One of these kids is doing their own thing….one of these names is not like the others.

      Haylee                                Marlee

       Alexee                            Shenzie

My sisters want us to change the spelling of Shenzie so she can be like her cousins. Sorry sissies, no can do.

A HUGE congratulations to Stacey and Jimmy.

 I’m an Auntie again!! Haylee Lynn was born August 9th, 2007 at 11:16am. She is 7 pounds 5 ounces and 18 inches long. Stacey had a fabulously easy labor and is doing wonderful. Haylee is beautiful with light brown hair and BIG lungs. She can scream like nobody’s business.

She is perfect.

5 minutes after she was born.

I was able to be in the room for the birth and it was AMAZING.

The “Birth Team”. Auntie Dara, Auntie Ang, Grandma Jan, and me….and of course Mommy and Daddy.

Coffee anyone?

 I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 27 when I met Jeff.  He drinks coffee like a maniac…seriously like 2-3 pots a day. Me, I’m at 2 cups a day and staying strong. We have seperate coffee makers because he drinks his like sludge and mine is more like ‘would you like some coffee with your creamer’ coffee. We thought we’d start the babies young so they can work their way up to the sludge ’stick a fork in it and it will stand’ coffee.

My first video….go me!

  Once upon a time Before Babies Jeff and I had a night routine. I would get home from work, lay on the couch and read for a bit, pick up the house, talk on the phone, play on the computer and then start dinner. Jeff would get home, we would eat dinner while watching TV and then cuddle on the couch watching some night TV, read, or just talk.  From there we would head upstairs to bed, cuddling in bed while watching TV (me usually with my eyes closed since it was my bedtime).

  Last night while lying in bed I laughed and asked Jeff if he could remember the last time we watched TV in bed. It’s been, oh, about 10 months or so. It’s funny how things change and it feels like they’ve been that way forever. I can hardly remember all of the free time I had….what in the world did I do back then?!?!

Trying to keep babies entertained with Scooby Doo. Pathetic, I know.

   These days. Get babies up from afternoon nap. Carry one baby down the stairs and run up the stairs to get the other baby, carry them down the stairs. Give them a snack and sippy of water. Clean up snack, clean up kitchen, play with babies, get new toys out because babies are bored. Run up and down the stairs trying to find things to keep babies entertained. Prepare babies dinner (making it look very pretty I might add), feed babies, clean up babies, clean up mess in kitchen…..run around trying to keep babies entertained. Carry one baby up the stairs, run back down and grab the other baby and carry them up the stairs. Find toys to keep them entertained. Play, play, play, run, run, play. Give babies night time bottle. Run around while they eat getting diapers, pj’s, and sleep sacks ready for babies. Try to keep babies entertained until Jeff gets home. Jeff gets home…we play for a few minutes, get babies in their sleep sacks, sing a few songs and it’s off to bed for the babies.

Peas, broccoli, cauliflower, cheese, and “chicken” soy nuggets.

 I then go downstairs and prepare dinner taking breaks to run back upstairs to rock a crying baby hoping with all of my might they don’t wake the other baby up. Jeff and I take turns soothing babies and fixing dinner. FINALLY I get to sit down! We eat dinner usually at 8pm, just in time for some night TV. Watch a little TV while eating, cuddle on the couch a quick minute, I head upstairs to get ready for bed. A quick cuddle in bed with no TV and my eyes get so droopy I can barely hold them open. Snore snore.

Playing together. How sweet is that!

 As busy and hectic as things are now, I wouldn’t change them for the world!

I am still in the process of writing the babies 10 month post and have absolutely nothing to say so instead I’ll give you some recent pictures.

My mom called me the other night to tell me what a pretty sunset we were having…she wasn’t lying.

Ha…see the resemblance? Alfalfa, is that you?

Cottage Cheese suicide

On the verge of tears and like a mean mommy I grab my camera instead of trying to stop the crying. =)

Sunshiny  happiness! Have a great weekend!

Four is the magic number! Shenzie has two new teeth popping through. I noticed them Monday (July 30th)….weird thing…..they are not the two middle top teeth but one middle top tooth and the side tooth next to it. No wonder she is having a tough time napping…poor little teething girl. Why oh why must teething be so hard….and why does it last for so long.

When you leave NICU they offer rooming in for a night to make sure you are ok to take the baby (ies) home. They let you stay in a hospital room with the babies for one night to make sure you’re ok with taking them home. We declined the offer…I just wanted them home with me….I was SO sick of the hospital and the beeping monitors. This morning I offered Jeff the chance to “room in” with the babies for an entire day so he could get used to all their crazy before I go on vacation. He declined the offer. Gee, I wonder why? Haha.