Can’t stop comparing

(Sing as if to Journey song.)

Took this picture of Oliver in the shower last night and couldn’t help but compare it to this picture of him in the bath three years ago. Awww!

Other stuff

The library across the street (diagonally) from our house re-opened! Finally! It’s been closed for years, and we’d lost hope that it’d ever reopen, but hooray, it actually is open! So exciting. It’s pretty tiny, but there are enough books for the boys to “read” and I can always get them sent to this library. Now, I never have an excuse for a fine again. (Actually, I never did, considering the drop box has always been right across the street (diagonally.)

Returning books

Perusing the shelves

Looking for our house out the window (it’s next door to the one you can see there.)

Also, we have a pumpkin plant growing in our backyard. That would be from one of the ones we got back in October. I wonder if anything will come of it?

Legos are all the rage in our house right now. Aunt Jenny got the boys some building sets from the Lego store, and Mommy has spent the evenings putting things together and back together. It’s okay, it’s fun.

(I love this new love of Legos. I’ve already started planning their 6th birthday party. Guess what the theme will be?)

Surprise!

Obviously I didn’t mentioned it here, but I went to Virginia this past weekend to surprise Kiki. It was awesome. And do you know how hard it is NOT to give it away? No posting on Facebook, making sure no one else posts about it on Facebook, making sure I didn’t say anything suspicious in our daily phone calls. But I did it!

I arrived Thursday night. My sister and niece picked me up from the airport, and I stayed at their house that night. The next morning, I hung out with Emily and Andrew before they went to daycare, and then Jenny and I went for a run. It was nice and cool, but those dang Virginia ~~mountains~~ hills. DThat was rough.

Met some friends for lunch that day, and then Jenny and I did a little shopping. I got a dress at the Gap (in a size smaller than expected, which is always nice) and some Legos for the boys. And then Jenny dropped me off at my friend Anne’s house. She was in on the secret (having gifted me some of her frequent flier miles for my ticket) and the plan was for Kristina to go to Anne’s and I was going to casually walk out of the basement and surprise her. I didn’t want to give her a heart attack, after all. (Jenny’s idea was for me to hide in the shower, but seriously?)

So that’s basically what I did. And she just stared at me. She didn’t scream, she just was stunned. It was perfect. 🙂 And then we drank lots of wine and ate fancy cheese and went to dinner at a French bistro where we drank more wine and ate rich, delicious food. My friend Chris met us out, which was nice. I hardly ever get to see him.

Surprise Kiki trip! — Yay! After she got over being stunned.

Saturday was mostly spent recovering from Friday night. We went and saw “This is the End”, which was hilarious. We went to IKEA! We chilled out and ate a yummy dinner that night at Kristina’s house. Sunday, we went swimming at her neighborhood pool, had lunch at my sister’s, and then it was home yesterday afternoon. A nice, chill weekend with friends and family. Can’t ask for much more! (Bonus: My nephew, who is 2.5, loved me! He wasn’t a huge fan at Christmas, so I was delighted that he didn’t run screaming from me this time.)

Just keep swimming…

I bought a new point-and-shoot the other day. I’ve been wanting one, and when I saw one on sale at Sam’s, that was waterproof, no less, I was sold. I’ve been wanting to take better pictures of the boys at the pool, but not enough to risk my two most beloved devices, my iPhone or my Canon 7D.

It’s so fun! Look at the pictures I got!

So fun!

PS: This is the camera I got.
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Too cute

The other night, I was watching Oliver sleep (not in a creepy “Love You Forever” way, just a “checking in before I went to sleep” way) and was struck by how much he reminded me of his newborn self. So I took a blurry picture, and sure enough…same kid, for sure.

Not to be confused with the other comparison shot we have of Oliver from his younger days…

So much fun stuff to share

Untitled — Balloon swords on the 3rd of July!

Put the rails up on the bunk beds, finally. Whew.

And, that should cover the last few days. Whew.

67 months old

67 months old, a photo by pyjammy on Flickr.

Since they share a monthly birthday with the country (yesterday, they kept saying “today is our country’s birthday!”) I had to keep with the country’s color scheme. I am now wondering if I’ve been this diligent for the past five years. Hmm.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Sorta.

Wow, that’s pretty pathetic.

Rain, rain, stay away!

Ugh. Doesn’t the rain know it’s almost the Fourth of July?

Doesn’t it know that Tee and I are getting our hair did after work today and then taking the boys to City Park for a picnic and fireworks?

Doesn’t it know that there’s a BBQ tomorrow and I was planning to take the boys swimming? Curses!

As you can see, it also didn’t care that we didn’t bring our umbrellas into the store.

Oh, check out my latest post over at the New Orleans Moms Blog. The top 13 things heard as a parent of multiples. It’s pretty amusing, if I may say so myself. I crack myself up.

Perfect summer weekend

This weekend was full of those moments that filled me with happiness. Gotta take them where you can. We went swimming, had a birthday party, and I even got to go see a movie by myself.

Maybe my favorite picture in a long, long time. I mean, collage of pictures. Genuine smiles! They were waiting on beignets at the birthday party.

Yum! And beignets were a new food for them, so yay for trying new things, even if it was a deep fried square of dough dusted in powdered sugar. I may have disowned them if they hadn’t tried them.

Speaking of new foods, for breakfast Saturday, I made oatbran muffins in a donut mold, and they were gobbled up. Woo hoo!

And various swimming pics…

And a short (13 second) video of what they did for an hour Sunday evening…

Grease is the word

Did you check out my post on the New Orleans Moms Blog yet?

So, the boys had their camp play this morning. Good God, it was adorable. Last summer, the camp plays were more “musical revues” where each class got up and sang a song that went with the theme of the play. It was cute, to be sure, but this took it to another level. Grease, the musical. Who doesn’t love it?

The camp has kids from preschool through (going into) ninth grade, so the older kids took on the main parts, and the younger kids sang in groups. The whole thing was just really fun to watch.

Some pictures of the play…

Sandy (the girl in yellow)