Outing with Grandma today

Today, the girls and I are going on an outing to the Mall with Grandma I. We are hoping to steal little Zoey too. We took some pictures of the girls playing in their play pen last night instead of sleeping. We seem to have worked out a night schedule. Mommy goes to bed early and daddy is with the girls, then at around 1 am mom takes over and daddy sleeps. We do help each other with feedings on the other's shift. The girls eat at the same time and it is just easier when there is two people to have each feed one. The girls went to their first football game last night. Cousin Parker had a playoff game to see if they could make it to the finals. Unfortunately, they lost. However, throughout the whole season the team they played only had one other team score on them. Well, Parker's team, the Cougars, did get a touchdown last night against the really good team. I say that is something to celebrate. Way to go Parks!!! He will play one more game on Saturday to see if they place 3rd. Good Luck! Tomorrow, is Grandma I's birthday, so the girls will be going to the party. We hope Grandma likes her present. More photos today.

Daddy is the bomb

Mommy got some sleep last night because daddy took the first half of the night with the girls. We agreed mommy would do the second shift. The bonus was the girls slept throughout mommy's shift only waking once to be fed. Mommy feels so much better today. It is great because at 10 my Tastefully Simple head consultant is coming over to start my training. I am excited yet nervous. I need to do 3 parties in the first month to make the ultimate goal. I don't know if I will be able to do that. I am thankful my sister Joyce is willing to have a party for me, that's one down. I am hopeful everything will work out. The girls are getting so big, they are getting too long for newborn clothes so we are moving to some 0-3. They have started losing some of their hair. We started letting them, when they are wake, lay on their stomach. They both will lift their heads and look around. Last night, we went to grandma and grandpa Irish's house for yummy dinner of pork chops, sauerkraut, potatoes and squash(mommy's fav). Baylee was very alert and sat in Auntie and Uncles arms and watch all the commotion. Like Auntie Julie said to Baylee last night, our family is loud and the girls will definitely get used to it. The family may be loud but we have lots of fun together. Oh, no, my time is up the girls are AWAKE and very hungry.

It's Uncle Todd's Birthday

Happy Birthday, Uncle Todd!!! Well, nothing new in our household, besides sleepless nights. We are trying to get the girls to drink more so they won't get up every hour at night to drink an ounce and 1/2. We switched nipples again, so they have a faster flow. We noticed they will drink more because they don't get pooped out. We hope eventually they will take 3 ounces every 3-4 hours. They are liking their baths a lot more. As long as they are warm, they are ok. It is definitely fun being a mom, but challenging. The girls pretty much eat at the same time, which can lead to some screaming fits when mom has to burp the other one. I have been laying them in their cribs during the day and they seem to like them. They are getting too long to lay the short way across the bassinet of the pack and play. They will soon have to graduate to their own cribs in their room. I think it will be harder on mom than the kids to move them into their room but maybe they will sleep better in there. Minnie and Daisy bark sometimes at night which wakes the girls sometimes, so if they are a room away they shouldn't hear it as well. Auntie Alexis visited yesterday, she says she needed a baby fix. Mom just hands her a baby and puts her to work feeding and comforting. This week we are laying low and hanging out at home. Saturday we will be going to Grandma's birthday party. Of course, no cake for the girls. :) No new pics but I am sure we will be having some real soon. Note: Anyone who would like to have a Tastefully Simple party in the next month please email me. I have to do three in the first 30 days. I don't know if I will be able to make that goal but I will try.

A new career for Mommy

Well, I have decided to try and be a Tastefully Simple Consultant. I need to supplement income by having a job but putting twins in daycare is expensive and not worth it unless you make that and more in your paycheck. So I decided to try something I can do on my schedule where Daddy will be at home to watch the twins. My kit will come this week and then I will train for the weekend then I will be jumping right in. I am hoping I will be able to get a few friends and family to have some parties just to get me started. I will also be having a website where people can buy products from me without having to have a party of their own. I also will be working at Children's Place at the MOA one night a week and every Sunday for 4 hours. Tony will be watching the girls. I am hoping this will help the budget crunch as well as my need to be doing something. I have worked all my adult life and need to have that to feel like I am contributing to our lives. I don't think it is fair to just have Daddy working two jobs. He will continue at Best Buy but he only works there one day a week, so it is not as stressful. I can't wait to get everything set up this weekend for my new business. I will post the link to my website when it is up and running. I will also be editing photos for Grace Park Photography. In 2009, I will also add every Wednesday to my schedule watching a couple of kids to help out at Grace Park. I am excited and thankful for the opportunity to be able to have jobs that I can either bring the girls with or daddy can watch them. I have been worried about working since I was hospitalized in May. As God worked for us with the girls, maybe now life will come together and go back to some kind of normalcy. I never thought it would be possible to recover from this but slowly it is coming back and it feels good. I just hope I am good at selling the awesome products available through Tastefully Simple.

I just knew they were up to something...

Latest intel from Project Insomnia confirms an alliance between Agent A and Agent B of The Nguyen Twins. Surveillance caught this at 2200 hours last night as the parental units were preparing for evac to the sleeping quarters.

