Down time

The kids are in bed.

This makes for a happy mommy. Don't get me wrong, I love, love, love my children. I love them so much that I know I need some down time at the end of the day, time to recharge my batteries, if you will. Usually some quite time to unwind, catch up on the day's chores, read emails, time to reflect.....

....with a glass of wine. Just keeping it real.

Tonight it is Riesling. Yum.

James is watching Watchmen. Not my cup-of-tea. So, I am catching up on some blogs, and enjoying this adult time to do.....whatever I please.

The floors can wait, the laundry can wait, the toys can wait, the bottles won't wait-thanks to my hubby.

TGIF

I have a few posts I need to fisish to get caught up, but I wanted to take 30 seconds to say

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!

It has been a long week. We have a surgery date for Landon, flights booked for our May trip and are about to book flights for the surgery. Mom had surgery yesterday on her knee. Aidan had his three year old Dr visit, complete with 2 shots.  And.....James is out of town (at least for another hour).

I don't think I have ever been so excited for him to get home. I have a bottle of wine chilled (thanks Amanda!). I have not showered in two days. I have changed 97 diapers in the last 24 hours, 96 of them dirty, and 2 blow outs.

I did not sleep well last night, because I did not have my husband in bed next to me, but instead my wonderful sister who talked in her sleep. Aidan also joined us at 445am with a bad dream, followed by Gray at 5am, and Landon at 6. (I must add Haley is an awesome aunt and sister who came to my rescue while James was gone and was a huge help with the boys). Yes, you talk in your sleep.

All. Night. Long.


TGIF

Happy Easter!

We spent Easter weekend in Savannah with James' family. Their neighborhood always has a great egg hunt for the kids and a little petting zoo, perfect for Aidan's age. The weather was perfect! We joked because it seems that everytime we have gone down south in the past year, it has rained. Not this weekend, so we were able to spend hours a day outside, James was able to golf, Aidan was able to go on countless golf cart rides and play at the park several times with his cousins (I could do without all the sand gnats that Savannah is famous for).

Our attempt at a family picture.

Trying to get one of Nanni and Papa with (some) of their grandkids. This is very typical....

Take 2

This Aidan decided to sing the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" instead. And that's a wrap folks!

Aidan was not impressed.

Teething

We are teething.

Or, should I say, they are teeth.

No, I think we sounds about right. After all, we are all feeling the pain. Literally.

These boys are rotating motrin and tylenol, and chewing on ANYTHING they can get into their little mouths. This includes hands, arms, toys, fingers, toes, and even.......

heads.

Poor Grayson.

I think he just smacked Landon. Not sure, I was adjusting my camera.

Ok, nevermind. It looks like he just wanted to help Landon out and offer his fingers. (And possibly pick a booger at the same time).

Silly boys.

Easter Egg Hunt

We got together with about 15 of our favorite 2-3 year old friends, their mommies, and some of their little siblings for our Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Cheryl's. As always, we had a great time and the kids were able to hunt eggs and enjoy a beautiful day outside. Thank god my sister was off school and was able to go with me and give me an extra hand. Things that used to be so effortless, now require back up-like unloading the car of 3 kids, diaper bag, dish to return to a friend who brought us a meal, Easter baskets, Aidan's drink, crackers and chesse for the lunch spread, and of course-my camera. It cracks me up how tired she gets after a few hours at my house!!  Ha, ha!

Landon slept almost the whole time so we sadly did not get any pictures of the 4 of us. You NEVER wake a sleeping baby twin. ;)

"Mom, I want this." He has no clue what "this" is.