Zia's Chair

This is Zia's chair, but all three kids love it. Eiley was in it today and Zia wanted to sit there. Instead of moving, Eiley pulled Zia down into her lap and she stayed there.

She was exhausted from the last few days and just crashed at nap time today.

Low Pressure System

The kids have been a bit screwy the past few days. I saw tonight that there has been an extremely low pressure system over our area of the country and it is effecting behavior. Affecting behavior? I'm pretty good with most English, I should be since it's the only language I speak, but I can never remember effect and affect. Anyway, we got all three kids to bed almost two hours late last night. We were at the hospital, talking to couples who are currently pregnant with twins. I was sort of hoping that the twins would take a short nap and Zia would take a long nap today and I'd get a few minutes to myself. Ha! I don't know why I dream. No one napped. Well, Zia napped, but only for about two minutes. The older two were late coming home from school and I was pacing with Z in the house, waiting for them. She fell asleep on my shoulder. The twins had a substitute driver and he went past the house. I had to put Zia on the floor to go meet the bus. She stayed asleep until we came back in the house. THen it was all over. Those few minutes were enough to rob me of any other nap time today. I tried nursing her to sleep, rocking her to sleep, and a ride in the car. She had no plans on sleeping, but lots of plans to be destructive and to scream. After dinner, she even learned out to climb our ghetto gate. She pulls herself up, with one hand on the banister and the other hand on the gate, until she can throw a leg over. I don't know if it's safer to keep the gate in place or not.

Spinning Car

Arya and Eiley both got up from the kitchen table at lunch today and ran away. I yelled to them to see what they were doing. Arya was in the kitchen closet and Eiley was in the front closet. Eiley was the first to answer me. She told me that they were farting monsters. I'm glad they left the table to take care of that. I'm not sure how I feel about them hiding in closets, smelling their own stink.

After lunch, they took Zia for a ride in her car. I walked in on them spinning her in circles on the wood floor. She was having fun, but they started spinning her a bit too fast and she freaked a little.

Cold Day 4

Today was day 4 off for cold weather this winter. I put the twins to work. We really cleaned their room, put away their laundry, washed their sheets, and remade their beds. They even got to help me make dinner. I've never had them peel carrots before, but realized this was something they could at least try. Both were pretty good at it. I had to stop them from moving the peeler back and forth a few times and get them to go in one direction, but overall I was impressed. They had a lot of fun and both ate really well tonight after helping make the dinner and after working up an appetite at swim lessons.

Cold Day 3

Trouble figured out today that she can climb the fireplace. I walked away from her in the kitchen for about 30 seconds and came back to find her on the stove. Later I took a few minutes to send an email for Arya and Eiley's school. I hit send, turned around, and found her standing on the butcher block, coloring on the wall with marker. She keeps me busy.

Today was our third unscheduled day off from school this winter. The twins are loving this. We played around a ton. They had a little goat yogurt at lunch and decorated themselves.

On the Word of God

The kids are learning a song for church right now that goes "We stand on the word of God, on the word of God we stand." Of course the twins were being a bit creative tonight. They changed "word" to "poop" and were dancing all around the bathroom singing it. I know I should probably have put a stop to this, but I was laughing.

I told the twins that they had to be done in the bath soon if they wanted to have time to read books. They got out of the bath and then I saw the state of their bedroom. The Twinado had hit. I told them to clean up quickly and we'd have time to read. I helped a little and then started to walk down the stairs. I heard Cork tell them "I think you two are so cute." Eiley replied "But we're messy." At least she knows it.

Watching Bye Bye

The twins went to their first birthday party for school today. The first party where I didn't really know the parents. That was hard on me. I have no issues leaving them when I know the parents, but this was new territory. I have seen the mom up at school but haven't talked to her much. I know it isn't perfect, but I friend requested her on Facebook so I could browse through her profile before I said the twins could go. I wanted to make sure that her profile wasn't full of trash.

Mema and Bepa came to visit today. Bepa had a table tennis tournament to go to. Mema spent most of the day at our house and gave me a huge break. I have been going a bit crazy with the kids lately and needed a mental health day. I am so thankful for their help today. All the kids had a great time and Zia was very cute to watch as they left.