Dan's closet

This is Dan's idea of "cleaning out his closet." and he also
threatened to take away my iPhone because he says I use it for evil,
not good. :-)

My Baby Can Read!

Last night I was playing on the floor of our bedroom with Abbie, and she kept trying to crawl under the bed and I couldn’t figure why . I turned my back for a second, and not only had she crawled under the bed, but she came back out with this:



Do you think she was interested in the pictures? Or the articles?

Costco with Papa

As you can see, the girls LOVED the mango mousse on special at Costco
today. They each had three.

Priceless

Making dinner (blueberry pancakes) for the family: $10

Making Oreo Balls for dessert: $10

The look on my mother's face when Noah got naked, turned around, and made his butt talk: Priceless.

Paid for in Full

Eleven months after the fact, we have paid off the last of the hospital bills from the twin’s birth. I guess this means they are officially “ours” as they are now paid for in full. Woo-Hoo!

After we made the last payment to the hospital I asked them to send us a final invoice (indicating that the girls were paid for) that we could keep for our records. I didn’t understand what many of the charges were, but there were some that did make me laugh a little.

Oxygen: Which I don’t EVER remember receiving, but okay ($30).

Lanolin Ointment: The teeny-tiny tube of cream that you’re supposed to use for cracked nipples. You know, the stuff I now use on my lips when I can’t find my chapstick ($4.30).

Rupturing My Membranes (breaking my water): Hardly what I would call a pleasant experience especially at $65/per baby ($130). I believe telling Dan afterwards that it felt like I was being sexually violated. Clearly my definition of "a little pressure" was different from Dr. Feelgood's.

Hemorrhoidal Preparation H pads: For the hemorrhoids I was too embarrassed to tell my doctor about. Guess the secret is out now ($23.50).

The Epidural: Which was HANDS DOWN the best money ever spent! ($700). Interestingly, my epidural with Noah was $1,666.66.

Zolpidem: Otherwise known as Ambien. I don’t remember taking four of them (at $8.20 each), but I do remember waking up in the middle of the night as the nurses were trying to put my shirt back on. Why was I shirtless? Because in my Ambien daze the nurses “woke me up” to pump and I proceeded to pump both breasts at the same time for 20 minutes. This actually requires a fair amount of coordination (all the more impressive given my level of klutziness) and I have no memory of it whatsoever. Except for when the nurses were getting me dressed and putting me back to bed ($32.80).

I think I will put these in the baby books. Because every parent should save the receipt.

A message to all who visit

Feeling nostalgic for the past, I started re-reading some of my blog entries from this time last summer. Ahh. . . .the memories.

Anyway, I also took some time to read the comments that people left. Since most people visit without commenting I don’t always know who is coming to the site and reading. Which is why I don’t reveal certain information about myself. . . like our address, where I work, etc. That said, this blog is public and anyone can visit. This leads me to my following statement.

To the random person who commented on a post I made last summer calling me “fat” and a “whiny bitch,” and who said that I should not have “f***ed my man last fall without protection if I didn’t want to go through it [pregnancy] in the summer,” I have this to say:

F**k you. You have nothing better to do than post nasty comments on a stranger’s blog? I have a beautiful family, tremendous friends, a career, and a life full of joy. I also have something you clearly lack: a sense of humor. Get over yourself.

And bite me.

Eleven months ago tonight. . . .

The girls were born. Where did the time go?!

How did we go from this (Hannah is on the left, Abbie the right):

To this:

Weren't they born just yesterday?

And while we're on the subject, where did this baby go?

In the blink of an eye. . .