A little here and a little there

E and I have such an awesome relationship.  I cant tell you how many times at least once a month or so we end up in a flour fight.  Hehe our neighbor had to ask E if he had been painting.  I got him good!  And of course sometimes a little splash of water in the face, sometimes he gets me back and sometimes he just loves me enough not to soak me back hehe.  Sometimes you need those less serious moments!

E having fun on Ryu's Bday gift from us (ezy rider)





In one of the book series I just finished up the girl basically was going through somethings that made me think to myself to try to live more by.  We all have things and places we want to go in life, but we need to remember not to take anyone down or walk over them to get there.  It just doesnt feel as good when you finally get to where you wanna be.  Not that I walk over people to get where I want to be, but I want to be more considerate of others.

During dinner time, I had Ryu, Hailey, Clara chowing down, while I feed my Gemma baby.  While I was feeding Gemma I kept hearing this giggle, singing sound.  Usually when Clara has woken up for the day or from a nap she does this.  I had asked E to get Clara set up for dinner while I was feeding Gemma, and I thought man I could have sworn he got her in the high chair.  I look around and there she is.  Then I think man either the kids have the tv on or E is watching something that creepily sounds like Clara.  Then it dawned on me.  It was my Skyler!  She was just entertaining herself until it was her turn for dinner!  

So since getting netflix back in our house, the hubs and I started watching CSI N.Y.  Lets face it people this one is way better then the other CSI shows.  Anyways every time the theme song comes on Clara comes running out and gives this wild girl scream and dances.  Sometimes E falls asleep to watching it and randomly wakes up and starts watching it again.  Last night he said it was about 2am and he starts watching it again and he hears Clara give her little scream and bounces in her bed.  This girl has such a personality,  I cant wait to hear the things she will tell me.

Hailey and I lately have been having these contests.  When its time to feed the twins she wants to do it.  She has helped me get the girls to learn to hold the bottles.  We have a contest to see which girl finishes and burps first.  She ALWAYS wins and it doesnt matter which twin she has!  Ok lets face it, I usually give them a fresh diaper before bottle so she starts feeding a little before me, but she loves beating me!

I also have to mention how proud E and I both are with Ryu.  It is in my opinion that FL has a higher standard in grade levels.  Ryu was at level in all subjects but reading.  From the start of the year his teacher has stated he is below level, but he is progessing so well and not to worry he'd be where he needs to be and just keep up with what we are doing at home.  But as time continued we would get told the same thing.  Eventually school was let out for Christmas and his teacher retired.  He didnt get a permanent teacher until 3 months later.  During which I was mega worried.  My kid is suffering from no having a permanent teacher and I worried that the subs werent going to do enough to help with his reading.  I know there is only so much a teacher can teach, but there is only so much that a parent can do from home too.  Anyways long story short...he got a new permanent teacher and he is AMAZING.  He cares about his students and will go out of the way for them to help them in the area's he needs.  He told E today that he pushed Ryu very hard yesterday in reading and he is exactly where he is suppose to be.  I didnt feel like I did anything different every night at home.  I honestly feel like his teacher gets the credit for pulling my boy to where he needs to be.

Back to my twins,  so lately they have really gotten to know there feets.  A lot of the times during the day I find them both playing with there feet.  Its the little things they do that  I have those proud moments of the new things they discover.  We are also trying out the latest breakfast of blueberry oatmeal, and peach cinnamon oatmeal.  I love getting batches prepared for the girls, it can be rather fun.  I mean since I love cooking and all, and not that it takes to much to make for them. Plus last week during spring break, it didnt dawn on me until the end of it, but I usually give them a solid and a hour or so later give the a bottle.  But man after eating there solid they were begging for more food!  Now we are eating 5oz each feeding.  I am gonna give it another week or so before we start trying those cereal puffs and a little juice!

Spring Break

I have to say this was probably the best spring break any of us have ever had!

My sister drove in during spring break and we got to spend everyday together.  We got to do things I have never done here in Florida too.

The first day that she drove in, we ate dinner and walked down to the park by our house and walking around the lake.  Then she drove to her resort and unloaded her bunch for the night.

Tuesday, was beach day!  We drove to the Clearwater Beach.  Boy was it gorgeous and the dive there was beautiful too.  We spend all day fun in the sun.  We had our sand toys and picnic, blanket and umbrella all set up for the day.  After we had spend hours there we loaded back up and made a pit stop for some ice cream and came back to our house, let the kiddos play for awhile and the Sanchez crew loaded up to go back to there resort.

Wednesday, was the day for Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.  Now this zoo was pretty neat.  They had a splash area to cool off, a few rides and a lot of animals!  I think my top two exhibits were the monkeys that had a couple babies, and the bird feeding one.  Now I didnt go inside since I had the twins in the stroller and no strollers allowed but I got to watch.  Ryu soo brave he loved feeding them.  My sister however *giggle* not so much brave!  We also brought stuff to make sandwiches, outside of the zoo is a picnic area.  So we went to the picnic area ate and feed the twins before going back in for round 2.  We stayed the entire time until closing!  After that we came back to our house and unloaded the husbands and kids and Stacey and I went to the store to make  My MIL Famous tortilla soup.  We made dinner and my sister and her two big kids stayed the night.  After eating Richard and Beckett said there good byes and went back to the resort.  After picking up the kitchen Stacey and I sat down for a famous game of cards!

Thursday,  We all slowly got ready and by the time we were all done getting ready for the day Richard, Beckett, and Richard's mom got to the house.  We all loaded up and went to Chucky Cheese.  We had lots of fun couple hours.  This place was huge!  After that we parted ways with the Sanchez crew.  They went into Clearwater to meet the famous Dolphin named Winter.  We stayed back and did a few picking up around the house getting ready for Ryu's birthday party.  After the Sanchez crew came back from seeing Winter, they picked up my lil man to stay the night!

