s hard to stay sane and it’s hard to feel ok about yourself. But I guess it’s the price we pay for those sweet little angels who fill our lives with joy. Maddy and Kelsey sure do and these 2 will as well, I am just trying to make it through the best I can these days when pregnancy gets to be too rough.

And I bet you’re thinking all of this over a ring?! LOL yes, yes…that’s exactly what it’s all about and if you’ve ever been pregnant or been close to someone who was/is then you know just how sarcastic I mean that last sentence heehee.

Ok enough whining, I told you to click the X. Now go ahead and click the X, I’m done for now. Maybe I will try and edit a few pics of my 2 beautiful girls to put me in a better mood. :)

29 Weeks

2009-07-05T22:34:00.001-06:00

Seriously is that ALL??? Ugh! I am way huge already and that’s not so good this early in the game. I have visions of myself being induced at 38 weeks Jerry Springer style. Jerry Springer style? Yes Jerry Springer style, where they have to knock down a wall in the house just to get me outta here cuz I’ll be that big and it will be a big 3 ring circus! I am glad the babies seem to be growing and doing so well but it’s already getting harder and harder by the day. Have I told you my waist measures 49 inches around?

Since there are 2 (even though I am carrying low) it seems to be all over the place. But I definitely feel it’s lower than I’ve ever carried before. My tummy rests on my legs now and getting comfortable is a task in and of itself. I am too heavy to lean back but I can’t help but want to stretch to have more room for my belly. Fun times.

I know I am complaining, probably too much, probably a lot. But seriously this is so hard! Carrying twins is the hardest one so far and it’s still so early. I have mini meltdowns just because I feel sooo bad. I am tired of not being able to do much of anything and I am tired of feeling sick. (Yeah the nausea has come back some days unfortunately.) And these babies seem to think I should be eating steak and eggs for breakfast cuz it seems no matter what I eat I still feel awful afterwards.

Ok, enough complaining for now I guess. This oughta provide some amusement. I have a few pics for you. Here I am at 39 weeks pregnant with Maddy.

And here I am at 29 weeks with the twins

Pretty close huh? Here’s a side by side comparison. (The angles are different too which makes it look like there is more difference.)

I was carrying higher last time and no I am not actually bigger YET but I am actually pretty close and that has me scared. It’s gonna be a long 9 weeks!

Anyway, I am tired and need some rest. Maddy will be going to daycare Wednesday and I am so excited! I will miss her terribly but it will be nice to have a day where I can lay down all day and not have to get up every 5 minutes and wear this bog ole body out. I want the twins to come but not this early. (I can’t wait to not be pregnant although I am seriously not ready for newborn twins yet!) So on the daycare days it’s either doctors appointments or a type of bedrest prescribed by me to hopefully avoid complications in the future.

Ok sorry for all the preggo talk, I’m done now.

Disclaimer: I know these little babies are MIRACLES and I know I LOVE THEM, and I know that there are many women out there who want to and can’t get pregnant, so I am not trying to take this for granted…we all just need to vent and carrying twins has been just that much harder for me so I need to get it all out. I would have never imagined it to be this hard. I never have been the graceful happy pregnant lady anyway LOL! ;)

Another Baby Update

2009-07-03T22:53:00.001-06:00

Sorry for the silence. Been pretty busy lately and tired too. I had a Dr appointment this past Monday with another one of the OB’s cuz mine was on holidays and I must say I was impressed, he was very thorough and I like him a lot.

We talked about the ultrasound results, everything was great. We also talked about my back pain and he said that it’s from SPD (symphysis pubis dysfunction) which is quite common in pregnancy. I had it last time but it wasn’t in my back like this time. So I am going to try some massage soon to see if that helps. There was no sugar in my u.r.i.n.e. this time and my BP was perfect so that’s great news! He also talked to me a little bit about how they do twin births here. Apparently there is what they call the Case room which used to be an OR room that they now use for twin births, he said I will labor in one room and be transferred to this room to deliver. He also told me I would have a lot of people in there watching so not to worry. I told him that I had a lot in there last time so I wasn’t worried LOL. I did ask him though if there would be people monitoring me did that mean I would most likely be able to have an epidural and he said yes, YAY!! (Our hospital doesn’t usually give them, they say it’s a staffing issue cuz then they have to have someone monitoring you…well if they’re already going to be there it makes sense to give an epi if mommy wants one.) I was lucky and got one with Maddy last time because they had to regulate my contractions with oxytocin which meant a nurse had to monitor me so I was very thankful for that!

Anyway, that’s the latest news. I have another appointment July 14th and another ultrasound July 13th. I am pretty tired, been up way too late and been getting up too early so this mom is tuckered out. Plus I didn’t get my nap in today so that’s probably a big factor heehee. I am still hoping to get the girls’ b-day pics edited and posted but I need time and since I usually try and nap while Maddy is sleeping there just never seems to be any spare time. Hopefully I can get it done soon. :)

Baby Update :)

2009-06-25T18:00:00.001-06:00

What’s new around here? Well things have been busy and strangely enough this week I feel like I have just been hit with a truck. Not that unusual but it’s been worse than normal so hmmm wondering what’s going on.

Anyway, I updated on facebook but forgot to tell the result of my last dr’s appointments and tests so here we go. The ultrasound went great. Baby boy A is the way he always is, head down low and still on my right. Baby girl B is breech which means that she is bottom down and head up. She is a troublemaker already always stealing her brother’s space heehee. (Sounds like she’ll be just like Maddy!)
Diabetes came back NORMAL!!! 6.1 YAY! There was some sugar in my u.r.i.n.e. but I wasn’t feeling well at all that morning so that could explain it. We will just keep watching and if it happens again I might need to re-take the test. Last time I was borderline and so I chose to monitor and correct any issues through diet voluntarily. I really hope I stay clear of it this time, not only was that not fun but the lady at the diabetes clinic I reported to was a real drill seargent, she was brutal. Even one high number in a month and she was lecturing me. Seriously woman you should see what I eat when I’m not pregnant, your healthy little world would just explode LOL! It’s a good thing I crave healthy stuff while I’m preggo.
My blood pressure is creeping up a bit, the lower number I guess, so that is just something to watch, nothing too bad at this point.

Doc gave me a prescription (just in case I needed it) for massage/ physiotherapy for my back. He said that may be what I need to help my problems. He also said that the cramps that I am having are Braxton Hicks and as long as they aren't registering as contractions and my cervix is fine at my ultrasound they're normal, especially for having 2 babies stretching my belly.

I have gained the usual, about a pound per week. Not too bad for 2 they say.

I have another appointment Monday the 29th so I will update then again.

Online Shopping ;)

2009-06-25T11:08:00.000-06:00

So lately I have become an ebay buying junky, or online buying at least, cuz ya know I can’t forget Etsy too. Oh how I love Etsy!!!! I showed you the new backup bunny I got off ebay so let’s now show off some of my other purchases, just for fun. Here’s a gooder…it’s a maternity belt, VERY s.e.x.y. LOL!!!!

Seriously I have only worn it about 2 times cuz it’s not that great when I sit all day (the babies are really really low) but if I need to go out and shop and stuff it will help a teensy bit and hey we all know being too s.e.x.y. is what got us into this situation isn’t it?! ROFLMBO!!! SOOOOOO KIDDING!!!

I also got this baby from ebay a few weeks ago!

It's the Skip Hop Duo Double and it's a diaper bag made just for twins! I am so happy cuz EVERY Canadian online store I checked was out of it and it was really irritating me. So I did get a bit of a deal through ebay and the seller also threw in a few other nice things too so that was a plus. :) When I told my hubby that it had 16 pockets we was like…yeah so what. HELLO?! 16 pockets, a multiple mother’s dream! He was also rather amused that it was taking me so long to decide the night I bid on it , I told him I am not deciding I am looking in every canadian online store before putting my ebay bid higher to make sure I don’t pay too much for it. That WAS true but he also knows me well, I tend to have a hard time deciding on things and if you don’t think that could be possible look over some of my posts. ROFLMBO!!! Poor poor man.

And lately I have had the hankering to try my hand at making silver stamped jewelry. I haven’t really broken down and purchased all of the supplies (because they are quite expensive) but I did buy some and can’t wait to try them out for myself! I had a great idea for a little Etsy business (actually 2) and even though stamped jewelry is quite popular nowdays this little idea is something I couldn’t find when looking for something myself and I think it’s quite cute unique and clever. Now my only problem is execution and finding the time heehee. Since I’m a slow mover I wouldn’t want to tell you all and have you make it before I could so it’s stayin a secret for now. Yeah cuz the whole world reads my blog and steals my craft ideas! ROFLMBO!!!

Ok what else? I still need to buy a couple new nursing bras. I found the ones I bought here locally (like $115 or something crazy like that for one) online for like half to two thirds that price so I am definitely going to be ordering 2 of those for when the babies come. I’ll spare you the pic though HAHAHAHAHA!!! Well it wasn’t me modeling it anyway but ya know between the belt and then the bra I thought that may be a bit over the top.

Miscellaneous

2009-06-21T14:13:00.000-06:00

So why is it that this time (and last) all the weight goes right to my face and other places it shouldn't. Ugh. Seriously I feel like I look ok in the mirror but when I see pictures of myself I realize that my face looks awful! I can deal with the belly but it would be nice to at least look somewhat attractive, just with a cute belly KWIM? UGH! I know there are other things to think and worry about but it's still hard not to get depressed by how you look. On top of it all I am outgrowing all of my maternity clothes from last time, I can't really get any ones bigger, even in the city 1 1/2 hours away from me. I don't know what I will be wearing in a month or so but it definitely won't be what I am wearing now. Ahhh the joys of pregnancy.

I am 27 weeks today and yay for getting this far, guess I should just concentrate on that good news and the babies awesome weights!

I got my computer back, they really didn't say much except that it was fine but windows needed to be reinstalled. Uhhh yeah I know I tried multiple times and it wouldn't work! Whatever! So $126 later it's home and I am hoping to get it somewhat set up today so I can edit and post some pics from the recent birthdays etc. So that means there will be lots of posts with pictures to catch up on soon! Yay!

I will finish off with Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband and dad!!!! I hope your days are filled with love and family!

Kelsey turns 11! WOW!

2009-06-16T13:20:00.000-06:00

Wow I can’t believe that my oldest is 11. Kelsey is sure growing up. I don’t usually post much about her since she’s older and I wouldn’t want to embarrass her if she or her friends stumbled across this blog but since it’s her birthday I will throw that out the window for today. Heehee. ;)

There are so many things about Kelsey that I don’t want to forget. She is quite the character. ;) We are always telling her that she is weird, her retort…if I wasn’t weird I wouldn’t be me. Heehee, so so true!

For more than a year now she has been wearing different colored socks on each foot. I don’t know why, she says she likes it but I also think she figured out it takes less time to put the socks away if you don’t match them and less time getting ready if you don’t look for matched ones. That doesn’t sound like Kelsey at all. ;) She also has quite the unique sense of fashion. Many times we have to ask her to change before we leave the house. It’s not that she’s dressed badly in the traditional sense of things but that she mixes and matches things that don’t go together. Stripes and polka dots and plaid and camo all in one outfit LOL…again if she weren’t weird she wouldn’t be Kelsey and she’s so right. :)

Kelsey is also a lot like me at that age in that she talks……a lot! It is always an issue in class as it was always an issue for me so I guess she comes by it honestly. (I have to say now…I’m, so sorry mom and dad LOL!) I think it’s because of this chattering that she excels in Language arts and spelling too.

Kelsey is also a very talented artist! She can draw like nobodies business! Seriously! We are trying to encourage her to become a graphic designer for her future. I wish I could draw like that! She is always showing us her newest pictures and I am just amazed by how good she is, there is definitely natural talent there. She also loves to do any kind of arts and crafts too. A girl after momma’s heart.
Another thing that I think shows Kelsey’s true heart is that even on non special occasions you may find a note put on your pillow with a “present” on it (usually one of her stuffies) just saying how much she loves you. She’s such a sweetie at heart, even though these pre teen and teen years can be tough, that little bit of her is always still there. She has done this for as long as I can remember and it always makes me smile.

