Lately Tadd has been my saving grace by getting up early with the twins, feeding them and putting them back to bed before he goes to work. I feel horribly selfish as I hear him get up and get all the stuff ready but I cant…. fight….. the……urge….to go back to sleep.
The past couple of [...]
Entries from July 2008
LullaWHAT?!
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Dad
2 Feet & 2 Teeth
July 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
They have now hit 9 months. The babes are growing up so quickly. The NICU is feeling farther away everyday.
UPDATES
Loen: Weighs 13 pounds 8 1/2 ounces and is 25 inches long. She is now the proud owner of 2 bottom teeth. Her hair has had a major growth spurt. It is like she is a [...]
Little Colie
July 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
My cousin Brandy and I are only months apart. So when she got pregnant in 2002 I was so jealous. We both wanted children and it was exciting she was embarking on her new role as “Mom” (yes and I was still jealous because I couldn’t wait to have a baby myself).
Brandy’s pregnancy seemed like [...]
Tags: Family
Parental Knowledge
July 18th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Things I have learned since becoming a parent (That STILL trips me out that we are parents)
Babies fingernails grow at a ridiculous rate. I HATE cutting their nails and I breathe a sigh of relief once I finish cutting their nails. Then I turn around and two days later they have dragon claws threatening to [...]
Tags: twins
Banished to their room
July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tadd asked his mother if she would like to visit in the month of July. Ummmmm….she was on a plane 15 hours later. I guess that was the soonest one to California. She said when she awoke on Wednesday she would never had guessed she would be holding her grandkids the next day. Unfortunately for [...]
Oh no you didn’t!
July 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Yes, yes I did. Some people (Tadd’s dad Jim) said it was barbaric and child abuse. We thought she looked adorable. There are some things I (we) had settled on long before the babies were born. If we had a boy we would have him circumcised. If we had a girl I wanted her ears [...]
Tags: Loen
Flame, Fire, SMOKE!
July 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Last year at this time we had the Zaca Fire, this year there is the Gap Fire. Last year it was annoying to stay indoors, this year we actually had to leave the house due to smoke and ash. As Tadd said “we are 6/10ths of a mile from the evacuation warning zone”. You can [...]
Tags: Santa Barbara · twins