Nap times are so unpredictable in this household. Sometimes I will get a lovely 1-2 hour nap from the twins in either the morning or afternoon, other times they won't nap for more than 3o minutes for either nap. It is so frustrating! Of course, they always seem to take awesome naps during the weekends and save their sucky naps for me when I'm home alone. It's impossible to get anything accomplished during the week, when I have no idea what nap time is going to be like.

Isabel was this same way when she was a baby, she didn't start to take good, long naps on a regular basis until she was well over a year old. I'm so hoping Max and Lily can figure it out sooner than that. I feel like we are constantly struggling over sleep, night time sleep is just as frustrating as naps. Some nights we will get an awesome night and no one will wake until morning, then the next two nights they will each be up at least twice. I'm struggling trying to come up with someway to make it more consistent, but no matter how many things I try nothing seems to help. I guess we just have to go with the flow at this point. We have done everything in our power to help them sleep better. I know this is a phase, we dealt with the same issues with Isabel but it is hard. And it is twice as hard with two babies. I love sleep, I just don't understand why my kids don't.

This is a rambling post (sleep deprived! remember?!) and I need to go tend to my babies, who aren't napping (imagine that!).

Growing up

I can't believe it, my babies are 6 months old. Where does time go? They are changing so much, I love watching them grow and change but at the same time it breaks my heart. They aren't those tiny little babies we brought home from the hospital anymore.

They have finally slept through the night, which was amazing. They aren't consistently sleeping through the night yet, but at least we know they can! Isabel still loves them, although, she loves Lily the most. Max is my baby and Lily is her baby, she tells me this daily. If I call Lily my baby, I get corrected that No, she is not.

Lily is crawling, she is going to be our determined child, if she sees something she wants she goes after it. Max isn't crawling, he is rolling all around the living room, but hasn't thought about crawling yet.

Everyday continues to get easier, we still have hectic, crazy days but that's life with multiples I guess.

Project 365

Last year after I got my camera I heard about the project 365, where you take a picture every day for a year. I thought it would be a fun little project but I was so sick with morning sickness and just being pregnant with twins was hard enough that I decided not to do it. So I am doing it this year. So far, so good, but we are only 3 days in. Anyways, I opened a new blog to post all my pictures at.

http://kaiteedidproject365.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas filled with food, family and of course lots of presents for the kids. The holidays are a lot of work but worth every second when you see the look of excitement on your child's face. Today was wonderful.

Hoping everyone had a blessed holiday!

The difference a year makes

Last Thanksgiving I was about 6 weeks pregnant and so miserable with morning sickness, I could barely eat. We had an ultrasound scheduled for the Monday after Thanksgiving and I remember my brother joking that it was going to be twins. I never would have dreamed in a million years that I was actually pregnant with twins! It's amazing to look around and see how much our life has changed in the last year. It has been a trying year, but worth every second.

Last Thanksgiving we were a family of three, this Thanksgiving we are a family of 5. Wow.

I have so much to be Thankful for this year.

I am thankful for my wonderful husband, who has proven over and over again how amazing he really is. He took such wonderful care of Isabel when I was sick, then on bed rest and then in hospital. He was there for me encouraging me every time I said I couldn't stand being pregnant anymore. He has been an awesome Daddy to the twins, helping so much more than I could ever expect. Countless times, he has gotten up with the babies to do night time feedings because I needed the rest, even though he had to work in the morning. He is simple an amazing man and I am lucky to have him.

I am thankful for the amazing big sister that Max and Lily have. Isabel has been an awesome big sister. She loves to help out, she loves giving them kisses, and she just loves being around them. I love that she genuinely loves them. She has adapted to the role of big sister amazingly well.

I am thankful for two healthy and happy babies. I cannot begin to say how thankful I am that my wonderful Lily and Max were born full term and healthy, especially after the PTL scares we had. When I was 32 weeks and 4cm dilated I thought there was no way I would ever make it to 38 weeks. I am thankful for every extra day my babies were able to stay cooking.

I am also thankful for my amazing family and friends, I cannot imagine where we would be without our families.

These are the most important things I am thankful for not only today, but everyday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

4 Months Old!

Max and Lily had their 4 month check up yesterday. It went well, everyone is healthy and growing. Shots were given, tears flowed but all is well. Lilian is up to 14lbs 15oz and Maxwell is 15lbs even. How about some pictures?!

First, big sister Isabel!

Baby A. Lilian Annalise.
Baby B. Maxwell Henderson.
I may be a bit biased but I think they are the cutest kids ever.

I'm back!! With babies and a craft!!

I'm back! So I've been kind of a slacker on the blogging front, but I have an excuse. I had twins! Max and Lily were born on July 3 at 38 weeks! After everything we went through I made it to 38 weeks, I couldn't believe it but I am so thankful they were healthy! Some day I will post an actual birth story but for today I have a craft!

This year I will be hosting Thanksgiving for the first time, I am pretty confident that I won't burn the turkey but my mom will be on stand-by with any questions I'm sure I will have. My biggest worry about hosting thanksgiving is keeping the kids entertained. My nephews are what we will call "energetic" and I have a brand new house, so activities to keep everyone calm and busy are a must.

First, I decided I was going to print out cute placemats for the kids table. Then, I realized they needed crayons to color this placemat with, so the idea of the Crayon Turkey was born. I think it came out really cute.

What you need:

• Crayons
• Styrofoam balls (I think mine were 4 inch balls, they came in packs of 2)
• Egg shaped styrofoam (for the turkey head)
• Foam paper
• Construction Paper
• Foam paint brush
• Brown acrylic paint
• Hot glue gun

First, paint all the styrofoam pieces brown. After I started painting the balls, I realized I needed to cut a slice off of the bottom so they wouldn't roll away. Learn from my mistake and cut the bottoms off first.

While you are waiting for the paint to dry, take the time to make up all the other pieces. On your construction paper draw a feather shape. I gave each turkey 4 feathers, 2 orange and 2 red. So for one turkey with 4 feathers cut out 8 feathers. I don't have pictures of the next step so I will explain it as well as I can. It is easy.

On one of your feathers, draw the veins. Next put some elmer's glue on one of the plain feathers, put a toothpick in the middle and then place the feather with the veins drawn on it on top. I put a staple in the bottom as well to help hold the toothpick in. Make sense?
Using your foam paper cut out the following pieces:

The beak.
The eyes. I used white paper and then put a dot in the center with a sharpy.
The gizard. (My husband said it isn't called a gizard, but that's what I call it)
After the paint is dry glue the head on the body using your hot glue gun. Make sure the head is centered and not too low or the turkey will tip over, trust me. Then, glue the eyes, beak and gizard on.

I glued each turkey onto a piece of foam paper, this helps it stand a little better. I also cut a piece of foam out for each turkey and wrote the kids names on it.

Stick the feathers in the turkey. Next, using the tip of a pen, poke a hole in the styrofoam directly in front of each feather, this will be for your crayon. Stick the sharp tip of the crayon in each hole.

That's all! Then look how adorable they turned out!!
I also made each one of the kids a coloring book. I just googled thanksgiving coloring pages. Printed them, poked holes in the sides and tied them together using grosgrain ribbon that I had lying around. Make sure to heat seal the ends of the ribbon or they will fray.

I'm so excited for Thanksgiving! Anyone else have any craft ideas to keep the kiddos busy over the holidays?