pictures from the weekend

here are some pictures from Abby's haircut and the children's museum

Event filled weekend!

On Saturday Abby and mommy went to JC Penney in Green Bay for haircuts! I found a stylist I just love when we lived in Green Bay so I keep going back! I had an appt on Saturday and brought Abby along hoping Dawn would have enough time to cut Abby's hair also! She said she had time so she trimmed Abby's fly-a-way hair first! Abby did really well for her first haircut! then after her hair cut it was my turn. Abby sat in the chair next to my chair and was "reading" her books! Then she decided she wanted to get down and of course fell on the way down and hit her head on my chair. She ended up with a black & blue mark in between her eyes! She was crying and wanted ice for her boo boo but they didn't have any. So Dawn got a mini peanutbutter cup and unwrapped it for Abby and give it to her. Abby took the candy and put it on her forehead like ice! I told her that chocolate makes mommy feel better too! it was too cute! the candy left a nice chocolate mark on her forehead. I took a picture but haven't uploaded it yet...I will get it up this week!

After our haircuts we headed home to pick up daddy & Gavin and headed down to Milwaukee to meet some friends at the children's museum. I was really disappointed...I thought it would be bigger and have more for the kids to do. They are definitely too young for most of that museum! After the museum we headed over to our friends house for pizza. Their 1 year old showed Gavin and Abby where the food pantry was so my kids helped unload all the cans and boxes of food! It sure is hard to visit with friends when you have toddlers! I spent most of the time tending the kids needs and keeping them out of things!

Sunday the kids were supposed to go for a play date with one of their friends that used to go to their daycare but Abby took an almost 4 hour nap so we had to cancel! She woke up very crabby so I thought for sure she was sick but so far she is just whiny and not really showing any signs of illness! we will keep our fingers crossed.

Tonight we hope to decorate pumpkins so I will add those pictures along with the haircut, chocolate ice and children's museum photos!

Another illness!

I took Gavin to the doctor yesterday because his ear and breath were very smelly (and not a good smell) I thought for sure he had another ear infection but I was wrong. He has issues with his sinuses. The doctor checked out his ears, nose and throat and did not see any foreign objects in the nose or ears! He put Gavin on antibiotics and said if it didn't clear up soon we would probably have to go see the ENT doc so they could take a closer look up the nose and make sure Gavin didn't shove something up there! So I am praying it clears up on its own. he seemed in a much better mood already this morning so hopefully it is just a bug that will clear up soon!

Abby is developing some of the same symptoms so we are keeping a close eye on her...she will probably be going in next week for the same thing!

Abby has become quite the little mother hen...when Gavin gets in trouble by mom he also gets yelled at by Abby! Poor guy will probably always have 2 mothers and a little tattle tale to report all his actions to mom and dad!

Well...we still haven't gotten rid of the nuks! But it is more me than the kids I think. I know I need to just do it cold turkey and get it over with! We did a trial run last evening and you would think we broke a bone on Abby the way she was crying and screaming! I have been told by a few people to cut the tip off and tell her it is broken...maybe we will try this weekend. Hopefully by Monday we can report we are nuk free or at least have the nuk usage confined to nap and bed time!

Church pictures

Last night at 6 PM we had our first family photograph taken for church. At about 5:45 Gavin got up on our bed and was jumping and fell and hit his forehead on the metal decorative part of our bed! Luckily he didn't split it open but he did get a really nice purple bruised goose egg right above his eye. Very nice for pictures! Thank goodness they can "touch up" pictures and remove the bruise! I wish the touch up feature included weight reduction for your photos...I looked HUGE and was not a big fan of the pictures I was in but did order some so we could have a real family photo! time to get serious about losing weight! Once we get our pictures back and I have to look at that everyday that should be plenty of incentive to get to work out class and eat better!!!

Gavin's New Car

Over the weekend Gavin found what was supposed to be a Christmad present in the garage. We had a Step 2 fire truck for 2...I decided to get it out and let them get some use out of it before winter arrives! Now they will just not have a big gift to open for Chrsitmas but I don't think they will care (and they will get plenty of gifts from the grandparents)!!

Since we got the car out Gavin has been in it non-stop...he loves it. Gavin usually drives and Abby rides on the back! On Sunday during the Packer game, Pat and I wanted to watch the game but Gavin wanted to go outside to play with his "new car". We decided to bring it in the house so they could play with the car and we could still watch the game! Pat decided to give them a push and they loved it!

The Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday we went to a pumpkin patch in Hortonville with the mother of multiples club. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to go back next year! the kids had fun climbing on hay bales, running through the cornfield and sitting in the tractor! Instead of writing all about it I will just post pictures!

Catching up

I have not blogged in a while so have a little catching up to do! I am not even sure where to start! The kids are both still working on the potty training thing. Abby does good for a few days and then goes back to going in her diaper and not wanting to use the potty. Gavin still isn't very interested. he likes to sit on the potty but has not actually gone in the potty yet.

Abby likes to take her diaper off and when she keeps doing it we have resorted to using duct tape to keep it on. you will see from the pictures that it is working:)

We are still using Nuks and I have to be honest I have not put much effort into taking them away. it is so much easier to just pop the nuk in their mouths when they are having a melt down than it is to listen to them scream for 20 minutes.

I took some pictures of Abby throwing a tantrum...sometimes her tantrums just make me laugh so I thought I would take a picture of it!

Last night I had an upper case living party and the demonstrator put up my expression for me as demonstration. It turned out better than I could have imagined. I also posted that for you to see.

I think that is it for now. We are taking the kids to Cuff's Pumpkin Patch tomorrow with Mother of Multiples club so hopefully we get some good pictures to share!

Another big day for Abby

Abby had another big day...she went potty 3 times on the potty yesterday at daycare! She gets so excited when she goes on the potty! and we also learned that when she tells you poop you don't have much time to get her on the potty! Last night during bath I was getting Gavin out of the tub and Abby said poop. I was in the middle of lifting Gavin out so I didn't get to her right away and she pooped in the tub. Good thing we were almost done. Gavin still isn't showing much interest in actually going potty on the potty chair...it is still just a cool toy to him. But I still let him sit on it when he wants to get him ready for potty training. I am not going to force him...it will happen when he is ready!

So Pat was gone over the weekend and I think Gavin really, really missed him. Last night after we put the kids to bed Gavin started crying for daddy. Pat went in there and got him calmed down and came back out in the living room and Gavin started screaming for him again so he ended up laying down in Gavin's room with him. And Gavin has been talking about daddy's home for the past 2 days non-stop! Abby is still clinging to my so she doesn't seem as stressed out about daddy being gone as her brother is!