HAPPY SUMMER!!

Here in Jane-and-Emma-land (since that's what we call it due to the fact that it is THEIR world and Hershey and I are just livin in it, or surviving barely), our summer schedule has actually been pretty tame.  Here's a peek at our day.

7:00-7:30 // Rise and Shine!  The most adorable thing EVER is when I get one girl up, she runs full speed into the other's room when I open the door and sticks her hand through the bars of the crib to say good morning!  It's so super sweet.

7:45 // Milk from a sippy.  The girls WILL NOT drink plain milk, so Jane has chocolate milk and Emma has strawberry.  The ped told me NOT to do that, but it's the only way they will drink any kind of milk, regular, almond, rice, or other...

8:00 // Breakfast with Mama (usually an omelette, waffle, pancakes, turkey bacon, chocolate chip muffin tops, Cheerios, fresh fruit, all of the above or some of the above, the rest of which goes to the animals out in our yard).

8:30 // Play time while Mama cleans up the kitchen and Jane and Emma help (and by "help" I mean open and close the dishwasher 273 times, grab for knives as Mama dives and swallows her heart, and walk around and around in circles, screaming and throwing every toy they own on the floor directly in Mama's path).

9:00 // Neighborhood walk!  We take a 2 mile loop down to a beautiful lake across the way and back.  We stop at the lake for a snack and some iced water, and then we start the STEEP climb back up all of the hills (6 total) to get home.

10:00 // KITCHEN SNACK TIME!  We share some cool melon, cherry pie, fresh banana bread, etc. on the floor of the kitchen, while sipping on some iced water and climbing all over Mama.  Then the girls run wild for about 2 minutes, wearing down their energy and getting ready for their nap.




10:30-12:30 // Nap time.  Now, I don't know how other mommies have MOMMY time during nap time.  When the girls go down for their nap, Hershey and I start scrambling to shower, water flowers, paint rooms, unpack a few remaining boxes, pay bills, and whatever other house work we have on the schedule for the day.  Shit's cray.

12:45 // LUNCH.  The girls have been eating everything that I put in front of them lately, which makes it easy to have lunchies every day.  They have turkey dogs (with the skins peeled off), pb&j, tuna samiches, leftover chicken from the night before, veggie burgers, chicken nuggets, fish sticks.  Basically whatever I pull out of the fridge.  I still try to really balance each meal, with a starch, a dairy, a veggie and a fruit.  Especially since they are not getting very much milk at allllll these days...

1:30-3:30 // Play time, errands with Mama and Daddy, and hopefully soon we will have some lake time!  The lake is literally less than a mile away, and we finally joined and are excited to bring a lunch and some swimmies and jump in that lake.  In the meantime, we have a swingset with these swings (which Grandma also bought for the shore house) and our friends gave the girls an amazing little slide/climbing wall that they love to climb all over, and we bought them a little blow up pool.  Our backyard is HUGE, so we have been having fun outfitting it for the girls to have some fun in the sun.







3:30-4:30 // Nap time again!  This is when I unwind finally.  I pick up the mess, and sit down with my husband, or start prepping dinner.  

4:30 //  Snack time and play time!  Snacks range these days from cheese sticks, to Puffs, to Animal Crackers, to applesauce squeezers, to yogurt squeezers, anything that they can grab and go, because they are ALWAYS on the go.








5:30 // CRANKY TIME!  As always, 5:30 is the girls' witching hour.  It also happens to be when we start cooking, so it's a war every night to either pay attention to the girls or make dinner, or both.  It's a balancing act, as Hershey is usually out by the grill and I am prepping in the kitchen, but they are so happy and so are we when we finally punt them into their high chairs and sit down to a family meal.

6:00 // Dinner YAYYYYY.  No matter what I plunk in front of Jane and Emma, they gobble it up.  They are eating everything that we eat now, so Hershey and I take turns cutting up food and shoveling food into our own pie holes. Then we have some fresh fruit or ice cream for dessert, and the girls march their little dirty heinies up the stairs to the bathroom for...

6:30 // BATH TIIIMEEE!!!!  The girls splash and play in the tub, try to stand up 8365 times and give me a heart attack by diving for a toy and going under water as I try to wash their hair.  They love bath time, but it has become a full contact sport for me.  They then run around naked for about 34 seconds, because naked time was cut off when Jane shit on the rug and played in it during naked time a couple of weeks ago.  Instead of naked time, we now have get-that-effing-diaper-on-your-butt-as-quickly-as-possible time.

After their bath, the girls play in their rooms, marching back and forth with their toys and their choopies as Hershey and I collapse onto the floor, and at 7:45 we read them a story and put them down to sleep.  And they have been sleeping, pretty much through the night, every night.

