like weeds and the holidays

The girls are growing like weeds!! They will be 4 months old on 11/28, so that is next week, and they are out of their 6 month pjs!!! Elyse's hair started growing sooner than Tamsin's and over the last 3 days or so Tam Tam's hair started coming in too.

Typically I hate the holidays, and even this year I am really anxious about them with all the added pressure to cart the kids everywhere. But this year I feel different, I am looking forward to Christmas excitement and decorating for the girls. I am happy, I want to have Christmas with the girls, I am not dreading it quite as much. I have my friend Heather to thank for a lot of this, her enthusiasm for Christmas- and even Disney world- are rubbing off on me and helping me change. It is a change I am happy about.

I am excited for Thanksgiving...

I am but I am more excited to listen to Alice's Restaurant for the first time with Elyse and Tamsin. Dan and I are excited to start that new tradition of singing along with the girls.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

sleep and napping

For the past week and a half the girls have been sleeping through the night. I really think this is it!! I am so thankful that they are doing this. I think some of it has to do with being consistent, no matter where we are we give them their last bottle around 7 or 7:30 and then it is off to bed. 

They wake between 5 and 6. This has to be my favorite part of the day because they wake kicking, smiling and talking! I keep telling myself to record it one morning because it is soooo cute!!!

Unfortunately -for me and getting thing accomplished during the day- they don't nap for hours at a time. They cat nap all day long which is why they get cranky if we spend the entire day out of the house. The only extra sleep they will take is after their first bottle of the day, they will sleep for another hour, which is when I am typing this. 

Being consistent and putting myself and what I want to do second is hard. It has been an adjustment and I have to say to myself "Nicole, you have to leave now because the girls have to go home and go to bed." or "Nicole, you can't spend the whole day out, you have to go home because you know staying out all day doing errands throws the girls off and makes them cranky." 

a visit to Suffolk

The ladies and I went to Suffolk today to say goodbye to everyone. It was a bittersweet day, I am so sad to be leaving friends I love, a job I love in a place I love. I know I made the right decision but it feels like a death. The girls were a big hit so that made things easier for me. 

2006-2012!