day 19: Yesterday I photographed my first wedding of ’09 and first wedding since having the babies. I was so excited to finally be back in business… I really missed getting out and shooting. More photos on my wedding blog.

day 18: Well today was pretty much anything BUT relaxing. It was kind of a hectic morning. I decided to stay in between 10 and 1 to let the babies catch an extra nap before we went out at 2. They had other ideas and didn’t enjoy me trying to put them down at a non-standard nap time. Amelia had her first physical therapy appointment today and she did not enjoy that either. Ben and I recovered by going to a CPK with the babies on the way home 🙂 First wedding of the year is tomorrow… can’t wait!

day 17: Today the baby twin playgroup invaded the LA zoo… Paul was quite excited about it as you can see 🙂

day 16: Ben and I went to dinner tonight (thanks mom for babysitting!) and imagine my delight upon opening this fortune:

Are you reading this Paul? Amelia? This means you 🙂

day 15: Today Allison came to LA to claim her long loaned bed that we’d been keeping here at our place for the last few years. At first it had a home (the guest room) but was seldom used. Then it moved up in the world as not the guest bed but the “grandma bed” when my mom moved in with us for a few months after the babies were born. Most recently it lost its spot in the house when the babies graduated from our room to their nursery. It lived in the “library” between our living room and kitchen for a while for grandma’s occasional overnight visits but was mostly just in the way. Now it is gone. I kind of miss it. At least I got some company for the day.. Allison and her friend Kelly. Shocked to find out (while looking at the last year’s book) that photo-rific is alive and well again 🙂

day 14: The babies ate prunes today… ’nuff said 🙂

day 13: The fam (Ben + me + peanuts) had our first official family photo shoot today. There was no way I was going to have it done with my super horrible haircut so I made time on Saturday to go to get a quick fix from a better place. I LOVE the new haircut, so much better than the last one! Here’s a quick picture… forgive the expression, I always look awkward in self portraits.

day 12: It has been such a relief in the last month or two to have babies with an actual bedtime. Our nighttime routine has slowly shifted from scarfing down dinner in 5 minutes before the babies go to bed (so that we could sleep right after they did) to microwaving something quick after they went to sleep to finally now actually cooking dinner and sitting down together before bed. It makes me feel like a real living human being to have dinner with adults and have real conversations. It might not be our old idea of normal but at least it’s a start! Tonight Carli came over to my parents’ house after baby bedtime and we had pizza and beer. It was a total blast from the past to hang out with her without the babies but I had such a good time. Carli if you’re reading this thanks for coming over!! We should do it again soon!

day 11: Today was sort of the same as a regular day at home, except I wasn’t at home, I was at my parents’ house. I took care of the babies and Allison helped me to feed them their lunch of delicious baby food pears (mmmm pears). All in all it was pretty uneventful. After baby bedtime Allison Mark and I had dinner together before they headed off dancing. Allison is quite the chef these days. We had some chickpea sandwiches and tasty orzo. Mmmm orzo.

day 10: This morning I checked my phone and had lots of missed calls voicemails and text messages. Little Olive was admitted to the NICU and all of my friends and family were trying to get in touch with me. I decided to drive down to Encinitas to be near everything that was going on so I loaded up the babies and headed south. I ended up having my first solo overnight baby watching experience and not only did the babies not sleep well (Amelia woke up at least 10 times) I was so nervous that I woke up a lot too. One of the times that I woke up I panicked and realized I hadn’t taken a photo-rific post yet for the day. So I snapped this one. Technically it was after midnight but it was before the next day started so I’m counting it.