Tristan's 2nd Birthday Party

We had a fun time celebrating Tristan's 2nd birthday with his little friends today. While the party was fun, I think Neil and I had more fun last night putting the "treat basket" together after T went to bed. Today we went to the mall play area because it was too cold to play outside. When will I learn that the end of April beginning of May in Colorado is TOTALLY unpredictable for weather. I thought the play area would not be too bad because the big kids would be in school... wrong! The local schools had the day off so it was a MAD HOUSE. Our kids held their own though, I was proud. Tristan had fun seeing his friends and they all brought him perfect gifts that he loves. Tomorrow we will spend the day as a family for his actual birthday and that sounds like a perfect day to me!

Maybe I'm NOT a sucker!

A really long time ago, I bought the My Baby Can Read series from someone on Craigslist. As soon as I got it home and showed it to Tristan I was sure I had been taken for a ride and I promptly labeled myself a sucker. The video is SO BORING it's almost painful to have on even in the background. I put it in the closet and thought about reselling it about 30 times. Well, last week I moved the box of DVDs out to the living room bookcase and popped in the starter DVD one more time after being encouraged from my mom to do so. To my surprise, Tristan liked it but only seems to half pay attention to it so I didn't know if he was getting anything out of it. Everyday since then he points to the box and says, "Baby, please." To be honest, if he wasn't asking for it I probably wouldn't have played it. I didn't think it would work, but I also knew it wouldn't hurt him.

Well, tonight I was putting T to bed and we were reading a story that had a page with a picture of a zoo on it. There were panda bears on one side and elephants on the other with a sign in between them pointing which way to go. I asked him where the elephants were and instead of pointing to the animal he pointed to the word elephant on the sign!!!! That is one of his My Baby Can Read words!!! I almost leapt out of the chair did a dance with him and ran out to tell Neil. Then I remembered that we were settling down to bed, but as soon as we were done I ran out to tell Neil. I am still in shock that it's working and I can't wait to see what else come from it!

Some Perspective

The first few months of this pregnancy were filled with surprises and worries. The surprises were great and the number of complications the doctors were looking for seemed to be endless. I went into information gathering mode reading everything I could about carrying two babies and what to do with them when they got here. Once the surprises and doctors calmed down, I was able to relax a little... for about a minute. Then came the never ending doctors bills and the long list of things that "needed" to happen before these babies arrived, but we had/have NO idea where the money for all of this will come from. I have spent a lot of time trying to find creative ways to gather baby items and scheduling doctors appointments and places for Tristan to spend time while we go look at yet another ultrasound. Today, however, was different. Today was the first day that I could not wait to meet my little boys. Finally I am thinking of them as just sweet little healthy babies. In the end it really doesn't matter if we can't get the bigger car (so we drive two vehicles when we go somewhere) or the bigger place (so we sell the dinning room table to make room for some swings), what really matters is that we have our family safe and sound and healthy. See you soon, boys!

Easter 2010

We had a lot of fun looking for eggs this morning. We had so much fun that we had to hide them about 5 times! Tristan was a natural and I think he will be ready for a big time egg hunt next year.