yuck

This morning Courtney was yelling for me in her room. I walked in and her diaper was around her ankles. The smell was awful. She had pooped. She took a bunch of the poop and spread it all over the wall above her bed. It was all over her sheets, pillow and comforter. It was a horrible mess! After I yelled at her about how wrong that was she of course took a bath...

The Sydney woke up and peed all over her bed too. So she jumped in the tub w her sister! For the last month or so they have both been peeing through their diapers. We even moved them to bigger diapers and that didnt help at all. Lots of laundery. I know it doesnt help that they drink a cup of kifer milk before they go to bed...so starting tonight no more milk! It's going to be hard but this is getting ridiculous!

swim

Waiting for the twinks swim lessons to start...

Soccer

Sam started soccer up again. This time around she is enjoying so much more. It is pretty funny though during the games if she gets thirsty she just runs over and takes a quick drink break! The practices and games are 18 miles away which is about 25 minute drive so that's the only big bummer. She is on team "Canada!" She is the biggest and the only girl but that doesnt bother her at all though. Practices are great though because its all the teams together and they do some fun drills with a qucik scrimmage at the end.

Hernia

I have been having some pain in my upper abdomen lately. It mainly happens when I am working my upper abs out. I kept putting off going to the drs because I had a feeling it was going to be a hernia and I really didnt want to deal w it. Well I finally went a few weeks back and the dr sent me to get a ct scan. That was absolutely the worst thing that I had ever gone through. I had to drink 2 huge bottles of this barium sulfate suspension before I headed to the radiologists. I barely made it. Then when I got there they made me drink 6 more oz. I got through maybe 2 when all of a sudden I threw up...I was running towards the bathroom so I threw up all over the waiting room. Oh so embarrasing. Then I had to get this iv put in me and they put this contrast dye in me and I through up all over the machine. The worst thing was they made me lie there in my puke while they finished taking the ct. It was awful. The smell was overpowering. I would much rather be pregnant w twins then go through that experience again! I got the results back last week and the dr sent me to a surgeon. Today was the appointment. I was scared. I really dont want to have surgery. Well according to the ct scan I have a small periumbical hernia but it's not where the pain is so I ended up doing crunches for the doc so he could feel what I was talking about. He said there was a small hernia there and eventually I will have to get it fixed but it's not urgent. It's also in a place where it's hard to fix since it's between the muscle and the ribcage. He said there is a 20-30% chance even if he did sew it up that it would come back. He said that I should try to avoid doing core ab exercises which I have been doing. He said that if the pain becomes frequent then I should really get it fixed. The ct scan also said that my abdomen is "unremarkable" go figure! So as of now I will not be going under the knife and I will not be doing crunches (doctors orders!)

Swim lessons!

The girls are finally old enough to take swim lessons on their own! Today was the first class. Sydney was difinately more comfortable in the water... she would always go first where Courtney always wanted to go last. I sure am excited for them to be little fishies!!

Build a Bear

For Christmas some friends got the girls a Build a Bears in a box. Sam has been begging us to put them together. It looked like a big project so I wanted Jon to be able to help with it so we finally decided Saturday was the day. We got all excited to do it and when we opened the package we realized that this wasnt just a big project but a major craft project. The Bears weren't sewn together. The package said for 6+. It was going to be A LOT of sewing. There was no way we were going to be able to do this...well we could have but it wasn't a project for the kids...this made Sam cry. So we bit the bullet and headed up to the mall to the Build a Bear workshop store. When we got there we were standing in line with a screaming 2 year old in front of us. It was so piercing that we left and headed over to check out the Disney store.

Courtney loved the wall of Princess Dolls

After a good 15 minutes of browsing the Disney store we figured that girl wasnt screaming anymore so we headed back to the the Build a Bear workshop. It was like an assembly line. You pick your bear, get stuffed, get airwashed, then pick out clothes. What a money maker! The girls picked out their Bears (Sydney picked out a cat)

The video is the animals getting their stuffing...

After they get the stuffing they get a heart and rub it all over their bodies (Sams rubbing it on her muscles to give the bear it's strength)

then they make a wish and put it in the bear.

Sydney giving her cat a hug to make sure there is enough stuffing!

putting her heart in

Courtney hugging her bear...

and wishing hard...

the girls giving their bears (and cat) a good air brush wash!

putting the clothes on in the "dressing room"

Introducing Tianna, Terri and Cherry Cat

They haven't let them out of their site since they got them!

a fun time was had!

Sam Preschool sings

it's a long video and the sound is low but it's like you are there! sam was excited to sing. Auntie Kim and Jessie along Jim and Jill came and watched too. The twinks wanted to watch so church was a little hectic and I really have no clue what the sermon was...