Kelsey is an AWESOME big sister! And if you can’t take our word for it Maddy’s actions speak louder than words. The first person to get a laugh from Mads was Kelsey, the first person to get a smile from her was Kelsey and on and on. There is a bond there like no other and it is sooooo awesome to see. Maddy sure thinks the world of her big sissy already and I just know she will in the future too!

When talking to Kelsey’s principal one day I heard something that made me quite happy. She complimented Kelsey on how she owned up to her part in any issues. Saying that she was quick to take ownership of her faults and actions when the issue warranted it. That was such a nice compliment to know that Kelsey had been listening and acting as we had taught her all these years. Again it just goes to show the true heart of this little one (ok not really little but you know what I mean) she really truly cares and is so very genuine.

And as much as I love my big girl Kelsey I miss the little girl Kelsey too. The one that was such a happy little thing. The one who at 2 would go up to other kids at the video store and hug and kiss them. The one who when she got excited before she could really talk would make a sound like dooga-dooga-dooga. (Just like Maddy’s flailing arms man, my weird girls LOL!) I miss the sweet cuddles and kisses and hilarious remarks that she used to make (although she still makes those). And even though I miss all those things I now have a beautiful, sweet, genuine and caring growing girl who has taken her place to love as well and that is wonderful too! Happy 11th birthday Kelsey! We love you SO much!

More Computer Woes

2009-06-16T13:18:00.000-06:00

So I tried re installing XP last night and it seemed like it was, then after 2 hours it said it was done and yet again...Error Loading Operating System ugh! So I guess I will be without a real computer for a bit. At least I have my netbook (YAY for that little gem!) but no photo editing capability again so rather than post Maddy's birthday recap without pictures I will just wait til I am back up and running again. Which is hopefully sooner than later. ;) Shed a tear for me folks LOL!

Computer Woes :(

2009-06-15T12:42:00.000-06:00

Ugh so my computer woes continue to plague me. Sometime last week this beloved box of mine started acting up. I tried all night to fix it and when I couldn’t I gave up and turned it off. When I came home from work the next night and turned it on I was so happy to see it back to life, alas that was short lived! I am so sad that it’s not working right. At least I have my netbook or I would go crazy but even it has been having troubles. Weird huh?

It seems (seemed) as though everytime I tried to fix either one using a system restore point that Windows would run an update and the problems would magically reappear. I am thinking that this is what caused the problem to begin with. Now my netbook seems fixed (thank goodness) but not my beloved big ole box.

Without photoshop I can’t edit my girlies 1st birthday pictures or do any layouts. I tried to see if I could do a repair install of XP and no go. That is not an option when I put the XP disk in. Then it seemed to come up saying something about a bad partition, I can’t remember. I googled it and it wasn’t good. And the newest thing…well it just starts up to a black screen that says it can’t load the operating system.
I am thinking I have to do a complete install of XP and lose everything. Now, everything extremely important is backed up thank goodness (!!!!!) but that still leaves me without my favorites (which is a huge list and will never be the same again), all my photoshop settings etc will be put back to square one, (NOOOOOO!!!) not to mention my other programs and all my software will have to be reloaded…one by one. UGH! And I am hoping that this fixes the problem. If it doesn’t, well I don’t even want to think about that cuz I will cry. Hopefully I can edit the photos some other way and also hopefully I can get the computer to work by reformatting and reinstalling XP. Here’s to hoping. ;)

Happy 1st Birthday Madison!!!

2009-06-13T16:22:00.001-06:00

Miss Maddy is a whole one year old today. I just can’t believe it. What a precious, sweet, mischievous, troublemaker, beautiful, smart, wonderful little girl! We are trying to make the day fun and ignore all of our usual weekend chores so I don’t have much time to post today. We went to the local lake/park to play for 2 1/2 hours and she had a ton of fun there. Then it was naptime and so we were busy wrapping presents and running out to get the cake for our little family celebration tonight. Next is dinner and the yummy cake! I will definitely post a better update tomorrow. This day is too special to spend it in front of my computer screen. :) Love you my beautiful Miss Maddy!!!

HELP, we are drowning in logistics and can’t seem to find our way out, seriously!

2009-06-08T10:52:00.000-06:00

First off let me say that Maddy will be 15 months by the time these babies arrive and that is if they go to full term which they won’t, they induce at 38 weeks if you haven’t already delivered. So she will more likely be 14 months. Given that she barely crawls much at almost 12 months I would say she may not even be walking yet at 14 months and even if she is she won’t be able to walk the mall or Walmart so we are in a pickle. Sooooo I need HELP deciding or at least opinions on our options. Poor hubby, I think I confuse him more (and irritate him but that’s a whole other post LOL).

Our problem…momma taking 3 little ones out of the house alone. Here are the options and the issues associated with each.

First off what we already own.
We purchased a baby trend snap and go stroller frame. These are lightweight (much more so than the double strollers) and can accommodate 2 infant car seats.

Of course when the infants move to regular carseats we would need a new double stroller. Not sure if we would want a side by side or tandem yet at this point. And again we already own this one but the box is unopened so if we decide to not use it I will try to sell it on facebook rather than try to drive up to Calgary and return it.

The next option
If we will have to buy a new stroller after the babies grow out of their infant car seats anyway (which Maddy did by about 8/9 months) then maybe we should just buy one of the double strollers now and sell the above thus saving us $100 (although the new stroller would be $250 at least) to use just the snap and go when the double strollers already have that feature too.

The third option
All of the above are great options…if you only have 2 children who aren’t capable walkers…but we will have 3 and I am no hulk Hogan to be carrying Maddy around all the time so we thought that this 3^rd option might be good. (We in fact drove to Lethbridge this weekend to try and see it in person and measure it etc only to find out that they don’t carry it ugh!) Anyway, there is also the Joovy Big Caboose.

This stroller can carry 2 infant carseats and has a platform on the back where a third child can sit (no backrest though) or stand. YAY we have found our solution. Wait a minute…Maddy will only be 14 months and the manufacturer says 2 ½ years, ok squeaking their age limit you could probably do it at 2 years. Uhhh by the time Maddy is 2 years the twins will be out of their infant seats and she would be able to walk better anyway. So do we get this one that still won’t help us much right now?

The fourth option…a Triplet stroller
Well finding a triplet stroller would be great, if it fit in our van it would solve all our problems BUT you try finding one in Canada! If you can find one the shipping will kill you and if you find a good one in the states not only will the shipping kill you but will your Canadian car seats (even if they are the same manufacturer) fit to snap in? (Using American car seats is prohibited by law so we can’t purchase the matching car seats except from Canada). Now on to the best part…….they are an arm and a leg, heck if we could sell the twins we still wouldn’t have enough to pay for one! (LOL just kidding we are NOT selling the twins or any of our other children I will become a pack mule and carry them all on my back before we do that! Well, Kelsey is a bit big to do that with so I guess she should walk but she still isn’t for sale heehee!) Anywho I digress. Wanna see what we wish we could afford? It even has a steering wheel! I AM NOT JOKING! ROFLMBO!!!!

It’s the perfect solution to our troubles however it comes with a $1200 pricetag American and the seats that may(because again they would be the Canadian version) fit in it are $300 each so honestly that would be around $2000 just so mommy could get out of the house by herself. UGH, not….going….to….happen (unless we win the lotto) so we can just forget this option all together. Although I have to admit I still look and drool heehee.

Sooooooo now that I have thoroughly confused you all let me throw some more in to the mix. Yesterday hubby was going to order the carseats cuz they are on sale. We are going to go with the Graco snugride this time because our Graco safeseat (now rebranded as Snugride 32) was way too big and heavy and Maddy didn’t stay in it long enough to take advantage of the extra weight it could hold.

So again, we have 2 options which really hinge on what we do above. We could get last years model which are on clearance for only $99 bucks each woo hoo a bargain, and I love the colors. BUT If we do decide to get a matching double stroller instead of using our stand alone frame we can’t get a matching stroller as these are being cleared out due to new stock.

We could however wait to see if the other color we like will go one sale, they are $159 now, and then we could also get the matching stroller that I showed above.

BUT hubby was thinking that once the twins grow out of their infant car seats we would get a triple side by side jogging type stroller for all 3 so should we just wait then on the double one and once they outgrow the frame then we move them to that one? Well that’s fine but if Maddy is older then would she really need a stroller? (Only for times when I am alone, ie short trips to the grocery store.) UGH probably not plus even that stroller is about $1000 bucks too which if we can’t afford that price tag now we certainly won’t be able to while I’m on mat leave. So now we don’t know which carseats to buy either.

My last and final option
Use the carts at the store and only go to Walmart and Superstore. Why only those places? Well because they have 2 tiered carts, one infant seat could go in the bottom, one on the top and Maddy in the front. Yeah I know I won’t have room for much groceries but it will just be for short trips by myself, so I can get a bin to put on the bottom of the cart to use. Yeah this is my best option although rather limiting. Yes we know you in effect have triplets and need to get out of the house every now and then momma to preserve your sanity but you are only allowed to go to 2 places until Maddy can walk well, K? Fun times LOLOLOLOL!

A few more notes: if we use the frame only I could try and “wear” Maddy and push the twins in their infant seats. But Maddy is quite heavy and ummm shall we say spirited heehee. I love her to pieces I honestly do, she is my heart and soul (as is Kelsey too) but let’s face it she is a bit of a high maintenance baby and I can totally see her being mad and not wanting to be “worn”. Sooooo if we get the double stroller (not just the frame) I could wear a lighter more compliant baby (I hope LOL) and have one infant car seat in one spot and Maddy could ride in the other seat. Sounds good doesn’t it. Well until hubby pointed out that during the winter (which is very often -30 around these parts, or even colder) that I won’t want the babies out of their carriers so maybe this logic doesn’t work. Maddy will be in a snowsuit he pointed out so that she can face the cold, ummm yeah but how do you “wear” a baby in a full snowsuit?! OMG SERIOUSLY COULD THIS GET ANY MORE COMPLICATED? Don’t answer that cuz if there happens to be a third hidden in here I WILL die!

So again back to the question I am begging someone to answer for us…how does poor mama leave the house without Daddy?

I know I said I already used my last option but honestly my last option is to now sit in the middle of the floor and cry. I know it all sounds complicated and you’re probably thinking it can’t really be that complicated….oh but it is once you start really thinking things through, or maybe over thinking things. (Don’t even get me started on the seating configuration in the van, if the car seats are so big that they take up all the room to the seat in front of them then how do you reach the backseats? Riddle me that?!)

Ok now that you have made it through this post I have to thank you for trying to help me and the babies out, well and Kelsey and hubby cuz if momma hasn’t left the house in weeks just imagine what I will be like. ;) I am honestly looking for feedback on what you would do, what you would purchase and what you think would work the best. I cannot think about these things anymore, my brain (what was left) is now mush and I need help to figure out what will truly be the best option out of a crazy situation. Sincerely, I hope you can help us out with your ideas! Thanks my friends! XOXOXOXOXOX

A big sister is fun even if there is 10 years difference

2009-06-06T18:42:00.001-06:00

One of the things Kelsey has been doing for quite some time is taking Maddy into her room to play for like a half an hour. They used to play and watch tv in there (before her receiver went kaput) and who knows what else. It was always so cute and nice to be able to do something and just say hey Kels why don't you play with Mads for a while.

Well they were playing in her room again this past weekend and I just couldn't help myself. I grabbed the camera and just started shooting away. They were so cute together! Maddy sure enjoys her big sissy. She was the first one to get a smile from Maddy and a laugh too. There's no one who can make her smile and laugh like her sissy.

They are too cute for words! (Doesn't Kelsey look big and grown up?!)

Fraidy Baby

2009-06-05T18:35:00.001-06:00

I showed you pics of Maddy's new swing set last week and she had swung on it once before...well she apparently hates it! Freaked right out when we tried to swing in either swing and go down the slide. Course she was having a bad day that day but ugh seriously, what a little goofball!

Worried...

Scared...

Freaking Out!

Oh and the swingset is not the only things this little silly girl is afraid of, wait for it...dun dun dun...sandals! Grandma got her little croc like ones last summer but they didn't fit 'til now so I tried to put them on her and she threw an absolute fit! Okay guess we'll buy some different ones. Um yeah...she totally freaked out in the walmart shoe aisle! Anytime we brought sandals even near her she started to freak out. Like I mean shaking and crying uncontrollably! So weird. So what did these good parents do? Why we bought her some sandals of course and are hoping that if we put them in her toy box that she'll make friends with them. Ahhh Maddy and her quirks! :)

Also last weekend she said hi and waved to daddy, she also said hi and waved to me too but she rarely does this. She will only do things when she wants to even though we know she knows how , there's a saying in our house that gets a lot of mileage, "That's Maddy". Her little quirks really make us laugh.

