Wednesdays Night

So I went to visit C & P's old first daycare lady at her home. She wanted to see the boys and I wanted to see her new grandbaby. SHe is a doll by the way! She is from Thailand? or is it Taiwan? I forget, but she made the most delicious beef and brocoli I have EVER HAD!! So I am going to try to make it! We'll see! It had Beef, cut up, Brocoli , Carrots and Onions with Soy and Oyster Sauce. Then she had steamed white rice. It was SOOO GOOOD!! I told her I am going to come over ever Wednesday and have dinner! Okay, I didn't really, but i wanted too! :)

She was really happy to see Chase and Preston. They had fallen asleep in the car from the new daycare, so when they woke up they were kind of still tired. So they werent' in the mood for much playing. Preston did eat some white rice and some cooked Carrots. Chase, not so much. He just ate Cherrios!! LOL! :) She kept saying how much they had grown. I don't think she seen them since September.

They were so much fun last night. Just played and Played. I had no problem putting them to bed. It was late though. Chase not until 9pm. Preston wanted to just talk while I rocked him and finally he gave up at 9:30! Finally some time to myself. But first, Wash bottles, make diaper bags for the morning and clean up. Then I got to watch a show or 2 that had been recorded. Then I read. What did I read? Twilight Book 3! Yea, I had to get my fix! It's an addiction most likely. I am so mad though. I can't find Twliight New Moon aka Book 2. I'll just have to buy it again. I think that its like $8 bucks at Target. So excited about the movie in only 7 days! If you aren't a vampire fan, like I was before I was convinced to read it, you should try?!! It's alot of pages, but an easy read. Its on the level of 8th graders, but its a great story! Here's a link to purchase it on AMAZON if you have trouble getting to the stores with kids! Me an a couple of other friends of mine plan to go to the 12:01 show next week on Thursday! I am so excited! Bye for now.

Update on Bath Time

Okay, So Putting the boys in the BIG bathtub, didn't really work out. Preston was scared! He kept standing up , trying to get out and starting to kind of cry, so it didn't quite work out, so he is back in the small blue tub. I think I may order what Mel said she got for her daughter. That blue tub is waay to small for Preston's long legs. Chase did okay, but he started crying but I think that's just because he was tired. Note, we haven't tried it since then either. So they are still taking baths one at a time. Maybe in a month, begining of Dec, Preston won't be scared anymore! LOL!

Other than that, they are doing great! Starting to walk along side of the couch and Chase is balancing himself for awhile by himself without anyones help, so that's cool. Preston is trying to, but the Physical Therapist told us a while back that he has weak ankles, but they will get stronger more likely. So I am not worried, Yet..

Still not sleeping through the night consitently. I increased Preston's milk to 8 ounces at night. He drinks it ALL! Usually keeps him sleep until 3am. YAY! Or 2. That's better than 11:30 -12:30. Chase was sleeping good last week, but not this week. WHO KNOWS!! I just got to deal with it right? ANd quit complaining. It is what it is. They are so much fun. They laugh, talk , play , crawl, curious little babies and I see how this can be such a fun stage. They love watching Dora. Yea, I know they are boys, but I am a girl and I'd rather watch Dora the Explorer right now, if I have to watch a cartoon. They love it! They love the songs and everytime the Backpack song comes on, they totally stop what they are doing and jsut stare at the tv! Its' awesome. Then I start singing the songs and dancing and they look at me. Sometimes they smile sometimes, they think I guess, that I look silly? I dunno! LOL! It's fun. They love to go climb up the the changing table and pull down the basket of diapers and then eat the diapers. Preston figured out how to open the wipe warmer and pull out a wipe and put it in his mouth. I hope he like the taste! Preston also finds the bathroom tub fascinating. We have to continue to remember to keep the bathroom door shut! If not, he takes off full speed and preston is fast crawler, to the tub and stands up and beats on it with his hand. Very dangerous! I don't want him to flip over into the tub! UGH! Sneaky boy. They like to play with the door stoppers. They flick it with their hands to hear the noise it makes! They push the kitchen table chairs in the kitchen which I don't like b/c I am afraid they will fall and hit their heads on the tile. So we have to stop that. Preston pulls up to the oven, we have a low oven, the dishwasher, the Fridge, the wall. HE is constantly interested in the dog's water and food bowl. He goes straight for it! So I started putting it on top of the table. Well we still have a glass round table, I know dangerous and he sees it and tries to reach on top of the glass table. I am so scared that glass is going to come up on top of him. I need a new table! Anyways, he is a mess. :) Chase is just as bad but doesn't get into as much stuff as his brother, yet!

