Halloween…sort of….

Well..it is Halloween…well, sort of….but there are no costumes, no school, no trick or treating…..everything has been postponed until Friday.  Hurricane Sandy has come and gone.  We were lucky….we had no damage in our area.  We never lost our electricity and we barely had any branches fall down.  A lot of New Jersey wasn’t so lucky.  So much flooding and devastation around the state….really scary stuff.  Half of our town is still without electricity..so they had to close the schools for another day.

It is very strange….being Halloween…yet…not Halloween.

First Tooth….

Well…River had a loose tooth and kept waiting and waiting for it to fall out.  Last Thursday…at the end of the kindergarten day, as she walked out of her classroom door..she tripped and fell.   There was blood everywhere.  We started to walk to the nurse when she realized her tooth was gone!  Thankfully, that was where all the blood was coming from…beside a small scrap on her nose.  We looked everywhere for the tooth…but we never found it.  So, when we got home I asked her if she wanted to make a replacement tooth..to put under her pillow.  She was very concerned that the tooth fairy might think we were tricking her.  So, she insisted that she write a note to the tooth fairy, letting her know that this was NOT her tooth, but a replacement tooth!  Too cute.

The next morning, she was very excited to find that the tooth fairy had left her two dollars!  She was even more excited to go into school and tell all her classmates about her adventure!

 

Getting ready for Halloween…..

So..things are getting a little spooky around here……every year we make ghosts.  So, of course, River wanted to make ghosts.  What a surprise!  Nothing cuter than a child deeply involved in their project!  Of course, after making the ghosts…we had to do a little photo shoot involving all the ghosts.

Then we had to hang the ghosts..along with all the cobwebs…

 

One Year Photos….

Well, Tuesday and I finally had time to take some photos for the babies one year birthday!!  It didn’t go perfectly…but, then again..does anything!  I am just happy that it was a nice day and we were able to get out and get some cute photos!  I love how in some of the photos their expressions look so similar.  By the end, Escher was not happy.  Neither was River.  River thought the photo shoot should have been just for her and she did NOT want to share the spotlight.  I told her that we could take some photos of her, for a school project..but she did not want to cooperate.  But, we managed to get quite a few cute photos….One of the problems was that we didn’t have shoes for the babies.  And though, I love them without shoes…they did NOT like touching the grass!!  So…next stop…shoe store!!

Craziness….

Have I had this as my title before??? If not..I should have!  Getting into the swing of school has been crazy.  I knew it would be a lot…but I had no idea it would have been this hard!  Everyone decided to get sick right as school started…Tuesday had walking pneumonia, Christopher had pneumonia and River had some strange coughing thing that wouldn’t go away..so back and forth to the doctor’s office we went…again and again.  Many medications later….some are better..some are still getting better.  River is finishing up the last of her medications today..but she still has to do a nebulizer three times a day..which is all new to me.  I just never had sick children before..we’ve always been so lucky!!  Pneumonia, coughs, ear infections…and now Tuesday has a fracture on her growth plate on her ankle!!  I am tired of running to the doctor’s office every other day!!  But in between all the sick appointments, the babies had their one year wellness checkup…All went well.  They are healthy and growing!!

Happy Friday!!

First Day of School….

After much anticipation, River started Kindergarten!  She was so nervous and excited!  The rain stopped, just long enough to be able to walk to school.  Tuesday started high school, and almost missed her bus on the first day (though she missed it the next two days!).  Quinn took everything in stride and didn’t seem fazed by the first day of 7th grade!

Seeing River on her first day of school reminded me of Tuesday and Quinn…oh, so long ago!  I just had to post some photos from Tuesday and Quinn’s first days of Kindergarten.  Tuesday was terrified..as you can see by the look on her face.  Quinn was so excited..I don’t think he had time to be nervous!!

 

One Year Old……

I can’t believe it…my little babies are one year old!!  It seems like just yesterday Hurricane Irene was here..and the little guys were born. The first thing the nurse said to me was……”Twins!  Welcome to your year of hell!”  I was a bit shocked by that statement and it scared me a bit.  I must say it hasn’t been an easy year…but it has been far from hell!  I love these little guys so much and I can’t imagine our family without them!!  They still don’t sleep through the night..but I love and cherish every second with them.  They both have started walking. They love to pet the cats and dogs.  They’ve got top and bottom teeth.  They wave bye bye.  Grey loves to sit on anything that will support her weight.  Escher loves to dance and groove to the music. The both love free naked time.

And Tuesday, Quinn and River love them so much.  They still fight about who gets to spend time with them. They all have been such a big help with the babies.  I can’t imagine having twins without the support of the older ones.

It certainly has been a challenging year..full of changes, transitions, tears, grumpiness, laughter, lots of laughter…..and there is still so much more to come….

 

I survived the beach…..

Yes…I survived taking the babies to the beach.  I don’t like the beach…all the sun, sand and water.  But every year we go to the beach.  We don’t just go to the beach…that would be too easy…we bike to the beach, which seems crazy.  It is a tradition that my brother started, with his children, 15 years ago.  So, we continue the tradition, with him and our children.  But someone has to drive there..so I drive one way and my husband drives the other way.  It is a lot of fun…but I knew this year…it would be a lot of work.  Somehow, it all worked out and we all had a blast.  Thank goodness I insisted on bringing a baby pool because the babies loved it as much as they loved the pool and the sand.  Well, Escher did not like the sand..but Grey loved it!  She didn’t want to leave.  Also, I had a great time biking back from the beach.  It was Tuesday’s second year riding and Quinn’s first….and he did great!  He even rode back.