Our poor little bug was sick and playing post catch-up again

2009-06-04T18:33:00.001-06:00

It just always seems to happen that when they start going to daycare they get sick, it's so hard to see them this way. :( Well Monday when we picked Mads up her daycare lady said she wouldn't let her put her down at all after her nap and she was very clingy. Hmm not like her at daycare (but totally like her at home LOL). Well as soon as we got her home and in the house, she puked all over poor daddy. Uh oh. So we proceeded to clean her up and fed her only toast for supper and she seemed ok after her toast and a short nap. So at snack time before bed we fed her some chicken and watermelon and she seemed fine. She did fuss a bit more than normal in the night but she's been doing that lately with teething so we didn't really think about it.

The next morning we got up, got dressed and went in to feed her her bottle and she only drank half and boy was she warm! Poor little girl had a fever! So we gave her some tylenol and cuddled her til daddy left for work. She was actually cuddling right in too which is not like her, she usually is just too busy for real cuddling. And just after daddy left mommy got puked on, guess she's an equal opportunity puker. ;) So she had quite a good nap after we got all cleaned up and sat together for a while and seemed to be a bit better a bit that afternoon and her fever had gone down as well.

Here are some pics of her from Monday night when she seemed to feel better. Playing with Daddy. :) (Sorry there's so many, they were all just so dang cute to choose! Plus this will make up for all the times I don't post pics right?!)

She was just to expressive in these that I had to show them all. She used to always freeze when I brought out the camera but boy was she mugging that night. I think now that she has her own toy camera that she loves she's not so shy. And if you notice in a few of these you can see her top tooth pretty clearly and guess what, she's getting her other front tooth now too! It's just broken through a few days ago. She also is getting another one on the bottom and it looks like her eye teeth are trying to poke through. She sure is getting them all at once now! ;)

Last time I promised a picture of the belly so here it is, sorry I had to edit out a horrible shadow and am not about to edit the rest that all pretty much look the same so we are, me and the twins at 24 weeks:

Pretty big already eh? Yeah...pretty big already.

A Tail of 2 Bunnies

2009-05-29T13:33:00.001-06:00

Heehee it should be tale but I couldn't resist ;) Anyway I am sure you have heard me mention Maddy's infamous Bunny. Since he has to be washed and dried by hand it's always an adventure to get it back to Maddy in time for a nap/bed. The last time we didn't boy did she keep us up allllll night! So I decided to look on the internet once again to see if I could find a duplicate. You would think it wouldn't be that hard but apparently this bunny is just as special as Maddy thinks he is LOL!

You wouldn't believe my excitement when 2 weeks ago I actually came across a clone of our bunny! The only thing different this guy was that the bow color was brown and not creme. So I paid (again) a ridiculously expensive amount to have a spare bunny for her. I know she probably won't love this one the same but we plan on sleeping with it ourselves and then putting it in her room to absorb the "appropriate" smells and hopefully it will work. I was worried about the 2 different colored bows and that she would notice, well last week the bow on her original bunny fell off, how perfect was that?! LOL! So now I will just pull off the new bunny's bow and they will look somewhat similar (except for the ahem less than new condition of the old one LOL).

So here is a picture of the 2 bunnies. Seriously, did bunny actually look that pink and new when we bought him almost a year ago?! I cannot believe how dirty/gross he is and we just washed him about 2 weeks ago! Oh My Goodness LOL!

The Original Bunny in all his glory heehee

And the bunny the bathtime imposter ;)

We got smart and already bought the twins similar ones, yes they got 2 of each! I should go to walmart and buy all the rest and then sell them on ebay like the other people do at crazy prices that us desperate parents will pay to have their baby's lovey/security blanket/nunu back LOL! I could use a side job! ;)

Oh and I forgot to tell you, at my last doc appointment I was 23 weeks and my belly is measuring at that of a 28 week pregnant woman...oh boy...here we go! And yes pictures should come soon, I just want to look decent, maybe hubby will take a few this weekend.

Our Backyard

2009-05-28T10:17:00.001-06:00

So a friend of mine posted about her new swing/playard for her little one who is just a few weeks younger than our Maddy and since I had been putting off blogging about that I thought I'd share ours too. :)

Last weekend hubby was busy busy between putting this together and mowing/weeding the yard and getting it all summer ready! He did a gorgeous job and as always worked his buns off heehee. He's a keeper for sure! (Love ya hun!)

We wanted a swing set for Maddy and walmart was out of theirs and we couldn't afford the ones that are over 1,000 bucks so when we saw this in the Canadian Tire Flyer we thought it would be perfect and it was on sale! We also don't have a lot of room since Kelsey still has her trampoline that she got last summer so we needed a set on the smaller side. I do have to say that this is a bit smaller than we were thinking it was but it will work perfect for our little ones (2 who have yet to be born and 1 who isn't even 1 yet LOL!) until they are older and we have more room for a bigger one. We also got Maddy a sandbox because she really loved playing at the beach and then in the gravel at the park (yeah that was dad's doing! LOL!). Since we have 2 dogs and endless neighborhood cats we decided instead of using the space provided under the ladder/climbing wall and slide that we would get a good one with a lid. Don't ask how much this silly red crab was! But these are all Maddy's b-day presents along with a few other small things we will get her so hey it all works out right?!

So here is our lovely backyard!

Here is a pic of the whole back and side. I just love how it looks! Good job Daddy! (Don't even get me started on all the neighbors that have yet to do anything to their weedpatches oops I think they call them yards, they have been here longer than us since our house was one of the last to be built and have done nothing, oh wait I thought I wasn't gonna get started LOL!)

Here is a close up of Maddy's new swingset/playard. Yes the slide faces into the bark where the tress/plants are hahaha, but the slide isn't bolted on yet. ;) Maddy's not so sure about her swing, she definitely prefers the ones at the park since the blue one is kind of more restrictive in her movements so dad went looking for one of those and couldn't find one but came home with the cute orange car. We haven't tried it yet but figured she may like that one better since she will sit up higher and can flail her hands and arms around...remember she is our very own “wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man” roflmbo!!! See this post if you don't remember.

And just a little picture of her ridiculously expensive little red crab sandbox (again walmart was out of theirs so we got this at Canadian Tire too, apparently you have to buy your summer toys from walmart in January if you want to be sure to have any for June haha!) It's worth it though! Daddy is going to get some black rubber mats to go around and under this for us. :)

So there you have it, our backyard all ready for the summer! (Just in case mommy can't waddle to the park ROFLMBO!!!!! Seriously that WAS one of our justifications!)

I'm no Superwoman

2009-05-28T09:57:00.001-06:00

We had our OB appointment this week and things seem to be fine. Babies heart rates are good and so is my blood pressure and everything else. I do have to go for my Gestational Diabetes screening before my next appointment and am hoping I pass, but last time with only 1 baby I was on the verge so I am preparing for that possibility.

Before I start this let me tell you that everything is fine. ;) I have been feeling crampy now for a few weeks off and on, usually after activity and when I'm sitting down after it. It feels like m.e.n.s.t.r.u.a.l. cramps. Yesterday morning I got them on the way to work and they didn't go away after about an hour a half and with drinking water so I decided to go to labor and delivery just to be sure. (That was my doc's advice if they lasted for a while and didn't go away.) Yay it was absolutely nothing, they aren't contractions but boo for feeling like a dork! LOL! I never went in with any of my other pregnancies before delivery but it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't know why I am having these cramps but maybe it's from sitting all day because they go away when I stand up or lay down for a while. So I took the day off and am laying here in bed on my netbook resting my tummy muscles in hopes that they will go away. This pregnancy has really shown me I am no superwoman (not like I was before). I feel so bad for hubby because both of us are exhausted and with so much to do all the time, well it would be nice if we could manage to do more but I guess that's what everyone feels like eh?

My next u/s and appointment with OB are both on the same day June 16th which also happens to be Kelsey's birthday. :) Hopefully everything will be good then too and hopefully the GD test goes fine this time. ;)

Last Weekend

2009-05-24T14:04:00.001-06:00

So last weekend we took Maddy to a local lake/pond to play in the sand. She had a blast! She even tried eating it and when daddy would try and move her hand away from her face she would scream, she really wanted that sand LOL! So since I haven't shown any pictures in a while here are a few from that day. :) (Yay I FINALLY got some photos edited! )

Here's Maddy in her new hat

Such a cutie!

Such a troublemaker! She will NOT let this hat stay on her little head!

Trying to eat the sand

Look at how dirty I am! My legs are covered, I even had sand in my diaper! :)

I sure had fun! :)

So many things to remember to tell you ;)

2009-05-21T18:10:00.006-06:00

Wow so much to catch up on! Maddy is one action packed adventure LOL! She's getting way more teeth and we have been having trouble with her not wanting to eat her dinner, I think this is the reason. We went from garbage guts to pickier than picky! The whole top of her mouth is white gums like they are all there just waiting to break through and I think her right top one is almost there!

This past weekend was a long weekend and since my dayhome provider took thursday and friday off too I took some vacation and had a 5 day weekend! It was nice but Mads was so cranky with c.o.n.s.t.i.p.a.t.i.o.n and her teeth that it's wasn't exactly a relaxing 5 days heehee. We did take Mads to the lake or shall I say swimmimn hole LOL to play in the sand, hopefully I can upload those pics later this weekend.

She did say a few cute things this weekend, I don't know if I'd count them as real words since she doesn't say them often or they mostly just sound like a word but it's still cute.

Sat/Sun morning (can't remember which) I was feeding Maddy some baby cereal with fruit and she was acting like she didn't want to eat it. So I asked her "Are you sick of eating baby cereal?" And she said "Yeah" plain as day LOL it's not like she knew to say that then but it was hilarious!

She also dropped a toy and said "Uh Oh" and when she saw her sister jumping on the trampoline she said something that sounded a lot like Sissy. And tonight she looked at daddy and said hi. So she's saying words but not really understanding them yet I think. It's cute nontheless.

So today we had another ultrasound. I am 22 weeks right now and can I say already falling prey to aches and pains. I feel huge already and really struggle with wrapping my brain around how big I will get and how much longer I have to go. Babies are definitely miracles and I need to make sure to cook these 2 as long as I can but I really need to find the strength to be able to do it.

So everything looked great on today's scans, one is still definitely a boy. He was still showing it off to anyone who was looking heehee. The other is still most likely a girl although it was hard to tell since she was basically curled up in a ball today. The tech said they looked like they were spooning, how cute! Best friends already!

So their heartbeats were 142 and 143 which are good and they each weigh 1 pound .04 ounces which again is a bit ahead of their gestational age (I could have sworn she said 1.4 but the ounces would have been way off so it has to be 1.04). The ultrasound tech said we have 2 big babies in there, like singleton big. Ummmm I barely made it carrying one 8.4 pound baby last time...how could I ever carry 2 of them?!?! I am only 5 foot one for goodness sake and there is only so much room for rent! I guess these are normal worries for moms of multiples. But all in all everything looks good! So that is definitely something to be thankful for, for sure!

I have a dr's appointment this coming Tuesday, I'm supposed to get a non stress test but from what I've read and heard they don't usually start them til 30 weeks or so, I'm thinking it might be a scheduling mistake but whatever. The more monitoring the better I say. A non stress test is just where they have heartbeat monitors on your tummy for each baby and a monitor that measures if momma is having any contractions, that's it. It can take from about 20 minutes to an hour depending on if the babies cooperate.

Otherwise we are all here still, exhausted but still here. ;) I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of a maternity belt to help hold up my growing belly and I also finally found a bunny that is exactly the same as maddy's current bunny as a backup, don't ask how much I paid for it though LOL!

I would show you the pics from today but the stinkin scanner at work is still not scanning right so I will just scan them here at home this weekend, I am just too tired tonight.

Both the girls bdays are coming up soon so we are busy trying to think of gifts etc for them. My how time flies!

