Rotating Tree

It took me a bit longer than usual, but I got my house completely decorated last week. I added a new addition to my tree this year. A rotating base! Yes, that's right. My tree rotates. I decided to make a video of it so you can all see it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I say Happy Thanksgiving, but we've already been to see Santa! I thought it be best to get that trip over with before Thanksgiving. I didn't know what to expect from the girls. I wasn't sure if they would respond well to him or not. They did ok. No huge smiles. More like a deer caught in the headlights kind of thing. But the pic turned out cute. I have to comment on St. Nick though. We went to the one at Northwoods, and he was not that friendly! He almost seemed irritated w/ us. I don't know, maybe I had too many expectations for their first Santa Claus visit. Those of you who know me well, know I LOVE Christmas and Santa and all that. So I have been so excited to see them sit on his lap. Now I am realistic an didn't expect them to be all in love w/ him, but I did expect him to be a bit nicer to the girls. He was just grouchy. And now it costs to see Santa?? We paid $20 to have the girls sit on his lap and get 8 pictures. I asked if we had to buy the pics, and she said it was recommended. Well what do you say to that??? So we bought them. I did take a couple of my own as well. OK, enough complaining!

The girls are changing all the time! Natalie was our wild child and has really seemed to calm down. She sits up really well, and that's all she seems to want to do.... sit. If she falls backwards while sitting, she just lays there and watches TV. That is so different than how she used to be. Delanie is all over the place. If you lay her on her back she immediately flips over and then scoots all over the place. She is sooo close to crawling. Our house is not ready for that! They are sleeping better these days. I usually get one full night of sleep, then the next night someone wakes up. At least they are giving me some sort of a break :)
OK, that's all for now. Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Day before Halloween

I tried to get these to show up in my previous blog, but they wouldn't work. These are their little outfits from the day before Halloween. The shirts are from Grandma Jody and the bows are from mommy :)

Halloween!

We celebrated our first Halloween on Friday. What fun! Well, more so for me than them :) They were good sports though. I took tons of good pics. I took some the day before as well in our little Halloween shirts. As you can see, Natalie is our ham.

Scott and I went to Chicago this weekend to celebrate our 3rd anniversary. We had a good time. We had no plans, so we basically just ate and slept :) Scott was sick the whole weekend, so he stayed at the hotel and watched football on Sunday and I shopped. Maybe he wasn't sick.. maybe that was his plan all along :) It was a nice getaway. However, we missed the girls a lot. We talked about them pretty much the whole time.. yes, we are THAT couple :) They were awfully sweet when we got home though. Natalie didn't know whether to cry or smile. Delanie just had her usual full face smile on. It was pretty cute.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

oh... the pics of the girls in the costumes should be a slide show. If it doesn't come across that way to those who get my email update, go to http://sdnx2.blogspot.com/.

Jumparoo!

Thought I'd send a couple of videos of the girls in their jumparoo. Natalie is a bit more into it than Delanie. Turn down the volume as my mom and I sound ridiculous :)

Oh and they are sitting up now. Delanie has a little trouble w/ balance, but she is doing good!

Natalie Update

A lot of people have been asking me how Natalie is, so I thought I'd give an update. She is pretty much back to her old self. She is very playful and hyper! Her head is healing nicely. Some of her hair is even growing back. After almost 2 weeks we think we have her back on a sleep schedule. After the Dr. said she was in no pain, we had to start letting her cry it out at night b/c she was getting up A LOT! She was never a good sleeper, but it just got worse after the surgery, which is understandable. But, I read that 6 months was a good time to let her cry it out and it should only take 3 to 4 days. HA!!!!!! Try 12... and we're not even sure it worked for any long period of time. I just know she slept a couple nights in a row. She did cry a bit, but she soothed herself back to sleep. We put her back in the room w/ Delanie, and they did really well last night. For the time being, I have them on a good nap schedule and bedtime schedule. I hear that can change though. I try not to think about that and just be happy for the moment that I am getting some good sleep!

Below are some pics of Nat at the hospital.

I guess deflated mylar (sp?) balloons could be a suffocation hazard. I left Delanie on her tummy in the living room and Natalie in the jumparoo to come in here and type this entry. I heard this odd noise but didn't think much of it. Then Tiger came running in the room barking, so I went to the living room to see what was up. Delanie had managed to turn herself completely around and bury her face in the balloon. I don't think she was scared, she thought it was funny. I picked her up and she had this huge smile on her face and got mad when I took the balloon away. Guess I'll have to remember not to leave deflated balloons lying around! :)

6 month pics

I took these pics the day before Nat's surgery. They are sorta their 6 month pics. Scott bought me this nice camera, and I did the best I could. I took about 600 pics (literally) and got a handful of good ones. So here they are!

Natalie is doing great. She looks as precious as always and is all smiles. I do believe the back of her head hurts her, but she doesn't complain much. Hopefully that will get to feeling better soon. She must be worn out today b/c she has been sleeping forever. I finally got Delanie to sleep so Nat should be waking up anytime now.. and I think I just heard her. I can't figure out how to get them to nap together :)

Anyway, things are going good here. Just wanted to update anyone that reads this that my little girl is doing great! Thanks to those who prayed for us.