A Typical Day in Our House...

Are you curious about what a day in our life is like? Here's you chance to get a glimpse! 

• 430am - My husband's alarm goes off and he gets up, feeds the dog and goes to work. Sometimes this wakes the babies up, hopefully it doesn't.
• 530am - The babies wake up and I hear them giggling and playing around in their cribs.
• 545am - I finally get up because the babies sound like they are getting a little less happy. Wash out their bottles and give them some milk.
• 6am - I hear Superman waking up and bring him upstairs. Everyone gets changed and dressed. 
• 630am - Breakfast for everyone. The babies throw most of their food on the floor and Superman barely touches his. 
• 7am - I try to clean up the kitchen a bit but mostly I just ignore it until later. The boys play (with things they aren't supposed to)/fight/hurt themselves. This continues the entire day as well.
• 8am - Nap time for the little ones. Superman and I usually go downstairs to play plus he has a snack.
• 930am - The little ones wake up. We go on a walk to the playground if it's nice out.
• 10am - The boys are all hungry already and begging to eat lunch. I try to hold them off until at least 1030 but I am already hungry too. So we end up eating lunch at 1030ish which means we are done by 11 and naptime isn't until 12. So we all play together (all three of them are jealous whenever someone else gets attention, so they all try to climb on me at once. It's pretty funny.)
• 12pm - Naptime for everyone! I usually end up taking one too. 
• 130pm - The little ones are up again. They get to play some more. 
• 2pm - Superman wakes up from his nap. Everyone has a little snack and then I try to entertain them. This is also the time I normally clean up the house. It's amazing how messy it gets in just one day.
• 4pm - The little ones are ready for dinner. Superman also wants to eat with them so he has a snack and watches a show. I start making dinner for everyone else.
• 430pm - My husband gets home from work and normally tries to work out for an hour if he can.
• 530ish pm - Dinner is ready so Superman and I start eating. The other boys are getting fussy so I eat quickly.
• 545pm - My husband quickly eats and we start baths for everyone. We do baths every other day in our house.
• 615pm - The little boys go to bed and we spend time with our oldest until his bedtime. I also clean up the kitchen and living room at this time.
• 730pm - Time to read a story and then bedtime for Superman! My husband showers and I do blog stuff or play video games while waiting for him. (Why does this whole process take him 40ish minutes when I can shower in 5 minutes? And he doesn't even have any hair to wash...)
• 830pm - We watch whatever shows were on that night and then bed time by 10pm so that we can start the process over again in the morning!

I hope it doesn't sound like I am complaining about our schedule! I will admit that sometimes it does get old doing the same thing every day, but I really do enjoy it (most of the time). We are pretty busy just doing the normal everyday stuff, but we try to get out and do some other activities with the boys a couple of times a week. 

Of course things change every day. It doesn't always follow this schedule exactly, but I've always been a scheduler with my babies. Things just work out better for us if they stay on the same schedule every day. The weekends usually mess up our perfect schedule and everyone gets a little off. As they get older now it will get easier to shift things around. My oldest doesn't usually have any issues now, but the little boys are still stuck on their schedule pretty much. 

So I just keep reminding myself that it will get better, we won't always have to have so many scheduled naptimes and soon they will be able to wait longer for meals if they need to and we will be able to do more out of the house activities!  

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Five for Friday

1. Happy 4th of July! This is one of my favorite holidays, right after Christmas. What are your big plans for the day? We are going to do family stuff and some fireworks later on. It will be interesting to see how the boys all react to them. 

2. I haven't worked out in awhile. I know, how awful! I've decided my new goal is to start up again this week. I'll let you know how that goes next Friday. We do take lots of walks with the boys and the dog though, so that is something at least. 

3. Look at this awesome wedding cake! I just love it. I've always loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy ever since I was little. The main reason for this is my mom used to read to us kids every afternoon when we were young and these are the books I really remember. We all loved them and couldn't wait for her to read another chapter. Of course we were all super excited when the movies came out too and went to see them many many times. I have a family of nerds and it's awesome.

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4. Our puppy graduated from her first puppy training classes last night. She's such a good girl (25% of the time). Otherwise she's a typical 4 month old lab. She does really good with commands in the class though. We start level two on Sunday.

5. The babies have been teething this past week and are super crabby about it. I can't wait until they have all their teeth in! Even my oldest still needs to get two more of his two-year molars in.

Have an awesome holiday weekend!

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A Curious George Birthday Party

 This past weekend we had a birthday party for all three boys since their birthdays are so close together. They are too young to care about themes are anything like that but my oldest loves watching Curious George so we picked that for this year. For some reason the party stores have discontinued Curious George stuff, but I was still able to find some things online. The other things I made myself.

It was a first birthday for my twins and a second birthday for my oldest.

He didn't really want to eat his cupcake. Not a big fan of cake I guess.

