This is my norm

Hello world!!!

I have been wanting to update you all but have been super busy this week, trying to recoup from being with Ella at the hospital for a week. I have some new pics for you and some videos that I hope will upload because they are so cute 🙂

The girls were able to start cereal today…well technically they can both start…Ella is sleeping so I went ahead and started Preslyn, and she hated it for the first 4 or 5 bites…they were more like gags, but then she realized, hey this is yummy…and did well. Very nice compared to what I remember with Hayden. She was only 4 months though so maybe those extra two months really helped out a little!

Ella waiting for her Daddy to come pick us up to go home!!

We are having a blast having everyone home and being able to load them all up and drive somewhere!! Its the weirdest concept to get into your brain after 6 months of confinement! We are so excited, though a little hesitant to get right out there in the world, so bare with me as we try to get our minds over the fact that there are germs everywhere ready to rub themselves all over my precious clean angels. Hayden has become quite the outdoors woman these days. She begs to play outside any time she can and if we are getting ready to leave she tells us she will be outside waiting 🙂 Such a fun age she is coming in to.

Ella is weighing in the upper 12 lb. range and Preslyn is pushing hard toward 15!! They are both adorable as ever! Hayden is in a big growth spurt. She has grown an inch since we took her for her checkup about 6 weeks ago! She’s gotten too long for all her size 2 pants and now is in 3T’s!

Ella is healing so well and has not been in too much pain it seems. She has a diaper rash, which they told us to expect no matter how hard we tried to prevent it, and boy did we try so hard. We used up 3 full tubes of diaper cream and aquaphor…poor girl…we did our best. So now we have a prescription to get filled that should help out a little…her poor little “boonie” just wasn’t used to poop.
Preslyn …first day of freedom!

Ella…first day of freedom!!!

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It’s Monday

I think every Monday starts out the same for me. I drag myself out of bed, look around my house and sigh as I say in my head, ” HOW does this house turn into THIS EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!!!” and then I make a mental plan to do put everything back together and then realize there is so much that I don’t even know where to start….so I start several tasks at once that end up making the house look like I didn’t do a thing, which in turn, yes I did I just started 10 things and didn’t get to finish them all yet. I did, though, replace the light bulb that has been burnt out in my room for about 10 days, find the shoes I wore on Saturday to give back to the nanny, and find a new home for the triple stroller which we busted out this weekend and gave a whirl.

Preslyn is in the back in the first and on the left in the last pic.

It’s now officially the last week of Ella’s “life with a bag”. We are all thrilled 🙂 Not looking forward to the surgery next Tuesday but definitely know that it is a means to a normal life for all of us.

Michelle tagged me to do this during my next post….so here goes:

What 3 skills would I learn?
1. I would love to be a good photographer. Yes I know that like EVERYBODY would love to do this, but I really would. Because I think photos, taken the right way can really show a persons true personality. I love taking pictures of the kiddos and would love to have that skill perfected like my cool pal Joyelle 🙂

2. I would like to learn how to sew. I love doing crafty things and I would love to know how to make things and sell them. Handmade things are so cool and I think it is amazing to be able to create something using your hands.

3. Lastly, I’d like to learn how to be a boutique owner. I want to do this in the near future and have had that dream for a long time. So I’d like to learn how to manage it really well and get really good contacts. Learn to have an eye for what is “SO NOW” 😉 and know when to move on when it goes to “SO Yesterday”.

there…i tag Melissa, Deb, Rachel (both of you) and Allison (you never comment but I know you read!!!)