Kids + Sun= Happy

Here is a picture that Elena drew of me. I’m the red giant with a little green baby in my belly.

 

First 60 degree day!

 

Hamming it up for Daddy!

 

Playing the the empty laundry baskets laying on the floor of the living room.

 

Bean showing her silly face. =)

 

I sat down and counted it out…I have 12 weeks left…12! That’s not nearly enough time! I always feel like pregnancy takes forever and you just drudge through it til you get this beautiful baby to make it all worth it. But this time around, I blinked and now I’m 7 month pregnant and freaking out, because I have nothing ready. The crib is still in pieces laying up against my living room wall, all of the baby boy clothes we have are in boxes somewhere in our garage that we haven’t gotten to yet. And I haven’t even tried to attempt to teach Andrew potty training. This is going to be tough. I can just feel it!  And God bless him, but my poor husband, after I get to be with him and the kids for 6 full wonderful weeks off from work, he’ll be here with all three of them by himself! I think we’ll have to borrow some grandparents from time to time til we get a little routine down so that he doesn’t go running out the door, completely insane!

I’m so happy with where life has decided to take us. We have a wonderful family. A great house. An awesome beginnning to make our own traditions and it’s all starting so soon!  Elena is really getting into coloring, and writing. She’s so into it, that she decided to display her name over and over again (letters not in the right order, but close enough) all over her wall of her joint bedroom with Andrew. I felt bad having to tell her that this was not something that we do, that paper is the only place we write because she was sooo proud of her work! And believe it or not, she’s amazing at the water works on demand! That girl could cry her way out of anything. It’s insane! I’ve never seen someone who could turn on the waterworks like her, and I mean like big gigantic crocodile tears! haha. Gotta love her.

And Mr. Andrew is getting to be such a little man! I can’t believe how clever he is, or that he knows so much for being so little. He still doesn’t want to talk English yet, which is fine because I imagine Andrew-ise is a lot more fun for him because no one knows what he is saying. It just gets hard when you know he’s trying to tell you something that he thinks is important and he can’t get it out! He lays on the floor and pouts and it’s hard because as a parent, you want to help in anyway you can to see that little smile come out, but if you can’t understand, ” jdklfajieuivnbrjna”, it makes for a difficult time. I guess that’s how it is when you go to another country, so it’s like have the UN debates in my house constantly, if you can imagine. Just without the translators!

Well I did what I came here to do, and that was to provide you with pictures of kids, a little bit about life around here. And to clear my head about everything that is soon to happen.

Oh! And did I mention…I’m having a bit of a freak out about turning 25? I can’t believe it. I’ll be twenty five this time next week. Where did the time go! I know 25 might not be that big of a deal to most people. But I just feel like a lot has happened in these twenty five years. I’ll have three kids, a house, and I own my car now. I feel very adult. Plus I started to cut out COUPONS! I have officially become a mother. HAHA

 

 

Made cookies

And they turned out like crap! haha, for some stupid reason, I decided to try a new recipe for these “soft sugar cookies”. I’ve really gotten into making everything from scratch lately, and i saw a recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks, so thought why not. WRONG! They don’t taste like a sugar cookie what so ever and to top it off…they are flat like paper. ugh. I’m bummed. I was so in the mood for sugar cookies cut out like snowflakes. I’m thinking of send Mr. Craig to the store in the morning for the ingredients for my one of a kind TRUE SUGAR COOKIES. Note to self: If you are craving something, don’t deviate from the way you usually make it thinking that you’ll make a new and improved version. Just stick with the classics.

Life around here has been at a all time high of anxiety and hectic running around. Elena has now decided that she is indeed a nudist. And AJ has found out how loud and high his voice can get when he screams. Add that all together with icky cookies and it makes for a day where even a perfect dry martini couldn’t wash a smile back on your face. haha. But things are good. My job is going well, wishing i was home with the little ones and that Mr. Craig could find something; i’ve love to switch lives with him at the moment. hm, I wonder what it’s like peeing standing up? hm…there a thought that gets stuck in your mind! haha! Sorry, just always wondered that. But that’s besides the point. I’m sitting here in my chair watching boring tv so that there is some noise in the house because everyone is asleep and it feels way to weird not have some noise going on. I decided to stay up later so that when the kids crashed, i could take a long shower with no interuptions and then do things like pedicures to make my feet like and feel great, and i FINALLY got the time. without a kid dangling off of me, to tweeze my brows..it’s so nice to see that i have two. But the best part about staying up this late? my hair is done, my toes look pretty, the house is …well partially clean and i’m relaxing…aw peace and quiet. i think it’s good every once in a while for a parent to forgo a few hours of sleep so that they can enjoy the company of their spouse since neither of you have had a great conversations with one another all day besides like, have the kids have eaten yet, is the laundry done..etc. It’s good for the brain i think. It’s like a mini mental break. And you need that when you have two young kids. Elle and Aj aren’t too big of handfuls so life just slides on. They usually go to sleep at the same time; at night and during the day. But there are those days where it’s much much harder and they refuse to sleep at all. Those are the days I find something that i need to do…like just a random run to the store.

wow I seriously am having the hardest time keeping my eyes open.

heading out

 

Making some new projects for myself!

