Aria throws up....in church!

Embarrassing moment this week.  This cute little face caused quite the ruckus in church this week.  Here's how it went down.  We walked into church, happy, clean, hair combed, etc.  Church starts, the girls are looking through books.  They start passing the sacrament.  I get out the girls sippy cups of water.  Aria is drinking away sitting on my lap.  All of the sudden she coughs, then again, then tries to take a breath and can't, then turns bright red.  Then....she throws up...all over herself and me!  And it stinks!!!  Bad!!!  Everyone turns around wondering how to help.  Shane gets out some wipes and the the dry onesie change of clothes to mop up the puddle formed in my skirt.  It stinks, everyone is staring at us.  Aria is just fine by the way, not crying or anything, just looking around.  We wipe up what we can, and with that we stand up (All 4 of us) and walk out.  Everyone is looking, smiling, sympathizing and thinking either 'glad it's not me or been there done that.'

Aria really just choked on water, she wasn't sick and has been fine since.

We got home, cleaned up and changed and well 10 minutes of church is good right?

8 is great for Avery Jane

Avery turned 8 and was baptized this summer.  Since she lives in California, I wasn't able to go.  However, as is tradition with all the nieces and nephews when they get baptized, they get to go to dinner with me.  Avery was in town with her family for Thanksgiving so we decided to go to lunch.  Her lunch choice was Panda Express.  Since this was such a low key place to go we decided to then go get some ice cream afterwards.  We got to make our own yogurt combination and sit on couches while we ate them up.  Afterwards we decided to go check out the new Scheels to ride their ferris wheel.  It was so fun.  Then we walked around and took advantage of all their photo op spots.  Avery and I had a great time and it was fun to spend time with just her.

Congrats Avery on your baptism.  Thanks for coming with me for a fun afternoon.

Girls night out

While my sisters were in town before Thanksgiving all my sisters, sister in law and mom, decided to have a girls night out and go see the last Twilight film.  We all met at Olive Garden beforehand and then went and saw Breaking Dawn Part 2.  By far I think this was my favorite Twilight film out of all of them.  It was such a fun night out with my family.

Shane got invited to a Jazz game last minute that same night so we had to scramble and get a babysitter.  Luckily, Shane's cousin came to the rescue and watched the girls for us.  The girls were good and I was able to sneak out so they didn't cry when I left.  They went right down to bed for her like they do every night for us and so it was a great night out for both of us.

Taggart

Look at this cute little thing with all his dark hair!  This is the girls newest boyfriend.  They're going to have to fight over him though.  Little Taggart Pace was born the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  It was fun visiting Brigitte and meeting and holding him the next day.  He was born at the same hospital the girls were born at so it was fun being back at the same hospital and being happy I didn't have to go into the NICU.

Welcome Taggart!  I can't wait to hold you again.

Business Suits

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on, you have been warned.

Just a cute picture I didn't want to forget to post.  Before the girls were born we bought these jogging suits for the girls.  If you know Shane you know he owns and wears a lot of jogging suits.  He calls them his business suits as this is what he 'wears to work'  He kept telling me when I was pregnant that the girls were going to wear these every day in the winter time.  They've worn them a few times but plan to get plenty more use as it starts snowing more.

Aria is walking....yay!

Aria has finally started taking some steps.  She isn't doing it on her own yet but we are so proud of her.  She is pretty cautious and will only do this a couple times for us but I can tell her confidence is building.  She's going to be running around with Siena before we know it.

I had to remove the videos as I'm running out of room.  Hope everyone was able to watch them!

Then I had to add this video.  Siena has learned to fake cry and it's so funny.  You'll see just how fake it is when you watch this.  Then the end of the video is trying to get Aria to walk again and you can see just how hard it is to get her to try and want to walk when she doesn't want to.  She almost thinks its a game to flop down on the floor.

Morning Routine

I wanted to post our morning routine we go through each day so I don't forget.  On weekdays we have only about 30-35 mins. from when we get the girls up to when I need to leave for work.  So we have our routine down pretty good.

We get them up at 7:00am, I've already filled their sippy cups with milk.  They sit in their highchairs and drink milk while I make their breakfast.  Right now their breakfast is consisting of oatmeal cereal and applesauce mixed together.  We've tried other things but this the fastest and what they like the most.  In fact they always start kicking their legs with huge smiles on their faces when they start eating it.  Why change something that works so well.  We feed them their cereal and then immediately they know they get their yogurt bites (which they LOVE) and some plain cheerios to eat while we eat our breakfast.  After we finish, I do their hair while they are still in their high chair.  They don't fight me and try to get away while they're still trapped.  Then we change their diapers and get them dressed.  After that it's off to the bathroom where we brush our teeth.  The girls love their little toothbrushes and although they aren't great at it,) they mostly suck and chew on them), they do like to try to imitate me brushing my teeth so it's pretty cute.

After that comes the hard part, saying good bye to mom.  Up until recently they didn't really get what this part meant and then all of the sudden it has clicked that I leave every day at this time and they hate it.  And so I hate it again.  They cry, cling to me, will not let me put them down.  Many mornings I shut the door to sounds of 1 or 2 crying girls...which ends up with 3 crying girls sometimes as well.  They do recover pretty quickly, at least that is what Shane tells me.  And now I feel like I've scarred them for life because on weekend mornings they won't let me out of their site.  If I walk into the kitchen they're right behind me crying, probably thinking that I'm leaving.  Ugh...

It's a fast 35 minutes of our day but we get a lot done and I like the rountine we have.  I also love that I get to spend a short amount of time with the girls before I leave for work each morning.