People were getting too close to him. He's at the stage where he only wants mommy and daddy around.

Yep, never did eat that cupcake either, silly boy :)

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We Survived the First Year!

At times it didn't seem like we would make it but we have actually survived the first year with our twins! They are now 12 months old. I think this next year might actually be harder than the first year. They are so much work to keep up with right now! They also like to get into trouble constantly and fight with each other all the time. Some days I feel like I'm literally going crazy and they haven't even started walking yet! 

They seem to be extra mischievous little boys, but maybe that's just because there is two of them plotting together. It's so much fun though, even with the craziness. They really are quite hilarious and even when they are naughty they are so cute I can't help but laugh. (This does not help the issue at all!) They are both little hams and love to have an audience. They crack me up every day but I am also very thankful for nap time and bed time!

As far as development, they seem to be right on track with everything. They aren't walking unassisted yet, but they prefer to cruise the furniture and walls and walk while pushing objects rather than crawling. They both crawl extremely fast. Nowadays when they follow me into a room they aren't supposed to be in, I have to bring one out and then hurry back to get he second one but even then the first one is usually back in the room again by that time. Usually I just have to sneak into the back rooms or run really fast and close the door or I have three little visitors in with me! 

Their favorite toys are pretend dishes and food which they really love, or anything their big brother is playing with at the time. They've learned how to throw toys through the stair railings so we usually end up with a lot fewer toys upstairs by the end of the day. They also enjoy this game during nap times when they throw their pacifiers and blankets out of the bed and then cry when they can't reach them anymore. 

They are starting to use sippy cups more often, but they still have their milk in a bottle for now because they don't seem to drink it otherwise. They are on regular whole milk and have refused to eat pureed baby food for awhile now. They pretty much eat whatever we are eating for three meals a day with one or two snacks in between. It's funny because there are some foods where one of them likes it and the other won't eat it. Batman is a bit more picky than his brother most of the time. When I feed them things like yogurt or apple sauce my oldest usually wants some too so I end up feeding all three from the same bowl. (We've always shared spoons and bowls with the twins, it's easier that way).

We are having a birthday party this weekend for all three boys! It's going to be Curious George themed and I'm very excited to put it all together. Next week I'll share some pictures of how it turned out! Our first year has been difficult and at times seemed completely insane, but we made it and I wouldn't trade any of it. I love these boys so much and I am so thankful every day that we get to experience this crazy adventure!

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Five for Friday

 1. Our garage sale is tomorrow! I really hope we make enough to make it worthwhile because it's been an awful lot of work this week trying to get ready for it. I still have a lot to do today. Ugh. What are your fun plans for the weekend?

2. Since it was Superman's birthday this past week I made cake and let all the little boys have some. 
They had fun making a huge mess. 
I am only making cupcakes for the birthday party and those aren't quite as exciting as a big piece of cake. 

3. I found something else I need to get for meal times. How cute is that?!

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4. If you were wondering what my Superman's favorite book is this week, it is this one. 
He's been picking it every single night to read before bed!

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5. My boys are slowly starting to grow a little more! They are going to be one year next week and they are finally wearing 9 and 12 month clothes. Mostly 9 month. They still have to wear 6 month pants and shorts though. They are starting to get too short but the 9 month pants are way too big. They are kind of in-between sizes I guess. 

That's all I have today! We are going to be pretty busy these next couple of weeks! 
I hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Two Years Ago on Father's Day...

My oldest was born! Happy Birthday to my Superman! My favorite little two year old. We are going to visit the zoo today and then have some special birthday cake. The birthday party is not until next week because we are celebrating all three boys together this year. In honor of this special day, I've decided to share his birth story with you. It didn't turn out quite the way I had imagined it would...

It all started on Father's Day morning. We were already almost a week past the due date, so obviously we were expecting (hoping) for something to happen at any time. My husband was sleeping, I was up playing video games on the computer. I've always been a morning person, otherwise I'm sure I would have been sleeping too. I had just finished up a dungeon and killed the final boss when I felt my water break. Such perfect timing, I didn't even have to leave in the middle of the dungeon!

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited and nervous. I woke up my husband and called the hospital. Then took a shower and got my bags in the care and we were off to the hospital! I wasn't having any contractions at all yet. When we got there they checked to make sure it was actually my water breaking, and we also found out that there was meconium in the amniotic fluid as well. Still nothing was happening so they started me on Pitocin. 

It took awhile but contractions finally started. We walked around. We waited and waited and walked the hallways some more. They gave even more Pitocin. Nothing was progressing much. I got an epidural eventually but we were only at 4cm and still getting nowhere. The doctor came in because our baby was starting to be in distress and his heartbeat was dropping. She told me it would be best to do a c-section. I was really scared of course. This was the last thing I wanted. But I agreed to it and they took me back right away.

