Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! Ok...now that we're all caught up. Maybe I should throw a Happy Valentines Day in there just in case I don't get back here again for a while. Christmas was great. Took me a while to get into the spirit, which is unusual for me because I love, love, love Christmas but it helped once we got our tree (yes, 4 days before Christmas, but hey, we got one). Bug loved it and it was so fun that he was able to get into it this year. The babies just tried to eat the wrapping paper and their big brother was thrilled that he got to open extra presents because he opened all of theirs. All in all, fun times.
My babies are 11 months old. How is this possible? They're my BABIES, they can't be that big! But they're standing and cruising and babbling and playing peekaboo with each other (as in, they don't need me to play, Little Mister hides himself behind a toy and then pulls it away and they both laugh). They eat everything and are bottomless pits and we're working on transitioning to straw cups. I need to switch one feeding of the day over to a straw cup to start the slow weaning process, but its so ridiculously easy to just nurse them that I keep putting it off. I intend to continue nursing them at bedtime and first thing in the morning for who knows how long, but I want to start switching over daytime nursings one at a time so that they're on cow's milk during the day. Easier for going out and about and such, you know? It makes me sad to think about weaning my babies though :( They're getting so big!!
Now for something fun. Assorted things I've learned lately. In no particular order.
-If you plan to have 3 kids under the age of 3, be sure to get an indoor dog that likes people food. It will save you a lot of sweeping. No one wants to do that much sweeping.
-When you have a girl, you will find sparklies in your lint trap. No one told me this and therefore I stood in my laundry room looking at my lint trap, thinking "Now, how in the heck did I get sparklies in my lint trap??" I finally realized I had washed her new clothes from Christmas, and they were sparkly. And of course "sparklies" is a word.
-Do not seat the 2 1/2 year old where he can see his reflection in the window, unless you want him making faces and exaggerated chewing motions at himself throughout dinner.
-Twins really do have their own language.
-Cleaning up after 3 children while they're still awake is an exercise in futility. Go ahead and try it if you want to drive yourself crazy.
-Makeup and coffee do wonders for making yourself appear more awake than you actually are.
-No matter how many times I try to convince myself I'll have/make more time to blog...I don't. I need about 4 more hours in each day to accomplish everything. Since I don't think that's happening...we'll just continue with random posts here and there and I won't even pretend anymore that I'm going to attempt to keep up regularly. It works for now!
And before anyone else wakes up, I'm going to go...otherwise it'll take me another 2 weeks just to get this posted :)
