Mama Is Outnumbered: November 26th-December 2nd

(11/26) Work day for Dad and me, and Kathy had the kids. Dad took D in for a hair cut (his second) and then took him to Kathy's house, where he projectile-vomited shortly after arriving. She put him to bed and he seemed fine afterward. Maybe it was the stress of the haircut? I dunno. I hope he's not getting sick. He was fine the rest of the evening, and as it always does, Tuesday flew by in a blur.

(11/27) I actually had to work today, but it was a short day, and I was off before C was out of school. Nanan came to watch the littles for me, and I got home right as they were getting ready to have lunch. They went down for nap after lunch and didn't wake until it was almost time to go to Sarah's. She watched all three of my boys and kept C over night so I could go to a scotch tasting for Granddad's birthday. That was a lot of fun, and of course I had to have the 787 flight (C's b-day). Time passed all too quickly, and I had to run and grab the twinsies so they could get to bed. Once I got them tucked in, I curled up to read, and then Dad came home and mulled some brandy. Yeah, it was a good night.

(11/28) Happy Thanksgiving! Mama may have indulged a bit too much last night and had to try the whole getting out of bed thing a second time. Thankfully, Dad was home and the twinsies were pretty quiet and my second attempt went much better. We bummed around in our PJs for a while and then took the pups for a walk once the littles went down. I made the mistake of touching the leashes, and Moose about exploded, so I had to take both dog boys, even though that makes holding coffee more difficult. I brought C home from Sarah's after our walk and then made up some spicy eggs to go to Granddad's house. We had a lovely family dinner - everything was delish! The twins ate and ate all the snacky stuff so they weren't hungry for the main event. Oh well. I just cleaned them up and followed them around with my plate. Dad took them home around bedtime so I could sit and visit a little, and Uncle Jake drove C & me home. Love my family!

(11/29) Apple Cup! Gooooo Silvertips! Since I was the only Husky going to a house full of Cougs, I wore my hockey gear and secretly enjoyed it when the Huskies pulled it off. We attempted nap for the littles all in Jamie's room and they spent the afternoon talking/screeching at each other, and the bookcase spontaneously exploded into J's playpen. I have no idea what happened there. So they didn't nap, and J fell asleep on the 5 minute ride from Sarah's back to my house this afternoon, and just laid on the couch to sleep some more when I brought him in. I let him sleep for a little bit, then woke him for dinner. After dinner he kept saying, "Nigh-nigh. Please. Nigh-nigh!" I put the littles down before Nanan got here to watch them. She was disappointed, but then D decided to wake up and stay up while I was gone, so I guess that made up for it? Sarah and I finally made it out for a movie for our birthdays ~ we've only been trying for 4 months this year. I think that was the plan for last year too and it never happened. Whoops. Catching Fire was very good though - brutal, but very good.

Dinner!

Dutch Babies ~ yum!

(11/30) I started the day by taking the boys to the Seattle Marathon Expo, which I cannot run this year. Sigh. But Grandma's cousin's son mentioned he just finished his first marathon and so I helpfully offered up my bib. Kool-aid distribution at its finest! I will miss doing the run, since it is my favorite course, but they are predicting a 90% chance of rain tomorrow, so I can't say I'm not excited to miss that.

Grandma's mousse

C & Cass

The boys were awesome today! They both zonked out on the way down to Seattle, and of course didn't want to sleep once they got home. D finally crashed after being up there for over an hour, and I'm not positive that J slept. I finally went to get D up and he kept muttering "Linner. No nigh-nigh. Linner." He just laid there with his butt up in the air, refusing to get up. So funny! We were supposed to go to Grandma's for the kids' dinner tonight, but after two days of sketchy naps, and C going to play with Mateo for the evening, I called to cancel in favor of being a bum at home.

Trains outside of Macy's on our way to the expo

(12/1) Lazy Sunday for us today. Dad ran some errands, I played with the kids, and the twins took forever to go down again. I sure hope we're not nearing the end of naps--I'm so not ready. Other than that, we didn't do a whole lot. Those kinds of days are needed every now and then.