Its also cute when they crawl b/c they sort of chase each other and turn around a laugh at each other and take off again! Usually Preston is ahead of Chase and then stops and then starts crawling again. Its like he is looking to see if Chase is still chasing him! LOL! Okay, I kind of went off too much about them and I didn't even mean too!

I am starting to realize that Chase just Doesn't LIKE jar baby foods. He rather eat people food and its the total oppostite for Preston. So I am going to stop wasting my 85 cent Earth's Best Jar food on Chase an just leave it for Preston. They are just so different.

Okay, that's all for now.

Swiper , No Swiping!!!! Aaahhh MAAANNNN!!! :)

Honest Blog Award

I was awarded this from Heidi, from 3 to 5. Thank you Hiedi!! Here's here link.
http://from3to5.blogspot.com/

So there are some rules to follow:

1) Must thank the person who gave the award and list their blog and link it.
2) Share "10 Honest Things" about yourself.
3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
4) Tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.


10 Honest, yet Random, things about me


1. I don't have my ears pierced b/c I am afraid that my ears will Keloid and I will be the girl with teh ugly things behind her earlobes. If you don't know what I am talking about google Keloid in African Americans.'

2. I am a shopoholic and in debt because of it. Wish I could stop one day. Maybe that's why I don't save. See # 3.

3. I don't have a savings account. Only a 401K. We really need to get on that. QUICK!!

4. I love to bake Oatmeal cookies. I used to bake them twice a week for a while.

5. I hate hate HATE to lose in sports, I am so freaking competitive.

6. I would do ANYTHING TO live in California. Mainly the L.A., San Diego area.

7. I pretend that I know stuff, just so I won't look stupid and then try to find out about it later.

8. I love musicals and wanted to sing and perform in broadway plays or any plays/musicals as a child.

9. I didn't apply to a certain college that I LOVED just b/c they wanted you to write essays and I was too lazy to do it! Sad, I know.

10. I watch the show "THE CITY" on MTV. I LOVE IT!!!

7 Blogs I find Brilliant or Encouraging

You've all been awarded Honest Scrap!! By the way....

1. Heidi - http://from3to5.blogspot.com/
Of course, she nominated me! I found her I guess through another mom's blog. The title of her blog made me curious b/c it was from 3 to 5, so she must have had twins and I was desperate to read TWIN MOM blogs for help!

2. Abby- Our Little Hope- http://ourlittlehope.blogspot.com/
She is a friend of a friend. We were struggling together trying to get pregnant. We related to each other that way. We both went different routes. Me IVF, her adoption. I love Hannah!!!

3. Girl, I don't even know her name, but her blog is called- Drowning in $166,356.xx in debt http://165kindebt.blogspot.com/
I don't even remember how I found her, but her blog caught my eye b/c she is paying off debt and that's exactly what my husband and I are doing now. Plus she has REAL debt. Found someone with more debt than us. I don't think $10k or $20k is REAL Debt. Not to us anyways. :)

4. Mel at La Dolce Vida - Not sure how I came about her blog, but once I did I realized she was going through INfertility also. She actually lives in the same area I do and a neighborhood across from me! Crazy huh? She is so witty an I love her style and swagger! :) Her blog is private, so sorry guys , no link.

5. Sara at In Lahman's Terms http://maylily18.blogspot.com/ - Sara was going through IVF almost the same week I was. We were both taking shots and doing Tranfers like a week apart!! Our kids would have had almost similar birthdays except that I had twins and she had one so of course twins are most always early. So mine are born in late December and her baby boy was born in January. Oh well. I found her through another blog and we connected because of our IVF journey.
6. Andrea at Christmas in March - http://christmasinmarch.blogspot.com/
I am not sure if she still reads my blog, but I ran across her blog b/c she was pregnant the first time with me and unfortunately she had a miscarrage, but she now has a brand new baby boy! I like her b/c she is so cute, fun and just a really nice Christian person. I hope you still read Andrea!!

7. Of course Jennifer! She has twins like me!!http://nbjenni.blogspot.com/
Jen- has one of the best BLOG websites! I am jealous! How does she find time? I love kids and I love her creativity!!