And here Mommy and Daddy though you two were just so cute and innocent...LOL

Auntie Joyce's Open House

On Saturday, the girls and I went to Grace Park Photography's Open House. It was a lot of fun and the girls of course had a lot of women to hold them. Two of them tried to take one of them home. Amelia had been renamed by one of the women who only has boys and wanted a girl and thought Amelia would fit right into her home. Mom didn't agree of course. Joyce's photography studio celebrated her 4th year in the business. She is currently selling purses and jewelry with pictures in them, they are gorgeous. I had to give Tony a list of things I liked, hint hint, Christmas is coming honey!!! Joyce had several other vendors there, like pampered chef, tastefully simple, and partylite. We took some pictures of the girls after the party hanging out with the family.

I also promised some pictures from our shower. I have a few but I forgot to get the camera out after the first part of the party. I only have a few. If anyone has any pics, I would appreciate them. The first pic is Baylee with her Great Aunt Joann (mommy's godmother). Amelia is with her second cousin Sharon in the second pic. The bear cakes in the third pic were lovingly made by Auntie Julie, they turned out great, the whole party was beautiful. The last pic is what my living room looked like after showing daddy all the great presents, happy to report we have finally put everything away.


Sunday, mommy and daddy tried catching up with housework. We managed a few loads of laundry between feedings and changings. Mommy was actually able to cook a nice meal for daddy. The girls slept the evening away and then mom and dad tried to go to bed. The girls decided then it was time to be awake. We take moments to capture some pics at home. The girls have been now using the swing, generously loaned to us by Auntie Julie and Uncle Craig (Davis too!!!) They have also been liking the play mat we received from my cousin Julie and her family. They also like to have their glow seahorses in the bed or on the floor to stare at as it lights up. We have been trying to read to the girls every night. We have read all of the Brown Brown Bear series, Auntie Jeni gave us, several times. Daddy and Mommy are competing to see who has them memorized. The first three pics are the girls hanging out at home. The pink and purple outfits were given to the girls by Auntie Julie, Uncle Craig and Cousin Davis when the girls were born, "Look Auntie Julie they fit now." The girls have grown so much that now their newborn clothes are starting to fit. Daddy is a little tired, Amelia is giving him a run for his money in the next pic. The girls love to be next to each other, they both tend to roll towards the other so they can get as close as possible, but then one of them will hit the other or kick and then the peace is over, Is this a small preview of what is to come??? Minnie and Daisy take over the blankets Grandma I. made for the girls



The girls met their Auntie Alexis (Phoung-Nhu) this week. She was so happy to meet them, but was very nervous when Mommy just handed her a baby. Mommy didn't know Auntie Alexis had never held a newborn baby before. Auntie Alexis was very nervous but did a good job holding them. Daddy didn't help the situation he kept making remarks about the way she was holding them just to see her freak out. Daddy thought he was funny, Auntie Alexis did not. We snapped a few shots of them. I think the girls resemble Alexis.


Other photos this week. Minnie and Daisy got haircuts, the girl's first visit to the MOA and hanging out before bed.

A busy week for us

The girls have had a big week. Sunday was the baby shower for us. They were able to meet a lot of family and friends. My sisters out did themselves. The shower was truly beautiful. The girls were very good about being fought over and passed from person to person, they slept through it. We are still trying to put away all the nice gifts we received. I thought I had a lot of room in our new home but when you have twins there is a lot of stuff and their room is jam packed full now. It was very nice people were so generous to the girls. Tony loved the diaper gifts, since we went through 24 diapers in a 24 hour period the other day. A simple task of writing thank you notes is a challenge now. I think the girls conspire against me when I want to do a task like that. One will be angry and I will calm them down, then sit down to write some notes and then it's like they tagged each other and the other one starts crying. Oh, the joys of motherhood with twins, I wouldn't change a thing. They truly are the loves of our lives. They have grown a lot this week, they are pushing almost 7 pounds. Baylee is catching up with Amelia. Their personalities are showing up too. The girls are smiling and laughing, yes laughing, in their sleep. Grandpa Irish was holding Amelia the other day and she was sound asleep when she started chuckling. Grandpa Irish thought that was hilarious and turned to me and said "She's laughing at me". It is really cool to see the grandparents love on them. Grandma Irish won't put them down, Auntie Julie tells her to all the time. But grandma likes to cuddle them. I am ok with that, because at home they hang out in their boppy seats, the floor or their play pen. They are feeding at the same time if not just 15 minutes apart when it is just mom. They are good babies. Nighttime is getting better, they will just wake up to eat every two hours but are going right back to their pack and play to sleep. Mom and Dad are switching shifts so we are getting a little more sleep. It is hard for mom because she automatically wakes up when one of them cry and it is her turn to stay asleep. Dad is coping with the staying up the best he can, but mom loves to watch him truly wake up, one night he picked up his pillow like it was a baby instead of the crying baby across the room. Mom couldn't stop laughing as she feed the screaming baby, Dad didn't think it was that funny (truly it was!!!). The girls had their first visit to the Mall of America this week. Mom had an interview at Children's Place for a part time job. The woman will be calling with the date of her first day of work this week. I was hoping I could wait longer before having to work, but bills are calling a little too much. Diapers, Diapers, Diapers!!!! I took pictures of the girls this week and will post them when I find the cord to the camera so I can download them to the computer. Things seem to disappear at our house now. Our laundry is going to start creeping out the windows. Priorities are different when they compete with two screaming babies. I truly love being a mom and now that we are all healthy it is less stressful. We are at grandma Irish's today making cookies for Auntie Joyce's open house tomorrow and waiting to go pick up the dogs at the groomer's. The dogs were in desperate need of a haircut. We probably won't even recognize them when we pick them up. I will post the pics tomorrow hopefully. Back to reality, there is a baby screaming to eat!!!