When people see twins, they want to comment. They want to look. Some even want to touch - creepy. They can't help themselves. I can only imagine parents of two boys/girls that dress alike. 50s women everywhere salivate at the thought. But it gets old pretty quickly. Just yesterday, I was walking out of the coffee shop around the corner, untying Maggie from the lamp post and and I heard it behind me "Jeeze, ya have yah hands full!" I know buddy, thanks. I cannot go a day without hearing one, some or all of the following: "Twins! God Bless Ya!", "Twins! You have your hands full.", "Twins! I can barely handle one!", "Twins! I have no idea how you do it." (If Octomom can do 8, anyone can do 2.) and also "A boy and a girl! Instant family!" and "A boy and a girl! You're all done now!" and don't forget "Do you get any sleep at all??" Matt and I joked that we are going to start to wear a sign that says "Hi! As you can see, my hands are full with my instant family but I got a little sleep last night so I'm doing okay, thank you."
Big local news today - Whitey Bulger has been captured. Boston is buzzing.
Twins
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Where O Where Have I Been?
The answer to that question is simple. I've been at my house. I haven't gone anywhere h,aven't dropped off the face of the earth. Actually, updating this has been on my 'to-do' list for about two weeks but it's always on the bottom and I never get to it. I've found that I don't really have time to do anything anymore. During the windows when both babies are asleep, I try and get stuff done. When they are awake, they now demand constant attention. Well, that isn't entirely true. Bug doesn't, she occupies herself but Connor wants to see, touch and do anything/everything.
In twin news, we went to the doctor last week and neither Connor nor Caroline grew very much over the past month - only half a pound and they were gaining at a rate of a pound and a half a month. So we have to go see a GI doctor about their reflux and I think I'm going to start weaning. I was sad about it for a minute and now I'm over it. I made it almost 6 months and truthfully, it's getting to be nonsense at this point. Plus, I'm so sick of all the vomit. And how timely, Connor just threw up all over the place.
In more fun news, they are both really chatty and active now. It's amazing and so wonderful and soooo exhausting. How am I going to handle them as toddlers? I have never been so tired in my life. And I'm getting a stretch of 7-8 hours straight! Normal people consider that a good night sleep.
We have two fun vacations coming up - CNY and Falmouth. July is going to fly by. I can't wait to get to the beach.
Did you all catch the RHOC finale? I think Peggy shouldn't return, she added no value. I feel like I had so many things to discuss because of all the rediculous things that were said but Alexis and Gretchen, but now I can't remember any of them. I should have taken notes.
In twin news, we went to the doctor last week and neither Connor nor Caroline grew very much over the past month - only half a pound and they were gaining at a rate of a pound and a half a month. So we have to go see a GI doctor about their reflux and I think I'm going to start weaning. I was sad about it for a minute and now I'm over it. I made it almost 6 months and truthfully, it's getting to be nonsense at this point. Plus, I'm so sick of all the vomit. And how timely, Connor just threw up all over the place.
In more fun news, they are both really chatty and active now. It's amazing and so wonderful and soooo exhausting. How am I going to handle them as toddlers? I have never been so tired in my life. And I'm getting a stretch of 7-8 hours straight! Normal people consider that a good night sleep.
We have two fun vacations coming up - CNY and Falmouth. July is going to fly by. I can't wait to get to the beach.
Did you all catch the RHOC finale? I think Peggy shouldn't return, she added no value. I feel like I had so many things to discuss because of all the rediculous things that were said but Alexis and Gretchen, but now I can't remember any of them. I should have taken notes.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Monday, Monday
Congrats to the Martin Family! They welcomed little Evan Robert last week. Can't wait to meet him in a few weeks. Excellent name choice, I haven't heard Evan used recently and I really like it.
If you have not see the movie Out of Africa, make it a priority. It is one of my favorite movies and I am 'watching' it right now. I am getting so sick of morning tv (Ellen being the exception, I can watch her all day but she is a repeat today).
The most recent MNO was a total success. I'm not sure if I have blogged about this before but there is a group of women in Charlestown and we all have children between 3 weeks and 10 months. Somehow we are all connected via neighbors, husbands, college, etc. About every 3 weeks we go out for drinks. It's an excellent group and we have so much fun. Women need women and although sometimes we share stories about our kids or ask for advice, we also spit the chew about silly things (like my favority topic, reality TV) and it's just a welcome break for a few hours.
C&C are back to sleeping pretty well, although we still have some bumps in the road. They are still swaddled but getting awfully wiggly so I'm attempting to wean them slowly. Connor's attempts didn't go so well so I'm going to try again in a week. Caroline is doing very good with just one arm out. That way she can suck her hand if her binky falls out and she can also get used to free arms. So we'll stick with this for naps and maybe in a few days, try it out at night. I'm going with baby steps on this one in the hopes that when they roll over and swaddling must stop, it'll be easier that cold turkey.
So I'm really, really, really enjoying the RHONY trip to Morocco. I loved Ramona earlier in the season but now I think she is annoying. So is Alex! Alex when from my least favorite in the first few seasons, to last season totally redeeming herself to falling back into last place. She is soooo serious and heavy all the time. Why does everything need to be a serious conversation! Lighten up. Even though I think LuAnn sounds like a man, she is a very beautiful woman. I'm jealous that half of them speak french too. I wish I spoke another language. Margarita, the lovely lady who comes to clean our house every two weeks, told me she would only speak spanish to the babies so they learn. (That is actually very important to me and my biggest regret.) I can brush up on mine too. Margarita loves the babies, she was visibly upset when she came last week and they were sleeping so she had to wait to see them. This paragraph really took an intestering turn from RHONY to my children learning spanish...
If you have not see the movie Out of Africa, make it a priority. It is one of my favorite movies and I am 'watching' it right now. I am getting so sick of morning tv (Ellen being the exception, I can watch her all day but she is a repeat today).
The most recent MNO was a total success. I'm not sure if I have blogged about this before but there is a group of women in Charlestown and we all have children between 3 weeks and 10 months. Somehow we are all connected via neighbors, husbands, college, etc. About every 3 weeks we go out for drinks. It's an excellent group and we have so much fun. Women need women and although sometimes we share stories about our kids or ask for advice, we also spit the chew about silly things (like my favority topic, reality TV) and it's just a welcome break for a few hours.
C&C are back to sleeping pretty well, although we still have some bumps in the road. They are still swaddled but getting awfully wiggly so I'm attempting to wean them slowly. Connor's attempts didn't go so well so I'm going to try again in a week. Caroline is doing very good with just one arm out. That way she can suck her hand if her binky falls out and she can also get used to free arms. So we'll stick with this for naps and maybe in a few days, try it out at night. I'm going with baby steps on this one in the hopes that when they roll over and swaddling must stop, it'll be easier that cold turkey.
So I'm really, really, really enjoying the RHONY trip to Morocco. I loved Ramona earlier in the season but now I think she is annoying. So is Alex! Alex when from my least favorite in the first few seasons, to last season totally redeeming herself to falling back into last place. She is soooo serious and heavy all the time. Why does everything need to be a serious conversation! Lighten up. Even though I think LuAnn sounds like a man, she is a very beautiful woman. I'm jealous that half of them speak french too. I wish I spoke another language. Margarita, the lovely lady who comes to clean our house every two weeks, told me she would only speak spanish to the babies so they learn. (That is actually very important to me and my biggest regret.) I can brush up on mine too. Margarita loves the babies, she was visibly upset when she came last week and they were sleeping so she had to wait to see them. This paragraph really took an intestering turn from RHONY to my children learning spanish...
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