8 Months

Well the girls are 8 months old now and its becoming increasingly difficult to take a pic of them in their chair! I took about 20 tonight and this was the only decent one. I love Gillians HUGE open mouthed smile. She walks around smiling like this so much we wonder how her jaw doesn't start to hurt her! Its the cutest thing. Finley looks so cute and innocent in this picture too. They are just too cute!

I'm a person too ya know?!

For the past 8 months my life can be summed up in one word: MOM.

I love being a Mom. I love my kids, I wouldn't trade them for anything in this world. However I have come to realize that I have lost who I used to be and have become "Gillian and Finley's mom".

When I was in High School I was popular. I was pretty, tall, and thin. I made friends easily, I was outgoing. Did I mention I was pretty?

When I look in the mirror now (which trust me isn't too often) I am so depressed by what I see. I have my hair up in a pony tail EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.

Makeup. Pft, what's that? Screw putting in my contacts. Who has time for that? Not me, slap on my glasses. Clothes. Whatever fits.

It is pathetic. I don't want to be that MOM anymore. I want to be a MILF for goodness sakes. I want to feel good about myself.

I put all my energy into my kids, what they are wearing, how cute they look, what they need and I have forgot about myself.

Well, that is going to change! I bought all new make up today. EVERYTHING. Eye shadow, eye liner's, lip gloss, mascara.....you name it I got it!

I am on a mission to wear my hair down everyday, wear make up, contacts and look at least half way presentable while I am out!

No more rut.

My kids are gonna have a MILF!

Clearing out the baby junk!

Well, we are turning a corner in our house!

Things are finally starting to get easier, the girls are sleeping more through the night. They are less cranky during the day and just overall "easier" babies.

Now when I say "easier" I mean, happier, nicer, can feed themselves babies. But on the flip side of that they are both crawling now, and getting into everything and that's harder!

But the girls now reject all toys that stay in one place. If they can't walk in it, or move in it they don't want any part of it. So Gary and I decided to take everything the girls weren't using it and we are just going to have a tag sale this weekend.

(can I tell you, on random note that Gillian stands in her crib now instead of sleeps. Because of this new fun-ness I have her in a pack and play next to me in the living room hoping she will pass out. She is leaning her face against the mesh and scraping her fingers and nails down it. Its driving me nuts)

Anyway. I have been looking for some new "big girl toys" for the girls and think I have decided on the Fisher Price Laugh and Learn House and the kitchen too. They both look like a ton of fun.

We are officially clearing out the playroom and making way for new things. I still need 2 more packages of those ABC foamy tile things though. I want to do the whole floor in them.

(go to bed kid, go to bed, please)

Gary and I really need to step up on the baby proofing too. We got those cabinet locks with the magnetic key that need to be installed and we need to go room by room to make sure there is nothing they can get into or hurt on. Should be fun.

(hey if Gillian ever goes to bed maybe I can started)

Seriously though. How do you deal with kids standing in their cribs and refusing to go to bed? I tried ignoring her. She screamed like a banshee. Don't need her waking up Finley......

Baby races!

Finley is crawling!

I went to go pick up the girls from Michelle's today and Maria started crawling today. I said to Finley "See your the only one left" and I put her down on her belly and she just got up and started crawling!

It was hysterical. Like she refused to be the odd man out.

She doesn't really like it yet and you really have to work to make her do it but she can! I predict in a week she will be zooming around like a crazy girl with Gillian!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Happy Birthday to Gary (the greatest, bestest husband and daddy in the world) !!! Gary is 40 today (insert eeeek here) and we are bringing the girls out tonight to Ichiro (hibachi) to have a goodbye dinner for Gram and we can celebrate Gary's birthday too while we are out. Should be fun!

I can't wait to see how the girls react to being up that late though. They are usually in bed by 7:30 the latest and we are doing dinner at 6 so goodness only knows how this will go!

I have been trying to plan their naps around the dinner all day. I am sure something will get screwed up. They need to go down at 4 and sleep until dinner time......that's all I know! We'll see how that works out and if we have crazy cranky babies on our hands!

8 Months

Is it even possible the girls are going to be 8 months old in 2 days? Where has the time gone? It amazes me how fast it is all going by. I hate it. I wish I could slow down time.

Gillian is officially a crawling maniac, she flies, she screams usually while crawling too. And not a Happy scream either. More like a "I hate this, why can't I just walk" scream. Its funny, and yet annoying all at the same time!

She is also starting to pull herself up on anything and everything she comes across. Its nerve wracking! I defintatley think she will be walking in the next month. Scary.

Finley on the other hand isn't doing much of anything. Okay, well she is starting to get up on her knees and rock some but only on occasion and she seems to get frustrated with it quickly. She would rather be standing and tries to pull up on whatever she can find too......usually my shirt. Maybe she will skip crawling all together?

Her favorite (and my personal favorite too) thing to do right now is clap. I can't believe she learned to do it so quickly? I was only doing patty cake with her for maybe a month, she's a fast learner. If you tell her "Finley do yeahhhhhhhh" or "do patty cakes" she smiles and claps. She's a ham. Its freaking adorable.

Neither one of the girls is sleeping through the night consistantly yet. They do have their good nights, and to be honest with you usually only get up once a night but still......when will we get to sleep a full night?

And Finn thinks its hysterical to get up at 5:15 each morning. Yeah, real funny. I hope she learns to entertain herself in her crib soon. I can't take too many more early mornings.

Baby slapping bad times.........

Ohhh boy. We went to Cousin Kelly's Sunday afternoon to spend some time with the family before Gram went back to GA this weekend. Everything was going great, Trevor and Kelly were making homemade pizza's on the grill and we were all having a good time!

Until that is, a white headed hornet decided to land on my poor Finley's forehead and Ben (apparently the only person to notice it) freaked when it started stinging her and smacked her in the head to kill it!

Gasp. I know, it wasn't fun. Poor Finn freaked. I am not sure if the sting made her cry or her huge uncle smacking her in the head did it but she cried.....alot. Thank goodness I had some topical benadryl lotion with me and that took the pain right away. She was back to her good old smiley self after about 10 minutes but it sucked. It sucked bad.

Why O' why did that hornet have to pick her? What did she ever do to it? Piece of junk bug......hurting my baby girl.

Needless to say Gary and I were worried about her all night so she slept in the bed with us, and I woke every 30 minutes to check on her.

She woke up this morning and was fine.....of course. But still scary non the less!

Here is a pic of poor Finn's head.