Helllllllllllllllloooooooooooooo World!

Hi! Hi! Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't mean to hide, I just, you know...just live and try my best to find time to do things like write a blog, but instead I end up doing things like checking emails and stalking facebook.

Soooo here we are in the week that my precious, chunky, sweet, insanely adorable babies will be turning 8 months old!!!!!! Holllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy hell! I have a few things to say about this.

It is now so hard to leave in the morning because they are awake, reaching their arms out, silently saying hold me mommy with their innocent eyes. BUT, I leave and go to school and deal. *I'm looking to figure out a way to make my life more balanced, less time at school, more time with girls. ANy ideas? get back to me?

I am in love Damaris. Like seriously in love with this woman. I've been trying to act like her on my first day of Thanksgiving vacay and I think I'm doing pretty well. Laundry done! Dishwasher loaded and running! Girls napping! Of course, she would be doing something productive right now...whatev!

Everyone's favorite thing to say to you when you have newborns is "it gets easier, it gets easier." I never really knew what people were talking about because it never felt really really hard. In fact, I've even been thinking to myself lately that "things" actually feel harder these days than they did in the beginning. I guess I'm going to chock that up to working full time. However, I was in New Orleans over the weekend with a couple of brand new mothers and felt sooooo so so so sooooooooooo so so so so happy that I was not going home to tiny newborns who don't sleep and are on the boob every three hours and are still doing scary things for the first time and then I thought.....oh, it is "easier."

We survived the STOMACH VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously....I didn't like that. Sweet baby girls throwing up and dry heaving etc. That was the opposite of cute, precious, sweet, and fun! But, we survived! Unfortunately, every single Samet except for me has since gotten the virus...they will also survive I guess.

Marla is coming today for Thanksgiving. We are going to craft and make holiday food and go Turkey Trotting. I can't wait for it all.

I was about to say that's all I got, but that's not true.....I have so much to say about these girls. But for now...that's all i got. Here is a pic of the girls in front of the tangerine tree we planted when they were born.

new obsession

Here it is....not young house love....a store that young house love crashed for the decor(which is prec..as in precious), but that's not the important part....it's the type of store that's important. A children's upscale consignment shop. I mean, not even upscale, just cute only! Liiiiiiiiiiiike! Liiiiiiiiike! Liiiiiiiiiiiike! I don't know if this exists in Houston, but I don't think it does. Everyday I get an email with about 10 listings of Mom's of Multiples classifieds. Most of these are clothes and Mom's of Multiples is not the only gig in town. There are so many Mom groups doing the exact same thing. These people would black out for a store like this...BLACK OUT!!!! Here's the link:
http://www.younghouselove.com/2010/08/store-crashing-virginia-is-for-clovers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+YoungHouseLove+(Young+House+Love)
When are we opening this store??? And where are we opening this store?

Now....here's what I'm doing right now. Just bathed the girls, put them to bed, ate dinner(which I made all by myself..did not order or fake like I made, when in reality a store did), and now I'm sippin on some Red Wine and it makes me feel so fine while I sit here and read all of the blog posts I missed today while I was busy being a teacher. Loooooooooong day. Woke up, fed the girls, went to school, came home, hung out for an hour, and then had to go back to school for kindergarten orientation. It's so busy in this Limbo time between set up and first day. Sooooo busy, but so so so so so so nice to be in the same classroom, teaching the same grade as last year.

Alsoooooooo.....there was some nanny drama and now it is over. Mecca of all nannies starting here at this house next Monday. I can't wait, because right now I just feel guilty that the grandmothers are splittling the time. Nanny Laurie even did laundry today! So nice! It felt great to walk into the girls' closet and see an empty laundry basket...which brings me back to the nanny and how excited I am about her starting.

Now....I'm so excited about this weekend. We get to stay in town AND go to DJ's birthday party where we get to see EVERYONE we want to see....EVERYONE! And by we, I mean ME!

