Baby Shower for Dawson!

This past weekend, the girls and I went to Oklahoma for my cousin's baby Shower. Angie, Chris and big sister Kassidy are expecting Dawson to arrive in April. The girls kept asking when baby Dawson was going to come out and found Angie's belly fascinating. They weren't so sure about the kicking.

Wes was suppose to go with us, but he had strep and ended up staying home to get better. My dad, brother-in-law Paul and niece Sydney all went to watch an Oklahoma State University basketball game while we were at the shower. Or as the girls called it, they went to Pistol Pete's house to watch him play basketball. My nephew Sam wanted to stay for the party. My uncle and aunt (Chris's dad) came down from Kansas for the shower.

The shower was at mom's house and a couple of Angie's friends did everything else. It was a really nice shower with lovely decorations and yummy food. When it came time to open presents, Lizzie and Gracie decided Angie needed help. Both girls crawled up next to her on the sofa and were tearing wrapping paper and pulling out tissue. They loved it. About half way through, Gracie told Angie she had to go pee pee. Angie told her to go and they would wait on her. Gracie comes running out of the bathroom with panties and tights around her ankles. By the time she runs up to Angie, she had the panties up but the tights were still down. She gets those up and then Angie asks if she washed her hands. She said no and then ran back to the bathroom. All the ladies there thought this was hilarious. My girls put on a good show.

After the shower, we went to dinner at a barbeque place near my parents house named Earls. It was really good.The girls and I had a blast and can't wait for Dawson to come!

Angie and my mom

Angie and I

Angie and Big Sister Kassidy

Lizzie, Gracie and Me

Laura, my sister and Me

Yummy food

Yummy cake

The assistants helping with presents

Silly kids, Lizzie, Gracie, Kassidy and Sam

Gracie and Lizzie

My aunt Betty, my sister and I

My sister, my mom and me

The kids table

My cousin Chris with Lizzie at dinner

Photography by Lizzie

Lizzie grabbed my camera for about 3 minutes and this is what she thought was photo worthy.

Notice her tennis shoes are in the shot. Along with Barbie and a flute

Barbie getting her close up

Hello Kitty and part of Gracie's shoe

Her Sesame Street drum

Random stuff on the floor

She had fun taking pictures of her toys on the floor. Both of the girls want to use the camera or the phone to take pictures. They haven't really learned that usually you take pictures of people's faces and not their chest. We are still working on that.

Playing at Chuck E Cheese!

This past weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese for our twin group play date. The girls love CEC and want to go ALL the time! We had a blast! Of course I forgot my camera, so these are from my phone.

Riding the clock

Dancing with Chuck E Cheese

Sister Love

Eating Pizza

Look at her put that pizza in her mouth

Valentine's Day

The girls have been excited about Valentine's Day for a long time. This morning they got ready for school in record time. They knew there was going to be a party and mommy was helping host. I show up for the party and the all kids were so excited. The party went well.

Melted crayon hearts for the kids-these turned out great!

Before school

crazy girls

Love

Throwing hearts in a bucket

Craft-glue and glitter-what could be better

waiting for snack

yummy cake and yogurt

heart pins that I made for the girls teachers

Wes came for the party too. The girls were so surprised to see their daddy there. They loved it! I'm glad that I helped out.

A Week with Grandma and Papa

This past week, the girls spent with Grandma and Papa.When we celebrated Grandma Susie, the girls went home with Grandma and Papa. They spent a couple of days with them and then I came up to spend a couple more days. So, I got a bit of a break and the girls got to spend time with family. We all had fun and the girls were spoiled.For their Valentine's Day present, Grandma and Papa got them Rapunzel dresses. Lizzie and Gracie loved them! They wore them a lot and even took them to bed with them. The girls also altered "Momma and Sweetie" to "Grandma and Sweetie". So funny.

Playing princess

Playing on Momma's phone

Breakfast at Braum's. The girls got ice cream for breakfast.

Watching Cinderella

Papa reading stories to the princesses

Happy 87th Grandma

Today, we celebrated my Grandma's birthday. We spent the moving her furniture around for her. We were all exhausted but it was good to see her. The girls were really loving on her which I know grandma loved.

Yoga Week

This week was all about yoga. On Monday, we had dinner with my teacher, Shanon, and some of my yoga friends. Tuesday, we tried some yoga at home. The girls were too busy showing me poses to pay attention to what I wanted them to do. Wednesday, was kids yoga with Cheryl. The girls love her. Thursday, I taught my first private lesson to my friend Amy. I had so much fun and Amy was an awesome student.

