A Date With Dad

Paul and the boys have started a Tuesday ECFE class called "A Date With Dad"...The class is set up for dads and their kids and they even provide supper for them!!! Paul and the boys seemed to have a good time.... The class is seperated into a few different parts.. They have a seperating part of the class, where the dads go into a differnent room and have a discussion, while the kids play in the other room with the teachers. I guess Trevor became very sad when he finally realized that his daddy had left.. It took Paul a while to calm him down..... Paul said the challenging part of the class, was that the room was not Tyler and Trevor proofed.. There were alot of things that the boys could get into!!!! so it was a challenge running after them during class.... The boys ( and daddy) made me a cute picture.. I never realized just how special all of these art projects are.. I now understand why my mom kept all of our school art work.. I always thought that it was weird to have a box full of our old projects.. and now I finally realize the significance of this and just how important all of these little things are!!!!! I am so glad that Paul and the boys are taking this class.. I think it will be a great bonding time for the three of them..... And for me it is wonderul having a few hours to myself while they are in class... It was so wonderful taking a long bath without any interruptions...

Trevor and his Kitty

Tyler and his Kitty

Mommy and Daddy

Grandma Nancy came and watched the boys at the hotel Friday night, so we were able to attend the dance at the hotel.. It was so much fun!!!! We had a few drinks and enjoyed the music.. It was a great evening!!!!

Convention Weekend

We went down to the cities this past week for a covention that Paul signed up for through work.. The union provided the free hotel stay at the Sheraton and also provided free child care....Paul and I were so excited thinking of all the fun things we could do while down in the cities.... Our vacation started with Mommy and Grandma Nancy taking the twins over to see Clifford at the Zajkowski household Wednesday evening... Tyler and Trevor just screamed and didn't have fun at all seeing clifford.. They started to calm down as soon as Grandma Nancy took off the costume.... Then we headed back to the hotel to settle in for the night, which ended up being a VERY VERY long night... Tyler was so restlesss and seemed to wake almost every 1/2 house just crying and crying.. He wasn't showing any real symptoms of illness, so we weren't sure what was wrong... The next morning he started with runny nose and just wanted cuddles.... So mommy spent most of the day in the hotel room with the boys.. I did manage to get the kids out of the hotel for a short trip down to usbank to see my old co-workers.. They were all so excited to see the boys.. This was the first time they met them...My friend Sommer and I took the kids to McDonnalds, but the boys just didn't have any appetites... After this, we headed back to the hotel and spent the rest of the evening just cuddling and reading stories... At this point, Trevor was also coming down with somthing, so we had an even MORE restless night with both boys... I felt so bad for our little guys.. I know this trip got to be very long for them and I was so tempted to take them back home!!! but we stuck it out and they seemed to be getting better by the time we were heading home on Saturday afternoon... But they both still had fevers and were getting more miserable as the night went on... Paul came home early from work on Sunday and we got the kids into our same day clinic on Sunday.. Come to find out Tyler has a double ear infection and Trevor also has an ear infection... Tyler also has a minor case of Pneumonia.. My poor Babies!!!! The infection was serious enough that the doctor decided to inject their first dose of antibiotics into their legs to help get it into their systems faster... The boys also had blood work down and Tyler had a chest x-ray ( which was NO fun for the little guy)!!!! I was so impressed that the boys did great getting their blook drawn... Trevor didn't even cry!!!!! At the end of the visit, the doctor went and got the kids each a stuffed kitten that meows.. This was so sweet of her and Tyler even smiled at her when she gave him the kitty... Tyler has carried the little stuffed kitten around the whole house ever since we got home!!

All 4 kids napping at the same time!!!!

I have started to watch another little boys, so my days are even busier!!!!! I was so excited yesterday when I got all 4 kids down for naps at the exact same time!!!!! and naps lasted almost 2 hours!!!!! Yippee!!!!! The kids had so much fun playing outside yesterday.. Tyler and Trevor are such explorers.. Trevor snuck out of our back gate and started walking in the hay field.. I was watching him closely do he didn't get very far.. and while I am tracking Trevor down, Tyler is trying to figure out how to get out of the other gate!!!! You have no idea how challenging it is watching 4 monkeys outside!!!! I was so beat last night..... I am just so lucky that the 2, 2-year olds are able to do stairs by themselves!!!! I had the kids do some fun art project after their naps.. I cut out shapes in construction paper and had the kids put stickers all over them.. I tried some washable makers also, which worked great for the 2 older kids.. But of course my kids just wanted to eat them....Then I pulled out all of our baking pans and let the kids explore with those.. I put gold fish crackers in each cup cake tin and the kids had fun with those... It has been raining all morning, so I am hoping today doesn't get to be long for the kids being cooped up.. It is already getting to be a LONG day for me and it is just 8:00!!!! Well, see how this goes...

First day of Waddlers and Toddlers

The boys started their next ECFE classes called "Waddlers and Toddlers".. The kids had a blast in class.. I used the back packs to have them both walk into class, so I didn't have to mess with the stroller... Both boys were so excited when we got into the building.... All of the teachers and other students kepts saying "Look at the twins, they are so cute"... When we got to the room, the kids walked in the door and each found a chair to sit at.. It was adorable because the boys each sat at different ends of the table... I thought they would sit together, so that surprised me.... They sure gave mommy a work out, since they were doing an art project and I had to keep going back and forth between kids to help them... That only lasted a few minutes, so I asked Tyler if he would mind moving over by Trevor.. He didn't mind as long as he could take the maker paint with him..... This project was SO messy!!!! I don't think kids this age are ready to use paints!!! Everything went into their mouth and paint was all over....The goal was to put paint dots on the cut out fish, but alot of the dots ended up on the table and in their mouth.. Glad these things were washable and non-toxic.. The boys loved exploring in the class room, but it was VERY challenging keeping up with them... Trevor kept trying to play with the radio cord and loved trying to push the bottons... After a while, we went into another room that had tons of ride on toys.. The kids had a blast in there, since they love anything with wheels.... Next it was snack time, which could have gone better.. They gave the kids napkins with goldfish on them.. As you can imagine, both kids pulled at the napkins and goldfish went everywhere.. Also the cups of water they set out ended up all over the table.. Snack time was very messy!!!! By the end of class, mommy was sure ready for a nap!!!!!

I have started to take an evening class called Zumba.. This is latin dancing, which is an amazing work out!! We do differnt dance moves for the whole hour and it feel so wonderful!! I love this class and it is so nice having this one hour to myself each week to be kid free!!! There are 70 people in this class and everyone seems to have such a fun time...

Paul is going to be starting an ECFE class with the boys this week called "A date with dad"... Tonight will be his first time going with the kids.. In the past, they never seem to get enough dads, so the class is usually canceled. Paul is really looking forward to it, and I am SO looking foward to taking an hour bath tonight.. I haven't had an evening for myself for 16 months!!!!!

Trevor's special gift to mommy

Today was a VERY special day... Trevor went Potty on the big boy chair!!!! This was the Best Birthday present ever!!! Trevor had said "potty" to me the day before while we were outside, so I had rushed him to the potty, but nothing happened... Then, the next day he had pulled down his pants and was tugging at his diapers, so I rushed him into the bathroom and he went potty!!!! And this happened to be on my Birthday!!! I was so excited, that my little 15 month old baby used the potty for the first time... He ended up using the potty twice on my Birthday, which was so special!!!Thinking back to before kids, I NEVER would have thought a kid using the potty would be the best gift ever.. Trevor, your gift was so special and you boys mean the world to me...