I don't remember much of the surgery except the tugging and pulling and my shaking. My neck and arm muscles were in so much pain from all the shaking and shivering and I couldn't pay attention to anything else. They didn't even let me see my little boy until I was in the recovery room a little while later. The shaking was horrible. It seemed like it took forever for it to stop afterwards. But I got to hold me precious little boy and he was perfect. That was the only thing that mattered.

We were all set to go home a couple of days later but the day after my surgery I started having horrible pains and it got so bad I could not move without help. It turns out I had a bad ileus and ended up being there for nine days. I couldn't eat anything and wasn't supposed to drink water either but the pain meds made me extremely thirsty. I had to have a nasogastric tube in my nose to get all the green bile out of my stomach. 

It was awful. The worst experience of my life. My stomach was swelled up more than when I had a baby inside. They were talking about another surgery but thankfully it started to get better slowly on its own and we finally got to go home! I was able to breastfeed through all of this, which I was also very thankful for. The bad news is that I was in lots of pain and could barely walk upright for the next two months until they finally figured out what was wrong (they kept telling me it was just constipation) and I had to have another surgery to fix my intestines. This was another long week with no eating allowed. (All these issues are the reason I lost all my baby weight plus more in the first month). After that all was well and I got back to normal life. 

And that is the story of the best Father's Day gift ever. Happy Birthday my precious little boy!

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My Favorite Summer Fonts!

1. My favorite Summer fonts. Here are some awesomely fun fonts to give you inspiration for your Summer projects! Check them out, they are all free. Oh and now PicMonkey lets you use your own fonts, so that's pretty much the best thing ever. There are links to download each of them under the image.

Flip Flop // KG Defying Gravity // Halo Handletter // Moon Flower // Traveling Typewriter
Foglihten No.01 // Wolf in the City // Exmouth // Giraffe // Vintage

2. I finished up my root canal this week. That was pretty awful. 
I would have to say my last c-section was more pleasant than this root canal. 

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3. Baggins Bracelet. This is a pretty sweet bracelet. Is anyone else a LOTR fan? I'm not the only nerdy one around here am I?

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4. Ceramic Ninja Mug. Because who wouldn't want one of these!? If you are using a ninja mug you are automatically a cool person. Too bad Father's Day is already on Sunday because this would make an awesome gift. If only my husband drank coffee...

5. My garden is growing so nicely! I'm so excited about it. I just planted the corn this past week because I kept forgetting about it, so hopefully that wasn't too late. I still also need to find a trellis for my beans, I guess I better hurry they are growing pretty fast! We put the chicken wire around it to keep the puppy out but apparently she can just jump over it anyways.

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5 Tips for Dealing with a Picky Eater

My little boy was a really good eater for the first year and half or so. He pretty much ate everything I gave him. He liked trying new things and even loved spicy foods. Nothing could faze him. In the last couple of months he has started eating a lot less. He won't eat some of the foods he used to love. Except some days he will. Some days he will eat a ton of food. The next day he barely will touch anything and I'm sure he must be starving. My other little boys aren't too picky yet. They will throw it off their tray if they don't want to eat it though! I'm sure our puppy must love cleaning up after meal times around here. Here are some of the things I've learned over the last few months.

1. Don't let your child snack too often. Some days I have realized that this is probably why he's not eating his dinner. I try to have three meals and two snacks each day. If you try to keep everything at a set time it's easier not to get too many snacks in. 

2. Try to include at least one thing that you know your toddler will eat during each meal. Of course something he was eating the day before he might not touch today, so this doesn't always help!

My oldest one year ago. He has changed so much!

3. Minimize distractions. This is a huge problem in our house. There is always somthing else going on that is more interesting. The best idea is probably to try to have everyone eat together at the same time. This doesn't usually happen here because the babies are hungry by 4pm. Then our oldest wants to eat something because they are, which usually turns into dinner because it's so close to dinner time anyways. And it's pretty much impossible to eat dinner at the same time as feeding 3 little boys theirs anyways. 

4. A lot of times if I show him that I like it by taking a bite first, he will be more likely to give a new food a chance. Even if he's had a food before, sometimes he doens't recognized what it is and will refuse to try it even though I know he likes it! And of course once I get him to take one bite, he usually remembers how good it is and will eat more. Be a good example of healthy eating because they will probably want to eat whatever they see you eating. 

5. Keep trying. Even if they don't like it the first time you give it to them, keep trying every so often. There are many foods that my boys wouldn't eat at first and now they enjoy. Try to avoid only serving them foods that they like. This is something I need to work on. We tend to eat a lot of the same foods because I know they will eat it. We need to keep trying new foods!

What are some other ways that you have found to help with a picky eater?

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Snapshot Saturday

Good morning lovely friends! I hope you are all having a great weekend. It's my daddy's 60th birthday today! My husband is working again so we are stuck at home for now. We have a lot of errands we have to try to squeeze in as soon as he gets home though. Here are the photos of the week:

 

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