Love Tuesdays, Hate Wednesdays

Tuesdays are great. Derek goes to school all day and my mom and I have a standing lunch date at Claim Jumper. We take the twins and are now expected there at 11:30 every week. I even have one of the servers giving me hand me downs from her baby.

Then come Wednesdays... They're just hard because Tuesdays are so easy. My mom is usually gone most of the day and all 3 kids are home. I guess I better get used to it though, as we should be moving into the new house in a week or so. But lately Derek hasn't been great with the babies. He is very jealous and doesn't know how to get the attention that he used to get all the time. It's a very hard adjustment for myself and Derek. On Friday night Jason's dad was feeding Jillian and Derek went up to her and was going to kiss her hand, so we thought. But instead he bit her finger; so hard that he left teeth marks and a little blood blister. She screamed for what seemed like eternity and Derek cried because I spanked his bottom and put him in time out.

I try to spend as much alone time with Derek as I can, but it's pretty much impossible with 2 infants. When I just have one of the babies and Derek, it's great! So much easier! But that is not very often, so we all have to learn to deal with the change. Derek goes to school Tuesdays and Thursdays and he loves going. I'm debating on having him go 4 days a week until the twins are a few months older. Then having the twins go to his daycare on Fridays so I can have a whole day alone with Derek. I have yet to talk to Jason about it though... I'll keep you posted.

And now a few random pictures...

James gives great smiles now. Jillian has some catching up to do!


We made cream puffs the other day with home-made whipped cream, and they turned out DELICIOUS!


And one more story to tell...

Derek's school is awesome. Miss Lauri is absolutely the best! I called her this morning to see if it was okay if Derek came today. I told her I wanted to take the kids to the park first, then I would drop him off. She told me to come drop off the babies with her and take Derek to the park without the babies. So that's just what we did. Derek thought it was so cool that the babies were going to school and he got to go to the park with just mommy. This trip to the park was one of the best... he was in seventh heaven! After about an hour we headed back to Miss Lauri's and Derek said the cutest thing... "Mom, we go back to Miss Lauri's for lunch. She's my favorite!". So I dropped Derek off and picked the babies up. He was so excited to go back to "school" and play with his friends that he gave me a kiss and told me to take the babies home now so he could play. Life is great with Miss Lauri!!!

On our way back home I drove through El Pollo Loco to get a salad. After a 20 minute wait in the drive thru I finally got my food. As I pulled away I look in the bag and it's not what I ordered, and I didn't get my Diet Coke. I was so mad because I was really looking forward to my chicken salad. I didn't want to wait in the drive thru again since there were about 10 cars in line, so my only option was forget about it or park and bring the babies in to get my order right. I chose to get my order right. I had to park so far away because of the lunch crowd so that made me even more upset. So I lugged both babies in their infant seats and the bag of food that I didn't order back inside. As I walked in the door a women came out to help me. It turned out to be a friend from church that I hadn't seen in years, Heather Christensen. She was with her husband and daughter and her children. They were so great and watched the babies while I stood in line and got my correct order. Then Her daughter helped me back to the car with the babies. What life savers! Thank you!! I will have to pay it forward with a kind gesture to someone else.

A picture of Jillian since I included one of James... I have to be fair!


*** Sleeping update: For 6 nights now Jillian has slept 8 hours... Oh how I love that! James is is getting there, but not quite yet. He goes to bed around 10:30 (yes that sucks), but is sleeping until 4:30 or so. Then again until about 8:00 am. We're slowly getting more sleep at night... WOO HOO!