I think it's safe to say...

I am a horrible blogger.  I am, it's true. They always say the first step is admitting it right?  Well, I stink at it :)

So much has happened!  Lorelai, poor Lorelai. She had tubes in her ears, which is apparently a real surgery.  They completely put her under and everything. It wasn't too bad.  The worst part was the "emergent delirium" That is the actual term the doctor used. When children wake up from being under anesthetic they freak out. Full on strong than that child should be, break your ear drums screams and complete panic.  I heard her wake up, and I was back in post op.  I thought to myself "bring her to me, I can nurse her and she'll be fine"  it took them 10 minutes to figure that out, and finally they did. And I nursed her and she snuggled up to me, and fell asleep.  I am not going to lie, giving my baby to the nurses and watching her leave, super sucky. 

Thomas is amazing. He is so freakin smart it blows my mind.  He speaks so well, and he reasons things out.  He'll ask me a question, and then come up with a conclusion based on my answer.  Or he'll tell me something, and then tell me the reasoning behind his thoughts and actions,.  He's still two, so sometimes the reason is "Because I saw and elephant"  but still, I am impressed!  He knows his entire alphabet, and can count to 20, and we are now working on phonics of letter sounds.  My new favorite thing he does is "But please!"  When I say no, he comes back with "But please!!" and it's hilarious.  Today I had to explain to him that it doesn't change the fact that I said no.  We are working on it.

School is in full swing, and there are only 2 more months!  I'm so stoked, it's almost done! We have 4 job applications out and in the next 2 weeks he will test 3 times. We are extremely hopeful that we will be able to get hired somewhere very soon, so we can start planning.  I mean our future is completely up in the air right now.  Where, when, whatever. It's freaky!  We want another child next year, and so I want to have a bigger place, we need to know what city to look in, and we have no time frame, or anyting.  It's really hard.  But we are doing all we can, so it'll be okay! Plus I am having fun looking at apartments everywhere from Spanish Fork to Lehi, and have found quite a few, and it's a little exciting!  And James got to beat people up with a baton at school yesterday.  (they were padded)  So that's awesome! And so is he, so that works out well.  And he had a birthday, which was also awesome. So in summation: James=Awesome. 

7 Hours

You know, whenever I read my friends blogs, it reminds me that I should write on mine. But then I feel a little like a copy cat...
Lorelai slept for 7 hours!  Since Christmas and illness, I have been working so hard to get her back on a real schedule, and it's taken forever! To be honest I have fallen asleep all over the place lately. Lorelai lays down for a nap? So do I!  It's 6pm and the TV show we finally got to watch was on commercial, fall asleep.  Drive to the grocery store? Fall asleep.  It's been ridiculous. Maybe I am just overly lazy.... Or perhaps I just can't function on 4 hours of sleep, with feedings every hour...  She is finally going back to normal! She is also crawling. All over the place.  I have had to re baby proof our house. Thomas was never really into everything in our house, he was interested in a few things, but he was really good about staying out of it. Lorelai is so curious. She climbs and pulls and eats everything she sees.  So we have to redouble our babyproofing efforts now that she is very mobile.  Also I read a HORRIBLE story about a little girl who pulled a dresser on top of herself and then died... So now I am super paranoid about that...  Speaking of which, we had a little miracle the other day.  Lorelai was crying in her carseat and choked a little and then coughed and then kept crying, I jsut assumed she had gotten herself overly excited.  We got to the store and she was covered in vomit and there was a large piece of paper in it. She choked on a piece of paper and managed to throw it up.  I literally started to cry when I realized that.  So now I am overly protective of her and follow both kids all over the place, Thomas looks at me like I'm crazy.
Speaking of that cute boy, he has started to play make believe. I LOVE IT! He will pinch his fingers together and bring me some "candy" or "a toy" and share it with me. I can't get over how cute it is.  He does it all the time.  He also speaks so well these days, it makes me want to cry when I think about how he was just a tiny little baby such a short time ago.  He has his favorite phrases like "I can't find it anywhere!"  "Are you okay?"(he asks this anyone anyone gets upset or he hears a loud noise, I didn't realize I did that until he did)  He also says "Oh my heavens" apparently I say that way too much too.   Anytime Lorelai cries, he bring her piles of toys.  Because I have tried to let him help take care of her, and so I ask him to bring her toys, and so now he does it whenever she's sad.  I haven't been able to explain to him that if she's hungry a plush monkey won't do the trick... But it's a nice thought.  And she laughs at him when he cries.  For some reason his crying is hysterical to her.. Which makes me smile, and then I feel bad for laughing at him.  They talk to one another across the car while in their car seats.  He will say "Hey Lolly" and she giggles and gurgles and he says something back and it becomes completely unintelligible to me.
Meanwhile my house never stays clean. EVER.  I swear there is a spell on this apartment that makes is stay dirty.  Or perhaps my standards are too high with a 2 year old, 8 month old, and husband who makes as much mess with the kids toys as they do. Ah, I love it.  And him.  Thomas and Lorelai adore their father.  He comes home and suddenly mom is the most uncool person around. Everyone has to get away from mom to go cuddle with daddy.  And it warms my heart.  The other day I asked Thomas for kisses, and he said no, and smiled all mischievously, so I said "I'm going to have to steal some kisses!"  And now he says to us "Steal kisses from me!"  He thinks it's the greatest thing.

