day 45: Friday Ben took a half day and we finished packing up and headed out of town for the weekend. Even in the baby packing madness I managed to take a few more photos of my sample albums for the blog.

day 44: Sorry for the slow-down. I didn’t realize it’d been so long since I posted. I have been keeping up with the photo taking but behind on the blogging. I was in San Diego for the weekend for Erin’s wedding and I guess I forgot to post 🙂 Thursday night was super stress packing night trying to make sure I didn’t forget anything… we also had some deeee-lish pizza since our house is totally without food in the pantry these days. Note to self: go to grocery store!

day 42: After such a ridiculously long time of not posting I was pretty sure that no one was reading this blog anymore and I was just kind of writing it for myself. One post of Ben carrying a Starbucks cup and pushing a stroller and all the sudden I have comments 🙂 I should post those pictures more often. This one isn’t very interesting. Except for the fact that seeing it made me realize why the babies don’t smile for my camera. It covers my entire face. They probably think their mom was eaten by a big black monster. Hmn. I need to work on a solution for that problem.

day 41 : Yesterday was Ben’s birthday, but it wasn’t very much fun. Paul is still sick and at his morning doctor’s appointment she decided he needed a bunch of tests done so we spent the whole afternoon shuttling him to different lab/doctor places. When it was time to put them to bed Paul didn’t want to sleep. When we finally did get them down I was sitting and staring at the monitor and realizing that I have a love/hate relationship with it. I like that I can leave the room and bring it and know that the babies are safe and I will be able to help them if they are hurt or scared. But I hate that we can’t even have a birthday dinner without the constant wooshing sound of their white noise machine filtering through the speaker. We never really get to stop and sit back and enjoy the evening because the monitor is that constant nagging reminder in the background… the babies might wake up. I will be very happy when they are old enough that we don’t need it anymore.

day 39: Monday is Ben’s birthday and we were invited to a potluck (unrelated to the birthday) today so I decided that as our contribution to the meal I’d bake a cake. It’s been a VERY long time since I baked a cake and it was fun to revisit my old hobby. It was even more delicious than I remember although I’m glad it was… because it took me pretty much the entire day to make it 🙂 The poorly piped lemon on top is to show that it was a lemon cake. Mmmm lemon buttercream 🙂

day 38: These were too cute to pass up… even though I just posted a baby photo. The babies each decided to spend the afternoon chewing on stuffed baby toy vegetables. Yum.

day 37: my two favorite babies turned 6 months old today. I may have a slight bias but I’m pretty sure they have the cutest faces I’ve ever seen. Happy half birthday peanuts!

day 36: We’ve always had problems with our dryer. It is very very poorly vented (from where it connects to the house to the outside) and it’s not our fault… it’s an old house and it probably needs to be redone. We had our landlord try to get the vent cleared out a few weeks ago because our laundry was taking AGES to dry. Well it seemed to be better but this morning I threw in a load to the dryer and noticed a funny smell. I turned off the dryer and unplugged it and tried to air out the room. We had a repair guy come out today and there was BURNT LINT in the inside of the dryer. There was so much stuff stuck in there that it started burning. YIKES!! Talk about scary! So we paid him to clear it all out and he recommended that we talk to our landlord again so we can get it actually taken care of. Um… yes. Will do. Immediately. Good thing I noticed the funky smell… and thank goodness for same day dryer repair people. We wouldn’t survive a single day without being able to do baby laundry 🙂

day 35: Today was sort of like most days. Lots of being in the house. A little more fussiness than usual thanks to what might be Paul being sick (he’s running a temperature but with little else in the way of symptoms) and a few new tricks from the babies. Today’s new trick from Amelia? Throwing toys. Check out baby-rific for the whole story

day 34: Because I didn’t take any photos earlier today and I think Ben and I were both a little loopy from lack of sleep (the babies are slightly sick and so not sleeping well) I present to you: Hair Zoo. The sun rises over bouncy seat zebra in the Ben hair savanna.