Squirrel Proof

Well... bedtimes with Abby...

There is nothing... nothing I tell you like sitting outside her door ... for hours. Because you see, if we don't, we usually find her in some crazy summer dress, a tank top or a mixture of clothing items. Even if we DO sit outside her door there is still a chance she will have woken up at sometime in the middle of the night to find something more fitting than her pajamas.

Not to mention she sleeps in the basement AND it's chilly down there... fine if you have pajamas... not so fine in a light sun dress. I guess there was one occasion we found her sleeping with a coat on... and a diaper.

It has gotten worse again lately, she plays and plays and plays and fights us for hours. This afternoon she only got a 20 minuet nap because she was so busy messing around. And of course she's smart so even though I've been sitting outside her door for an hour and a half... she knows how to pretend sleeping so that I'll leave eventually... then she gets up to see if Dad will put her back to bed.

Ok... yes I'm a little frustrated with this, mostly because I hate the idea that she is downstairs cold in the middle of the night. I've tried the routine thing but Abby though liking a routine... doesn't like to do anything by the book. It's still better than when she was getting up for multiple hours in the middle of the night!

Speaking of Abby, today while riding in the car she said, while holding her sippy "The juice is in my tummy and it is getting warm!"

So far? Kiley and Kara seem to be in ok health lol. A nice change! For the moment Kiley is my momma's girl and will seek me out to get into my lap, with a book or bottle or just to sit. She is also still very much my drama queen. Kara is my go getter and will find anything and everything to stand on or climb. She was really sad this morning when we left her in the nursery at church. I guess we won't do that again for awhile. And just to make sure her displeasure at my leaving her... she screamed bloody murder as we were getting communion. Holding a small plastic cup of juice and bread is very hard with a screaming child. I waited and waited hoping the pastor would hurry up... finally I chugged down the items as fast as I could, grabbed Kiley and Kara and darted out of the sanctuary.

(Kiley with her spatula)

They were happy as larks as soon as they were free to chase each other around the entrance hall... go figure. Oh and Kiley crushed the cup in her mouth as we were walking out...

I'm pretty used to being stared at anyways by now I guess...

We had a little get together last night with friends (played games, was fantastic) My friend's daughter and Abby played together so wonderfully, I was SO impressed with both of them. Abby even shared her toys which is great for a two year old!

But ... back to game night. Tom brought up two padded stool chair things... for extra seating. They make for great entertainment mostly because the stools revolve... so the babies can't really climb them if they are apart from the table... It reminds me of anti-squirrel bird feeders lol! How is that for a word picture.

(Kara enjoying Abby's juice)

We spent the evening tonight down at my parent's. It was a fun laid back evening and it was nice to get the girls out of the house for awhile. Here is to a few months without football!

Love Mom

To: Abby, Kiley & Kara


Someday may you know that I may not always have been a perfect mother, or done everything right. But know that I have loved you with every fiber of my being... that I have put everything I can into loving you and raising you.


Know that you are loved... forever and always...


Love Mom
(I missed you a lot today)

In Class Musings

I'm sitting in class right now... and probably shouldn't be writing but I've heard a lot about suctioning today. I think we are the only class here right now...

Sweet Tweets:

Abby yesterday was spitting into cups to make "baby bananas" and "honey" that she was then feeding to the twins.

Abby (getting up from nap- she always has the best stories after naps): : "Oh no, the party hats are gone. We can't celebrate Abby's birthday.""Abby's got to have a birthday tomorrow. And cake." (BTW: Her birthday is several months away...)

A little while later:  ‎"Abby needs rings! To fly to her boy." 


She makes me laugh!
Kiley and Kara both have bruises from hitting one another with toys. Somehow they haven't decided that it hurts. I think they like the reaction they get from the crying. Kara still loves to walk around with plastic Barbie legs in her mouth. Most of Abby's Barbie's are legless now...They both love to dance and are awful climbers still. Can't wait until that stage is passed!

Hopefully I can get back here to catch up on things, it's been a crazy last few days.

No Super Mom

I am not a supermom today

I can't get the laundry done

I can't seem to keep my children entertained

The toys are everywhere

Dishes are piled up on the counters

The girls are fighting again and Abby is spitting on the floor

I've been peed on twice today already and cried before 9am

And I can't even leave the house

I'm too tired for this... I don't even know where to start

12 hour shifts + Bible Study = being away from home 5am-10pm

I'm really tired

And I really miss my girls, I didn't get to see them at all today.

Though there are a lot of things all over the floor that remind me they were here... that and the sell of stinky diapers wafting through the living room.

Ah Home

Play Time & Puking

Wooo we got out of the house! And spend some awesome weekend time at this science center in our town. Wow the girls loved it so much. They especially loved this water table and if we had more time we would have played longer there.

Abby actually cried when we left because she enjoyed it so much. It was also great because there were activities Kiley & Kara could do too. Even though the 3-2 ratio didn't work so great at times when they decided it would be fun to escape. So I confined them to my new Jeep umbrella stroller as much as I could. 

And look... I actually got IN a picture for once!

Oh my! Three babies!

Sadly... as Tom and I were watching a movie at home Abby came up saying she had 'spit'... I put her back to bed, took off her princess blanket because it was a hair wet and then thought maybe I should check on Kara to see if she was ok (she had been crying/fussing a lot) I walk in... puke everywhere. As we were cleaning up Kara's bed... Abby walks up and ... yep... puke everywhere. They ended up throwing up like 6 times. Abby while running around my kitchen once. 