Ok well I have more to say but as I said I am exhausted and Maddy is whining like there is no tomorrow due to her teeth. I think we could both use an early bedtime. ;)

11 Months

2009-05-13T18:24:00.001-06:00

Wow how time has flown by, can our little Maddy really be 11 months old already?! It seems like just yesterday she was a teeny tiny newborn! I am so happy she came into our lives, there’s nothing like our little Madison.

At 11 months Miss Madison sure is full of personality, I want to make sure we don’t forget any of this so here goes!

Maddy is definitely stubborn and does things on her own time (her late arrival into this world should have been an indicator heehee). She has just started butt scooting (May 8^th)to get around a bit so YAY!!! She is finally moving, albeit teeny tiny moves but moves nonetheless LOL! I was going to video tape her and hubby said you won’t be able to really even see it on the camera yet anyway hahaha! Oh well, she’s doing it and again…on her own schedule. ;) Apparently she does more at daycare though. When we picked her up yesterday her dayhome provider had said that she went to the kitchen to prepare lunch and she found Maddy at her feet! She had scooted all the way over to her from the living room! She must have been in a scooting mood yesterday cuz she also scooted halfway across our living room last night to get to poor old Nelly (our pug) way to go Maddy!!! Guess I can maybe pull out that camera now eh?

Madison (aka Maddy aka Mads), well the name completely suits her! She definitely gets Mad and pulls attitude which we have dubbed Mattitude (get it?). She is one feisty little girl! For months and months now when she gets excited or mad she flails her arms about. It always brings to mind the “wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man” from the Family Guy cartoon. (google it if you need to, she does it differently but that’s what I call her when I see it although I can never get it right seeing as how it’s a mouthful!)

Maddy also gets bored very easily, she has ever since she was tiny, she can’t just sit in one spot for hours and play. She is also definitely spoiled with lots of attention and mommy and daddy and sissy to play with her so hey, maybe it’s not all her fault. ;)

Maddy LOVES to throw her toys! This started at about 3 or 4 months if I remember right and the nurses and teachers we all heard say that’s their new game to watch something drop and see if you pick it up again…well apparently Maddy is still in love with that game! She throws her toys in the van before we have even left the driveway, she throws her toys off the highchair and even when sitting on the floor she doesn’t just rifle through her toy box, oh no she picks things up and throws them to the side while she looking for something good to play with. Ahhhh I just love the little things kids do that show the become so “them” ya know?

Right now she says dadadadadada all the time, that’s most of what her jibber jabbering is, although I don’t think she has really connected dada or daddy when she says it to dad. She is also very fond of her daddy, there’s a special bond there and it’s adorable. In fact on Mothers Day she was totally enamored with dad and was so not into me that day at all…what a goofball! Those 2 are so awesome together!

She loves her sissy (sister) too and the 2 of them have a bond like no other. It’s so cute to watch them. Sissy would take Mads into her room and they’d sit on her bed playing with toys and watching tv for like 20 minutes, awwwww sister bonding time!

Maddy now has 4 teeth! She got her 3^rd tooth on April 25th, it’s the one on her lower left, right next to the 2 middle ones that were already there. And then on May 7^th her first top tooth (left) popped through! Yay Maddy!

Right now she eats a mixture of table food and jarred food although she won’t eat any jarred food but the purees so we usually give her meat etc from our plate and supplement the rest with a fruit or veggie puree. She also loves gerbers little crunchies and stars and eats those a lot! She doesn’t do formula anymore hardly, again with the stubborn thing, she has one bottle when she wakes up in the morning and one at bedtime and the rest is either water or milk. We tried every bottle and cup known to man and finally had to settle on some cheap bottles that a) weren’t glass and b) had a solid bottom. The ones we use for formula are great but don’t work for her to drink on her own because, well, they have an open bottom so she won’t drink but instead plays with the disposable liner inside that the formula/milk/water is in and makes a huge mess and doesn’t drink any. Like I said, ahem, she’s a little stinker LOL!

She claps whenever she feels like it and it’s so adorable, she gets this oh so proud look on her face! She’ll also wave but again…she is selective, we know she can do it but ehhh sometimes she just doesn’t feel like it. LOL! What a girl!

These are just a few of the wonderful and unique thing about our Maddy that I want to make sure we don’t forget as the time flies right on by. She truly is a handful, mischievous, monster, troublemaking, sometimes shy and reserved, adorable, hilarious, sweet, loving, smart and wonderful girl and we couldn’t love her more! Life with Maddy added is just that much sweeter for the rest of us!

Since we have a DVD Camcorder which means we have to wait til the disc is full and then do a bunch of extra work to covert the file type I just used my old camera to take this short snippet of Maddy playing tonight. Yes she still uses her bumbo to sit in the kitchen while we are making dinner. ;) Here's our little troublemaker. Enjoy!

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Randomness

2009-05-03T16:53:00.005-06:00

Geez ya know I had a huge post typed out, and since I have learned the hard way, I was highlighting the text to copy it in case it gets lost before its posted and well I lost it all URGH!!!!! It was good too. :(

Anyway today is our 4th wedding anniversary, 4 years ago today we were in awesome Las Vegas excited to become man and wife. Oh how time flies! Happy Anniversary Honey I LOVE YOU!!! Ahhhh if only we could go there and get away sometime soon heehee.

So last night we went out to dinner just the 3 of us Maddy and hubby and I (Kelsey was at a sleepover). We went to the lodge and had their buffet and let me tell you Maddy was a HUGE fan LOL!! She had a ton of prime rib, potatos, noodles, watermelon, chocolate cake and cheesecake! Our little garbage guts! I am so glad she is finally starting to eat so well because just a few months ago it was a fight to get her to eat solids. I never thought I be able to have a baby who actually enjoyed eating so we are definitely happy about this! Although her newest thing is putting the food in her mouth and taking it back out to look at it and then putting it back in LOL what a lady! She was also so cute waving at the waitress and flirting with everyone. After dinner we went to the park for a swing and a short walk. :) It was such a great night!

I forgot to say that after my shopping/errands Saturday I got home to find a dozen roses! So sweet! And then this morning I also got a rainbow amethyst necklace, wow! Hubby wasn't even supposed to get me anything let alone spoil me like this! What a sweetie! Shhh don't tell him that we don't want it to go to his head heehee ;)

Well this isn't even half the post I had but after losing the first post I just don't have the steam to keep going. Hopefully I will have some pics to share soon. :)

We're here

2009-05-01T13:55:00.001-06:00

Well it's been a while again hasn't it? We are SOOO Busy that time literally does just fly right on by, if only that were a good thing in many ways LOL! The last week or so has been pretty ugly weather so I can't tell you how excited I am for the weather to turn nice around here and it starts today! YAY! Hopefully a trip to the park can happen this weekend! We also saw a cute little swing and slide set on sale at Sears this coming weekend and think it would be perfect for Maddy. It is years 1 - 4 so she can use it soon as opposed to the other bigger playhouses we have been looking at. I think we may get this and get the playhouse next summer or the one after that when she's big enough. I think she would love the swing in this!

Well the time has come to tell a little secret, although everyone who reads this blog already knows I bet ROFLMBO!!! I was waiting to scan the pictures on the (better and fancier) scanner at work but since it's out of commission I will share the first picture I have and the rest later. We are expecting again! And it's not just one.....it's twins!!!! Oh.....My.....Goodness! Life will surely be even more hectic around here soon! So here is the picture of them at 7 weeks.

What I thought were 2 little eye sockets were actually the babies LOL! We were shocked and still are but we are excite too! So needless to say, having a 10 year old, a 10 1/2 month old being pregnant with twins and being back at work full time is NO EASY TASK! I am really counting down the days till I can leave on Mat leave again because it's quite hard to make it through the days. Sooooo hopefully my next entry I can share the pictures of the babies at 18 weeks! Oh yeah and their due date is September 22nd but they will induce me by 38 weeks if they haven't already made their arrival so I think it's pretty safe to say that they will come early, (unlike little miss Madison LOL!)

Speaking of Mads, I never did do her 10 month post, bad mommy! :( So here we go...Our little Mads is 10 1/2 months old and boy is she ever a cutie! She is also a little troublemaker and a handful but we couldn't imagine life without her!

She is STILL not crawling at 10 1/2 months, I have finally gotten over worrying about that so don't get me started again! She loves daycare but her way of greeting me is to smack me in the face hard cuz she gets so excited. She also throws her toys CONSTANTLY! She plays with toys in her highchair and they are all over the floor in a few minutes if not seconds! And in the car we sometimes don't even get out of the driveway before she has thrown all her toys to where we can't reach them. She is one mischevious little girl! ;) We should have known when she was late in coming what her personality would be like, stubborn and high maintenance (in a good way though) LOL! She is our darling and we just LOVE her personality even though it keeps us on our toes! ;)

She says dadadadadada all the time but it's really just babble still. She also says yeah-yeah-yeah too but no actual words along with recognition like mum or dada. That too will come in time.

Well it sounds like nap time is over so I better go see what our little troublemaker is up to now heehee! She lights up our lives whenever she's around and we wouldn't have it any other way!

We're still here

2009-04-23T21:22:00.002-06:00

Yay I think we are all finally over our colds, it only took 2 weeks! UGH! We think Maddy said her first real word last night...she said "hi" to herself in the mirror but wouldn't do it again so I don't know if it counts heehee. But it was sure cute! And apparently Maddy used her dayhome lady's legs to pull herself up to standing today! It didn't last long but she hasn't showed signs of moving so this is exciting for us. Also tonight we put the tv remote and a container of her little snacks just out of her reach on the floor and she was really reaching and did scoot a few inches to try and get them, which she doesn't do for her toys. So needless to say we will be doing more of that this weekend trying to encourage her to crawl. ;)

Well it's getting late (yeah late for me LOL) and I have to work tomorrow so I better jet. Daddy is off tomorrow so it will be a first ever Maddy and Daddy day and he's looking forward to it and I am sure Maddy will have a blast with him all day too. :) I can't wait to hear the trouble they get into. ;)

Oh and before I forget, every time we pick up Maddy from daycare she gets so excited to see us that she literally smacks me in the face for at least 30 seconds full force, what a girl...it actually hurts but she's just so darn excited and well it's still so darn cute heehee! What a girl!

Here's to a good friday and an even better weekend!

The Frazzled Mommy Diaries

2009-04-18T14:41:00.001-06:00

So I have not one but 2 crazy stories to tell you! I'll start with the one yesterday.

The Mall and The Beloved Bunny

We went to the mall (Maddy and I) to look for shoes for mommy and a new/smaller stroller for Maddy. We walked the entire length of the mall into Zellers, Sears and The Bay (which are all on opposite ends). When I get back to Zellers I realize.........OH NO..................BUNNY IS GONE!!!!! For those of you who don't know, Maddy has this little tiny blankie with a bunny head on it. This has been with her since day one, she sleeps with him and takes him EVERYWHERE and since she has started daycare she has started being really dependant on him even more. Sadly when I bought him months before she was born I wasn't in full on mommy mode yet or I would have bought 2 as he has turned into her "lovey" (or security blanket).

I was already exhausted (I'm very sick with a cold right now, not to mention other reasons which we shall leave secret for no lol) and ready to go home but we HAD to try and find Bunny so I buy a water (that I will totally need to get through the whole search) and take my other purchase out to the van to just make sure he isn't in there. Nope no Bunny and frazzled mommy that I am also leaves the water in there in my bag UGH! Now I know you're thinking I could just buy another but seriously I only ever have my debit card and for 1 water...yeah right they probably wouldn't even let me, plus I was in a huge panic.

So we backtracked to every single place we had been, I'm shaking, red faced and sweating and literally ready to pass out but the search must go on. This story does have a good ending though...Bunny was in the last place we looked and all was well again. Except for me who expended and exceeded my daily energy quota by like 2 weeks! UGH, it's worth it though.

The worst part about this? I kept thinking to myself that either it would be turned in or someone would take it for themselves...since we have all been sick and Maddy has been sick for over a week now I figured if someone decided to kidnap bunny at least they'd most likely get sick outta the deal ROFLMBO! That's sooooooooo bad isn't it?! ;)

Disclaimer: I have tried to find another one on the internet to get a backup but no luck, Bunny appears to be the only Bunny out there. :( Heehee

So there's yet another story in the frazzled mommy diaries, let's call it

The Mall and The Mega Exploding Diaper

Yes, yes I know you see a pattern here....I probably should quit going to the mall LOL! After another full day in the mall, this time Maddy and Kelsey and I, I grab Maddy from her stroller and go to put her in the car seat when Kelsey starts yelling and I feel something wet...I look back and there is poop ALL OVER the seat of the stroller!! Which I know means all over the back of her! UGH! So I figure rather than go back into the store with poop everywhere and since I can't really put her back in a poopy stroller I can try to change her in the back of the van........BAD IDEA!!