New Orleans was good.
Galveston was good.
Weekend at home is going to be the most fun.
School is going to be the most fun!
Done.

Well.....one pic and done!


ok 2...

Whoaaaaaaaa 4 months!

It's 4:57 AM and both babies are sleeping...ha! I'm NOT!!! All I can think about is school! SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOL.....at 5am!!!!! It's actually so so so so so fun to be thinking about school! Yesterday I went to my class to scope out the damage that occured while I was busy with babies. NO DAMAGE....hollllllllllllaaaaaaa!!! So I just went in there ripped down the old, put up some shiny and new goodies and serrrrrrrrrrrrriously I blacked out at how easy it was just to bounce right back into teacher mode! I thought about babies the whole time I was there, specifically Big Girl Laine, who now has little tantrums out of the blue and will only stop crying when the mom picks her up............serrrrrrrrrrrrriously so inconvenient when there are two sweet baby darlins to take care of!! I have so much to say and my mind is spinning thinking how long this post will be, so just exit when you are bored. OK?Ok!!! OK! OK! OK!

This month we hit up Austin, had a shower for cousin Sari at our house, a visit from Mrs. Kitty, and even went on our first plane ride! We rolled over, we grabbed things, we sat in Bumbos....I MEAN! Shiiiii! We smiled and laughed and talked! We had our first fevers, ridic diaper rashes, and then ended it all with our doctor saying we can start EATING RICE CEREAL AND BABY FOOD IF WE WANT....again.....SHIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

I was going to go into massive detail about each of our trips but I've decided just to say this....both were fun, both were easy, and both made me feel like super mom living a normal life even though I have two little girls in tow.

We're in the middle of sleep training over here because if I don't sleep 8 hours in a row soon I'm going to DIE!!!! Like right now, I'm watching Laine squirm and listening to her whine, and keeping my fingers crossed that O doesn't wake up because it's only 5:10 and I want them to sleep until 6 and I'm not allowed to go in there and help the big girl fall back asleep until 15 min of crying goes by. Sleep training....ha! Last time she did this, she put herself back to sleep before the 15 minutes were up....progress??? Whatev....I'll take it!

Sooooooooo...not so long after all! Here are some pics!

Oh....and some pics

Some thoughts on 3.5 month old twin baby girls!

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa 3.5 months...as usual my thoughts are the same...HOW DID TIME GO BY SO FAST?!?!?!? We've been having the MOST fun lately. Road trips and wedding showers and baths without tears...ha! Love it, love it, love it all!

I have noticed that as time goes by, I have so many more moments of "ohhhhh you are so cute and I'm so obsessed with you and I love you so much!" Really I just feel that way all the time!!!! It took a while to feel that way though...like I'm not sure if I believe people when they say that you feel this instant love for your babies when they pop out. Like....I would do anything for you, you are my responsibility and I'm going to worry about you constantly are feelings that I experienced from second one of their lives, but the love came later. It came when they turned from strangers into my sweet baby girls with completely different personalities and completely different cute/perfect/precious habits and expressions!

And since we're on the topic of "things people don't really say out loud when they have babies," let's talk about your relationship with the baby daddy. I mean, it's no secret that I married the most perfect person for me and that he is bursting at the seams with goodness and that he would do anything and everything for me and now for the girls, but serrrrrrrrrrrrriously....when those babies show up at your house, there are things to figure out in your perfect relationship. Like....just because you figured out how to feed two babies at once, you still need help every now and then in the middle of the night. Like....just because you have a pool in your backyard, you still have to hold a baby instead of swim when two little girls are crying at once. Like....just because mommy gives really really good baths, daddy can learn too!! So here's the secret, if you married someone who is the sweetest, cutest, best, most easy going, loves you like nobody's business, can do no wrong, they still can be that person when you have babies, you just have to straight up tell them what you need them to do....because they will do it, they just can't always read your insanely hormonally clouded brain! JOSHY.....we love, love, love, love, love, love you times a million bajillion zillion.

