October 30th-November 5th

(10/30)  Kathy had the kiddos today, and when I went to pick them up, D was far more interested in his graham cracker than coming to see me.  J is terrified of her hubby, so she had him facing away from him on her lap, nomming on his graham cracker.  She said they are both very huggy lately.  I love this age! 

Traffic was awful, so that put us home late, and then it was the dinner-play-bedtime rush.  Not enough hours in the day. 

Dad tries to work...
(10/31) Happy Halloween! 

Nanan came to watch the littles while I volunteered in C's classroom in the morning.  C's school has been on early dismissal schedule, so the boys' schedule has been a mess.  I was really glad that they had the opportunity to have an uninterrupted nap today ~ they needed it!

The weather was awful up until trick-or-treating time, so my plan bad been to leave C with Sarah to go trick-or-treating and run the boys home, but magically it cleared up so we were able to trick-or-treat with them!  D kept saying "nah-nah" (night-night) and refused to keep his blanket on, but J was in a happy mood for our trek to Starbucks and back.  Us adults got to trick-or-treat too!


The twins were up well past their bedtime, and didn't utter a peep after I put them down. They were *done*.

(11/1)  Yay!  Painting was finished in our house today!  I cannot wait to have my kitchen back!

The boys had a day with Dad and I hit the gym after work, so I hardly got to see them at all.

(11/2) I stayed home so the workers could install our cabinets today.  WOOHOO!!  It was great to get my kitchen reassembled.  Living out of tubs and having no microwave is the pits!  The boys now have most of their play area back.  They are still being blocked out of the kitchen, since the floor was torn up, but they have all of the living room area. They are getting quite good at escaping now that they're older though. Time to break out the lead paint chips to slow them down.

Rough night for the big boys. It seems a tummy bug is making the rounds. Dad said D had been sick in the night on Weds too.

(11/3) Today was mostly spent sleeping and trying to not be sick anymore.  Ugh.  J was the only one that escaped the bug.

(11/4) Oh yay, the time change.  The boys woke at the new 6:30a and struggled to reach their new nap and bed times.  I'm so not a fan of this back and forth every six months. It throws everyone off!

Luckily, we were all feeling much better today and had a nice day hanging out and doing a whole lot of nothing.

D has a new word - he says "na-na" for both banana and Nanan, and occasionally night-night.  He also goes "ho ho ho" and cackles.  I haven't gotten the latter two on video yet.  J will say "book" when he's trying to steal my book. 

They both have started screeching when the other steals a toy, or when they are frustrated.  Makes for a *loud*, head-splitting evening.  Or maybe that was because we're all still trying to recover from yesterday. 

Dad bought the first satsumas of the season.  The boys are fans.  D stuck his finger through the wedges and then sucked them dry and J inhaled them.  I can't stay away from them either.  I have a feeling this bag will be gone lickity-split.

(11/5) Back to work with me!  Hope Dad & the boys have a fun day.