I didn't really realize how windy it was outside and well that freaks Maddy out. So we got the changing pad laid down on the back hatch of the van and laid her on it, we got her little jeans off and sweater off and found yup it was EVERYWHERE! Uh oh.....I only have 4 wipes! UGH what are we going to do?! (Maddy is screaming bloody murder through all of this mind you.) So I look around to find some blankets I could wrap her in to go and buy more wipes in the store and change her in there. While I am starting to wrap her up trying to not get poop everywhere she PEES!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!! I am seriously dying here! What the heck do I do?! So I figure I could put a diaper on her just to get her in (in case she peed or pooed again while I was walking into the store) but.....there is only 1 diaper left! By this time I am sooo frazzled and trying to figure out a way to change and clean a kid that has poo up to her neck with no wipes left and 1 diaper.

Thankfully a store employee came over and asked if she could help. I don't know if passersby saw us and sent someone out to help or if maybe she was out on her break but I started crying and saying I have no wipes left and there's poo everywhere so she ran in and got a bunch of wet paper towels for me, oh thank goodness! So I cleaned her up as best as I could and wrapped some paper towel around her and headed into the store.

Thankfully Kelsey was there to stay with the van because since there was poop all over the stroller I had to just leave it unfolded in the parking lot until I cleaned it up! UGH! Maddy hates the change table thingies in bathrooms too so she screamed bloody murder the ENTIRE time I tried to clean her up with soap and water and paper towels. It was a GONG SHOW!

Whew, now that that's done...guess what I have to go and do....laundry is calling my name and so is the stroller. I guess I should stay away from the mall from now on huh?! UGH! I'm still sick and even more tired now. ;)

Easter Recap

2009-04-14T15:33:00.001-06:00

Well what was supposed to be 4 blissful days off work turned into 4 days of not so much LOL. When we picked Maddy up from her dayhome Thursday night we heard a bit of a cough coming from the back seat...hubby and I just looked at eachother like uh-oh! And sure enough, thursday night it was just a bit of a cough but by Friday there was a runny nose too. She was now refusing to drink her formula so we tried water from a bottle and nope not that either. Ok water from a sippy cup? Nope not that. So we are now proud owners of every single type of bottle or sippy cup they sell in this town trying to get some type of liquid in her! Ugh but alas she just wouldn't budge this stubborn girl of ours! Saturday was more of the same...still didn't want to drink and now really didn't want to eat much except the pureed baby food (probably cuz it was easiest to eat). And Easter Sunday...well that was a day in it's own category LOL she was a little MONSTER! By 7 pm she had only napped 15 minutes and we basically just ran out of the in laws house after dinner cuz she was so bad LOL. Oy!

You're probably thinking hey dummies take your kid to the doctor but we didn't want to overreact to a cold so we tried a humidifier and saline nose "drops" and anything else we could do. Well by this time her cough had gotten worse and we said that's it. I don't care if the doctor laughs at us and tells us to go away at least we can ask if there is any over the counter meds for her cough since that seems to be the worst.

Well we took her to the walk in clinic and poor baby has an ear and throat infection! So we have her on antibiotics and are hoping against hope that she gets better soon! When I called her dayhome she wasn't surprised, she had 2 other kids sick over the weekend! So...Maddy has been at daycare for 2 weeks.....what's the incubation period for a cold?! LOL! That's ALWAYS how it goes, once they go to daycare there's no telling what they come home with.

So here's to hoping my poor little Easter bunny is on the mend. She seems a bit better, her nose is less runny and we have gotten 2 half bottles in her yesterday so that's progress.

Not many pics from Easter since Mads was so sick but here is Daddy and Maddys and my 2 cuties with their bunny ear headbands on...I just had to buy them! LOL! YOu can see MAddy's little snotty nose and red rimmed eyes in here, poor little bug!

Maddy's First Trip to the Park

2009-04-14T15:32:00.001-06:00

So even though she was sick since the weather was so nice we decided to take Mads to the park and hope that the fresh air would help with her poor little nose. She really had fun although it's hard to tell by her expression, heehee...hey give the girl a break she's sick LOL!

Checkin out the swings

One of my favs below!

And again another fav!

Maddy was clapping and Daddy decided to join in on the fun :)

Mads and Dad

Down the slide we go!

Wheeeeeeeee!

That's Kelsey in the orange tank top behind Mads, sucha daredevil, she was running all over the park. I guess we were just too slow for her lol! ;). Mads looks a little worried to be sitting there without Daddy heehee.

Another favorite

Well Mads is up now. At least I got all caught up and posted pics for ya'll! I will write again soon...I hope!

Ashley Furniture Parts 2 & 3

2009-04-14T14:40:00.001-06:00

Well unfortunately Ashley still sucks but there is nothing we could do about it. We got our furniture "fixed" and delivered and in the process of their delivery people bringing it into our house it was damaged yet again, UGH!!! Our patience was gone and even though it's not me at all, we just said s.c.r.e.w. it. We took the darn furniture and had to call Ashley to have them come to our house and repair it. After a few days of waiting for them to call as they promised we finally had to call them and schedule an appointment. They gave me a 9 to 5 timeline for the day the tech would come and told me they would call the day before to narrow it down to a 2 hour window.........so knowing their customer service do you think they did that? NOPE! So I called that night and they said sorry the lady has gone home we don't know when it will come. So I called again first thing in the morning and got my window of time...then the next thing I know the tech calls and asks if he can come now? It's a good thing I was home! So long story short cuz I just can't be truly bothered to stew about this anymore, he came, he fixed, he went and that's the end of the story folks.

We bought from Ashley furniture, paid full price, and got TWICE damaged and fixed furniture still for full price, if that doesn't say scream refurbished I don't know what doe?! If this appeals to you along with long waiting periods for delivery/fixing and HORRID customer service then these guys are for you. If not DON'T EVER SHOP ASHLEY FURNITURE!!!!

Hodge Podge Catch Up

2009-04-14T14:32:00.001-06:00

So since I am a bad blogger here are some of the highlights from the last month and a half.

One of my very favorite things is that Maddy claps (I already told you that though) but it's still a favorite and we try to get her do it anytime we can. :) Maddy is still not moving, she's quite content to just sit there and be catered to...guess if we didn't cater to her maybe she's wanna move LOL!

A big change...I have gone back to work. I started back on March 30th and let me tell you it is HARD!!! I still have mini-meltdowns most nights when I come home and realize how much there is to do it just literally overwhelms me and that's even with hubby to help! UGH!

Going back to work was especially hard for me to leave Maddy, I still cry many times when I drop her off LOL! In some ways daycare is good for Maddy and in some ways not so much. She has definitely learned to eat more varied foods...at least at daycare (not for mommy though), and she has really started babbling! She really only has a few sounds but she really goes to town sometimes. So what sound is it? Welllllll she says da-da-da-da...so I think it's safe to say her first real word will be dada since she's already got those sounds down pat. No matter how hard I try to get her to say mum-mum-mum she just won't LOL what a stinker! She seems pretty happy there and it's nice to know she is enjoying herself and the other kids. The bad things? Well she really needs her stuffed bunny/lovey now, which isn't bad but since I know she needs it to remind her of us/home it does make me feel bad that she feels that way. But then again I am a mom and am allowed to feel that way.

What else? Its' so hard to remember that far back heehee. so I better just post this or it will sit in my drafts folder until I can remember and then it will be another couple months passing before I post it. ;) There's just never enough time or energy!

Mini Vacation 2009

2009-04-14T14:22:00.001-06:00

Yes, yes I admit it, my name is Michelle and I'm a VERY bad blogger, this post has actually been sitting in my drafts half done for over a month! Sorry but the energy just isn't there lately to do much but the essentials.

We had a great time in Banff tagging along with hubby while he attended his conference for work (I thinks it was back around March 13th, and nope not one picture...what a bad bad mommy and scrapbooker LOL!) . It was quite cold though and since Maddy is still so young we really don't like being out in that much cold for too long so there wasn't a whole lot we did outdoors but hey it was nice just to get away. :)

The girls and I went to breakfast every morning and then swimming. The pool was set up more for a swedish spa, were you go from a small hot plunge pool into the main pool which was quite cold unfortunately. Kelsey didn't mind it at all but Maddy (and her mommy) couldn't get warm in there so it was the hot pool for us and when we got to hot we sat on the steps with only our feet in the water. It was still fun though. :)

Maddy did way better then we thought on the trip although she really sleep as much as we expected but on the last leg of both ends of the trip when she got fussy we just hooked up the travel DVD to the back of the seat and played a baby Einstein video and she was totally and completely enthralled! It was so cute! I mean she loves those at home but it was so funny that her reaction was even better in the car. We also used a laptop to play them in our hotel room and wow the same crazy cool reaction LOL that girl is funny! Kelsey got a souveneir for herself at the rock and gem store (a necklace with a shark tooth on it) and a few little things to bring back to her friends and was pretty happy about that.

By the end of the few days we were all happy to get back home and into our normal routines and beds!

Ashley Furniture SUCKS!!!!!

2009-03-08T21:36:00.001-06:00

I hope everyone who reads this will stay away form that awful store, I wish we had! :(

It's a long story but I'll try and keep it somewhat simple. Our couch and loveseat are in pretty bad shape, the couch is ripped (it's leather and 6 years old) in so many places it's just getting ridiculous. So my dear hubby sacrificed a TON and we were on the hunt for new furniture (you probably saw all about that in my earlier posts). We finally settled on a set from Ashley Furniture and were so excited about our new furniture.

Well when they showed up for delivery the driver tells me that the couch is damaged, uhhhhhh what? I totally thought he was kidding so I stood there and waited for the punchline until I realized he wasn't kidding! WTH?

He said that the warehouse in Calgary had told him about a patch on the back of the couch, I asked him why they would even put it on the truck knowing it was damaged and he said they just told me to go ahead and load it. After discussing this with him I decided to take the loveseat and refuse the damaged couch. So they went to the truck to get the loveseat, they were gone too long and came back with more bad news, the loveseat was damaged worse than the couch. So I went out to the truck to have a look at both pieces.

Sure enough the couch had 2 spots that looked all mottled and a few scratches on the back. The loveseat was in bad shape too, there were nail heads sticking out into the leather, you could see the nail head under the leather and when you ran your hand along the back the ones you couldn't see, you could definitely feel! So it was just a matter of time before they completely poked through the leather not to mention the leather was all stretched out over the nail heads!!! Wow how could they have sent me this KNOWING FULL WELL IT WAS DAMAGED?! The delivery driver admitted such, and said this is a typical problem he is having. In fact the delivery before ours was refused due to damages too! (Of course everyone else at the company denies this, stinkin liars!)

Well if that's not bad enough here is the kicker: Ashley does not want to reorder the furniture for us, they have "technicians" who repair these items and then they will come back to us at showroom quality. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT?! I didn't pay for re-furbished!!! That's why furniture stores have a scratch and ding area, a clearance area, an as-is area. That's how places like XS Cargo and Liquidation World get their merchandise THAT IS NOT WHAT WE PAID FOR! So after fighting for a while hubby and I decide to just get our money back and go to a more reputable furniture store in town............uhhhhh ASHLEY DOES NOT OFFER RETURNS OF ANY KIND!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?!!!! Sooo not only did we pay for damaged furniture, which we do not even have in our possession but we also have no right to get new furniture for the full price we paid but we get refurbished and fixed junk for brand new price and we just have to take it!!!! We both fought with them for hours and hours and got the same crappy responses, a total script from Ashley, "our technicians are good that's why we employ them, blah blah blah, it IS new, blah blah blah, yes I would take damaged furniture myself, blah blah blah, there's nothing more I can do, blah blah blah" And they won't even take any money off for all of this hassle either! They have the WORST customer service! When hubby called the salesman he said I'm just the salesman and basically hung up after that. The store Manager was really no help either. We were told that all of this was in our contract and that we should have read it. Cuz yeah we expected to be totally screwed by these people and we had time with the high pressure sales etc to read, whatever! What a CROCK!

