day 17: yesterday we headed to my grandma’s to celebrate my cousin Amanda’s 6th birthday party. She was very excited that we came, super thrilled with her gifts AND extremely pleased to be photographed. As you can clearly see 🙂

day 16: I’m still not feeling well (what a way to spend a weekend, eh?) luckily for me Ben took over all baby duties and let me take several long naps today. I really hope I’m feeling significantly better tomorrow. We’re supposed to go somewhere and I don’t want to miss it. I am also really sick of being sick and taking crummy pictures in the house.

day 15: it’s official, I have the world’s best husband. He not only came home a little early from work today so that he could feed the babies dinner (I am sick and WIPED out) but he also took care of getting our dinner AND when I said I really wanted sugar cookies for dessert, he made some. He’s the best. And looking sheepish in this picture either because he just ate about 5 of them (man, they’re good) OR because he just dropped one on the floor for Herbie. I’m not sure which.

day 14: today was a day of almosts… I almost baked something (but I didn’t). I almost cleaned the whole house (but I didn’t clean our room). I almost exercised (but I cleaned instead). I almost brought my camera with me when I went out (but I didn’t). So instead I’m taking a lame reflection in a mixing bowl self portrait. Because I really should be doing one self portrait a week on this blog… but I feel very blah today. Let’s hope I can get it a little bit more together for tomorrow.

day 13: this evening a very nice employee of Trader Joe’s saw Amelia and thought she might like a balloon. Boy was she ever right. Not only did Amelia like her balloon, she LOVED her balloon. She squealed with delight at her balloon. She played with it the entire time we were in the store, the entire ride home in the car (maybe the first time ever there was not a single peep of protest upon entering the car) and even took it with her into her high chair for dinner. Paul thought the balloons were pretty great too. He was just more low key about it 🙂

day 12: I have realized that trying to do a photo-a-day blog without it being a photo-of-the-kids-a-day blog is a really tricky thing to do when you are with them all day every day during the daylight hours. It sort of seems like my two options are either to take a picture of them or take a picture after they go to sleep. And once they go to sleep it’s dark so I end up just taking a picture of something inanimate in the house which is kind of lame. I suppose I could take a picture while I’m out with them as long as they were strapped in the stroller, but I generally already have enough things to wrangle when leaving the house with the kids. Adding my camera to the mix is literally adding the straw that broke the camel’s (or mommy’s) back. Even just the two kids together is close to 50 pounds so I definitely don’t need another 10 pounds of camera gear. But I digress. Today’s solution to that problem was to step onto our patio for a quick snap of the sunset. I can’t wait for the day we have an actual YARD to step into in the evenings.

day 11: My mom always talks about a shirt that my brother had as a baby that said “teething is the pits”. Well now I know why they make that shirt. I thought that teething was rough when the babies were getting their front teeth. But that was nothing compared to what is going on now with Paul getting his first molars. He has two coming in at once and he has been the saddest man on the planet. Take a look at this poor little guy’s face. Complete with a single tear. He was sad for almost the entire day, although he did perk up at a trip to Costco. I am really hoping that he starts feeling better once his teeth are all in.

day 10: this evening I attended another wedding, only this time I was going as a guest. One of my good friends from junior high got married today and my mom and sister came up to watch the kids while we went out. I didn’t want to bring a camera since I was “off duty” so I didn’t take a single picture (can you believe it?) Instead I took this crummy one when I got home. And now I’m going to bed.

day 9: today was my first wedding of 2010, and what a GORGEOUS wedding it was! A beautiful day out in Malibu and an unbelievably sincere and beautiful couple. It was absolutely perfect, I couldn’t ask for a better start to the year! One of my favorites –

day 8: so I didn’t get my day 7 photo put online yesterday. Well if there is one thing I learned by the end of my last successful 365 project it’s that you have to cut yourself a little slack. And if once in a while your picture doesn’t make it onto the blog on the very same day it was taken, that’s ok. I’ll still do my best to get them up in a timely manner, but it’s not always possible. So without further ado, here’s my photo from yesterday. Mr. Paul getting a kick out of his trucks. He loves absolutely ANYTHING with wheels.