Never cease to amaze me. I had a really crappy day at work. I was out yesterday due to the snow and the fact that I had no sitter for the boys. I only got one call at home so that wasn't horrible. Today it seemed like the whole office fell apart. It's never fun when you walk in, go to your desk, find a note turned upside down on your chair and you read it and what you really want to do it walk back out the door. Instead I marched in my managers office and asked him WTF? Not those exact words but man I was ticked. It seems, somebody decided to leave me a note because they thought a travel policy wasn't followed. When in fact, I had nothing to do with it. And the darn person never even apologized for writing what they did. So that just spiraled my morning/day all in the wrong direction. All I heard today on different levels was how we need to watch money/save money/spend less/ the bad economy/etc..... While I agree I am sick of hearing it! It's funny though because the same person that couldn't say she was "sorry".....needed my help later and you would of thought she was my best friend! Whatever!
My 3 little boys seem to be coming down with some type of cold/cough. All our coughing up a storm and I really hope to just keep them healthy. The boys have a birthday party to go to this weekend and with Sunday being the super bowl we are going to a co-workers house for a party. Looking forward to that.
My brother called this morning with some bad news. Kristie grandfather passed away. Totally un-expected, a very unfortunate heart attack. I feel so bad for her and really hope she knows that we are all wrapping our arms around her during this time. I hope Jack can bring some peace to them all this weekend while they are going through a tough time. Please say a prayer for her and her family.
Tomorrow I get to go on a date - on a date with my husband. We are going to use an xmas gift and go out to dinner. I am really looking forward to it.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Birthday Party
Singing Happy Birthday to Cody!
Singing Happy Birthday to Dylan!
Waiting in line for the bounce house. 
Dylan's SpongeBob Cake! 
Cody's Pokemon Cake!
All the kids sitting to watch the movie!
Group Shot! We ended up with 18! 
The birthday boys with SpongeBob!
We had an absolute fantastic party. It was great to see so many of the boys school friends come out to celebrate their day with them. We ended up with 18 kids and they keep me on my toes. We had a small bounce house so that was tough. Had to limit it to 4 kids at a time. Kids HATE to wait in line. But they did do pretty good waiting. It was nice too as we could put it up and take it down as we wanted to. We watched 2 episodes of spongebob and I was shocked as all the kids sat down and actually watched the movie. It was funny too as one person laughed - they all laughed. It was very cute to watch actually. Then I got away with embarrising the boys. I showed the video of them (that I posted earlier) and they all laughed to at certain spots. The moms mostly cried. We sang happy birthday to Dylan first and then to Cody. We had yummy food. The kids lost interest really quick while the boys were opening presents. It just isn't much fun when they aren't the ones getting the presents. The boys had a great 5th birthday for sure!
Waiting in line for the bounce house. 
Dylan's SpongeBob Cake! 
Cody's Pokemon Cake!
All the kids sitting to watch the movie!
Group Shot! We ended up with 18! 
The birthday boys with SpongeBob!
We had an absolute fantastic party. It was great to see so many of the boys school friends come out to celebrate their day with them. We ended up with 18 kids and they keep me on my toes. We had a small bounce house so that was tough. Had to limit it to 4 kids at a time. Kids HATE to wait in line. But they did do pretty good waiting. It was nice too as we could put it up and take it down as we wanted to. We watched 2 episodes of spongebob and I was shocked as all the kids sat down and actually watched the movie. It was funny too as one person laughed - they all laughed. It was very cute to watch actually. Then I got away with embarrising the boys. I showed the video of them (that I posted earlier) and they all laughed to at certain spots. The moms mostly cried. We sang happy birthday to Dylan first and then to Cody. We had yummy food. The kids lost interest really quick while the boys were opening presents. It just isn't much fun when they aren't the ones getting the presents. The boys had a great 5th birthday for sure! Friday, January 23, 2009
Family Birthday Night
Tonight we celebrated with just the family. The boys had a great evening. They got lots of great gifts and seemed so very excited over everything. I actually think they were more excited over Birthday stuff than Xmas. Dylan cracked me up because everything he got was something he has "always wanted". To funny! Tyler gave them each a gift this year and the boys were so excited to get it and Tyler was so excited to "give" it. Then they both hugged him and that was adorable. Tyler had a little hard time understanding why he didn't get a present. But he did! :)
Singing "Happy Birthday"
Eating their cupcakes and ice cream!