Anyway, we are really upset over this and have vowed to tell everyone we know to NOT shop at ASHLEY FURNITURE! They stick to their crappy policies which again are:

- If your furniture is damaged when it arrives they will get one of their technicians to look at it and repair it and it will then be shipped back to you (So in other words you get used/re-furbished furniture for top notch prices.)

- Ashley does not accept returns/refunds (So when the above happens you have no rights and you certainly cannot get your money back to get what you feel you paid for which is NEW FURNITURE and nothing LESS!)

So PLEASE BOYCOTT ASHLEY FURNITURE and their policies!!! They deserve to be run out of town for the crappy customer service, lies and the blatant passing off of damaged/re-furbished furniture as new!!!!!!!

Thanks for listening to my rant.

She claps and it's sooo dang cute!

2009-03-08T21:06:00.001-06:00

So after reading that a friend of mine's son who is about the same age as Maddy likes to watch mom clap I started doing that for Maddy. She really liked it, she would grab my thumb in each hand as I clapped too.

Well last week all of a sudden our little girl got this proud little look on her face and started to clap on her own!! It is SOOO CUTE!!! Another night last week we were all sitting in the living room playing and she started clapping and of course looking sooo proud of herself as always happens when she claps, and we were all so excited and happy that we would clap and giggle and yell yay when she clapped and so she would giggle and clap some more and it was a vicious circle, it was adorable!!!! Of course I ran for the video camera but argh the battery was dead, but she is starting to do it more often so hopefully I will catch her soon! And today Daddy turned the TV to Bob the Builder and she got all excited and started clapping all on her own, I guess she thought Bob the Builder was pretty cool, at least for a few minutes.

I just love these little milestones. I think blowing kisses is something we are going to start doing/working on. :)

Talk about Mommy Brain

2009-03-03T13:29:00.001-07:00

So I was in the Starbucks drive-thru yesterday (LOL yes I know I am addicted!) when I looked at my license while I was waiting with my wallet open to pay. Since I never go to bars and don't buy anything needing id I guess I, nor anyone else for that matter, ever look at it. Well it expired in April of 2008!!!!! Almost a whole year ago ROFLMBO!!! I was so nervous when I saw that that I would have to retake all the tests and stuff but thankfully you can have an expired license for 3 years before you have to do that, whew! Talk about major mommy brain! Hubby was soooooo not surprised when I told him LOL! And a new thing here, about 6 months ago they decided to change the rules and NOT let you smile in your picture so my new picture is horrid!!! Oh well, apparently it never gets looked at anyway LOL!

I got a phone call yesterday and apparently our furniture will be arriving even sooner than expected, this Thursday to be exact!!! YAYAYAYAYAY YIPPEEEEE!!! Can you tell I am excited? Heehee. Thanks to my wonderful hubby who sacrificed a lot for us to get this new furniture, you're a wonderful man and a perfect husband! Mwuah!

That's about it from our neck of the woods for now. :) Maybe I'll have a nice drive in our nice weather later since I am now legal again ROFLMBO!!!!! ;)

Catching Up

2009-03-01T13:45:00.001-07:00

Well here I go again not blogging often enough, I'm so bad at that lately it seems. Not much new around here. Maddy is sleeping really well in her crib and I couldn't be more proud of her! She usually sleeps right through from 8:30 until about 5 or so and then wants a bottle and then goes back to sleep until about 8. The only thing is that now she has decided that she doesn't want to have another bottle again when she wakes up for a while. I wait (and since she usually only goes 3 hours during the day between bottles) at 4 hours I try again and she still won't drink the darn thing, what a stubborn little diva I tell you LOL! That's our girl. ;)

The basement is sooo close to being finished, just the finishing touches (minus the bathroom that won't be done for a while) so since our furniture upstairs is dying a long drawn out death we decided to go and look for some new stuff, while the upstairs stuff will then go downstairs. We looked everywhere and finally settled on a brown leather (with 2 pugs it has 2 be leather!) reclining sofa and loveseat from Ashley Furniture. They had the best deal and the softest furniture. All the reclining stuff at the Brick was hard as rocks! So I am very excited and it will be here March 14th YIPPEE!!! Nothing like new furniture to brighten a day. Wanna see it? It's nothing special, it really just looks like a brown leather couch but hey I can't go picture-less in this post now can I?! ROFL!

Ican't WAIT to recline........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Not much else new here really. It's all the same. Maddy is doing great, growing and being a little cutie and Kelsey's growing too and well acting like too much of a teenager for our tastes already but I think it's the times we live in, they just grow up so fast now. (Man I sound OLD heehee!)

Oh did I forget to tell you that I am going to my FIRST movie since having Maddy?! I am SO EXCITED!!! Unfortunately I can't go with hubby, someone has to watch Maddy LOL but a few of my girlfriends and I are going to see "He's just not that into you" tonight and I am so excited! I am sooo going to chow down on some nasty nachos and $7 pop too! ROFLMBO!!! I better take advantage of it now! ;)

I also found a great dayhome lady that came highly recommended by my aforementioned friends and Maddy will start going there soon when I go back to work. I hate having to go back but it will all work out in the end. I am sure Maddy will have a hard time at first but here's to hoping this gives her a bit of needed independence from mommy as she won't even let me out of arms reach.

Well I better go and do something productive with the rest of Maddy's nap time today. Hopefully I can start being a better blogger soon! ;)

Big Girl Sleeping

2009-02-17T13:33:00.001-07:00

Well I decided to bite the bullet and finally do what I said I would do forever now, move Maddy to her own room in her own crib. We started the night before last night and I was dreading it! I put her in her crib with her 2 usual blankies and her bunny and rubbed her belly a bit and off I went. She didn't even make one noise!!!! I was SHOCKED! I couldn't believe it! I thought wow we got lucky, until the middle of the night LOL! She seems to go down decent but starts to wake from about midnight to 4 am. Course it didn't help that night that our stupid neighbor had a party and music blaring still at 4 am, jerk! Hubby went over and asked him to turn it down and of course, they didn't. Anyway, I get sidetracked LOL. So needless to say we were all pretty tired yesterday.

Well last night she went down ok again, made some noise but not the hours of consistent crying that I was expecting at all. And again with the midnight to 4 am issues. Although to be fair she developed a really runny nose yesterday and was struggling with it all day so I don't think that's helping the situation. I have to say my poor hubby, at about midnight he rolled over and asked me if it was feeding time and I snapped "apparently it's mommy doesn't need any sleep time", yeah I'm tired and cranky lately LOL! Anyway, it really is going better than I thought it would I would just prefer the freaking out to happen while I am still awake vs 4 am but hey this too shall pass...soon I hope LOL!

Kelsey is off all this week for reading week and so we both went to get haircuts this morning, yay! Well hers is yay and mine is well not great but whatever, I guess it will grow. I really only wanted a trim to take all the ucky dead ends off but she kind of did some funky things to it. My bangs are VERY short, super hip on some people, super dumb on me. Man I hope this grows out soon. It probably won't be so bad once I try and style it but it definitely wasn't the pick me up I was hoping for, exactly the opposite.

So have I sufficiently bummed you out yet?! Geez I sound like an ungrateful whiny brat don't I?! Ok, despite all of this I am very thankful to have my family and my health. Does that make it sound better? ;) Seriously I guess we all just need to rant now and then. At least y'all know I'm real. LOL! I'm off to do some much put off chores and to see if I can make some sense of this crazy hair.

Lucky Friday the 13th

2009-02-13T13:35:00.001-07:00

Today is a lucky day for us, 8 months ago today on the last Friday the 13th our newest little girl was born. :) Just a note to say Happy 8 months Maddy! We love you so much! You are such a great addition to this family, you bring joy to not only our lives but to your big sister's as well. Watching the 2 of you and your special bond is so much fun! No one can make you laugh as much or as hard as your sister and is so special to me. :)

Maddy's SECOND tooth!

2009-02-12T08:20:00.001-07:00

Two posts in one day?! WOW! This is just a quick one to say that our little Maddy got her second tooth on Feb 10th!! YAY MADDY! It's on her bottom right, right next to her first one. :) She looks so cute! If only I could get a pic of her little teeth, little stinker won't cooperate heehee.

I also had a bit of a panic attack this morning...I though Valentines Day was tomorrow! I went out and got Kelsey's valentines for her class yesterday and thought oh I have plenty of time for the rest. Uhhh yeah right! LOL! So I will either be shopping quickly today before our mommy and me playgroup or shopping even faster tomorrow. ;) I'm glad there's still one more kid/hubby free (ok not kid free but Mads doesn't notice what I buy for her yet anyway LOL) day to get the shopping done. Bad Mommy!

HAPPY EARLY VALENTINES DAY to everyone we know and love!!!! Mwuah! (That's supposed to be the sounds of a kiss LOL!) XOXOXOXOX

Over a week?

2009-02-10T08:09:00.001-07:00

Ya know like I said before I really can't stand it when blogs I love to read aren't updated 5o times a day for my viewing pleasure ROFL!!! And here I go again doing the same thing. I really LOVE reading blogs, maybe I'm a voyeur I don't know. I am pretty sure most everyone else out there with a blog enjoys reading blogs too so I know I am not alone for am sure! (Thanks Nola!)

Not much to report around here. We've just been going about our regular routine. Maddy has gotten herself a new routine that Mommy doesn't so much like LOL, she usually wakes up sometime around 2 to 4 to eat and well I miss the days she slept through (although those were quite long ago). Speaking of Maddy she's up and it's still early, that seems to be happening more often too NOOOOOOOOO! Momma needs some sleep little one! ;) Hmmm sounds like she fell back asleep, yay!

We had a very adventurous food day the day before yesterday. (I started writing this a few days ago and it got ut into my drafts cuz I just can't seem to finish anything on time lately heehee.) I bought her some Mum Mum's (rice biscuits) and some little finger cereal that dissolves in your mouth and she loved them! It didn't take her long to realize what to do with them either. Unfortunately this love of food didn't carry through to her baby food. I am still struggling with this little stubborn princess who really doesn't like much at all in the way of eating. :( Sooo I am hoping that these new goodies will make her start to enjoy eating and may (eventually) carry over into enjoying eating her baby food. Here's some pics of the little cutie with her MumMum's.

Look Ma no hands!

And I LOVE This one. Look closely...she is trying to put her sucky in her mouth with the MumMum already in there! LOL!

Daddy made us some chocolate tarts that night and decided to eat the leftover pudding, well we decided to give some to Maddy just for fun (cuz she never likes anything) and holy cow she is a lover of chocolate pudding ROFL!!! So I am sure we gave her way to much but it was fun to actually see her enjoy something and keep opening her mouth for more and trying to steal the bowl from us. We don't get that when feeding her anything else so we had fun with it for sure!

Do I look Chocolate Drunk here? ROFL!

Ooooooo good stuff!

Watching big sissy being silly.

And of course laughing at big sissy, she's the only one who can make her laugh the hardest!

Well it sounds like the little darling is up again. I better go and get our day started. :)

Randomness

2009-02-02T14:35:00.001-07:00

I hate it when blogs I read aren't updated like daily at least so here I go going a whole week (or more) without updating myself. Things are busy here as usual. Maddy had some shots last Wednesday and she still hasn't fully recovered from them. She's been cranky but at least she slept better last night so that's hopefully a sign that she's on her way to feeling better. She has definitely gained weight since her 6 month check up (back when she was so sick) and is up to 17 lbs 4 oz YAY!!! Still a petite little thing although we do love to laugh at her blossoming little buddha belly. ;)

The basement is close to being done, carpet gets installed tomorrow so that is super exciting!!! It will be so nice when it's done to have all the extra room! We're gonna need it when Maddy starts crwaling for sure! She's still not showing any signs of that yet but she sits and plays so well now. :)

What else is going on here? Hmmm, really just trying to make it through every day. Unfortunately the winter doldrums have hit our house and everyone is feeling it. We need to move somewhere that winter doesn't really exist LOL! I can't wait for the weather to be nicer but that also means me going back to work so I guess that's one thing to be thankful for about the ugly winter weather heehee. Well that's it for now, I hope everyone is getting through your version of winter without the winter blues sneaking up on you too. Stay warm everyone!

