Our CRAZY World

Life as of lately has been a little busy which explains my lack of posting. The boys are a few days shy of being 13 months old. I can’t even tell you where time has gone since their birthday. I feel like this month has flown by and next week I start training, workshops and two week of in service full time. I have been trying to spend time at the school to get things ready so hopefully it makes things a little less stressful. I wouldn’t trade my little monsters for anything, but they don’t make life easy. My mom has been helping out with keeping them mostly, as well as my grandparents and Ryan’s mom a few days here and there over the last month. Yesterday my sister went up to the school with me too and we got quite a bit done.

As for the monsters, they are ok. They have both been teething like crazy. Jason has nearly chewed off the railing on his crib. He is now at 8 teeth with more white spots showing on top and bottom. Reece I think has 5 now. It seems like every day a new one pops up between the two of them. Reece’s mouth is so tiny that you don’t usually see his teeth, unlike Jason.

Four up top, 3 fully in on bottom with one hiding

(Yes, my child has food on his shirt and looks dirty...welcome to the world of twin boys!)

With teething also comes screaming, nasty diapers and with nasty sour diapers comes diaper rash. We have gone through more Destin, Butt Paste, Dr. Smiths & AD cream in the last two weeks than we have in the last year! It's pretty awful, but this too shall pass. Luckily, they are mostly all smiles minus a few daily break downs. The other day Aunt Laurie (Lala) came over with her usual goodies and one of which included a swimming pool for the boys. Of course my little water bugs loved it. Unfortunately our outside activities take place in the evenings when its a little cooler out and after dinner when the are already an awful mess. So with that being said 9 out of 10 times I just take all of their clothes off and let them be "free". I took a billion pictures, but Ryan would kill me if their "deuter" was posted all over the internet. I suppose it is rather tacky haha.

How cute is this minus breakfast on his shirt?

I love my little goofy smiles!

Now there's the Jason that I know and love...

And of course my sweet Reece...always happy!

A Day With DADDY :)

Let’s just start this with I am not knocking Ryan’s babysitting skills, but I am glad he didn’t tell wheat all went on until I got home. This morning my sister and I had planned on going back to school shopping for me since I have maybe two outfits that are work acceptable. I got up at 7 to go shopping and left by 8:30. When I left Ryan and the boys were asleep and I left all instructions for Ryan for feeding while I was gone. My phone has been working in and out (but will be fixed soon because my warranty is good for another 9 days or so I was told).


Anyways back to my story…so when I left all was ok. I checked in and all I got out of the phone conversation was poop and he washed them off with the water hose. That was a little after 10. I thought, ok well at whatever happened I am sure is better now and at least they are cleaned up.
We got home around 3:15 and after being home for about 30 minutes I found the popp filled diapers and clothes in the garage…the same night time diapers that they slept in all night which means they had them on still at 10 this morning. LOL
So I thought that was the worst of it. As we are sitting on the couch Ryan goes “Well we almost had a really bad accident”. I said “what do you mean”. “Well I went to the bathroom and I thought I locked the gate. When I came back the gate was open and Jason was down here playing but I couldn’t find Reece.” I just sat there for a second as he paused and then he said “I heard a thumping noise and he was upstairs hitting a bottle up against the wall.” YES, he climbed the stairs and thank God he didn’t fall. I would imagine for a first time stair crawler it would take him a bit of time which means Ryan must have fallen in the toilet for them to beat down the gate and for Reece to climb upstairs.
So then I watched him crawl around for a while and sure enough he took right off the the staircase and headed up about 5 stairs with me behind him. Needless to say I now have the stairs double gated. What next.
It could have very easily of happened to me, which is why I started this with I am not knocking. As for the poopy explosion…you get what you ask for and by not changing their diapers you can expect an explosion. This is why God made sure it took a man AND a woman to have children, but at least I did get some clothes!

Over The Weekend...

I am up late and can't sleep for whatever reason...probably due to the fact that when I am in bed a billion different thought run through my head about everything that needs to be done. If I was smart I would be cleaning or working on things that need to be done now but I am exhausted...but can't sleep because the voice in my head won't turn off. Anyways this weekend was pretty relaxed. My parents had gone out of town camping again so my sister spent a lot of time over at our house which was nice. She and I rarely get time to just hang out without a bunch of other family around too. On Friday night we worked on painting some of my decorations for my classroom and then continued during the boys morning nap Saturday. When Ryan got home he wanted to go to Bass Pro Shop and offered to take both of the boys. WOW. As much as I wanted to say yes please, take them! I knew I couldn't. I know what its like to be out alone with them and furthermore how easily his patience can be tested so we compromised on him just taking Jason while I kept Reece. I honestly don't think he wanted both of them, I just think he knew that without taking them or at least offering I would not be happy with the fact that he was going to be gone the rest of the day. As it turned out it went great. My sister and I decided to go shop for Ryan some clothes for his new job. He starts in the morning at Bridgeway. He got an entry level position and I think it will be a nice change for him. Before we started shopping my sister treated me to her new love for sushi and now its my new love too. YUM. After shopping we stopped by Dollar Tree my new frequent shopping place for teacher stuff and then went to Tutti Frutti where Reece found his new love for frozen yogurt. By far a really good day...and we got Ryan a lot of stuff for a really great price! I just love TJ Max and Ross and love shopping for men because they are so easy!

Today was a little slow to start, but after my parents got home I went over there and wore the boys out with them. We did a lot of swimming and playing and by 6 they were beat tired. I brought them in and put them in the playroom while I was unloading things and when I came back in the house I couldn't hear them. They were both nearly asleep on the floor in the playroom. Poor boys...so they went to bed early tonight which means they will be up early too I am sure.

We have ECI in the morning. I really want to call the OT and discontinue services. I don't feel like Reece needs it as much as he once did when we were worried about him. Now its just a pain to get them dressed, feed and the house cleaned for her to come out and for us to sit and play and do things that I do with the boys all the time anyways. Most of the time the OT just watches him and tells me the same thing from the month before. I feel bad though saying your not needed and this isn't really helping. The one thing I have learned about Reece is he needs his own time and a lot of opportunities to explore and try things over and over. Sooner or later he will watch on and typically its about 4-6 weeks after Jason does it. Its so wild that they have had that gap between them for so long. Sometimes I wonder if they are really even true twins. Some things will never be understood I suppose.

For now I am going to go pick up the kitchen and go check on my boys. Its funny how when I am up alone sometimes I wish that just one one the boys would be awake and just let me hold them on the couch...which never happens. Oh and now when Jason doesn't want to do something or doesn't want what you feed him he shakes his head no and its obvious he is saying no...too cute but at the same time not the greatest thing in the world :) Kids, got to love them!

How do they figure this stuff out?

WOW ok so I just ran to use the bathroom for a few minutes and came back to silence. I thought oh dear what have they gotten into. And I found them like this...

Jason had climbed into the walker...notice his feet didn't make it in. So I took them off of it and\ watched what they did assuming they climbed on the bean bags and this is what I saw next...

(that would be juice on his bottom...no worries)

So now I thought ok fine if your going to climb on it to play with the toys I will unfold it and put it on the floor so you can't get in it.

WRONG AGAIN MOM! They proved me wrong again. Reece had climbed in and even got a leg in the whole...can you see his foot under it? So I put Reece in alone and then...

Had the door been open Jason would have pushed him right out...