My jammie boys! Everybody is holding a "new" toy! 
Cody got a Bakugan Tiger. He was so excited.
Dylan on his new skateboard. Tanya thought she should help me reach my insurance deductible! :) Summer should be lots of fun.
Here are a couple of my favorite pictures!
Singing "Happy Birthday"
Eating their cupcakes and ice cream!My jammie boys! Everybody is holding a "new" toy! Cody got a Bakugan Tiger. He was so excited.
Dylan on his new skateboard. Tanya thought she should help me reach my insurance deductible! :) Summer should be lots of fun.
6:45 - 6:46 pm......
5 years ago this morning...I woke up around noon time and my water broke. Although I didn't know it was my water (first time cluelessness). So I went back to sleep, woke up, ate breakfast and called my sister for our morning chat. She always asked "how are you today" and I said "fine.....well". I told her what I thought happen and she told me to hang up and call the hospital. So I did - and they said to come right in. I was feeling fine. I called Brett at work - he quickly came home. Just to find me standing in the bedroom closet trying to find something to wear. I had just had my shower and did my makeup.
We got to the hospital and confirmed it was my water that broke. My parents were in the car and on there way out. We did a quick ultrasound and Baby A was breach - Baby B was head down. So the doctor order a c-section. However, because I had had breakfast I had to wait 6 hours.
My parents arrived. Just towards the end of 6 hours my contractions had really picked up. I was wheeled down to the OR and we were on our way. Baby A - Cody was born first 6:45 pm. I remember him not crying much. He was quickly whisked out of the room and was being looked at by the NICU staff. The babies were 5 weeks early. Baby B - Dylan, was born just one minute later at 6:46 pm and he came out crying. He too was taken out of the room. Each baby had their own NICU team to look after them.
Brett quickly left my side and went to meet his sons. He was confronted in the hall by the Chief of the NICU and was told some news. Baby A was born with a cleft lip and palate. He stayed with the boys and came with them so I could see them for the first time. Cody was in the front and Dylan snugged right behind him - in one bassinet. All I saw was Cody's face and asked "what is wrong with his lip". Brett then told me he had a cleft lip and palate. To be honest - it was all greek because I had never heard of that.
I went to recovery, the boys went to the nursery to be weighed and such. I cried a lot in recovery. I knew my family was in the waiting room and they had to be told the news. Cody weighed 5lb 12oz....Dylan weighed 5lb 8oz and both were 20" long. They never did spend a night in the NICU. Both came right to my room where I took Dylan and fed him and thankfully, thankfully we had a great nurse that night that knew what to do with Cody. She got him his special bottle called a haberman and showed him how to eat. He tired easily so we would have to rub his jaw to get him to start chewing again. He couldn't suck - the room of his mouth was completely open.
We left the hospital 3 days later and that's when the real emotions of having two babies took over. We had no warning that Cody would have a cleft. I look back now and realize how lucky we were that he did so well with feedings. So many kids have troubles. I had to get on the internet to start doing my research on what we were up for. We did leave with an appointment to a plastic surgeon and looked very forward to that first meeting.
I had so many emotions as I had to focus on Cody. I had to feed him and make sure I understood it before I could trust anybody else too. My mom and Brett took over with Dylan. I cried because I couldn't feed Dylan as much and sometimes feel we didn't get that connection right away.
The first year with a baby is always a roller coaster. Having 2 babies was like a never ending ride. We are still on the right - 5 years going strong!
We got to the hospital and confirmed it was my water that broke. My parents were in the car and on there way out. We did a quick ultrasound and Baby A was breach - Baby B was head down. So the doctor order a c-section. However, because I had had breakfast I had to wait 6 hours.