Friday, we decided it was time for us to have a house phone.  One day my Ryu asked me to write down my cell number so he can give it to his friends to call him.  I really didnt wanna bunch of chipmunks calling my phone all the time..lol So the cable guy came and gave us an upgraded internet and a DVR box and installed us a house phone (who knows why we didnt do this sooner being only 40 cents more a month)  After which we decided we were gonna take my 4 girls to the Aquarium here in Tampa.  And since GiGi had never been we wanted her to join us too.  Which in turn came poppy and uncle Neil too.  (insert)  On this day the Sanchez crew and Ryu went to DISNEY WORLD!  Now we originally made plans to go but one thing lead to another and we werent gonna go.  But a certain Aunt thought it was imperative that Ryu get to go.  Being his birthday and all.  It was an awesome aquarium lots of cool huge splash areas.  I can see ppl just going there just for the splash areas.  My favor part of the aquarium was the seahorse section.  Such cool and different kinds of Sea Horses!


Saturday,  Ryu's Birthday party!  Now I already wrote a whole blog on the party.  But it was also the day my sister left to travel back home.  I felt like she lived here.  Like I got to see her everyday like I use to when we lived in the same town.  But back to reality and hopefully days will pass when I get to see the Sanchez crew again.  I realized not to long after they left how I wanted to call them back bc there is one thing I regret not doing.  We never got to have a picture of the two of us!!!

My Ryu

So my sweet boy turned 7.  I am so blessed to have had him in my life for as long as I have.  Having him has given me the privileges of learning and experiencing many firsts.  I know it may seem like I favor him, but I tend to not know what to expect and hover protectively around him.  One thing I know I need to start doing is letting go and let him learn without me and I did just that this last week on a few things!  

Now my sweet boy, he is so loving.  He tends to go to our younger girls and talks to them a lot and does everything he can to make them smile.  When we are all sitting down to watch tv you will find that my Clara girl chooses him to sit on.  He is a pleaser.  He wants to please you desperately and he feels completely let down when he cant.  But he is still learning to be concerate of others.  In which I mean he tends to run and not pay attention to who is around.  For example, we were at the beach and he was running around crazy and people tend to lay out or camp out and with my lil man running it kicked up sand.

I can say it was a fantastic birthday for him.  We had a lot of family and friends over to celebrate his birthday.  Now it may not seem to have the same effect on Ryu as it does me.  But I felt completely loved having everyone that was there wanting to celebrate my son's birthday.  He got some amazing gifts and  I can say that he doesnt really favor one more then the other. 

They played boccu ball and hit the pinata, just about everyone got a turn on the ezy rider we got him and we had fun doing silly string on everyone, and one of his presents was walkie talkies and the kids loved that (they made up a game of spy for awhile) and we ate hamburgers and hot dogs.  Later on they played on the RC cars that the kiddos got.  We got the horse shoe game but we never got to setting it up and playing with it.  It all in all went by fast and you know when that happens time flies!

Picture courtesy of my sister!  (plus my awesome MIL capture a bunch from the party on her fb)

6 months

I love how time can just fly by you.  Well sometimes.  I really do not look forward to my kids growing up and move out.  I keep telling them to stop growing and having birthdays.  They always laugh at me when I tell them that. 

My twins are 6 months old.  I cant believe it.  I am super beyond blessed we have made it this far with them!

I have really gotten to notice things with the girls lately.  

Gemma, my Gemma baby.  Baby B.  My breach baby. ( well she was that way first 90%) of the time.  Today I noticed her first tooth has decided to grace us.  She is a mover.  A snuggler. I have always put the girls at the opposite sides of the crib to give them room to wiggle if they happen to do so.  Well Gemma always ends up right next to Skyler.  Once day I had them on the bed with me while I was reading and they both passed out and Gemma moved herself until she was right next to me.  It when then that I realized she does this too to Skyler.  She is my cuddle monkey.  She also is getting herself in all sorts of corners.  She has got then tuck tummy move going on.  Tucking her legs to her belly.  And then pushes herself all over the bedroom.  Gemma is also the most ticklish.  

Now for baby A my Skyler.  She is my smilie button.  She will smile at anything and everything. She is not so ticklish.  She is also drooling a little more tonight so I cant imagine that it will take to long before she pops a tooth.  She is just starting to do the tuck tummy.  But she is no pro yet.  She does how ever picks up lots of toys and holds on to them and chews on them.  She will pick up the tiniest things.  I told my sister I enjoy feeding her baby food the best.  She eats super fast.  I finally understood thats because she has a bigger mouth so her bites are bigger and less messier.  No she is no snuggle bunny but she is a singing baby.  She talks and talks and squeals all of the time!!

So the girls are on much different levels then each other, which I love seeing so many different milestones reached and being that they are completely different, different personalities for sure.  

Oh and my Sky she happens to love to grab a hold of Gemma often.  She will grab her lips and ears all of the time.  Oo does it make Gemma mad.  Plus she is a kicker.  My poor Gemma is often kicked in the head or tummy.  But she has started grabbing on to Skylers legs when she kicks her!

Clara the other day, I had my hands full!  I had just finished feeding Gemma baby food and laid her on the floor to play and was in the middle of feeding Skyler when I hear Gemma getting mad and crying.  I get up to check on her and see Clara had attempted to pick Gemma up and gave up and started to drag her by the arm into the hallway.  I assume she just wanted her to come play in her room!