The other day after receiving some bad news I was sitting quietly when Shenzie came over. I told her that Mama needed a minute because I was sad. She looked up at me and said “I love you Mama” and then leaned down and kissed my leg. ::Sigh:: I hope to always remember these little moments that make the sad go away and fill my heart with crazy love.

A Little Candy Bribery Goes a Long Way Edition:

My kids LOVE candy just like their Mama. Everyday they ask for some variation of candy, lolli, ice cream, etc. This candy addiction really helps me when I want to get some photos of them together. It goes something like this:

Me: Will you hold hands?
S&H: NO! Bleh!
Me: If you hold hand for two minutes and walk that way towards the candy store we’ll go inside and pick out a special candy for you.
S&H: Immediately grab each others hands and head towards the candy store.
Too bad when we got there the candy store had closed down. =( This little shopping center is SO stinking cute most of the stores have closed their doors. It is so sad.

And one of my little handsome man Heaten Bear.

So we’re still trucking along, sick as could be. I swear, the older the twinzies get, the sickies get way worse and last for way longer. I am overloaded with stress this week and just want to crawl in a hole and sleep since my night sleep is getting cut considerably with sick kids + crazy mama stress. Anyway, enough complaining [for now].

Awwww, don’t they look like BFF’s in this photo?!? So before you read the paragraph below and think I’m smoking crack, just know that little candy bribery goes a LONG way in our house when it comes to picture taking. =)

So tell me great twin Mommies - are your childrens trying to battle it out on a minute by minute basis and CONSTANTLY hitting, pushing, head butting one another or is it just mine?!?!?!? It is non stop and driving me batty. One minute they are playing and then next Heaten has Shenzie in a hair lock pulling while she is pounding him on the head like a cave woman. He head butts her, I move him away and she comes tearing over and wacks him one before I can even blink. I tried letting them just go at it in hopes they would figure it out, but they always come crying to me to kiss their ouchies better. “Nenee do it” is what I hear most of the time from Heaten. I will say Shenzie beats up Heaten far more than he does her. Hahahahah, once again I’m reminded of myself when I was little beating up my older brother Daniel. And now that I think about it I remember us battling from the time I was little until he moved out when I was 14. I remember as a teenager punching him as hard as I could in the jaw and then running like hell to get away. He broke down the door trying to get to me while I cowered in the corner crying. So I suppose this fighting is just natural sibling crap that is going to go on and on and on and on. Any tips from you seasoned pro’s on how to handle the battles. If I put them in time out every time they fought they’d never leave the corner! The fighting usually only happens at home. When we are out at a park, playdate, or preschool they aren’t fighting so maybe we should just move away from here to stop the battling. =)

And now onto the funniest thing thats happened lately. Yesterday morning before Jeff left for work he heard Heaten on the couch crying, “Its too tight, its too tight”. Upon investigation Jeff found that Heatens undies were too tight due to his morning woody and since Heaten has NO idea what was going on, only that his undies were too tight he was crying and pulling at himself. Hahahahahah, poor little dude has a life time of too tight undies to look foward too!!!!

So, we’re sick, again. Remember like 2 weeks ago when the twinzies had croup (or what seemed A LOT like it) that lasted for ohhhhhhh, two weeks. Yeah, that was certainly NOT fun. And now, well, we’re sick again. =( I first got sick, Heaten quickly followed, and now Shenzie is REALLY sick, again. We are all just miserable, and poor Jeff has spent the entire weekend cleaning, cooking, and taking care of his whining, cry baby family. Thank you sugar bear, we really appreciate you!!! I suppose this is all par for the course when starting preschool, but it still sucks monkey balls!

On a side note, is it really March?!!?!?!? Holy moly, talk about time flying and all of that!

Cute as a Button Edition:

This is my good friend Janae’s beautiful little girl. You may remember her as a teeny tiny newborn, and oh my, how she has grown!!!

So I am jumping on the old barn wood rug wagon and Janae’ was kind enough to loan me her baby so I could test it out (among other “studio” props). Thank you Janae’, you know I just want to steal Baby G away and smooch her little rolls all day long!!!

The other day while the twinzies were in school I ran a bunch of errands. One of them was a trip to the Wal*marts. In this trip I purchased a box of diapers (the twinzies still sleep in diapers since they are still in cribs and can’t get out to pee). So anyway, I checked out, loaded my cart up, and went to my car. When I was uploading my bags I noticed the diapers were not in the cart and remembered that the cashier put them on the top of the turnabout. I finished unloading the cart and went back into the store to get them. The cashier looks around and says she doesn’t have them. I show her my receipt with the diapers on there, but she just shrugs and goes back to checking out her customer. I walk back to my car pissed that I somehow lost the diapers and have to spend $20 for another box. So what do I do? I walk into the store, go to the back where they keep the diapers, grab a box, walk back to the front of the store, and walk out with my box of diapers. Hahahah, Jeff thought I was crazy for “stealing” the box of diapers, but it wasn’t really stealing since I actually did pay for them. Right? =)

Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birrrrrrrrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Dear Wonderfulfabulousawesomenotoldatallstudmuffin Husband,
Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!!

Smo0ch! <3

And a HUGE Happy Birthday to your better looking twinzie Leah!!!!!

I’m not sure if it a twin thing or a sibling thing, but it seems like the twinzies go through the old swapperoo every few months. For quite some time Shenzie was the easier and Heaten was just hard, hard, hard. As you can guess Heaten is now so easy and fun and Shenzie is just crazy. If I wasn’t so lazy I would go back and find older posts that I’ve written about this to see what ages each were easy/hard, but the lazy wins (not to mention my time just came to a halt and the twinzies are awake and yelling for me).

So we survived our first week of preschool. The second day Shenzie cried even harder and ran over to me, wrapped her arms around my leg, and just cried. It was heartbreaking. “Mama, I go to work with you…..MamamamamamammaMAMAMAMA”. Luckily Jeff was with me again and talked me out of whisking her away. And of course she was fine. Miss K said she only cried for a moment and then played happily the rest of the time. She tells me she had fun and played and wants to go back so I’m hopeful the crying will soon end. Although I really don’t know how hopeful I should be since she is addicted to Mommy like crazy. If I go upstairs she screams and yells for me until I come back down. The times I leave for work on the weekends she cries when I go. She is just really all about the drama and working me, and sad as it is, it totally works. I hate to hear her scream and cry. I am such a sucker! =)

Heaten seems to be doing VERY well. That little boy has undergone a HUGE transformation. A few months ago it was like tantrum central around here with him throwing things, falling to the ground like a crazy person, whining, crying, and just utterly annoying. These days he is so happy, content, lively, funny, and VERY hyper. The better his speaking gets the happier he is. I am SO happy that he is finally able to communicate and not get so frustrated with everything. What a difference it makes.

Here’s to hoping the next swapperoo miraculously has them both on the easy, happy road which will make Mama a very happy girl indeed!

The Cute is Enough to Melt the Coldest of Hearts Edition:

Oh my heavens, how I love these little kids! I SO wish Heaten was looking at me, but as usual, when the camera comes out he avoids me at all costs. =)

My plan of no naps worked like a charm. At 7pm they were out like a light and Mommy enjoyed some nice quiet time since Daddy was at Kung Fu. Maybe, just maybe, the two hours of crazy before bedtime was worth it. We’ll find out today if they nap good and remain in good spirits!!

A few photos from our park play the other day.