I got to bed around 4am, up at 7:30 am with Kiley (whom had slept wonderfully) 

Thankfully no one else has puked since but good grief... we go to the doctor's office for an antibiotic and come home with the stomach flu. And I wonder why I HATE going in there. Hopefully it was just a 24 hour thing and no one else gets it... I have enough laundry to do. 

Frog Hands

Abby came to me today "Mom! I have frog hands!"

Me: "Frog hands?"

Abby: "They're sticky!"

The babies? Well they have their moments where they feel ok... but I see this a lot... they are not feeling well at all and today was rougher than I had seen them in awhile. Of course if they are feeling like I am right now...
Good grief it never ends.

We are moving towards sippy cups and so far it hasn't gone too bad. I did give them bottles tonight for bed because they were looking so awful. Kara just sat and sat and sat with me. 

(Kiley with her juice... apparently her sippy wasn't good enough)

Last night I was feeling very overwhelmed about things, and just in general. Abby had gotten her second pair of pajamas wet by playing in Feebee's water and I was so completely defeated that I just started crying and crying and crying. The only reason I'm mentioning this is is because Abby and her sweet soul was absolutely distraught that I was sobbing. She tried to get Tom to come help and I could hear her saying "Oh no, mommy's really crying. My mommy is so sad."

Then she came back upstairs pats me on the back and says "It's ok boy." 

It's really hard to cry when you are laughing. 

Of course even with the silly things she says I still was feeling rather down and though I wasn't crying Abby didnt leave me the rest of the night. She sat by me and watched Curious George with me until 10 o'clock at night. Just cuddling with me. 

I told her I loved her

She told me not to cry.

Doctor tomorrow? Perhaps

Well folks, we stayed put today. No leaving the house with three kiddos feeling under the weather (and myself not feeling 100% either)  We did run over to the neighbors to enjoy a coffee morning and I think that really helped us get through the day of being 'stuck home' 

We played upstairs and downstairs, Abby helped me make caramel rolls, we played Barbies, colored and she found a few other things to do here and there. There were certainly points today that I felt completely exhausted and stressed out. Especially after the babies cried for an hour straight and nothing I did seemed to help them. Finally I just put them both to bed...

No one really ate much today... they just weren't feeling very good. Kiley & Abby both had loose diapers and now have ouchy bottoms. Ugh. Yay for Balmex I guess!

I had to scold Kiley tonight and wow did she ever take it to heart. That girl can be soooo sensitive! 

Hopefully tonight goes better than last... though I've heard one of the babies has been up at least twice now so I won't count on it. 

Now off to fold the mountain of laundry.... 

My fluffy pink heart is broken...

An Abby story that I've been delinquent in sharing...

Tom and I invited a few good friends over to hang out at our house and play games. Once the babies were in bed we started playing this Harry Potter Lego game (which actually was a lot of fun) But since it was Legos Abby was very very interested in playing with us and had to sit on top of the table to watch. At one point during the game she looks at Tom and says "Abby want's to play Daddy."

Tom nicely explained that this game was too hard yet for Abby but that she could watch.

Abby wasn't exactly thrilled with this and then looks at him and says: "You broke my fluffy pink heart Daddy, Daddy you broke my fluffy heart."

It was so funny. So then I asked her what had happened to her heart.

"It died."

There was much talk about using tape to fix it, and how her heart was sparkely, and still very broken.... she went on and on and on and on about it. Very funny little girl we have here!

Kiley & Kara are STILL sick... debating whether to take them in to the doctor now. They have the 'crud', runny nose, cough, fever, ears... The fever was new yesterday for Kara but otherwise the rest of it they've had for going on 2 weeks... I've been trying to do the ear drops to take care of it but obviously it's not working.

(Kara before she wasn't feeling so good...still has runny nose here tho)

So we will see....

We did visit my grandparent's for a little while yesterday. That was a little intimidating for the babies. They weren't sure what to do with all the people there and mostly just clung to me. But for not feeling well I guess it was to be expected. We did get one of the chairs out of our basement at least! Yay!

(Kiley... also before she started feeling sick...)

Tip Top Shape

"I know, O Lord, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23

(Kiley)

A verse that stuck with me in my morning devotions today. Probably because I have this little nasty habit of wanting to plan plan plan everything in advance. I like to feel like I have some sort of 'control' over what is going to happen in the near future. Haha... yeah... right.

As a side note, a dear friend of mine lost a friend of hers tragically two-three days ago. Her friend was 23 and died suddenly of a massive cardiac arrest. Please pray for their family if you feel so inclined. As you can expect this was all very sudden and very shocking.


The girls were all feeling a little under the weather yesterday. There was much crying in the household last night! I'm hoping today will be a better day. I've started putting the drops in their ears again, I hope that helps them. They just looked miserable.

(Kiley lounging)

Abby is sitting with me and watching Curious George... kinda wish I didn't have to get ready for school but it's nice at least to see her in the morning before I leave. Hopefully my mom is able to navigate the snow to get here. We've gotten a lot of snow, bitter temps and wind (ew) I'm ready for winter to be over!

My new glasses came in but I'll wait to have a picture of them until after I get my new haircut this Saturday. :o)


Kiley is really into books now (more than just eating them) She will bring them to me or just come and sit in my lap with them. It's really cute. Kara loves to tackle Kiley... or lay on top of her, or give her kisses. It's pretty cute. :o)

(Kara)