Yuletide Review

There it is, the infamous Santa picture we went through so much to get... I love it!  I have the cutest kids!
So Christmas, it was wonderful, even if it had a few black marks here and there.  One huge black mark was that Thomas was sick. Like REALLY sick.  Go to the ER sick.  After 3 days of no eating and only kind of drinking and non stop crying, we took him in, and he had 2 bad ear infections and a viral infection.  So they gave him meds to stop the vomiting (did I forget to mention he was throwing up all the time?)  and antibiotics.  Also, apparently little kids in the ER get the red carpet treatment.  It was very full, and we got a private waiting room, they gave Thomas a quilt, a search and find toy, a book, and a stuffed dog.  Nurses kept coming to see why he was crying, and if they could do anything, it was really nice of them.  Finally the Dr said he had to drink something, otherwise we would have to be admited to give him fluids, which apparently is really hard on a toddler (for obvious reasons I guess) So the nurse brought him 2 sodas, apple juice and "special pink juice" which he actually drank! And then proceeded to drink everything else, once they got the anti-nausea meds in him he was doing much better. But then we had to wait 2 hours to see if he could keep it down. He did, and we left only to have him throw up in the parking lot, no joke.  But it was okay.
Also, my mom was really sick, so that was no fun.  But we had a great Christmas.  We got to spend time with both families, and give and get plenty of gifts, and we got tons of snow (YAY!)  And Lorelai was perfect, not a peep the whole time we were in the ER and dealing with a super sick brother, she was great.  I love that girl (you too Thomas) 
I just spent the last 4 hours unpacking and putting away gifts as well as reorganizing to fit it all,  we are so blessed! And Thomas is laughing, BEST. SOUND. EVER.

Cookies

We recently took a trip to Colorado, and James' sister had some delicious cookies, so I totally copied her idea.  I found some recipes and reworked them and created a sugar gingerbread hybrid cookie, and then some salted caramel cream cheese frosting. They are pretty good, not gonna lie. I thank my sister in law for the inspiration.  It was so much fun for me to have Thomas help me cut out the shapes and he also had a blast.  I am loving the Christmas season, I also made hot chocolate on a stick. Haven't tried it yet, but we have given it t our neighbors, so I hope it's good....
We have also totally given in to Thomas asking to open presents early, yeah... So we have half as many as we started with, but I'm fine with it, let the magic last as long as possible.   We have decided that we are having our own little Christmas on Saturday, before we celebrate with our families next week.  I'm really excited, I have meals planned, and fun treats and everything, I can't wait!
Also we have started watching Vampire Diaries... It's very CW.

Thank you giving!

