A Take Out Kind Of Night

Oh, Mondays...I despise you sometimes! Although we usually keep all the kids on the same schedule during the weekend, Alena usually enjoys sleeping in a little bit. Which means she is sometimes a little slow moving on Monday mornings-thankfully she remains in a good mood because she is always excited to go back to school.

This past Sunday was a little rough, as both babies thought it was necessary to wake up at 5:15AM and take a short 1 hour and 20 nap in the afternoon. Justin and I thought we were going to have at least 2-2.5 hours while ALL kids napped. He took off to Home Depot, while I worked on a few house projects. Pretty soon, DQ woke up, followed very shortly by her brother. While on my way upstairs to get him, Alena scared me half to death as she was sitting at the top of the stairs, (I'm not even sure she fell asleep). While I attempted to console two still tired infants, Alena said, "mommy, maybe you should have only had one baby?" Hmmm, thanks for the encouragement, AJ :).  I reminded Alena that God decided to give mommy and daddy two babies. Then I spent the next 10 minutes trying to explain who God was-I don't think I got too far.

Sunday night was rough too as Caleb woke up once due to tooth pain (after having both babies sleep through the night for many months, even getting up once can be difficult). Poor guy, he is getting tooth after tooth! I guess this means he will get it over with quickly. Now if only his sister were teething at the same time...well maybe that wouldn't be very fun. I'm sure once he's all done teething, she will start so I'm not really looking forward to the next couple months.

Of course this morning, the twins thought it was time to wake up at 5:15 again. This means by 6:30 they want to be held and are cranky. Justin and I have mastered holding a baby and putting our lunches together, brushing Alena's teeth, or making our morning oatmeal. Sometimes, we can set them down with a new fun, usually off limits toy, which buys us a couple minutes. Today was one of those days, where we handed them over to their wonderful daycare provider, Pinky, and walked away, after stopping to wave at the window. "Here you go." As much as we love spending time with our little ones, there are times where we look forward to going to work-I'm sure any parent can agree to this. Caleb did not feel well most of the day and had a 103.7 fever this evening. We cooked chicken grillers on the grill and potatoes from papa's garden. Well, at least we thought we were going to have chicken, until Justin came through the sliding glass door saying we needed to find a plan B for dinner. Our chicken was blackened chicken, and not the spicy, yummy blackened chicken you can order at restaurants. Needless to say, it was a takeout kind of night!