
Tucky passes out during dinner. Must be all those late nights.

Daddy is a pro at putting tucky to sleep

The babies playing one of their favorite games. Shouting while dancing at the stairwell.

Tucker helping mommy weed. That lasted 10 minutes. Too cold.

Whitney helping mommy weed. yep. too cold

Whitney takes over the dog beds. Good thing I waited to put on church clothes.
Tucky has been feeling better. The antibiotics have helped, although Tucky exceeded the diaper several times. I've never seen so much poop. He might test product limits when he gets older. He also downed 16 ounce bottles every night this week. He has been up every night because of the messy pants and I think hunger from the food going through him so much from those pesky and good antibiotics. I don't think my stomach can handle 16 ounces of milk at once. One morning he woke up with an exploded diaper from all that fluid. There were diaper beads everywhere. He also figured out how to unroll toilet paper and flick grape pieces across his high chair tray with one finger.
Whitney is working on other team skills. Like learning to flush the toilet, and she has been banging on the toilet lids. Not much longer before she opens them. Whitney also knows how to climb stairs, but reverse is always much more difficult. They both figured out how to hold their bottles while sitting up in the high chair. What a blessedly wonderful skill. now I can eat while they eat.
Whitney is cruising a ton. Walking by christmas may be her achievable goal. Whitney also loves new flavors but textures cannot be mixed. Bananas and oatmeal don't go together apparently. She spits is right out. She went with Daddy to the grocery store this week. Apparently she told him to get gouda cheese. She loves it. She also loves corn tortilla quesidillas. She doesn't like meat sticks too much, though.
Tucker thinks getting his socks pulled off or falling objects is hysterical. This week when I pulled off his socks fast, he laughed so hard, he fell over. One of their favorite games is pulling to stand on the stair banister and shouting. Whitney likes to dance really hard while this is all happening.
Due to Tucky's better moods, I've been able to do more. I put up some pics, hung out with a friend on Monday and Friday, spray painted my ugly light fixtures silver and got a leave/pine needle blower to help me fight the war on pine needles. My hair dryer broke last night. Jim asked me why I didn't use the blow dryer that I got this week. You know, the one out in the garage......
I haven't messed with two stroke machines much. I hate weed whackers with a passion. Leaf blowers are the same, except I was motivated to use the leaf blower. It is WAY better than sweeping moist pine needles, the only things we have around here. We can't have dry pine needles. No, that would be too easy. So I went to the store one night to buy it. They are on sale now. Awesome. The next day I went to put it together during one baby break. Then the next baby break was to figure out how to mix 50 parts fuel to one part oil. Then the next break was mixing the fuels. Then the next was learning to start it cold. Then when it finally started, the parts fell off, so I had to turn it off and click the tubes in place. Duh. By then it was dark and I was out of baby breaks. So Jim did the leaf blowing. Sure. By then, all he had to do was pick it up and turn it on. Whatever. At least he got up on the roof to blow them off so then don't keep falling in front of my door and getting tracked in the house.
One of the friends I met with has twins 2.5 months younger than Tucker and Whitney. They are going to terrorize the nursery at church in a few months together. They got along great.
Today it snowed. It is so weird to me that it can snow at such a low elevation. It doesn't stick though. Perfect. Whitney tried to catch them, but got mad at the flakes for not staying still.
Overall this week was tiring but rewarding and frustrating all at the same time. (one day the lack of sleep really got to me and I was wondering if I was a good mom or not> Good thing Jim was around to remind me that the babies are happy, so it works ok and they are taken care of. Good hubby).
Oh yeah. I almost forgot. We had our neighbor over for dinner and tucker threw up all over in the middle. She stopped eating, but I was so hungry, I kept eating after everything was cleaned up. She was awesome. She stayed after to clean the kitchen up a bit.
Anyway we got a new phone number because Jim got a church calling that having a local number will make it a lot easier on people, so email me if you don't get it in two weeks or so.
Happy thanksgiving!!