We then take about 45 minutes to clean up after Hurricane EJ, and then run into the man cave to watch Orange is the New Black (which we finished) or any other movie or show we can find.

That's just a taste of what our summer has been like so far.  We have also been totally breaking our schedule by going to parties, going DTS, having friends over, and shopping tirelessly for finishing touches for our home.  I feel like the summer is already FLYING by, but I can honestly say that I am enjoying every second of being a SAHM.  I wish I never had to go back to work!  




Hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather and lazy summer days!  Although I don't blog as much now, I am continuing to update everyone on Twitter, Instagram, and on our Facebook fan page, so please be sure to follow us there!  See you soon! 

xoxo

Holy shizolly, guys.  It's been ALMOST ONE WHOLE MONTH since my last blog post.  Some serious ish has gone down in that time.  Here's a quick run-down:

First and foremost, we FINALLY closed on our home!  YAAAYYYYY!  I am so excited that I could do front somersault round-offs.  It was a CRAZY time for us.  We were originally supposed to close on May 16, but due to some issues with work that we were having done on the house prior to closing, the closing was pushed back a trillion times.  We had scheduled the girls' baptism (finally) for June 7, thinking we would be in the house and be able to work on it, paint, etc., prior to moving in, but as Murphy's law goes, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.  We closed on June 3.  Yes, you read that correctly.

Here's how we were living up to that day.








On June 3 we signed a bunch of papers, threw everything alive into 3 cars, and drove up to our new home in a torrential downpour.  The girls were a mess from not napping all day, the cats pooped and puked all over their carriers, and my poor husband had to transport a 1,000 lb. BBQ grill in the bed of his father's truck in the pouring rain.  It was FUN.

Our first night in the new house was awesome.  The girls slept THROUGH THE NIGHT for the first time in EVER in their own rooms, and we slept for about 6 blissful hours before waking up and immediately getting to work.  There were 29380236 deliveries that next day, plus I had to head back to our old apartment to clean and get the remainder of our junk out.

Then our POD was delivered.  My husband had packed it from front to back, top to bottom.  WOAH guys.  Thank God for best friends/family, because my hubby, father, father-in-law, best friend, her hubby and her cousin unpacked this thing in 45 minutes flat.  We had meticulously labeled each and every box for what room we thought stuff belonged in, but we hadn't been inside of the house in 3 months.  So crap inevitably ended up where it didn't belong.  Don't look in the closets in the basement.  Just don't.

We spent the next 2 days trying to sort/unravel our lives before the party.  I was so happy/tired, and Jane and Emma seemed to LOVE their new home.  Our moms were exhausted from chasing them all week and helping us clean/unpack, and we were exhausted and beaten and bruised from the move, but we got it almost finished in time for the baptism!

On June 7, the girls were baptized.


We had a beautiful day, beautiful weather, and I cannot describe to you how awesome it was to have all of our friends and family, at least 50 deep, at our new home to celebrate our daughters.  We made some amazing first memories in our new home, from Jane peeing all over everything in sight during naked time, to my best friend's son getting his head stuck in one of our yard games, it was an incredible first week.






















Then, finals started at school.  We had made it through our first year as working parents.

The last 2 weeks have been a whirlwind, but in a good way.  Jane and Emma are RUNNING everywhere.  They are very independent little ladies.  Their front toofs are in, and they can point at things when you ask them where they are.  Emma's favorite thing to point to is Tyson.  Tyson is not amused.

The girls are also off of formula now, and so we have begun our daily fight to drink milk.  Jane will only drink it if it is warm or has chocolate in it (she guzzles chocolate milk like a frat boy).  Emma will only drink it warm and from a bottle, so she's only been getting one bottle a day.  After next week, we are taking the bottles awayyyy...

In the meantime, Jane and Emma are BIZ-Y...and keeping Mama and Daddy Busy with a capital B, as well.






















Jane and Emma have been sleeping every night through the night.  No more waking up in the middle of the night or waking each other up.  Everyone thought that they would be sad to be separated, but it seems to be quite the contrary.  They sleep soundly and wake up refreshed and go running into each other's rooms to say good morning.  They even have been sleeping a little bit later, and going to bed a little bit earlier, giving Hershey and I some much-needed Mama/Daddy time.  We are able to work on the house a bit, tackling a small project (or a large one) every night.

As of Monday, we will officially be off for summer.  You can expect many more blog posts, and lots of adventures.  Hopefully we can even share a few home improvement projects along the way, as well.

Hope you are all soaking up the last bits of spring as summer is at our doorstep.  We will be BBQ'ing our little hearts out this weekend!

See you soon!  xoxox