Halloween 2012

Carving Pumpkins. We got all of our stuff out to carve pumpkins and just before we made the first cut, Brett got called out. It was late, on a school night, and I just didn't have the energy to do it on my own. So we broke out the paints and painted them instead. The girls actually had more fun than I thought they would and came up with some creative paintings. I wish I would have taken a picture of the finished product. We put them on the front porch and every time we would go out the front door for a walk the babies would point to them and say "pump pin.

Madi

Saige

Trunk-or-Treat: I had THE cutest bear costume for Dalton but it was 80 degrees that night and I thought he would roast in it so the babies had to be pumpkins instead. I also thought it would be cute to dress them like Pebbles and BamBam but I realized that very few people would know who they were. Shows how old I am getting!

They were cute little pumpkins. Dalton's costume was WAY too small and it was going up his butt! Wish I would have gotten a picture of that.

Syd and our friend Dean. I have never seen her sit so still for so long. She loved him. It probably had something to do the big bag of candy he was holding!

 Daphne and Velma

 Dalton wasn't too excited about the hat

 He walked around ALL night with this reeces peanut butter cup in his mouth. When I finally got it out it was super soggy! It was so funny.

General Conference

Madi, Saige, and I were able to fly up for conference in October. It was so fun to spend time with my two oldest girls and my family. We had SO much fun. We were able to go see Rachel's new baby as well. The girls didn't know but Martha was at her house and it was such a fun surprise for them. We attended the Sunday afternoon session and it was so awesome to be there when my girls saw the conference center for the first time. It is such an amazing building.
Other things we did:
*Ate at Pf Changs (a tradition)
*Shopped at the city creek mall
*Visited my friend Nicole and saw her cute new house.
*Played games in the motel
*Stayed at the Little America (a new favorite)
*Rented a car and got stuck with a Ford Fiesta. The girls thought that was fun.
*Kids got balloon animals and their faces painted at Macys.
*Saw the movie Hotel Transylvania. I liked it even more than my kids. It is SO funny

Bailey found this last picture on Facebook and I thought it was SO funny. This was a historical conference because the missionary age was changed. 

When it rains...

it pours. Glass that is.
We have had quite the week at our house. All four kids have had the pukes. Brett and I are exhausted. Sunday night neither Brett nor I slept at all. It was every 15 minutes. My washing machine ran nonstop for 36 hours and I'm still not caught up on all the laundry.
On Monday, Dalton woke up from his nap covered in vomit. It was everywhere. Much like the poop. I stripped him down in his crib and put him directly in the tub and told Saige to sit with him while I tried to clean his crib. I yelled from the bedroom, "wash his hair and then I will be in". She went to slide the glass shower panel open and I heard a LOUD crash. When I looked down the hall I saw tiny pieces of glass everywhere. And blood. Saige had no shoes on and her feet and her hands were bleeding. I picked her up, carried her through the outside door and told her to not move. She was saying she was sorry about the glass and I tried to tell her that I didn't care about it while I rushed back in to get Dalton. He was bleeding on his legs so I reached into the glass-filed tub, and carried him to the laundry room sink. I stood him up in it and sprayed the glass off of him while I was explaining to Madi that this was an emergency and she needed to call dad and tell him to come home immediately. I got the glass off and a diaper on(he still stunk but I didn't have any soap and I was worried about saige outside all by herself. I sent madi out with some flip flops for her and I put dalton back in the living room. Sydney was standing at the gate this entire time screaming. I made my way outside to find saige crying. She was still apologizing and she had some big cuts on her hands. I took her to my bathroom and stripped her down and put her in my shower. She couldn't get all of the glass out of her hair so I got in (fully dressed) and tried to help.
By the time we were done cleaning everything up it was several hours later. We are left counting our blessings that both kids weren't seriously hurt. It is amazing to me that they weren't. I told saige last night when I tucked her in bed that I saw a miracle today. With all the bad that has happened to us this week we are SO thankful that The Lord watches over and protects us.

Church

I thought after the last two stories about Dalton I had better make it clear that Syd isn't all pure and innocent herself. She's quite a stinker in fact. She is the bully of the two and LOVES to make her brother cry.
The story I wanted to remember has to do with last week at church. If you haven't had twins you can't fully imagine how difficult church is at this age. They cannot hold still or be quiet for more than 5 seconds and it's not like you can take turns. Each adult has a baby the entire time. Our goal is to make it through the sacrament, then we hit the halls and chase them around and around and around until it's over. Then, we load them in the car and I take them home. It's not that we don't want to stay. Brett has to teach his class during 3rd hour and it would be impossible for me to keep two babies from going through other peoples purses and playing the piano during the RS lesson. Well, last week we decided we would give staying another try. Brett didn't have to teach so we agreed that we would feed them lunch during Sunday School and then I would take Syd to RS and he would take Dalton to YM. Syd had already pooped so I sent Brett with the diaper bag.
Syd was being SO SO loud and naughty during the lesson so I found a granola bar in my purse and I was giving her tiny pieces so that it would last a long time. Right in the middle of the lesson she started choking and barfed ALL OVER. All over the floor, all down her dress. I had NOTHING to clean it up so I grabbed her and ran out of the room. I stripped her down and then went to find Brett. She was running the halls in her diaper and I opened the door and mouthed the words to Brett, "I NEED YOU NOW". It was a disaster. Sometimes I don't know why we even try.
We can't wait til December 20th. They will be 18 months then and able to go to the nursery. Poor nursery leaders...