Guess what happened today?

2009-01-23T13:24:00.001-07:00

I felt Maddy's first tooth!!! We were sitting on the couch after finishing a bottle and since her gums seemed to be getting a bit whiter in areas I thought I'd check to see if anything had worked its way through yet and sure enough there is the top of a sharp little baby tooth on her bottom left side!!! YAY!!! I can't believe my little girl finally got herself a tooth! :)

Also I *think* she may be starting to like baby food somewhat. She still doesn't much like cereal or fruit or even desert but it appears that she likes creamed corn, ok so lets try more veggies. So we tried some sweet potato that I had made a while ago before her baby food strike began and she actually ate that and seemed to like it too! So today we have had some more sweet potato and I went and bought a bunch of new veggies to try too. Maybe the little stinker just doesn't like sweet things, go figure! LOL!

So things are pluggin along at our house. Busy as usual and unfortunately we are in a yucky cold snap. Here's to hoping it goes away SOON and we can get back to temperatures if at least -5 celcius cuz that's a lot easier to bear!

Rambling...

2009-01-21T22:48:00.001-07:00

Sometimes even though things may look perfect on the outside, things are not what they seem on the inside. Wonderful families worthy of envy are shattered. Why am I rambling you ask? Well there has been some disturbing news coming out of our small city and unfortunately I know the "victims" of this. My heart absolutely breaks for them and I just cannot fathom the incredible pain they are in. We are thinking of you so much and wishing we could do anything at all to help you through this unimaginably hard time.

This all makes me very thankful for what I have, my kids, my wonderful husband, my family. It has taught me that those who seem to have it all can be in even more pain than you, there is no utterly perfect life. I hope that their hearts can be healed, they deserve more than what they have gotten. May G.O.D. bring you peace.

So hug and kiss your family, tell them that you love them and appreciate them for all of their faults, it could always be worse than dirty socks left on the floor, chores left undone or snippy remarks...there are some who can only wish those were the biggest of their problems.

She's actually sitting :)

2009-01-18T22:14:00.001-07:00

So I forgot to mention (yes I know I'm a horrible mom lol) that Maddy has been sitting for up to like 15 minutes at a time starting last Friday Jan 9th. YAY MADDY!!! I am still too overprotective to let her just sit there without me (or at least the nursing pillow behind her and me behind it) but she is doing sooo good. Although, if we do put the nursing pillow behind her she lays back onto it like it's her own personal lazy boy recliner ROFL! This girl sure is one of a kind!

I am getting tired of my Christmas themed blog but I don't have the time or energy to change it now so I guess it will have to stay that way for a while longer.

I finally got Maddy's wooden letters done for above her crib. I made the papers myself to match her bedding and the ribbon they hang from is cute too. It took me forever but I love the end result, I will definitely have to hang them soon (LOL) and when I do I will take pics.

Well that's about it. Life is crazy hectic busy but I am trying to blog to keep family and friends updated on Maddy's life and also to use it for my own recording purposes so one night I may actually write all this stuff down as to when she first ate food, when she first sat, etc...etc. I know lazy bad mom again here heehee.

Ok hopefully off to bed, this momma is wiped!

WOW has it been that long?

2009-01-15T13:37:00.001-07:00

Hmmm didn't realize I hadn't blogged for a while. Things are crazy hectic around here and life just seems to slip away so fast and before you know it weeks have gone by. I meant to blog on the 13th as Maddy turned 7 months that day, YAY!! She is such a sweetie and we love her so much so here are a few random pics of our Miss Maddy in honor of her 7 months old. :)

We were playing around with Maddy one night and well her dad is a goofball and likes to put things on her head LOL! Here's our Maddy with her newspaper hat.

A girl has to have different styles of hats ;)

Shocked I tell you LOL!

Maddy has quite the mohawk so here she is very unimpressed after her bath one night sporting the fuzzy mohawk heehee.

And again her dad and his fondness of putting things on Maddy's head for amusement ;) Here is our Princess.

Happy 7 months Maddy and much love to everyone!

Better Late Than Never Heehee

2009-01-03T19:03:00.001-07:00

Ok so I stole the Christmas pics back off my facebook page instead of trying to re-crop and resize them, so here is a small recap of our Christmas. :)

Christmas Eve at Grandma's and Grandpa's

Maddy Opening a gift, she did that REALLY well. :)

The paper on her head, we just couldn't resist heehee. ;)

Opening more gifts.

She loved these rings but we were so mean...we wouldn't "unwrap" them from the cellophane packaging until we got home, typical parents LOL!

Mads and Daddy

Mads and Mommy

Kelsey and her magic set, it was cute, she kept trying to do tricks for us the next day and night heehee.

Kelsey and her new guitar, she is in LOVE with this! THANKS cousin Michael!!!

And from Christmas morning, my two favorite girls, aren't they gorgeous! :)

Sissy helping Mads play with her new toy :) She's so good with her!

Kelsey getting her biggest yet ironically smallest present this year, her neon green (soooo totally Kelsey!) ipod nano.

And my favorite picture of Maddy this morning was her and meeting her new vibrating cow, she lights up like this everytime we get him vibrating and tickle her belly with him. :)

Sooo that was our Christmas in pictures, hope yours was as good as ours! ANd may the new year bring you all (and us heehee) much joy and happiness!!!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T14:03:00.001-07:00

Happy 2009 everyone! WOW time goes by fast!

We didn't do much to ring in the new year, it's not a "big" party day for us but I had planned on cooking a nice steak dinner for us. Only thing was that once the ziploc bag of meat thawed...it was a roast and NOT steak and it was way too late to try and cook a roast for supper LOL. Sooooo after a brief snit on my part (yeah I get irritable when I can't eat what I want to eat LOL! Oh and I'm like Joey on friends...I don't share food, but that's irrelevant LOL!) we decided to go out for dinner. We headed to Montanas and it was quite busy but wow we walked right in. I had my steak dinner, first time having steak there and it was very good (pricey but good).

Maddy was in love with the restaurant. First off it's always very noisy in there, there's all sorts of things on the walls and they have brown paper covering the tables, she kept picking up the paper and trying to fling it up and down almost knocking over our drinks, but hey that's fun to a 6 month old heehee.

The BEST part of the dinner was when we heard a little baby squealing like Maddy does when she's excited, what did Maddy do? Of course she recognized her own language, perked right up and started talking (ok sqealing) back! It was ADORABLE and HILARIOUS!!! Everytime she heard that baby she'd talk back for the rest of the night heehee. She also had a ton of fun standing and sitting on the table and making googly eyes (my lingo for just being/making cute) at all the other people she could see. She LOVES getting compliments and did she ever get a ton last night LOL!

So after dinner we came home and watched Stepbrothers, um yeah it was ok but not great. We inadvertantly rang in the new year each on our own new ipods playing around and realized 2 minutes later that we missed it so we had our new years eve kiss late LOL!

Not much going on today, it's 2 and I still haven't cleaned up for the day and DH is working in the basement. All the sanding is done so YAY it's time for primer and maybe paint this weekend! Soon we will have a whole new place to play! Oh and while I remember, it's so cute, when I take Mads down into the basement she just looks around astonished like wow where are we LOL! It's soo cute, she does the same thing when she goes into her sister's room...guess those are places she never really goes in the house LOL!

Ok Maddy's nap will be over soon, I'm actually shocked she's been sleeping for a hour and a half now so I'd better run! HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone we know and love!!! And I promise to post pictures of stuff soon (been a little too heavy on the words and no pics lately I know.) Till next time!

Mads is BACK! For now LOL ;)

2008-12-28T10:25:00.001-07:00

Wouldn't ya know it Boxing Day seemed to be the ticket for Mads...she woke up happy and was back to her old self again!!! ALLLLLL DAY!!! We were in heaven! You really don't know (ok well you do but it just hits home harder) how cranky your child has been when they get back to being their nice normal selves after three whole weeks of h.e.l.l.. And I'm happy to report that yesterday the 27th was a GREAT day too! Could we be getting our little cutie pie back?! I SURE hope so! We still don't know what it was, she doesn't have any teeth yet so I don't think it was that? I was starting to worry it was an ear infection but we just don't know. We are back to formula though now, guess she finally got over her sick tummy enough to want to get back on the formula and resist the b.o.o.b. heehee. So she's been eating better too although still not too interested in solids. :( We're trying to get that back on track too.

Christmas was great here in our household, and it's always kind of sad when it's done. Although I finally have had some time to play with my new ipod now that things have settled down and I am having a blast! I still only managed to get 4 songs loaded though and no pics, why does everything seem to take me so long now????? LOL I think there's a 6 month old who could tell you why heehee!

Anyway, I'm hoping to get some pics of Christmas uploaded soon, dummy me, I loaded them to facebook and then deleted them (only the fixed jpegs, yeah I'm a photo fixer not a straight uploader LOL! Those zits and red eyes just will not do! Heehee!)

Anyway, my little lady slept in this morning and I think she's waking up so off I go, as I always say to her "Good Morning Sunshine"...there's no face sweeter! (Kelsey is also included in that last line! Can't forget my girl that's growing up, she's sooo beautiful too!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2008-12-25T14:22:00.001-07:00

WOW Do I really have a spare second on Christmas day? DH is upstairs with Maddy while she is having a nap, once she gets up it's shower time and then head off to the IL's for dinner so yup here I sit dressed and ready waiting for Maddy so we can get this show on the road lol!

Christmas at our house this year was supposed to be scaled back but darn if we weren't all spoiled for sure! Heehee. I got an ipod touch (yay my first mp3 player!) and a digital chi hair straightener and a pair of black Emu's no...not the animal the boots that are similar to Uggs and few other things! Does is sound like I was spoiled?! YOU BETCHA!!! Thanks Honey! You are SOOOOO good to us!

Kelsey got a ton too but her big gift was an ipod nano, green in color of course! ;) And my lovely hubby got a sattelite radio and a new garage door opener among other things. Maddy got a TON of presents too and she loves them all so far, but only for like 10 seconds each LOL! She really did well unwrapping for being only 6 months!

Unfortunately she is still completely out of sorts. :( We were up half the night and she just won't stop fussing. I think we are gonna have to go back to the doc to see if there's something wrong. We can't feel ANY teeth so it's doubtful it's that. Maybe an ear infection although she has always just played with her ears and it doesn't seem to be more than usual lately. We certainly won't forget this Christmas LOL!

Well I think she's up, so off we go! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE WE KNOW AND LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long time no post...

2008-12-20T12:40:00.001-07:00

Well things have gotten crazy around here. Remember when I said I was sick? Well last weekend DH got it, the next day Kelsey got it and Maddy already had come down with it Wednesday night too...UGH! So the past week and a half was spent in a sick haze for everyone, except for me but dealing with the sickies left me in a grumpy haze LOL! Even my computer got sick! It got a stinkin trojan so mega bucks later it's (finally) back home where it belongs, sigh, at least I didn't lose any data.

I'm glad to report that everyone is finally better but Maddy has gone through some changes. Since she was sick she started b.r.e.a.s.t.f.e.e.d.i.n.g. again (which is fine I had mixed feelings about her being completely formula fed) but she won't eat solids anymore. :( I am trying but she is as stubborn as they come and is still resisting. Her appetite is finally almost back to normal (minus the aforementioned complaint LOL) so that's a good sign though.

She kept us up half the night last night though and is cranky as all get out today, I felt inside her mouth and still no teeth so I don't know if it's teething or not. Poor little girl and poor mommy and daddy.

We went to see Santa at the mall last night and she was being complimented left right and center. Everyone thought she was just too cute and since we are definitely biased we have to agree. ;) (Crankiness and all heehee.) Here's our beautiful little princess!

I have mixed feelings today, I want to get out of the house and it might do Maddy some good but with the windchill warning it's about minus 40 right now so I'm not feeling up to braving that, or even getting fixed up due to the late night last night. I might just make a Starbucks and A&W run, so we can get out and get some lunch without actually "getting out" LOL!

My Mojo is gone

2008-12-09T22:57:00.001-07:00

Man I don't know what's happened to me, my mojo seems to have disapeared. I sit in front of the computer and just feel like going and laying on the couch...must be the cold weather or the days getting dark earlier. I just don't even feel like scrapping or playing with my photos or even editing my video clips of Maddy, it's so weird. So instead I am blogging LOL about NOTHING heehee.

