Weekend Fun

Today I went yard saleing with my MIL and had lunch. I had a really good time. I left the boys home with Daddy and the lazy boys slept until noon today. Noon! We went to several yard sales all over town and ended up with a lot of things for the boys. Mostly winter clothes, but some toys, books, and Baby Einstein DVD's as well. I am lacking in the winter clothes department. I didn't get a whole ton last year for them, but what I do have is too big. I hadn't originally thought that at almost 8 months old they would still be in 3-6 month clothes. Oliver will be in 6-9 months by the time the weather gets cold I think, but Owynn right now is just starting to get into 3-6 months. Hopefully between what I already have, what we got yard saleing today, what some of my friends gave me, and what Mimi got yard saleing while we were in NY will be enough to get us through the winter. I think I will have to go out and buy some shoes, winter coats, and some long sleeve onesies. But all in all I think we are doing pretty good now. Now I have a lot of baby laundry to do. I think one of my favorite things I got was a shirt for Owynn. It is long sleeve, blue, with a teddy bear on it holding a heart. It says "Little body, big heart". I absolutely couldn't resist it.

Tomorrow we are going to spend most of the day at the airshow. I taking the boys and going with my MIL. Hopefully the boys will handle it well, I am a little nervous. I went last time they were in town a few years ago and they were very loud. It should be a good time, at some point the Blue Angels will be flying. I am looking forward to it. I have been hearing the planes flying overhead for the past several days. Between practice and the other airshows it's been quite noisy lately. We saw some of the Blue Angels fly by today as they were doing a fly over of the college stadium for the start of the football game.

After the airshow tomorrow John and I are going to take the boys over to P&W's for some cards and hanging out. It should be a great end to a long, fun, but tiring weekend. Last weekend when we went over there Oliver got the biggest kick out of their son. Every time he walked by Oliver just started laughing and laughing. It was super cute!

Well it's late and I have to get up early tomorrow for the airshow. I wish everyone a safe, peaceful 9-11.

End of Summer

I have to go back to work today after my 5 day long "weekend". It's also the first day of school for many kids across the country, including my brother and sister. I feel like the summer has officially come to an end, that makes me kind of sad. Where did summer go? I won't miss the crazy hot weather we had, but I am also not ready for the freezing cold of winter either. We are starting to get into some fall type weather, it's still in the 70's and 80's during the day but it's starting to cool off quite a bit at night.

My summer was a fairly good one, with some pretty awesome ups, and some pretty hard downs. This was the boy's first summer and we went to the zoo several times. It has been so amazing watching them grow and change so much in such a short amount of time. We got hit very hard financially with my husband losing his job, we had to move cities and in with his parents. But we got to go visit my Dad for his birthday and see my family, including my grandparents. It was a wonderful 2 week long trip to NY that I had a hard time coming back from. We spent a lot of time visiting with friends this summer too. All in all it was a pretty good summer.

The boys got weighed and measured yesterday. Owynn is only 12lbs 12oz and 24 3/4in, and Oliver is 14lbs 12oz and 25 3/4in. They are growing, very slowly, but surely. They haven't gained much weight since their 6 month check-up and that worries me a little. They have gotten longer though and have started moving around quite a bit. I'm thinking maybe that's why they haven't put on more weight. Oliver picked up army crawling while we were visiting my parents, and Owynn picked it up about a week or so later. Oliver crawls every where he can manage to get to all the time now. Owynn will crawl, but he needs some motivation first. His favorite so far is my laptop. They aren't quite sitting up yet. If we put them in the sitting position they will teeter there for quite awhile before eventually falling over. They are doing really well eating their jarred food, we just need to figure out a way to get a second jarred feeding in each day. It's hard for my DH to try and feed them alone. We got a system down where we can feed them both bottles at the same time, but it's a lot harder with jarred food. It helps a lot now that Owynn can hold his own bottle, but he is very impatient when it comes to his jarred food. I've realized that I am serious need of winter clothes for the boys. I wasn't expecting them to still be in 3-6 month clothes at almost 8 months old. Oliver will be getting into 6-9 month soon, but most of what I have for them is summer. Thankfully some of my friends have given me hand me downs and my grandmother Mimi did a lot of yard saleing while we were in NY and got the boys a lot of winter clothes. One thing I do need to make sure I have for them soon are coats. I don't know if they will be too big for the car seat covers this year or not. I am thinking they might be. Mimi found them some pretty cute shoes too, which will definitely be needed come winter. I wonder if I can find baby winter mittens. Although I think Owynn wouldn't like those, he sucks his thumb too much.