He's at it again

I got a picture this time.
The quality isn't great because I was SO mad I couldn't stop shaking.
It was worse this time (didn't think it would be possible but it was). It was diarrhea too so that was fun. The smell was paralyzing. He must have done it and then was quiet for a LONG time because it was dry. Dried poop is much harder to wash off of walls, crib bars, carpet, books, binkies, clothes, sheets, and one very dirty boy.
Solution: he is no longer allowed in his crib unless wearing full piece pjs that he can't get out of.
Problem: it was 86 degrees today. Poor kid is going to roast in his winter pjs.

Yes. That is poop on his face. SO GROSS

Boys are gross.

It's the first time I've looked at my little boy and been disgusted by him.
It was last Wednesday. We had a busy week full of doctor and dentist appointments, parent/teacher conferences, music lessons, etc.
On Wednesday I had to take Madi in to get an expander put in the roof of her mouth. It's the first of many orthodontist visits over the next several years. Poor Madi and Saige inherited Brett's small mouth + my giant crooked beaver teeth. Anyway, I had to take the babies with us and wake them from their naps to pick her up from school, feed them lunch in the waiting room, etc. I'm trying to paint the picture that it was stressful.
We got home from the appointment and picked Saige up at the bus stop. I went to get the babies out of their car seats and they had both peed clear through into the car seat. Yep. In all the craziness I had forgotten to change their diapers. They were both acting really tired so I took their pants off, put dry diapers on, and tucked them in for a nap. They were really quiet for about 1/2 hour. I was so excited thinking that they were going to have a second nap. Heaven knows they needed it (and so did I). I went in to check on them because someone was talking. I didn't want that baby to wake the other one so I went in to find a binkie. I took one look at Sydney and she had her diaper half-way off and there was poop in it. I quickly took her to the changing table and changed her diaper. She fights me now so it took awhile. Then I had to find her some new pants. Crisis averted.
WRONG!
Syd had been copying someone else. Dalton had his diaper completely off. He had pooped. He had peed. It was ALL OVER him. All over his shirt, arms, legs, face. It was all over his crib-on EVERY slat, all over the sheets. I didn't even know where to start. I went straight to the tub to start the water for a bath. While I was doing that I sent Saige into their room to get something. She was only in there a second and I heard her scream, "MOM! There is poo all over the floor"!
He had picked up some of the poop and thrown it all over the room. The carpet is brown so the only way to find it was to feel around. I took me an hour to clean their room. By the time Brett got home that night (at 8:30) you can imagine the kind of mood I was in!
I am not above using duct tape to keep their diapers on in the future if it comes to that!

Picture not taken that day

We're bustin' out!!

These babies are very mischievous. Every day they come up with a new plan to break free. We have had to move several toys out because they use them to stand on to get over the gate. We have had to bolt the gate to the walls and floor because they have worked together to tip it over a couple of times. We have had to take all of the knobs off our entertainment center because they pull the drawers open and climb into them. They also open the doors and hang on them which has made it so that several won't close.
Yesterday I had to remove all of the blinds in the living room because I found Syd all tangled up in the cords. She had pushed the chair over to the high chair and climbed up the chair and then into the high chair. that made her tall enough to reach the cords that I wound around and around the blinds to make it so they couldn't reach them.

One day Brett came home and found our living room completely empty. I moved all of the chairs out and the barstools because dalton almost tipped one over on Syd. Syd can climb up the high chairs now so those were gone too. He looked puzzled and then tried to go in to our bedroom. The door was locked. He said, "why is the door locked?"
I said, "because while I was pulling Sydney off of the kitchen table, dalton went into our bathroom and was splashing in the toilet. To get in our room now you have to go outside and then through the exterior door."
He was very bothered and said, "we shouldn't have to do all of this. What do normal people do when their kids do these things?"
My reply, "NORMAL people don't have twins"!!!!

Just how big are Dalton's feet?

Poor kid. This is from Dalton's BRAND new shoes I got him. Size 6/7. Looks like he's going to be big just like his namesake! (My cousin Dalton who was the only kid on his tackle football team who was not allowed to tackle because he was so much bigger than the other kids)

piggies

Just a few cute pics I wanted to share. One of the young women in our ward is taking a photography class and needed to take a picture of a kid learning to walk. So, she asked if she could borrow Syd and Dalton. Even though they have been walking for a long time now, we tried to make it look like they needed my help. I think they turned out pretty cute. The main reason I wanted to show them is that this is the first time I put Sydney's hair in pig tails. She looked SO cute in them. She is still very blonde. It is fun to have 3 girls with 3 different colors of hair.