My parents arrived. Just towards the end of 6 hours my contractions had really picked up. I was wheeled down to the OR and we were on our way. Baby A - Cody was born first 6:45 pm. I remember him not crying much. He was quickly whisked out of the room and was being looked at by the NICU staff. The babies were 5 weeks early. Baby B - Dylan, was born just one minute later at 6:46 pm and he came out crying. He too was taken out of the room. Each baby had their own NICU team to look after them.
Brett quickly left my side and went to meet his sons. He was confronted in the hall by the Chief of the NICU and was told some news. Baby A was born with a cleft lip and palate. He stayed with the boys and came with them so I could see them for the first time. Cody was in the front and Dylan snugged right behind him - in one bassinet. All I saw was Cody's face and asked "what is wrong with his lip". Brett then told me he had a cleft lip and palate. To be honest - it was all greek because I had never heard of that.
I went to recovery, the boys went to the nursery to be weighed and such. I cried a lot in recovery. I knew my family was in the waiting room and they had to be told the news. Cody weighed 5lb 12oz....Dylan weighed 5lb 8oz and both were 20" long. They never did spend a night in the NICU. Both came right to my room where I took Dylan and fed him and thankfully, thankfully we had a great nurse that night that knew what to do with Cody. She got him his special bottle called a haberman and showed him how to eat. He tired easily so we would have to rub his jaw to get him to start chewing again. He couldn't suck - the room of his mouth was completely open.
We left the hospital 3 days later and that's when the real emotions of having two babies took over. We had no warning that Cody would have a cleft. I look back now and realize how lucky we were that he did so well with feedings. So many kids have troubles. I had to get on the internet to start doing my research on what we were up for. We did leave with an appointment to a plastic surgeon and looked very forward to that first meeting.
I had so many emotions as I had to focus on Cody. I had to feed him and make sure I understood it before I could trust anybody else too. My mom and Brett took over with Dylan. I cried because I couldn't feed Dylan as much and sometimes feel we didn't get that connection right away.
The first year with a baby is always a roller coaster. Having 2 babies was like a never ending ride. We are still on the right - 5 years going strong!
Video
If you scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page - you will find a very special video.
"5 years of Cody and Dylan"
Enjoy!
"5 years of Cody and Dylan"
Enjoy!
Happy 5th Birthday Cody & Dylan
My little boys are 5 today. How it seems like yesterday that you came crying into my world. Who knew what was in store for us. It certainly hasn't been easy raising 2 babies at once but it has been filled with so much joy. Watching you accomplish all of your first, watching your different personalities emerge, seeing you become two separate individuals with the same birth day/year. Loving it when you say to each other "Hug me Brother"........loving it even more when you tell each other that you can't come to my birthday party. I love both of your personalities as they are so different.
Tash did this for Alli's birthday and I thought it was such a great idea that I am stealing it! :)
Tash did this for Alli's birthday and I thought it was such a great idea that I am stealing it! :)
5 things I love about you!
Cody:
1. Your big brown eyes and the way you wink at me!
2. Your Smile!
3. Your love of "junk food"
4. When you tell me everynight before bed "mom, I love you"
5. Your very grown up attitude about all that you have had to endure in 5 years!
Dylan:
1. You are my teddy bear. And I love when I tell you that and you just giggle!
2. When you play with my hair. (Ok, really this sometimes annoys me but I would be lost if you didn't do it. You will always be my "hair boy"
3. Your quest to do something challenging
4. Your very wet, sloppy kisses!
5. You have a comment for everything and you are so very matter of factly.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I looked like this....
5 years ago today!
I give myself credit for even posting this picture. I don't exactly look "pretty". I noticed now that my smile is so FAKE. Standing up was a complete chore for me. The pressure was un-bearable. Clothes were non-existent. My pj's were my best friend. But this picture was taken exactly 5 years ago today - on a Thursday afternoon. I had told Brett he should take my picture as we were getting close. We had no idea this was my last pregnancy shot and that my water would break in the morning.
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