princess party

Jerame's older sister's daughter Skyler turned 3 on Saturday. It's so hard to believe she is already 3, it really does seem like yesterday that she was born.  When she was born I was nearing the end of my first trimester with the twins and it was impossible for me to even fathom at that point  that  they would now all be BFF'. So special.  

Sky's Mommy &  Daddy threw her a party fit for a princess at Lily's nail & hair salon on Queen Ann.  It was darling. All the little girls got their nails & hair done with plenty of glitter and sparkles. Then they were treated to butterfly cupcakes and lemonade. Chloe was doing the .... I don't want to smile because I think this is sooo cool thing almost the entire party. It was such a sweet little party.

Bye-Bye Balloon

It is impossible to explain to a 2 year old why their balloon floated away and why mommy can't reach it to get it back for them. Why? Because mommy's can normally do everything.  

I definently said a bad word or two when I accidentally opened the door and the balloon went flying away into the sky. Carter & Chloe were both standing right there and completely lost it. Who would have thought loosing a balloon would be so earth shattering. Well to a 2 year old I guess it is.  

I almost felt bad enough to go and get them a new balloon but thankfully we were able to move on faster than I thought possible after such trauma.

little valentines

 

Morning Valentine balloons

 trying to get a picture of them together is impossible!

 told him to give me kisses

 special blueberry muffins and fruit for breakfast

 dressed and ready to go to our valentines day party

 playing at the party

Having a blast playing with the kids at the party

 my valentine

 beautiful dinner Jerame made for us...that we had to eat in the dark because we were hiding from 'monsters' 

sshhhhhhhh "monsters coming"

 

life on valentines day with 2 two year olds ..... so romantic :)

daddy's girl

 

This girl LOVES her Daddy...

Tangled

 We took the twins to their first movie theater experience. We saw Tangled. They did so good. Carter sat the entire movie and didn't eat, talk or move he was entranced. He did laugh at the funny parts and got scared when the music got loud... it was precious. Chloe sat for the first hour and then had to go potty about 6 times in the last 45 mins. We were proud that she sat as long as she did as we definitely did not expect her to. Tangled was so cute. We all loved it.  It was so fun to be able to do such a 'grown-up-kid' thing with them. It really felt like such a big step.

Eying the treats. To bad he doesn't like candy.

 Pretty sure Chloe was pointing out ALL the things she thought she should have 

 such big kids...they make my heart melt

Ended our outing with a trip to the theater archade which Cman loved....this of course led to a huge tantrum upon leaving. I figure our outing would not be complete w/out at least one tantrum. 

 Tantrums & all I love my boy.

On a little side note shortly after we got home & we got the kids of to bed I started to feel really sick. I proceeded to be sick all night long. I mean really sick. Like the sickest I have ever been in my life. Like so sick I didn't care that I was doing things in front of my husband that NEVER should be done in front of anyone.  I will leave it at that. I didn't get out of bed  on Friday. At all. Got out of bed a few times on Saturday and was sort of feeling like I was going to live by Sunday night. Seriously so sick.  My Dr. has concluded through tests that I got food poisoning. Still waiting to hear what kind...the likely suspect is Ecoli.  I know you are all dying to know where I ate..... AND I am so embarrassed to admit that the likely suspect was at the Golden Arches. I have always been such a closet Micky D's lover. I know soooo gross. But I can now promise that it will be decades if EVER that I eat there again. I am finally feeling better tonight and could enjoy that lovely Valentines dinner Jer made for us.

My Coffee

When I go through the espresso stand it is now required (my mistake!) that I get the twinnies  "my coffee" . Their coffee consists of about a 1/2 cup full of apple juice They charge me like 50 cents or something crazy so I always tip the barista well because they are so sweet to do that for us. 

I guess apple juice tastes better when it 

comes from a latte cup.

Swimming

Twinnies started  swimming lessons and are really loving it. We do not get in the pool with them and the teacher is wonderful. The only problem is getting Carter out of the pool...he throws a fit every time because he doesn't want to leave. AND I mean a super-sized tantrum. Like the  kind you just want to grab your kid and run. So ya, still working on that aspect but at least he likes it.

Jerame & I sit on the side of the pool like cheerleaders. I am fairly certain the other parents think we are are annoying.

We are proud of them.