If you have any old tank tops, with cool, or unusual patterns, I would love to take them off of your hands, and make a few purses! I found a new pattern for some cool purses, and want to try them out! So I’m going through my closet and taking out some, tank tops I love, but will never fit me again, and repurposing them. Because, seriously, you can never have enough bags. Especially with children.

 

I want to blog….

But I’m so tired.  And today has been a long day of cleaning and re-organizing.  It’s 9 o’clock, the house is clean, elena is sleeping, andrew is sleeping. And the laundry is almost done. I’m happy. Truly happy. I feel like I have a little bit more control in my life right now. Just a little bit, and that’s all i needed.

Plus, got some fun copper and blonde highlight today! Sweet. Looking like fall on my head. haha

well, I blogged. haha, and now it’s bedtime.

 

My eye is twitching!

All day long, my frickin’ eye would not stop twitching! Seriously, it’s hard to type on a computer all day long with your vision constantly twitchy. hahah, plus when you’re talking to the patients, and all they see is a very tired girl, who looks like she is 19 because she has no makeup on, and her hair is all gross and in a ponytail, and has a very obvious twitch to her eye? I must of looked CRAZY today!!!

anyways, today..life is getting a bit better. I’m getting things done, get insurance for Elena, Andrew, Mr. Craig, and I, cleaning up some paper work stuff at home. And all of that fun stuff! But more importantly, getting ready for the winter! I’m making a list of things that need to be done to our rental before winter hits. Like gutters! It’d be nice not to have super icy steps anymore. Or new flooring in the hallway, so that there aren’t nails popping up through it anymore. You know things like that. haha, If anyone who reads this knows of a place for us to rent, seriously tell us now, and we’ll move tomorrow! I’m sick of being in this house, it’s such a pit.

So yes, I really don’t have much to talk about tonight, just wanted to get a quick update and whatnot.

good night!

 

Halloween

I always find Halloween to present the conundrum of what to wear. Should I follow along with the other women my age and dress a little on the showy side? Or do I pull the mom side and not dress up, except for a funny t-shirt or cat ears and my face painted?

i love Halloween. It is my favorite fake holiday! I love the concept of it, being someone else for a day, something that is strange and mythical or even something as silly as a whoopee cushion. Which I would love either one, but is it just me or have Halloween costumes become unbelievably expensive!?!?!?! For a child’s costume it’s even 25 dollars and up for an outfit they will wear one time, unless you can keep it for future dress up days, which even then it’ll only last all of a year before they grow out of them. I’d rather spend the money on fabric to make them an outfit or three for play box time. So this year, this is what we’re doing, Andrew is wearing a white one-sie that I embroidered with a little candy corn on it that says corny underneath it…hahaha… And Elena is going as a kitty. We’re putting kitty ears on her with a tail and some warm clothes and calling it good!

Okay as I’m writing about Halloween, I’m listening in on the conversation that my daughter and Mr. Craig are having, and it’s fricking adorable! I don’t know if any of you have seen the cartoon, Max and Ruby, but it’s a cartoon about two rabbits and Ruby is Max’s older sister. Well Elena is pretending that Mr. Craig is Max and she is Ruby. And can I just tell you, watching Mr. Craig play tea party with Elena, well it makes me love him even more!

But back to Halloween, so this year I decided to have a little fun, I’m bought an awesome hoodie, it looks like a skeleton, and I’m gonna wear my long extensions, put on some dark make-up and just be a dead person. So I can have comfort in a nice warm hoodie, but at the same time, be dressed up more than last year (which I was just a mom last year, wasn’t feeling in the dressing up mood) And Mr. Craig’s costume? Dark jeans with a light blue shirt. The shirt has clouds all over it and he’s going to carry a squirt gun. Can you guess what he’s going as? He’s going as partly cloudy with chance of rain! hahahaha hilarious I love him sooo much. what a nerd!

What are you going planing for your Halloween costume?