Bonus: Now Face South

Arya was trying to play the part of the Norge repairman today. I think baby butt crack is hilarious.

Stand in the Place Where You Live

We had a big day today. Both Arya and Eiley figured out how to pull themselves to standing by grabbing onto me. They liked to hold my hands and stand, but Arya would grab onto my arm as I was holding Eiley's hands. I love watching the two of them reach milestones at the same time.

Who's That Girl?

When did I become the mom who dresses her twins alike almost every day? We had very few matching newborn sized outfits. We only had a few matching 0-3 month outfits and an airline decided to lose most of those for us. Between some awesome sales and gifts, we seem to have mainly matching outfits right now. If one kid gets dirty, I don't go as far as changing both of them, but I do match them in the morning if we have two of what they are wearing. They are so cute when they match, but I honestly didn't think I'd be the type of mom who would dress them alike.

I'm With Her

Yet another set of clothes that I think are funny. I'd love to find a reasonably priced Big Sister shirt for Arya.

You know it's been a rough day when I purposely park my kid in front of plastic shopping bags in hopes that the bags will stop her outbursts. She ransacked the back as I watched and then started yelling again. Both kids were in a bad mood most of the day. We didn't follow our usual routine and that may have something to do with it. I had an appointment for them at 1:00 and had to leave the house at 12:15 to get there. I fed them before they really wanted lunch and then threw them in the car. We didn't get home until about 3:00 and by then they'd had it.

Hoppy Easter

As their Easter gift to me, the girls went from 8:30 pm until 4:30 am without eating. That smashes their old record. I would love if this was the norm around here. I was up a few times in there replugging pacers, but all in all it was an amazing night. Our pastor commented after the service this morning that I looked exhausted. I thought I was looking pretty good. I guess one night of semi-decent sleep isn't going to make up for the last 7.5 months.

Eiley gave me her own little gift today. She signed to me to nurse and it wasn't just her babbling or repeating what I signed. It was so much fun to see her talking to me and she was so proud of herself. Arya isn't far behind as she's trying, but doesn't have the full squeeze of her hand yet. She's got a bit of a drunken slur to her milk sign.

I learned a few things today.
1) Smashed carrots make a great facial bronzer. I didn't get a picture of this, but hopefully I'll get to in the future. Women pay good money for fake tans. I think they should all just cover themselves in carrot and get the same orangy glow.
2) If I slyly ask Cork if he likes what we're eating, he may think I've added breastmilk to his food. We had a creamy pasta sauce for dinner and I didn't want to tell him what I added to it. I wanted to know if he liked it before fessing up that I'd whipped silken tofu and added it to the red sauce. It was really good! He isn't always as adventurous as I'd like if I tell him what odd concoction I've cooked up.
3) Eiley thoroughly enjoys a good dark beer. I gave her a tiny taste of mine today. She mainly got foam, but smacked her lips and said ah as if it was the most refreshing thing she's ever eaten. They always beg for whatever I'm eating or drinking. I thought a taste of this would stop her, but apparently I was wrong.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

This is The Star of Sikozu. It's probably more like a black whole than a star. Looks like little Zuzu
needs some grooming lessons. The kids are obsessed with cat butt right now. The cats come up and brush against them and four little hands quickly reach toward the hind end. I spend a lot of time redirecting hands toward safer areas. So far we haven't had any dirty little hands and I'm hoping to keep it that way.

Bonus: Hippity Hop

I ran across an infertility blog hop this morning and decided to link my blog up to it. I know how hard it is to read all sorts of pregnancy stuff when experiencing infertility. It feels like friends and relatives around you are all getting pregnant with ease. People who have never experienced it tell you to stop stressing and then it will happen. Someone once compared infertility to me to falling madly in love every month and then having your heart broken. To someone who hasn't experienced infertility that may sound extreme, but it isn't.

It was hard to watch so many people around me get pregnant while we struggled, it was also very encouraging when someone else who struggled was finally successful. I was never mad at anyone for being pregnant, but I sure rejoiced more for those women who knew the heartache I was going through.

I hope that by linking my blog I can encourage other women and let them know that there is hope. It may take longer than you'd like. You may conceive in a doctors office instead of at home. But, in the end, it doesn't matter how you get there. You'll be so in love with your little one that you'll hardly remember all the time you spent at your doctor's office.