day 64: on Wednesday night Ben and I got to go out to dinner thanks to the help of two fabulous ladies… my mom (who stayed at home with the sleeping babies, thanks mom) and Kate (who provided us with a gift certificate to the tastiest restaurant on the planet… real food daily). We had a fantastic meal complete with vegan nachos, faux salisbury steak (I swear it’s unbelievably tasty) some delicious beer, and finished off with a lemon poppy seed cake. I didn’t bring my camera but did have my picture phone. Sorry for the bad snapshot.

day 63: The peanuts have not been the best nappers in the last week (another reason I’ve been wiped out) Instead of fighting to get them back to sleep after their morning nap on Tuesday I decided to do a baby photo shoot instead. Amelia just tried to steal all of Paul’s toys. More on that subject (and more toy-hog photos) on the baby blog 🙂

day 62: Wow I can’t believe I’m almost a whole week behind on the blog… sorry!! This week has been a crazy doctor-full one and it’s been hard to catch a second to blog. Monday we were supposed to have a woman come out to evaluate the babies to see if they are on track developmentally. It’s apparently a free state sponsored thing for premature babies. Well I cleaned the house and got all ready and she never showed. Great. It’s rescheduled for next week. I was wiped out at the end of the day so only took this one picture..

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day 61: Before Kate & Jon left this afternoon we took a few super ridiculously quick pictures of them with the peanuts… this is just how they’ll look a few months from now with their own family. Except there will only be one baby. And it will be smaller… but you get the idea 🙂 Did I mention I’m ridiculously excited for the babies to have a cousin?!

day 60: For some reason I seem to have gotten in the habit of always posting a photo of the bride when I go shoot a wedding… oh well. I really like this one. It was quite a rockin’ fiesta which went late into the night (well late for me) so I was exhausted when I got home… but look how fab the bride looked!

day 59: On Friday Kate & Jon got in from Kansas City and we got to hang out with them all afternoon and evening once the babies went to bed. We had some tasty burritos and of course Kate being pregnant was a great excuse to get banana shakes as well…. mmmm. I drank quite a few of those in my pregnant days! Check out the belly… sooo cute! I can’t wait to meet the new baby cousin for the peanuts!

day 58: Sorry this week is a little heavy on the baby pictures. Day 1 of Amelia crib nap transition turned into day 1 of really bad night sleeping for the babies so I was pretty wiped out on Thursday and didn’t actually leave the house all day (first time in a long time actually). PJ didn’t mind 🙂

day 57: Wednesday was day 1 of Amelia’s crib nap transition. She used to nap in her swing but is getting a little big and old for that so we started making her nap in her crib. She woke up early and wouldn’t go back to sleep so she got to play with grandma instead. Lucky lady 🙂

day 56: The babies LOVE their chicken rattle (the one featured in the chicken chuckin’ Mo shot) but unfortunately they also like to throw it. Paul actually threw one half of one of them overboard while riding in the stroller and I didn’t notice. So now it’s gone. Today I took them to Ikea in the afternoon (secretly the best place EVER to buy baby things) and got some more rattles. The same as the chicken rattle… two pieces…. but not chickens. Meet the new rattles.