YIKES!

I read this article and watched the video from the Today show, about a woman in Indonesia giving birth to a 19 lb. baby. All I can say is YIKES, and OUCH! Although she did deliver it via c-section, but my goodness can you even imagine. The pic is of the newborn baby next to an average size newborn. The comparison is insane. See for yourself.

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Charged with blog delinquancy.

I have officially charged myself with "Blog delinquancy." Yup you heard me right. "Blog Delinquancy." So lock me up and throw away the key....Just kidding. I can't believe it has been over 3 months since my last post. I really have no excuse for why that is other than I have been just plain lazy. We have done many things, seen many faces and been many places since my last post. We have had HUGE milestones happen, one being that my twins are now 1 year old. ((sob)). We had a huge birthday party for them. There were exactly 64 people at the party. We also had the most beautiful weather that day. It was perfect.




The twins enjoying their bday party




Me and my whole crew.




Rose wearing her bday smash cake.




The beautiful bday cake

Time has flown by so fast. Another huge milestone is that my 2 older girls have moved up a grade. Marie is now in 5th grade, and Melody is now in 1st grade. I cant believe that, its insane, to say the least. They both love their school and their new teachers this year. I miss them being little.



My big 5th grader and my big 1st grader on their 1st day of school.


We have had visits from good friends. My good friend Heather and her family visited from Kansas and stayed with us for a couple of days, they even got to be here for the twins bday party. That was just so nice to be able to share that with my good friend.




I just love this pic of Heather and Tyler (my good friends from Kansas)


Im sure there are many other things I could share with you that have taken place thses last few months but I just cant seem to think of all of them at the moment. At least I have shared the bigger events and happenings from the last few months. Im hoping to make this (my blog)a daily priority again as I did in the beginning. We'll see what happens.

Its been awhile

So I know I have been on hiatis for like almost a month now. And I apologize to all my readers...LOL (there only like 5 of you) but the busyness in my life has kept me away. So here is a short but sweet and to the point recap of the last 3 1/2 weeks and all the things we have done.


we have chaperoned zoo trips




we have hung out at the baseball field numerous times, in which the twins were very well behaved.









we have had 1st visits from the tooth fairy. Yeah Melody!




We have sun bathed and played in little pools.




We have gone to parks



We have ran successful businesses



And I saved the best for last....We have eaten Ice cream! Yum! Yum!

Well thats the jist of the last few weeks. I hope you enjoyed the lovely update.

"Before I Was a Mom"

I just wanted to share a really nice poem that someone posted on the moms meetup message board. It puts everything it means to be a mom into perspective.



Before I was a Mom,
I never tripped over toys
or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not
my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.



Before I was a Mom,
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind
and my thoughts.
I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held down a screaming child
so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night
watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held a sleeping baby just because
I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces
when I couldn't stop the hurt..
I never knew that something so small
could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom..

Before I was a Mom,
I didn't know the feeling of
having my heart outside my body..
I didn't know how special it could feel
to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond
between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small
could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom,
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night
every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay..
I had never known the warmth,
the joy,
the love,
the heartache,
the wonderment
or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much,
before I was a Mom .

March Of Dimes

We did the march for babies yesterday and we could not have asked for more beautiful weather. It was 70 degrees and sunny. We only made it to the 1 mile mark so we only walked 2 miles out of the 4 which Im ok with. The twins were getting very upset by then so it was time to go. It was real nice and I really enjoyed it. Can't wait for next year. Here are some photos from the walk. There are 2 of the rockford moms group poster and my twins are on it. The girls did such a nice job on the posters.

A sticky situation

Yesterday Melody decided she wanted to be like the girl from Willie Wonka and try to save her gum by sticking it behind her ear. Lets just say it didn't go how she planned......

NEED I SAY MORE!

Yeah! It's Firday!

I am so happy it is finally Friday! It seemed for some reason that this week would never end. Well anyway to start the day off I went to my girls school this morning to celebrate mothers day. It was a little event they call "Muffins for Mom." I must say that anything that has to do with yummy muffins...Im totally in. Not to mention it's free and I got to spend a whole 30 minutes with my 2 oldest girls without the twins. I love my twins but I dont get too much alone time with just my 2 older girls. So it was very nice. Then the rest of the day I was feeling pretty much like crud. I'm getting a little bit of a head cold, hopefully that goes away soon. Other than that just looking forward to the weekend. Melody has her first t-ball game which I am really looking forward to, and I am participating in the March of Dimes on sunday with my family. I am really looking forward to that as well. Then after that we are having family over. We always love to have company over. So its going to be a busy but good weekend. I HOPE! Well until next time here are some pics for you to enjoy. Have a good weekend.