I figured since I have been HORRIBLE at writing lately I should give an update.
Thanksgiving was great fun. We spent time with my family, and shopped, and ate. It was wonderful.  Thomas wouldn't say Thanks-giving, he would say "Thank you giving" or "Happy giving!"  It was really cute.  He loved all the great food, and spent the whole meal "cutting" his stuffing with his fork. Love that boy.
This year I went all out with my mom and did a whole table setting and everything. I had WAY too much fun doing it. I'm pretty sure my whole family thought I was silly, but I had a blast with it.  Maybe I'll put pictures up, somewhere... Probably not. 
Lorelai slept though Thanksgiving. She wasn't too excited about it. She was also a bit of a mommy's/daddy's girl all weekend. That's tiring!  She moves all over the place now, but not front back, it's always side to side...  And Thomas just tried to sit on her head. Oh the joys! It's the little things really.
Black Friday was a huge success!  We spent what we planned, didn't go totally crazy with gift buying, and still had a great time!  
Ok, I'm being cut short by a super cute little girl who is rather upset that her brother won't leave her alone. He just wants to play Lorelai!

Watermelon

I love it. Seriously. I can eat all I want, all day, every day, and it's never too much.  It's not too much of a good thing, and it's not too many calories.  I actually read somewhere that watermelon is a negative calorie food, meaning you burn more calories digesting it than you could consume from it.  It just makes me happy.

So we celebrated Thomas's birthday, and it was so much fun.  We went to the aquarium, and at first he was a little scared of the fish, but then he loved it. Especially the penguins.  We had a fun cake and cupcakes and pizza and breadsticks. It was great fun.  Then on his actual birthday we ordered more pizza (I'm sick of it) and sang and gave him his gift. We got him a tool set, with a drill that actually spins and screws in little screws.  He loves it. As in for 3 days that's the only toy he played with (that's a big deal for a 2 year old, let me just tell you).  He also got a fun magnetic alphabet book, cute clothes, and shoes from our families. It was a great 2nd birthday if I do say so myself.

The kids got shots, and Lorelai is 13.15 lbs, 23 inches, and Thomas is 23lbs and 33 inches.  I have one tall skinny kid and one short chunky one. I LOVE IT!  It's so much fun :)  However both kids shots at the same time, bad plan.  I had to have my mom come with me because James was at school, it's a good thing she was there because I hate it! Thomas was so upset, he kept saying "Hurt, hurt"  and it made my heart hurt.  Lorelai got over it pretty quickly, I cuddled her and she was fine, Thomas was sad for hours and kept telling me about it.  But he's done with shots until kindergarten, party!!!  Lorelai goes back in 2 months.

The police academy is in full swing now, and I miss James like crazy. But he's having a great time.

My little not-roller

Lorelai hates to roll over.  She has done it about 5 times, and gets really upset about it. So now she refuses.  She scoots around on her stomach, and can do a complete 180 while on her stomach to face the toys she wants, but she refuses to roll over.  It's a little odd actually. Thomas was a rolling fiend, he wouldn't stop, I couldn't keep him on a blanket to save my life. Lorelai, on the other hand, must get motion sickness or something.... We do tummy time all the time, sometimes twice a day. Who knows.
I often find myself only posting on my blog when one of my friends has, and I think "Oh, I should write something" 
My phone fell into the toilet. Very tragic, it's currently getting a rice bath to fix it, I hope.
Lorelai started solids. She is pretty good with them, still spits some out, but actually eats too.
Thomas still refuses to eat, and Lorelai is gaining on him. Literally. They are less than 10 lbs apart now. My little chunky girl.
Thomas LOVES nursery all of the sudden. He gets mad when we leave, and asks to go back all the time. Which is great!
I have our Halloween costumes almost all done, it's awesome. We are the famous foursome from the Wizard of Oz.
Lorelai is barely into 3-6 month clothing, apparently she's not as chunky as I'd like to believe...
James is amazing, he has made it through 6 weeks of school, every day. Until last Friday, I asked him to skip because I missed him.

Life is good, and Lorelai is crying, got to go do my thing!