Pictures of the week: Sept. 17

These pictures in no way represent our week. Quiet and calm are not words I would use to describe the girls lately. But seeing these pictures allows me to take a deep breath and move on with the shrieking, non-napping babies.

Just in Time

So, the other day my Mom asked me if I thought we should lower the mattress in Claire's crib. She had noticed that Claire was starting to grab the bars and trying to pull herself up.

Nah, I said. I don't think she's quite there yet. We've got some time.

But a couple of days went by and I noticed she was pulling more and more.

Better safe than sorry, I thought.

So, we lowered the mattress this weekend.

And the very next day ...

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And the winner is ... Sue!



Claire: Just one more toy and I will have the entire toy box as MINE ALL MINE!!!! First the toy box, then the world!!!!
Grace: Geez, What is with her?

You know you're having a Monday if ...

1. You wake up seven times overnight to both of your babies hollering out.

2. Your baby is screaming like a banshee because she hasn't had a proper poop in three days.

3. Your baby vomits and poops on your sheets. Within a matter of minutes.

4. Oh yeah, and all over you. Just the vomit. Not the poop.

6. You can't wipe up the vomit running down your leg because of the screaming, vomiting, pooping baby.

7. Your other baby refuses to eat. She'd rather scream, too.

8. She's growing a tooth, you know.

9. Your babies refuse to sleep at the same time, leaving you with a baby on your hip for most of the day.

10. It's 9 p.m. and you realize you never changed out of the shorts with vomit on them.

Please, please, have mercy on my Tuesday.

Guess Who

Someone got a new tooth this weekend.

I'll give you one guess as to who it was.

Claire ...


Or Grace ...


If you guessed Claire ... sorry, you've guessed incorrectly. Don't worry, that frown could fool anyone.

If you guessed Grace ... congratulations! You don't win anything, but at least you weren't duped by the frown.

That's about how the whole weekend went for Grace. Smiling, giggling, playing.







If it weren't for the fact that I feel her gums daily, I wouldn't have even known she had a tooth pop up.

And that's quite the feat for someone formerly known as The Screamer.


Editor's Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit I may have spoke too soon. More on this story as it develops.

Pictures of the week: Sept. 10

This face has everyone cracking up lately. She probably does it at least 500 times a day. And as soon as you frown back to her, she grins from ear to ear.




Also, Grace is ready for her audition for the remake of Gilligan's Island.

The Only Child

She steals her toys.

She pushes her.

She kicks her.

She is obsessed with her ears. (Strange, I know.)



Claire is a bully. She doesn't always mean to be, but she's a bully.



Sometimes she's just flinging her toys and they happen to hit Grace. Sometimes she's just kicking randomly and her feet just happen to land on Grace. And sometimes she's just pinching the air and happens to grab a hand full of Grace's cheek.

Needless to say, Grace is a little put off by all of this. She screams, hollers, cries, yelps until we move Claire.

It's so bad that sometimes just the sight of Claire "crawling" toward Grace makes her scream.

I know that things will even out eventually. Grace will learn to crawl and be able to flee her approaching sister. Or she'll build those arm muscles enough that she can pop her back. Or Claire will stop picking on her.

Ok, that might be a stretch.

Either way I know it will work out. But for now, I still wonder if Grace wouldn't mind being an only child.