Busy Weekend

This weekend was a particularly busy one. I decided to have my sister and her 4 kids over for the weekend seeing as she just had her 4th baby in February and I had yet to see him. Not to mention I hadn't seen any of them since Thanksgiving. I'm nuts, I KNOW! It wasn't too bad, it was just like a zoo here. There were 8 kids at my house! Ages ranging from 2 months to 10 yrs old. It was so great to see her and the kids but I have to admit I was so relieved when the house was back to normal Sunday night. My oldest 2 kids were so sad to see everyone leave, they cried for like and hour off and on after they left. I feel so bad that we don't see much of them but we have such busy lives. I've set a personal goal for myself to try to get together with them at least once a month. I want my kids to grow up knowing how important family is. I never had a real close family being a foster child and losing my parents at such a young age, so I find that to be a really important thing for my kids to grow up with. Well like I said it was a crazy busy weekend but a good one nonetheless. Here are some pics of the kids.

Too Cute

I just thought I would share this picture of melody in her t-ball attire from today. I just thought she looked so cute.

Untitled

Today is going to be such a nice day out and I am really looking forward to it. I cant wait for the sunshine. So yesterday was Marie's first softball practice. Let me tell you it was a fricking NIGHTMARE! for me at least. We get there and the diamond is down this massive hill. I have the twins in their double stroller bouncing them down this huge bumpy hill. That part was kind of funny, they loved it. So we get down there and everything is going good.....for like 4.5 seconds. All of a sudden I have both babies crying while their doing practice, I have people staring at me and I am so freaked out I didnt even know what to do at that moment. Jay was over on the other side of the field watching Marie practice and watching Melody play on the playground so I couldnt get his attention to help. So eventually I just caved and decided it was time to take the babies to the car....OH WAIT! Did I mention that it was a massive hill we had to walk DOWN toget to the field. Therefore that means I now have to walk my big butt up this massive hill with 2 babies and a double stroller, oh and the huge diaper bag, and yes I had to do it by myself. I swear it took me forever. So as if being embaressed by the babies screaming at the same time wasnt mortifying enough I had people looking at me try to conquer this huge hill with the babies. I swear I could hear the Hallelujah chorus when I reached the top. I was out of breath for like 10 min. LOL! I am WAY too out of shape. So moving on. I get the babies in the car and Little Rose decideds shes not happy with that so she continues to scream. I start the car and begin to drive, where i was going I have no idea because we were in an area I am not familiar with at all. All I knew is I needed to drive. So I did for about 40 minutes I went around the same block over and over and over........ I bet your wondering if it worked....That would be a big fat NO! She cried the whole time. I just gave up. You could imagine how happy I was to get home and put the kids to bed....Bittersweet. I would love to share some pictures from the practice yesterday like I did with Melody's first practice, but i went to take my camera out and take a pic and low and behold I forgot to replace the memory card from earlier in the day when i was uploading pictures to my computer. My camera does not work without its memory card. So maybe next time.

Well, needless to say, I told Jay that I will not be joining for the next practice.

Blah

Your probably wondering I have titled this post "Blah." Well because thats the way I have felt the last 2 days. The weather is crappy and were all couped up in the house. It went from 70 and beautiful to 30's and 40's and frigid, oh and did I mention there is a little rain mixed up in all that. I wish summer would just get here already. We have so many fun things planned for the summer. To list a few: we have season passes to the local water park (yeah!), softball and t-ball for the older girls, visiting kansas to visit some family friends, possibly taking a road trip to Texas and many more things those are just the things that came to mind at the moment.

The last few days have been pretty busy. We had the "Fun Fair" at the kids school on friday which I did not attend because I went to the moms of multiples rummage sale. I have to say I got some pretty cute stuff. The kids and Jay had fun at the fun fair. Then on Saturday we had our "Easter # II" at my in laws house which was nice. Then the older girls slept over there for the night. So Jay and I got to actually watch a movie together (rare event in this house). Then on Sunday we just hung out until we had to go and pick up the older girls from their aunt and uncles. It was a nice weekend. So that was my fun filled last few days, now here are some pics for your enjoyment. (lol)

The girls all dressed up in their easter attire

Nice family picture

Grandpa and Rose looking in the mirror

This is the best I could do (after many failed attempts) at getting a picture of the twins in their easter tu tu's