I should get going, it's 10:45am and I need to get the boys up. I have been hearing Oliver babbling in his crib for a little while now. We don't like to let them sleep past 11am. I feel extremely lucky that they sleep so late most days. They are such good sleepers! Like this morning was nice, I woke up at 9:30am and was able to get a shower, fb, and blogging time in. The boys have been so good and pretty easy, we are very fortunate.

Zoo

Yesterday we drove up to Omaha and spent the day at the Henry Doorly Zoo with P&W. We had a really great time. It was the busiest I have ever seen it though. There was a very long line of traffic just waiting to exit the interstate to get to the zoo. The parking lot was entirely full with probably at least 100 cars driving around looking for spots. It got to the point where people were actually making their own parking spots. Which after driving around for about a half hour was exactly what we did. I think my favorite parking job I saw was the car that was up on the curb, parallel parked between two trees.

I think the boys had a good time. They stayed awake almost the entire time and looked around a whole lot. We sat them up in the stroller like big boys, so I think they could see a lot more. Previously we had always had them in their car seats in the stroller and I don't think they could see as much. The weather was gorgeous, low seventies and breezy, other than the crowds it was a perfect day for the zoo.

I am looking forward to going over to P&W's later today to hang out. We usually just relax and play cards, it's always a good time. Well I think it's time to go and get the boys up. It's 11:15 and they still aren't awake. I guess we wore them out yesterday.

Holy Poop Batman!

We gave the boys baby food meats starting a few days ago, and holy cow. We had 6 poopy diapers Tuesday, and almost as many yesterday! What is in that stuff? The babies by the way HATE the meat. I suppose it was bound to happen, they enjoyed all of their veggies and fruit including both green beans and peas. At first it was funny the faces they were making, but now I just feel bad. We only have chicken left to go, and I really hope it's not as bad as the ham was last night. Owynn actually spit his back out and poor Oliver almost choked on it because it tasted so awful. After they try chicken tonight I think we are going to stop with the meats for awhile.

I feel as though I am still running on East Coast time. Although I have been getting better about staying up later, I am really tired pretty early. But I suppose it doesn't help that since we got home I have been waking up by myself before my alarm and before even the babies wake up. Then I can't manage to go back to sleep; my mind is too full of different thoughts. What is up with that? I suppose it is giving me some more blogging time.

I have to go to work today, and I am really not looking forward to it. After my vacation it has been just so hard to make it there and through my day. I don't understand what my problem is. I am almost dreading going in, and it's not like I hate my job or anything. I think I am just having a hard time being away from the babies after getting to be home with them for so long. I have 5 days off after today. I am really looking forward to them and honestly think I really need them. Well the boys are starting to wake up and I have to be at work in 45 minutes. I just keep telling myself I only need to make it through today!

Let's Try This Again

Really, I want to blog, I just feel like there is never enough time in the day. Today is Friday and it really doesn't feel like it. Although having to work tomorrow probably doesn't help. This week at work hasn't been too bad, I suppose I can't complain about a 4 day work week.

We got back Tuesday evening from a wonderful trip to NY to visit my family. We surprised my dad for his birthday and it was great! My grandparents even made the drive out from MA. I had 15 whole days off from work and I really really didn't want to go back. We arrived at my parents really late on the 11 and stayed until the morning of the 21. We made the drive out there in 2 days, but decided to drive home in 3, which made the drive much nicer. It was a little difficult making an 1100 mile trip with 2 7 month olds. The boys did amazingly well though, they fussed when they were hungry but not too much otherwise. Since I started work right the next morning after getting home I still feel like we haven't settled back in. Maybe Sunday I can get everything put away finally.

I suppose I should get going, I need to get ready for work and I am just delaying the inevitable. When I have more time I will post more about my vacation, it was really fantastic and I miss my family more now than I did before =(