Emotional week

It has been an emotionally challenging week. Let's start with Tuesday, I worked late to learn about Weed Patrol so that we can get that flowing smoothly. I thought about calling my husband and offering to pick up our oldest on the way home, but I figured he already had him, so I skipped it. The twins were nearly asleep so I left the truck running while I started to unload it. I manged to lock them in it, thankfully it was running and the air conditioning was on. I called the Sheriff's Department, and they informed me that they don't open doors anymore. I call two locksmiths, one said he was over an hour and a half away, and I got no answer at the second. I was unable to get a hold of the Fire Department to see if they are able to unlock doors. Daddy came to the rescue, and was able to get it open.

Wednesday, I had to pick our oldest up from school early because has was running away from the teacher screaming and just being unresponsive. The last two weeks at school had been pretty good.
Thursday the school called because He was bitten at school by another child. At least he wasn't the cause of the problem this time.

Friday Brylan had to come to work with me because he had no school, and he was a total PITA. We headed to Tucson after work, and spent the weekend there.

Saturday morning I found out one of my Dad's cousins thought she was having a stroke so she went to the emergency room, and they did scans, she's claustrophobic so no fun, and found a brain tumor. She had to cancel vacation plans, her doctor canceled he driver's license, and hopefully she hears from someone by Tuesday so they can schedule a biopsy to confirm if it is benign or malignant.

Sunday as we were headed home, my Dad who is in Texas visiting my Grandma called. He said they were out visiting some of my Grandma's friends, weren't able to get back to Grandma's house because the roads were closed due to a fire. So they stayed at my grandma's daughters house.

Monday morning he called to say a friend of the guy who lives across the street from my Grandma got into their neighborhood and that her house was gone. The neighbor's was still ok as long as the big pine tree didn't fall on the house.  Today isn't over yet, but I'm hoping that is the last of the bad news for quite a while.

Adventures in Teething

*Sigh*
Teething, a part of raising children no parent looks forward to. A parent of twins doubly so.

My youngest began teething the beginning of October, he had two of them working there way out. So needless to say I have had a super drooly, constantly needed to be held, grumpy monster. Well, Aythan caught on to what he was doing and in true first born twin fashion he started teeth about two weeks later.

So now I had two super needy, drooly babies. On October 26th, Aythan won the race to the first tooth, and some relief from the constant whining came with it. Cayden who started first finally had his first tooth cut through on November 1st.

I had one day of nice, calm, happy babies before it was back to the whining monsters. Aythan has forgotten how to sleep though the night since Halloween, and has woken each night at 12:00 or 12:30 and again between 4 and 6. Cayden, who seems to be the most miserable during the day, and will only sleep if he is being held. Thankfully he sleeps all night and wakes around 5 or 6.

We stayed in Tucson this past weekend to visit with family, and came home on Sunday. When we returned home Mom had about 4 hrs of sleep in the past 3 days, and both of the twins each had a new tooth to join their first, but had picked up runny noses. No baby enjoys the booger sucker, poor things. I only had to get up once last night to feed Aythan around 3 because thankfully Daddy took Cayden when he woke up this morning around 5. It is amazing how much having a few hour stretch of sleep helps.
Aythan's first two teeth in the picture on the left, and Cayden's first two teeth in the picture on the right.

Today started off well with mild tempered babies, we had a few rough patches. Poor guys just feel yucky, and mommy still has a bit of a headache. I'll be crossing my fingers that tonight we all sleep well.

Light The Night

The kids and I did the Light the Night Walk in honor of Abby Grace on Saturday, October 16. It was so much fun to see people I haven't seen in a long time. Team Abby was so big, it was great to see so much support for Lymphoma and Leukemia. According to the team website Team Abby raised over $6,700.

The kids stamped their hands on the banner, the adults signed a photo frame. We stamped the twins feet since they wouldn't open their hands.

 The awesome Team Abby tent.

 Stamping Brylan's hand.

This is a picture of after the walk. We had so much fun. It was fantastic to see all the people I haven't seen in years and to meet their kids, and in some cases pets.

Let's Get This Party Started

I really should have started this blog during my pregnancy, but I just couldn't find the motivation. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it updated and interesting. I'll keep this first post simple since I'm still setting this blog up.

Our First Family Photo

Brylan is in the left, I'm holding Cayden, and Brian has Aythan. The babies were 6 days old here.