I want to add one more blog on my list. I just met her.
Bonus: Courtney! http://nashtwins.blogspot.com/
She has twins boys just like me and they are only days apart! Like 7! She used to be in finance and has her MBA like me! She is now a SAHM and we just recently became friends over the blog network. I am so glad I met her and we can totally share stories and experiences, since are boys are so close in age.

I know I wanted to list many more of yal in the blog world, but it would take forever. Just know I LOVE reading all of your blogs and still do!! I just may or may not comment all the time! Keep blogging and reading!

Belated Halloween Pictures

Bad Night

Last night was another bad night. Wednesdays are the nights my husband works his 2nd job so we won't be finacially strained than we already are and I am at home with my boys. The night went fine and all, its just a little more difficult trying to give them baths and feeding, but its WAAAAAYYYYY better than it use to be, so I am not complaining. What's hard is that I just can't get why they still wake up. I've mastered the not ROCKING Chase at night. He actually doesn't even like rocking, I don't think anymore, but anyways, so I turn the radio on and just lay him down on his tummy an he doesn't make a noise. Preston, I rock, but I really need to start not doing that either. We do let him cry it out once at night if he wakes up between 2-4 am. But he still gets up at like 11:30-12:30 and I try to rock him without giving him a bottle but then he starts crying, so is he really hungry? or is he playing me just to get a bottle? One night, Preston finished his 5 oz bottle, saw Chase's bottle, which had like 2 ounces left and grabbe his bottle an put it in his mouth? So I gave it to him and he finishe it! Is he really that hungry? Or greedy? I might try to give him 7 ounces for his last bottle tonight and see if he drinks it.

Back to sleep. How do I even go to sleep say at 10pm when Preston wakes up at 11:30 and then Chase at 12:30. Take it Chase did go to sleep at 7:30 last night. I think he is still stuck on the old time, but anyways. I am just exhauseted and not sure if my hubby got up any other times, but I think he did. Maybe tonight was just a bad night. THIS HAS TO STOP! Unfortunately we are going to be gone Saturday night and they won't be home, so I don't think I want to start NOT rocking Preston until we can do it consitantly for 7 days straight.

So I guess, what I am asking, at 10 Months, were you feeding your kids more than 5.5 to 6 oz every period? what's wrong with my boys! Why can't they sleep through the night like other kids!! WE totally suck as parents and obviously screwed up raisiing are kids ALREADY! We KNOW NOTHING!!! :(

Shame on Babies R us

Shame on their prices!! So I made a conscious effor to memorize the price of their big size 3 diapers from pampers and huggies. QTY, i think 96 or something like that. I also memorized the Huggies Wipes in the box, u know the refills. WEll... I went to Wal-Mart, the place I jsut can't stand(they actually remodeled one close to me, so I went to that one instead of the GHETTO Dirty one the other direction) and I was shocke on the price difference. WHy or Why, was I getting wipes and diapers from there with coupons! Stupid me right? I am sucking it up and going to Wal-Mart for Diapers, Wipes, Baby Destin, for just about everything! Get this.
Babies R us Diapers $40.99 or was it $38.99, Wal-Mart $24.97! WTF?!!!
Babies R us Wipes $12.99(Huggies) Same brand at Wal-Mart $9.58.
Gerber 2nd Foods in Jars, 44cents, Babies r us? .87cents!! What was I doing, throwing my money away these last 10 months! Its the same stuff!!!

Funny thing is, Ready to feed Similac formula is cheaper at BB R us than any other place we have found, so we still have to go there. Anyways, there is my eye opening experience this past weekend. Wal_mart, you are getting better with your remodeled stores, but gosh, I still don't like the way yal look compared to Target or others, but I WILL SHOP For baby stuff there! I don't trush their meat though. I will stick with Kroger or Tom Thumb. Is that snoodY? LOL!

25 more days until we start them on semi whole milk with formula. Gosh can't wait! :) I am going to start trying to potty train as soon as they start walking! :)

Picture of Me

Yea, I decided to go ahead and show myself. I mean really... Why am I hiding? Almost all the blogs I read, has pictures of them and not just their children, why not me!?? I think at first I was just really scared to show my face to the blog world , but didn't want to go priavte either, so here I am! I guess I have a new perspective now that I am 30 years OLD!!

We had a fun time Halloween night with teh boys. I will post pictures of their costumes and what we did tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for the nice comments! I actually needed some lipstick and a little base in that photo but thanks!! I will post more pics of me and the boys soon!

OH and we still haven't tried the BIG tub yet. I am waiting to get a bath mat to go on the floor. Maybe today during lunch?

-CJ