At preschool yoga

Snowflake Festival 2012

Every year, my twin group has a play date in the winter at Paradise Pond called the Snowflake Festival. Today, we had blast playing with all our friends. In the past, I have been exhausted afterwards because I was chasing the girls around. This year was different, the girls are big enough that they can do everything by themselves. I got to have several conversations with the other moms!

Playing with the doll houses

Climbing the rock wall.

Riding the roller coaster

Playing dress up with one of their besties, Anna

Riding the bikes

The girls played so hard (did I mention that we had a birthday party to go to first) that they took a nap without issues. It was a full morning but fun.

How Do We Spend A Friday Night?

This has been a crazy week. Wes spent the week in Mexico City and Guadalajara and we spent the week here. I'm always stressed while he is gone. He got back last night. Yay!

Tonight we had thrilling family night of Chinese food and Target. We tried a new restaurant and it was pretty good. The girls love lo mien and call it spaghettis. I love watching them try chopsticks.

It was a good moment. One that reminded you that life was good and to be grateful for your blessings. I am truly grateful for what I have.

Their New Obsession

Over Christmas, the girls discovered the phone and the many games they can play. Lizzie is always asking to play on it. They are getting better about sharing but it still takes some work.

The girls sharing the phone

Is this January?

Today, the weather was beautiful and the high was in the 70s. So, what do we do on a nice warm Friday in January?

Collect rocks from the rock garden.

And put them in our bucket.

Pose with your sister for Momma

Dance on the patio

Wear hats and act silly for lunch!

Yoga for Mommies

Tonight, I did my first ever presentation on yoga to my twin mom's group. I talked about how we are stressed out and what our bodies do with that stress. I was nervous but I think it went fine. I took them through a bit of breathing and then a short meditation. It was really fun and I think the ladies all liked it. I had a ton of questions from the group and the best part was that I could answer them all! Yay for me!

It felt good to share what I knew. I hope it really helped them.

Little Girls Love to Play!

My little babies are getting to be such big girls. I love hearing them play together. Lately, they have really been into princesses. They love to dress up and we have watch Tangled every.single.night.this.week. Last night, Nana took them to Beauty and the Beast. They loved it!

Princesses on the swings

Why yes, these princesses are wearing cowboy boots

They also love to "cook" and play restaurant. They are so funny when you hear them playing. For Christmas, the girls got an Olivia dress up kit with hat and apron and a play pizza set.

Lizzie "serving" Gracie pizza.

The "Chef"

The "Customer"

When Daddys Sick, Its No Fun

This is a picture of Daddy sick. Last Saturday, we went to visit Nana in her temporary home in Arlington. As soon as we stepped in the door, Wes doubled over in the worst pain he had ever had. Wes and I jumped in the car to head to the hospital and left the girls with Nana.

We get in fairly quickly and find out Wes has a kidney stone. Four hours later, we head home with a prescription to be filled. We pick up the girls and head home. By now, it's midnight and it's hard to find 24 hour pharmacies.

Apparently, there is a big population that fills prescriptions around midnight because the first pharmacy said it would be an hour and a half and was very rude. The second said it would be an hour and only slightly rude. We dropped it off, I took the Wes and the girls home and headed back. I got home at 1:00 am. Fortunately, we had Nana come back with us and she let us sleep in on Sunday.

Wes felt cruddy all week. He passed the stone on Tuesday or Wednesday but still felt awful the rest of the week.

It was rough for the girls and I too. We really are a team and when one man is down, we all suffer. The girls were so worried about Wes and wanted to love on him but he felt so icky they couldn't be as rough. Needless to say, we were all short tempered and impatient.

Wes is recovering and will hopefully be back in the game soon because I need him to be or I'll be crazy!

Birthday Parties

We attended a birthday party today for our friends the Lezon triplets. It was a fun party and the girls had a blast. While we were singing happy birthday and got to the "dear ......, happy birthday to you", it got me thinking about the issues that come up with birthday parties for multiples. Even though the girls birthday is 6 months away, I have started thinking about it.

One of the first issue is sharing a party and finding a theme. For the past three, I could come up with the theme and they were fine with it. Now, they are getting their own personalities and may want different things. That means two themes in one party resulting in a mixed cake or two cakes, figuring out invitations, and decorations.

Singing "Happy Birthday" is another issue. You either sing happy birthday twice (or more depending on the number of kids) which may be awkward or singing all their names in one song. Usually it gets to "dear....." and there is a small pause while everyone tries to decide who goes first. Then the parent ends up directing people on how to sing. I usually announce ahead of time whose name is first and feel like a dork.

I know some of these issues aren't limited to multiples. My sister's and my birthday are six days apart so we shared many parties together. My mom was very creative and planned games that would fit for both our age groups.

Right now, we may be having a Hello Kitty/Strawberry Shortcake Birthday, but we still have a few months for them to change their minds.....