I was horribly sick this weekend, I'm thankful I am over that for sure! Whatever it was it wasn't fun! And I'm still never going back to the restaurant that I went to only hours before I got sick, DH doesn't believe me but that's how sick I was.

I have so much to do lately and just so little time, Maddy is still my velcro baby so we can only get small amounts of things done at a time, but hey, I'm not on mat leave to clean the house or cook gourmet meals, I'm on mat leave to care for her...or at least that's what I say to myself when I feel bad about never being able to get things done haha!

We have pretty much stopped b.r.e.a.s.t. f.e.e.d.i.n.g. now, when we got her to take a bottle she decided that she likes it much better and will hardly eat from me anymore. That's ok I guess, I really was not planning for her to be like walking and still doing it so hey not too bad of a run I guess. So she gets her bottles (about 6 oz) and 2 meals of rice cereal a day now which she enjoys immensly!!! On her 6 month birthday we will introduce her to sweet potatos I think. ;) I got these cool home made baby food containers called baby cubes and I can't wait to use them. The "I have to have it" magic bullet that I have never used yet will finally come in handy LOL! (I hadddd to have it one day while pregnant and shopping at Costco so I could make myself smoothies and well spent the $$$ and never made a smoothie, sounds like me doesn't it ROFL!)

I still need to take my little cutie to see Santa but I think it will be either Friday or Monday before I get to that cuz we have stuff to do lately. I have met a great groups of new mommies and we are taking our babes swimming tomorrow morning and then the next day is a get together at one of their houses so I'm excited and Maddy would be too if she could talk. ;)

Oh and it finally snowed here :( with freezing rain beforehand so the roads are pretty slick. At least for my taste. I did go out today and my traction control kept kicking in and we were still sliding sideways, not a lot but when you feel it start to slip it's still scary, especially with my precious cargo! I would rather if it has to snow have it cold enough for dry powder than hovering around freezing so we get wet snow and ice YUCK!

Ok enough rambling from me, we've covered mojo, being sick, velcro babies, the fact that I s.u.c.k. as a housewife LOL, a baby's meal plan, shopping at Costco while pregnant, fun with friends and snow.....hmmmm......think that about sums it up! LOL, how's this post for random?! Now for more randomness, I'm off to make a grilled cheese at 11 pm, I've been craving one every night for days now so I might just have to do it!

Some pics of the new highchair and the eating :)

2008-12-05T22:38:00.001-07:00

Isn't she cute?!

Gotta love a messy eater!

She LOVES the spoon too!

She looks mad here but she's not, she's talking. She was quite the chatterbox during dinner heehee!

Love those chubby cheeks!

Fun Days!

Yay we are now proud owners of a high chair!

2008-12-05T00:33:00.001-07:00

I know that's sooo exciting to all of you LOL but it is to me, it means my little cutie needs one now and I just love watching her eat her cereal! It's too cute!

She also waved at Daddy today and I mean actually waved not just flailing her hands around at him ROFL! When he comes home or even just at random points throughout the night he always says "Hi Everybody" and waves at her just like Dr Nick on the Simpsons and tonight when he came home she really waved at him...it was just so darn cute!!!

Well I'm off to bed, it is 12:30 after all and I'm exhausted! And it sounds like someone's up for dinner #3 now heehee! Back to work! ;)

Mads had her first food!

2008-12-02T16:11:00.001-07:00

So we decided to introduce Maddy to rice cereal last night...we just couldn't wait and she's been trying to steal my food for quite some time during dinner so we figured she was ready. (Plus if she wasn't overdue she would have been 6 months last night.) It was so much fun. She really didn't want anything to do with it at first. It was funny, I would just hold the spoon in front of her and without even having any she would turn away and make a funny face LOL! Then I realized I never let her make friends with the spoon, duh! So I gave her the empty spoon to play with for a minute and she liked that so when I put food on it she decided she would give in and try it! :) She was so cute, by the end of the meal she was reaching for her spoon and bowl and begging for more LOL! Our little girl is growing up. She also got one bottle last night too and wouldn't let me put it down, she ate about 6 or 7 ounces after the cereal! She just kept reaching for it and when I tried to put it down she'd freak out so I gave it back to her. Little piggy, I think we're gonna have our hands full! ;)

Sorry no pics, can you believe I FORGOT?! We did get video though, although my dvd's and corresponding computer clips are in huge disarray so that's what I'm trying to work on is cataloging everything and what disk it came from and making a table of contents so we know what's where.

On a side note...why is it that my darling baby seems to not want to sleep anymore?! YIKES! ;)

Yay it's done!

2008-12-01T14:33:00.001-07:00

So that went quickly this morning, man I could just scream at the fits blogger was giving me last night! The Blog in a Box from Zoe Pearn is adorable and so easy when blogger is actually cooperating! Ahhh now off to do things like housework and stuff that actually has to be done! ;)

Ugh Blogger Issues!

2008-12-01T00:23:00.001-07:00

So I decided to buy a blog template and all for the holidays and install it cuz it should have been easy-peasy right?! WRONG! UGH I could cry! All the hard work I put into my own design from before is now gone and it looks worse. It's late and I'm tired so excuse the "dust" as I try to find time to fix and renovate this poor ole ugly blog now. :(

LITTLE PIGGIE!

2008-11-30T22:54:00.001-07:00

Heehee, no I'm not talking about myself (although I could be lol) Miss Maddy ate a whopping 8 ounces of formula at lunch today...what's so special about this? The fact that we have been trying to get her to take a bottle for MONTHS now! UGH! And it didn't even matter if it was formula or breastmilk she would not take a bottle!

On my last class this past Thursday (it figures) I came home to find the bottle of formula that I had left for her...empty! NO WAY! She had gulped it down in no time flat I was told, wowzers! So we decided to switch the formula this next try to see if it was the new bottle n.i.p.p.l.e. or if it was the formula, I can now tell you it was the new n.i.p.p.l.e. She gobbled it down like there was no tomorrow this time too! YAY!!! SO apparently Miss Maddy likes the fast flow n.i.p.p.l.e.s. not the slow, not the variable, not the medium, not the medium orthodontic, not the latex vs silicone, and not sippy cup spouts (yes seriously we tried all of those ROFL!) oh and definitely not the new $15 ridiculously expensive b.o.o.b.y. shaped bottle either LOL, it has to be the fast flow for my lazy little stinker heehee. :)

Just a quick post

2008-11-30T14:22:00.001-07:00

SO many Projects and chores and sooo little time! Just wanted to show off my (and DH's) hard work yesterday, oh and of course the most gorgeous girlies on the planet! But then again I am biased lol! ;) Here is our newest Christmas photo. I will get some more edited and uploaded soon I hope. (Man it's hard work doing them yourself with a 5 month old LOL!)

She's sitting!!!!

2008-11-22T21:47:00.001-07:00

So Maddy has started sitting up by herself as of yesterday! She can only do it for a few seconds at a time but that's the start and she's already getting better at it! :) She's really blossoming lately, really getting her own personality and quirks LOL! Right now she sits in her bumbo chair and swings and taps her right leg and foot (always and only the right heehee!) it's soooo cute! She is just the light of our lives!

And ya know, it's a good thing cuz she's starting to having some irritating sleep problems lol. I always say it's a good thing she's cute cuz it's not so cute to be woken up every hour on the hour or even more frequently eeeek! She's in this stage where (most nights it starts around 4 am) she starts "crying" for her sucky, she's not awake, her eyes aren't open but she's fussing and she will, can and has done this every 15/30 minutes, sometimes we get an hour long stretch, until 8:30 which is normal wake up time. ACK!!! Sleep deprivation is kicking in big time again! I miss the 8:30 to 8:30 days.

All that and we're still happy as clams, only parents would understand. ;)

We had a soaking good time tonight!

2008-11-17T00:21:00.001-07:00

Miss Maddy has definitely outgrown her first bathtub, it just didn't even cover her with water but I couldn't seem to find one that would work and since she's still not sitting up on her own I just didn't feel safe using the big tub just yet so we finally found her another tub. We weren't sure how well it would work or if we would even like it.....Miss Maddy on the other hand LOVED it! HEEHEE! Bath time was sooo much fun tonight!

At first she didn't want to stick her legs in, she wasn't used to being covered in water heehee, but once she did she started splashing and soak us she did!

We all just had so much fun tonight, it was the great end to a cranky weekend for the little one too. :)

So hopefully I can get the video uploaded and edited soon mom and dad, you all know how long it takes to do that though heehee. But rest assured it will be done and you'll get to see and hear our squeals and her splashes soon! And in one out of every 50 to 100 shots you get a gem....here's our Maddy in a similar pose to her birth announcement 5 months later, what a big girl she is becoming!

Enjoy your evening!

Happy Halloween!

2008-11-01T21:38:00.001-06:00

Well we had a very busy day here yesterday! Our two girls, I mean ghouls LOL both looked absolutely awesome and the weather couldn't have been better!!! It was actuaklly 22 C that day!!!! It's usually -20 C so this was a treat for sure! So here's some pics!

My 2 ghouls! Aren't they awesome!?!

Kelsey the Zombie Bride, I think she looks fabulous! And I love the smirk!

My little cutie! We couldn't find any costume in her size so I just dressed her up in Halloween stuff and colors. I made the bow in her hair and the halloween argyle leggings are actually socks that I cut up to make like those baby legwarmers that are so popular now and I even made her a halloween pacifier holder from some ribbon! She wore her 1st halloween onesie and a black tutu that is just tutu adorable! LOL! We went all out and she got sooo many compliments!

Well there is still so much for me to do as always so I will say goodbye for now!

Maddy has her first cold :(

2008-10-29T22:30:00.001-06:00

It started last night, she was coughing in the middle of the night, about every hour or so I had to get up and put her sucky back in her mouth. I had also noticed she seemed a little sniffly yesterday (I call it snuffly like snufflupugus off Sesame Street, anywho, LOL!) she got the runny nose today and is having a hard time actually settling into a good sleep tonight. She's a bit on the fitful side of sleep right now. :( My poor little sweetie. Course being the scrapper that I am I told DH that I should take a picture of her first runny nose...he thought that was a little over the top ROFL!!! (I didn't do it btw.)

Anyway, just wanted to say we are still here, still busy and now sick. I have class tomorrow night so I am hoping that Maddy feels better. Oh and they are predicting 20 degrees celcius (68 F) for Halloween!!! WOWOWOWOWOW!!! It's always freezing here for Halloween! We've trick or treated in -25 and snow more years than I care to count so this will be nice. Maddy will be staying home though, couldn't find a costume for her at only 4 months and this gal can't sew a rectangle piece of fabric so I guess that means I won't be making her anything LOL! Kelsey is probably going to go around without us this year so I guess it will just be us manning the door and trying to keep the dogs form going completely psychotic every time there's someone at the door, oh and keeping everything quiet enough for Maddy to sleep LOL!

Well off to clean up a bit, nighttime is the only time for me to get things done so I better be going!

Wow time flies!

2008-10-21T23:01:00.002-06:00

Seriously why is there not double the time in each day?! I THOUGHT I would have ample time to get things done while at home on maternity leave............ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently I completely underestimated this little new addition and just how much time she would need to be held and entertained heehee. Our little one is now 4 months old and wow has she changed!

She had her 4 months shots last week, oops actually 2 weeks ago and we are still having exploding diaper issues from that, it is always a side effect for her for about 2 to 3 weeks or so it seems. But otherwise she's doing well. ;)

She is definitely into teething again now, everything goes into her mouth and she's having a blast using some of the funky new teething toys that are out there that vibrate when you bite down on them or play music or sounds when you bite them. Seriously wayyy better than what I had for dd#1 10 years ago!

She has this new cry, and trust me if you could hear it you would laugh like I have to! It's a full-on DIVA cry and it's hilarious. She does this when she's mad so it's not like I laugh when she's hungry...this is just something she uses to express her ummm distaste for things shall we say LOL!

Well there are many things to get done here so I will sign off again. I need to do some new pics and edit some video, I really should stay up late tonight and do that...but it's already 11...so little time much to do.

Oh I almost forgot, Kels flooded the bathroom and basement the other night so yeah...towels to wash and floors drying out and bathroom vanities swelling :( sooo not fun!