Monday, April 2, 2012

The joys of raising the twins

Lately the twins have been doing more and more. They love to kiss their big sister now. They walk up doing the smoochy face. You can tell they really lover Kailenn. Danica has been cuddling with Kailenn a lot as well. It seems whenever the cute moments happen the camera isn't around and you can't move. Darn. I can't say it enough, I really love all my girls.

We are hoping to get out to the park tomorrow since its supposed to be 60 degrees. It has been a rainy mess lately. I think all of us have been feeling a bit stressed lately. We are having major issues in this home front and hopefully things will start to work themselves out here soon. Anyways. Easter is this next weekend and we don't have anything planned. No family has mentioned any of the usual plans. Needless to say I have no idea what we are doing.

Thought I would share how we did bath time last night. It's been a long time since we have put them into the sink. I think they are a little big. So fun photo comparison time.

Both twin Hailey and Danica at 18 months

Hailey at 6 months

Danica at 6 months

Monday, March 12, 2012

Sometimes you just can't win

Why for the love of God why have my children been sick almost constantly since September?! They just can't catch a break it's just one thing after another. It's not even just them even I have been sick a bunch this year. My dad came to visit for my birthday and walked out with pneumonia. He is still sick and my birthday was Feb. 27th and he was here on the 25th I believe. Ugh. I have gone through and cleaned all the surfaces and scrubbed and scrubbed. I am convinced there is some disease that is living in my home and it is not going to go away until summer comes. I am so ready for summer.

 Every bit of sunshine we have gotten I have tried to take the kids outdoors to get some good ole vitamin D. The twins are really starting to be able to do more and Kailenn has been working on riding her bike without training wheels. Let's just say that's not going so well, but if anyone knows my daughter they would understand why. We spent the last couple of days doing some baking. Which I don't do very often. We made homemade whole wheat pretzels that were wonderful then yesterday we made coconut oatmeal cookies that could have used more chocolate chips and I forget what Matt said.

An update on what the kids are now doing.
Kailenn is reading books on her own. She still needs help with the big words but has it down. We have been practicing soccer and she is getting better at kicking the ball.
Hailey is starting to do her nose scrunch thing when she smiles that is making me smile every time.
Danica is going around the house giving everything kisses. If she isn't biting EVERYTHING. I say everything because she has tried to bite the floor. Only Danica would do such a silly thing.
We recently had to take all the dvd's out of the living room. They would literally walk up to the shelf and start dumping them all over the floor. They did this approximately 20 times a day. So now as a punishment to mommy they dump all of their toy boxes out 20 times a day. Sometimes you just can't win.

This post was kinda all over the place but that is how my mind has been lately so enjoy putting it together in your head.