My neglected blog

Like many things around my home, the blog has become neglected the last couple of weeks. Its on the list of things put to the side with other things like cleaning the windows, cleaning the little handprints off the coffee table and end tables and mopping the bathroom. Since my birthday we have had a few things going on....

1) the girls got sick. Not bad but 4 days of a fever for Miss Parker and all around fussiness and misery for all (mommy too!).
2) we have had to begin regularly duct taping Addisen's diapers on. Yes. We've reached that point.
3) we got our new potty seats. We ended up with the 3-in-1 pink seats and the girls love them...though they've yet to go in them. :)
4) we got a new tv and entertainment center resulting in no longer having the enormous baby gate surrounding our 200lb old school television. Mommy is happy about that!!! Anything that makes my home look LESS like a daycare center is a good thing.
5) we had another roof leak in the den/office area and as I type (from my dining room table) I have 7 buckets around my old desk and am listening to the ever annoying 'dibble dibble dopp' (yes, that's the line from Mr. Brown Can Moo).
6) my babies turned 18 months old! HOW ON EARTH DOES THAT HAPPEN?! As we plan their 1st of many trips to Disneyland for September 2010, we realized that they are halfway to 3 already! HALFWAY TO 3 YEARS OLD?!!!! My goodness!

As we enter the age of true 'toddler-hood' I have to say that it is sooo fun. And thank the Lord that I work with newborn babies all the time otherwise I am sure I would have 15 kids by now (well, maybe not). There is nothing sweeter than a tiny, fresh, innocent newborn. Except maybe when your 18 month old gives you real kisses and sings to her baby and comes running to you saying "up mommy!"...that acknowledgement that you are their's and they are yours is so rewarding. No newborn in the world can give that kind of validation. Its really amazing to know that we created them, I worked my tail off to grow them for 34 weeks, we fought to get thru the NICU time and now look at them...people. People that say 'meat' and 'cheese' and 'oh no' and sing to their own baby dolls. People that get embarassed and sad and mad. People that giggle and kiss and hug. People that stop dead in their tracks when they see the new tv in the living room (seriously, that one was hilarious).

On my actual birthday we had a little swim-a-thon in the backyard. We had a record breaking heatwave the week of my birthday so we took full advantage and did sprinkler and splah pool time with the girls. We have numerous new swimsuits for this year but ironically, the ones that fit right now are their 12 month ones from last year. We got the at The Children's Place and I think their sizes run large. We have swimsuits that are 12 months and fit, 24 months that fit and 18 months. It all depends on the brand.

For a comparison, this is April of last year:






Here they are last week with my dad:


I have more photos to share but I am still editing some newborn photos for clients and then working on them as I can...stay tuned for more!