Which is which?

OK, so when they are sleeping, they do look alike.  But I can still tell, can you:)

Girls Rule!

Kate and Addison were wanting to be snuggled and I really needed to do dishes.  Big sister Emma to the rescue.

From left to right, Kate, Emma and Addison

Emma cannot wait until the girls come and sleep in her room.  It might be soon.  They have been sleeping at least 8 hours most nights (yay!)  It's usually 9 p.m.-5 a.m.  We are getting there!

EughhUgghhthphftd......

Seriously, no title for this post that I am trying to get out quickly so as to record it down in history...

Well, today was like any other day really. Get up, take kids to school while getting twins fed, Nathan changed, make sure kids have a snack for their half day today(remember this part when you read later).  We get in the car, get to school with minimal fighting, arguing, begging, pleading, please put your shoes on or I will tie you to the top of the car...you know how it goes.  

Get home, Nathan watches his typical morning Elmo or Clifford while I feed, change the girls.  Today, I thought-I am going to really push through the laundry, yes I am going to clean the bathrooms, yes I am going to unpack the remaining things that we don't know why we have if they haven't been unpacked in a month!  So, this means forgoing a shower.  Nathan is given a wonderful lunch of frozen gogurt, cheese and a granola bar which is one big mess that gets cleaned up in time to get him down for a nap at 11:3o.

So I am checking a voicemail on my cell phone when it buzzes reminding me of something on my calendar---OH YEAH!  Half day.  It's at noon, and guess what time it is now and guess how far away we live.  Answer is it is 11:55 and we live 25 minutes away from school, and Addison has just decided she wants more bottle after that poop.  

I call the school and try to get ahold of the after school care teacher to see if there is room for Bailey and Emma, then I called back to the receptionist to see if I could get a hold of someone to tell the kids I will not be there.  By now I am picturing their two little faces staring up down the long line of cars, none of which are mine.  I am never even, mind you, LATE to pick them up let alone forgetful!  I got a hold of Bailey's teacher who found them and told them to go to after school care.  Emma goes from 2-3 everyday on normal days, so for her it wasn't a big deal.  Bailey was "nervous", (his words) about it.  

I finally throw on some normal clothes, wake Nathan up and put him in the car, along with the girls.  I looked a sight and my clothes in no way matched, but what the heck I'm crazy mom who forgets her kids anyway.  AS we are finally pulling out, my gas light comes on.  Well, I decide to chance it.  Thankfully, I get there still with some gas in my tank.  I pick up the kids and I immediately take them to Carl's Jr. since they have no lunch on half days and they last at at 9:30 snack time (it is now 1 p.m.)  I get into the gas station with a little girl that has to pee so badly she is making the car shake while she squirms.  I fill up, and thank goodness because I put 19.7 gallons in a 20 gallon tank!  

We make it back home and I declare to day no t.v. day.  Play outside!  So after convincing a 2 year old that he doesn't need to color, change his lovely diaper, I get the kids outside.  Of course, along with all of this Addison has pooped through one outfit, thrown up on another and Kate has gas so bad so is screaming.   A few diapers, wipes, wet towels and some gripe water later, both girls are now sound asleep in their bouncy chairs.  Kids are playing with every toy they have in their rooms now outside, but I don't care cause it's not in here.  And the kitchen is clean, laundry is moving and shaking.....

And just think, next Monday I get to wake up and do it all over again:)

Kate the Great and her magical heart

We made the trek down to the pediatric cardiologist today.  And we were told never to come back again!.....

Well, that's not because Nathan was a little nuts, but because Kate's three heart issues have gone.  No more hole, no more something else or something else (sorry, I'm not good at repeating doctor speak, that's Ben's job).  So, Dr, Wright said good job little girl and you have a regular old heart now.

Also, Kate gained about a pound and a half in the last two weeks, most likely due to the heart issues resolving.  

How to get Emma out of Bed

So this morning, AGAIN, Emma did not want to get out of bed for school.  She was in bed for 20 minutes past when I told her to get up.  Now, we have tried many different things with her.  Things work here and there, but I had run out of ways to get her out of bed without physically dressing her.  So this morning, I told her that when the rest of us were ready to leave, she would go to school exactly as she was at that moment.  If she had no shoes and crazy hair and in her pjs, that is how she would have to walk into her classroom.  So my very fashion conscious five year old hurried and got dressed and let me do her hair and we got to school 2 minutes before it started.  Now, I'm wondering what I am going to do when she lets me take her that way?!

Kate rolled over!

Yes, she rolled over last night.  From being on her tummy to on her back.  She was trying to go back the other way as well, but is not quite there yet.  I guess I'll need to keep an eye on Addison as well!

When Nathan Strikes

This morning, I found Nathan coloring in a few of Ben's really old Church books (hopefully these weren't the ones worth a lot of money!)  I took the crayon away and he got very upset that he was in trouble.  I kept explaining to him that we only draw on paper.  He understood right?

Well, apparently not because He decided Bailey's dresser needed some orange crayon as well.

And his own dresser needed to match...

So, after a Sunday of him being crazy, ending up in everyone else's row, giving me a heart attack in the parking lot...

I went into Bailey's room because it was quiet.  I was expecting something terrible. Instead I see a little thing on Bailey's bed.

It was Nathan fast asleep...  If only he were always this peaceful!