Brilliance

I had something brilliant I was going to write about today and now that I have a moment to put my thoughts down, it's left my mind. Surprise, surprise. I do have a couple random thoughts though.

1- Oliver rolled from his tummy back to his back today.

2- Oliver now opens his hands and loves to reach for things and hold things. My baby is slipping away.

3- We've offended the deer.

(View out my front door)

I think it's due to us putting up a fence this summer so they can't get into our backyard to eat any leftover apples, not to mention that it was a slow year for the apples this year. It looks as though the deer were sending us a message.

4- Dylan & Charlie are crazy, again...surprise, surprise.

5- Back to Oliver. According to Brandt I have not kept O on a schedule like I did the twins. It's a lot harder to be super strict with O when I am pulled so many directions. I'm sure that is a common occurance the more kids you have. I'm getting a little frusterated because O used to be such a good sleeper and would go all through the night. He got sick and cannot get back in the rhythm. Brandt believes that if I stick to a schedule better O will get on track. Everything I read says that the opportune time to "teach" your baby to sleep on his own is between 4-6 months. I'm a few days away from 6 months (excuse me a minute while I freak out...where in the blankety-blank did the time go???) so the window is closing. Last night O woke up at 3. If I just quickly feed him he goes right back to sleep. I tried to do the check on the baby and tell him to sleep, leave, wait 5 minutes, go back and do it again, leave, wait 15 minutes, give up cause I'm NOT doing this all night, feed, everyone back to bed. I suppose if he does it again tonight we'll do the same routine and see if it will change after a few days. I'm not quite ready for the cold turkey approach. I am loving my snuggling and rocking with him too much to give it up yet. Like I said, my baby is slipping away. I was very diligent and our naps were on time today and that part went well. The motherhood mystery. LOVE IT!!! Literally, I do.

Naps

Naps are glorious, naps are a must. I dread the day the naps are gone. The boys had their nap today. It's amazing how much better a child will feel once they have good sleep. After the fiasco on Saturday, late church on Sunday = NO NAPS, I was sure the boys would take advantage of their nap time today. I was not disappointed. Unfotunately for me, O was a little off on his schedule today so he was awake when the twins were down, but just to not have the twins grumpy and whiney was oh so wonderful. I was looking on my external hard-drive for a cute picture of the twins sleeping when they were tiny but apparently my pictures on it don't go back that far so I instead am posting a picture of them one year, five days ago. The difference a year makes in the life of a child. So much change. Notice Dylan with his no teeth. So cute.

Storytime

So here's what went down yesterday. I put my boys down somewhere around the 1 o'clock range for a nap each day. Not every day they sleep, but I lock them in their room so they'll at least attempt to sleep. Yesterday I put them down. I fed O and put him down. Brandt is still building cabinets and I went out about 2 to do some work in the garage since the bambinos were asleep (or at least safe in their room). I worked for an hour and was going to go for one more hour but wanted to check on the kids to make sure O wasn't awake and screaming. I opened the door to listen and heard noise in the basement. Charlie came around the corner at the bottom of the stairs. Apparently I forgot to lock their door and the boys got curious and tried the knob. I went downstair all upset. That was just the beginning. Charlie had chocolate and nuts shmeared on his chin. Dylan was sitting on the couch where Brandt normally sits and in front of him was my opened laptop, an opened container of english toffee Brandt's mom gave him for Christmas, and the tv remote in his hand. On the tv it was to the screen where you just have to push a button to rent a movie. Are you kidding me? I don't know what I was more mad about. I sent them both to the corner and spent the next few minutes trying to get my computer to turn on and remove the chocolate and nuts on it. Dylan kept turning around in the corner and smiling at me so I drug him back upstairs and threw him in his room, only to see that apparently I didn't lock the closet door, either, and all their toys were strewn about. I was too mad to do anything and just left him there and shut the door. Charlie was still standing in the corner. What do you do in a situation like that? They are so little that you really can't convey the severity of what they did, but you need to at least try to let them know it was wrong. It's hard being a mom sometime. Needless to say, I was fed up. My wonderful husband came home and took my bundled up kids out to the garage with him so I could have a moment of sanity inside. I was able to make dinner without my "helpers" and it was much appreciated. I sure do love my little guys. They are a handful and they will keep me on my toes I'm sure for the rest of my life.

PS - I swear I feed my kids but occasionally they need a snack. Sick.

Frustration

My twins almost died today. It is too late for me to go into the whole story but I will share tomorrow. My patience was again tried. I think I came out ok and they're asleep in their beds so they did, too.

Crafty-schmafty

Lookie, lookie what I made for a certain niece of mine having a birthday soon. Think I could sell these? The flower is on a clip that can just be used as a clip instead of on the headband. Now I just need a little girl to model it on...no, that's not an announcement. For now, D will have to do.

Keeping up with the goal

If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to post every day for the month of January. I know people who have done a post every single day for a whole year and I'm going to give it a go for one month. That being said, it is January 6th and I am drawing a blank today and I am super tired and didn't want to post today. We had a good day. I was able to sleep in a little bit, we went to Costco and wandered around, stopped by and saw daddy at work, the boys fell asleep right away for their nap, I got a killer deal on ebay, worked in the garage for a bit, got a visit from my mom & dad, and went out to dinner with them and the fam, and did some billing for Brandt. Phew. When I write it all out I guess I was quite productive. The boys played outside a couple times today (limited amount of time since it is freakin cold outside) and they sported their new $1 sunglasses we picked up at Target. They were such clowns. I took a picture of them - guess only Dylan was wearing his glasses when I snapped the picture. As Charlie would say...Nigh-nigh-nigh. O, Dadda, Naa, nigh-nigh-nigh.

Moment of reflection...

Today I thought a lot of my youth. I had a friend from high school text me a picture of myself from my junior high year book. What was the picture for you ask? It was in there because I was the President of the National Honor Society. Nerd-alert. Man oh man. I think I was put into that cause I had decent grades my 9th grade year and I was "in" with the teachers being that my dad was a teacher there. I know it's not always cool to be "in" with the teachers, but it totally paid off. Me and my friends were able to get away with EVERYTHING. One of my favorite memories is of me getting an excuse note from my dad and my best friend getting an excuse note from her mom (who also worked there) and her taking us to breakfast at Dee's. Nothin' like ditching school in junior high. Even tho I know some people who did it in elementary school...you know who you are.
I helped Brandt with cabinets in the garage today. I was watching him move some sheets and sort of chuckled to myself that here I am knowing exactly how to build cabinets from start to finish. Wierd. I never in a million years would have thought this is where I would be at at this stage of my life. There are a few things I would maybe alter about my life, but only if certain things would still come my way. I know that one event leads to another and so on so technically I couldn't change too much. It's funny how things work out. I like my little bubble I live in. I have much to be grateful for. I found this picture today. It is surreal to me that I have twin boys. They are fantastic. I love them so much. Oliver is so great, too. How lucky I am that I was sent such wonderful little boys...and one big boy, too. What a lucky gal I am.