I wish someone had told me

How awful the MMRshot is! Danyal has had almost every complication. To top it off I have seen the kids doctor quite a bit this week. Never good. Sara has not slept through the night in 3 months! She coughs all the time so I took her back in. It is one of 3 things. Asthma, reflux still, or a lingering virus ( he is doubting this). So tonight we start with an inhaler to see if it helps her sleep. That and mommy and daddy need some sleep! I have had 4 hours of sleep in 2 days. Ugh!

My bff's sister had a baby girl this week and I am happy to say I managed a few minutes of baby cuddles. Oh how i love them! Ms. Chelsea does have the biggest, cutest, pinkest cheeks I have ever seen! Love it!

By the way did anyone else make the big switch to google + only to find you never go there?

The kids new table

Sara and her truck

My poor sick man can still melt hearts!

Otherwise off to make dinner!

Food rut

Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a food rut?  I am currently in grilled cheese, blueberry, watermelon, banana, mac & cheese, chicken, chicken nugget hell.  Oh these are not the things I eat.  No, these are the things my kids seem to want to ONLY eat lately.  I did forget the avocado, lest we forget Mr. Avocado. We go through at least one of those a day.  So needless to say I have been scrounging the Internet for weekly and monthly meal planning calendars. I think this will be my only way out of the rut.  Here is to hoping!

Burgh Baby said it best about Good Intentions

Burgh Baby - Good Intentions

I read this blog post this morning and cried. Burgh baby said it best. Sometimes other peoples lives are not meant to be pried into. Sometimes it is best not to ask probing, personal, invasive questions. Just something to keep in mind for the day.

Our Christmas Visitor

As the kids have grown I am noticing I have less time to post. Hence, I am posting at 6am from bed.  They are just little balls of constant energy and cuteness these days.

We have  so many teeth in little mouths.  Danyal has 15 and Sara has 14.  Maybe this means we can get a slight sanity break before the second molars come in. Now there's a thought!

Christmas was great lots of family, food, poker, and a plumber.  Yup, I said a plumber.  We woke up on Christmas Eve (my uncle was born on 12/25 many years ago so we celebrate early) to my mom saying "why is there water in your basement?" Um, What?!  After a lot of calls as some places were closed someone arrived and stayed until 9pm working on our "issue".  It turned out to be tree roots in the main line.  As I have since learned he didn't use the "big machine" as a week later we had the toilet back up. Oh my it is 9pm and no toilets!  We had a different company come out and the noise was so loud! He did the real work that the first guy did not.  Luckily, we never had water for more than 30 minutes downstairs.  It made for a memorable Christmas.  Christmas without toilets.  Lucky for us there is a new house being built next door so in a dire emergency people could use the porta-potty. :-)

Sara will read anything!

and climb in everything!

Cheese!

Mommy look how high I can climb when  I think you aren't looking

Welcome to winter?

It feels so wierd. This time last year we couldn't see for all of the fluffy snow flying around. This year we are having a brown Christmas, but I am not complaining!  I mean it is 40 degrees out and beautiful!

We have managed to get the tree up but only decorated the top half of the tree. The kids love the lights and love to shake them.  It has really helped them learn colors.  Along with that they have been doing some adorable twin things lately such as mimicking movements and sounds. Otherwise, off to enjoy Sunday!

Way over due!

So I am long overdue for a post. Life has just been a little, well fun! It isn't that anything grand has been happening it has just been a lot of playing with the kids and trying to get the whole house healthy.

For a while I was sick for about 7 weeks, then then kids had colds which turned into croup and now they are sick again!! it seems that illness is just lingering this winter and it stinks. During this time though I have managed to host Thanksgiving, get the tree up, and next on the list host Christmas. I did finish Christmas shopping by the day before thanksgiving. I cannot stand the bad drivers and crowds. I will add some fun pictures of the kids soon when I am on my computer.

I love Bar Keepers Friend!

No really I do! The back story is that in our new house we installed a new kitchen sink.  On the first day in our house something was left in the sink and it left a stain.  We tried everything to get it out.  In comes Bar Keepers friend.  First try cleaning the sink and it looks new.  That stuff works miracles on every pot and pan I own.

As for the kids they are learning a ton of new words.  Danyal loves to say Elmo,  my most dreaded word. In addition, both kids now say blue, green, and both sign for more, all done, and they understand good.  It is amazing how much they can change so fast!

The kids were able to go out for their second Halloween and they were awake for it this year!  Sara was a strawberry and Danyal was a Dragon.  They left their costumes on the whole time and loved walking around the yard and playing. Ah how they grow so fast.