Date Night

I didn't realize I haven't posted anything since Wednesday. It's been a little busy around here. Last night David and I had a very needed date night, and it was great. We dropped the kids off at Dave's parents when I got off work and we went to the Outback Steakhouse for dinner. I don't think we've had any time alone since our anniversary in July so it was nice to get away from the kids for a bit. Dave decided to take me to Old Navy after dinner because I have no clothes. I have a really hard time buying clothes for myself, mainly because nothing I try on makes me feel like I look good and it's hard for me to buy bigger sizes. I just can't seem to get over the fact that before I had my sweet babies I was a size 6. It's so much easier for me to shop for the kids because all the clothes I buy for them are so cute and they always fit, but Dave wouldn't let me buy anything for the kids. We got out of Old Navy with a few things for myself and something for Dave too, nothing for the kiddos. After shopping we came home and relaxed watching a movie, Dave's parents kept the kids overnight so we got to sleep in this morning too. We definetly need to keep up with our date nights, they are a lot of fun.

twins?

I dont really have much to write about today, or much time because America's Next Top Model starts in 10 minutes, but I thought I'd post some old pictures of Sierra so everyone can see how much her an Reece look alike. I think these shots are of her at around a year old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Today is Reece's birthday. My little baby is one year old. I feel a little bit guilty because we didn't plan a party for him, when Sierra turned 1 we had a huge BBQ with at least 30 people, but we did a little family party party just Dave, Me and the kids. I made an attempt at a homemade cake which tasted really good, but didn't turn out as cute as I had envisioned in my mind, writing on a cake is REALLY hard. Reece was so cute eating his cake. At first he just touched the frosting with the tips of his fingers and sucked on them, but by the end he was beating the cake with both hands and squeazing it between his fingers. Once he was finished eating he had a lot of fun playing and he kept looking at his hands like, what the?, what's all over my hands?. It was really hard to get a picture of him looking at the camera. Finally I had to tickle him to get him to pay attention to me, he was so fascinated by his messy hands. All in All, I think his birthday party was a success, even if it was small.

Tiny Secrets

Sierra has recently started watching a movie called The Secret Of Nimh. I dont think I'd ever seen it until a few years ago, but David loves it. It reminds him of his childhood, kind of like me with Babes in Toyland. Sierra likes this movie quite a bit and watches it pretty frequently, but it is kind of scary. One day David found her hiding behind her bed during a particularly scary part and he turned the movie off so she wouldn't be scared. Sierra wasn't happy about this, apparently she really likes being scared. The other day she was watching it in the living room and as the scary parts came up she barricaded herself behind some pillows for protection, it was so cute. She would hunker down during the scary scenes and peak over the tops of the pillows so she could still watch, but would be protected. She would even get this worried look on her face which of course I couldn't capture on camera.

Icky's

I got a few pictures of the kids when they were sick last week. Sierra took over a 4 hr nap on Thursday and when I went to check on her I found her like this...


Reece was so pathetic in the swing at daycare before we came home Thursday morning I couldn't resist taking a picture of him.

Sweet boy

I've been getting some really cute pics of Reece lately. I took these at daycare the other day. He has recently started getting excited when he sees the camera, it is so funny. And if I take it out and don't take pictures of him he'll get upset. He's getting really close to crawling, he goes up to hands and knees, but can't go forward quite yet. He only moves backwards,but that's a start. I don't think it'll be much longer and he'll be all over the place.

He's my little lover boy!

He's doing raspberries in this one.

Showing mommy his food, he thought he was being hilarious. he was busting up

Never ending vomit

I feel like I haven't posted anything in ages. We have been having a pretty crummy week here. It all started when I asked to come home from work a little early on Wed. I wasn't feeling great and I wanted to get some sleep so I got home at 3:30 and went straight to bed. I was awoken at 5:00 by Dave, screaming for me at the top of his lungs. Of course I ran to see what was wrong, only to find him in Sierra's room trying to catch her vomit in a blanket. So since Sierra was sick, I didn't get to be. I can't lay around in bed when she can't even keep water down. Needless to say we were up all night with Sierra throwing up. I had called into work on Wed. and told them I couldn't come in on Thur., but on Thur. morning Sierra seemed fine, and they really needed me, so I headed to work. And what should happen, Reece throws up in the car on the way there. I had to stay at work for a bit, but they sent me home at 9:30 so we had a day of relaxing and making sure we all felt better. Guess what happened Friday night, Dave starts puking. I AM SO DONE WITH VOMIT!
So that's the craziness that's been going on these past few days and can I just say that every home should be required to have a washer and dryer, especially when there's kids involved. I can't stand having to run back and forth to the laundry room when my kids are sick.