And speaking of Joshy.... he won us an over the top trip to Miami and Key West a few months before the babies were born. I've been in 100% denial about this trip ever since he showed up at our old house with the larger than life poster that had a bullet point for each detail of the trip. I've been in denial about it until last night because all I could imagine was 12 bags of baby paraphernalia and nobody sleeping because they aren't in their beds and just bad bad bad all over. BUT...last night when I was out loud expressing all of these things to Joshy, he says that we could cancel the trip and while at first I was soooooooo so so so so excited to hear those words, I realized....we can go on this trip. Every time in the past, when someone would make a comment like "your life stops when you have babies." I have always instantly thought in mind that I am not going to be one of those people. But look at me....I am one of those people, acting like I can't take a family vacay just because I have babies. So in that same moment Joshy said we didn't have to go, I had this moment of clarity like....PAUSE.....we can go on this trip! If we hang out in the room and listen to the waves from our balcony and take the girls on walks on the boardwalk as the sun is going down and have room service for dinner instead of going out to eat and watch movies in the room and take short trips to the pool instead of hours in the sun getting skin cancer.....we can go on vacation and have babies and be superstar all star parents all at the same time!

DONE!

Oh by the way....the kitty came to visit this week....most easy breezy fun EVER.

Oh and by the way again...If you are one of those people who felt that instant love for your baby, that I say doesn't exist, well I guess it does and we are going to go ahead and write that off into my favorite new baby category called "every baby is different, every parent is different, and nobody is wrong...everybody is right!"

The end!

Ohhhhh last thing....I got Joshy to start taking pics everyday and to start a blog about it. todaysshots.blogspot.com Marla is working on making it look like more of a photography blog so standby for that.

11 weeks!

How does time keep racing, racing, racing away??? Are we going to go through our entire lives thinking that? I think so....

Anyyyyyyway.....the past 11 weeks have been the most exciting, tiring, surprising, amazing, shocking, loving weeks I've had to date. There is so much to anticipate and you think you know what to expect when you're expecting(ha!), but then it happens...the babies are born and it's just a bucket of whoas! ahhhs! huhs??? ohhh yeahs! and i'm tireds!!! Craziness and bliss...happy tears and sad tears and frustrated tears!

Last night I went on a "date" with Joshy. I kind of hate when people say "date night," but there it is...we had a date night. We went to Mexican and then I talked Josh into going to Barnaby's just for a brownie and coffee. It was worth it, just to be back in the old neighborhood. I love the old neighborhood, but when i saw the bum in the wheel chair riding along West Gray towards Stanford, i realized that Meyerland was the right move. No bums...just Jews...and friends of Jews. Did everyone here that Nicole and Anthony are shopping Meyerland....i hearrrrrrrd that!

Now some second month and a half highlights....

We had a baby naming and that was just the most real good feel good day. Bright sunlight shining in on 5319 Yarwell. It was blissful and now my baby girls can live their lives like the amazing men and women they are named for. I was thinking today that Peggy and Ida probably are the two most amazing girls I ever knew and I'm a little bit jealous that the girls get to carry on their legacy and then I realized that we can all live life like they did....truly 100% to the happiest and fullest all the time!


The girls are both laughing and talking...especially to their two best friends the butterflies that hang at the top of the music playing/light show/ play mat that they spend many hours under each day!


We had Mothers Day and my birthday all in one! What a low key organically great day!


The girls now fit in the BOB stroller which soooooooooooo easily puts the double snap n go to shame. I mean...people swear by the single snap n go, but the double is just awkward and I'll be happy when they day comes that the girls fit in a light weight double umbrella stroller, but for now, they can just enjoy their "chariot" rides in the BOB.

We had our first road trip and it was great! Other than one 15 minute traumatic moment in the parking lot of a McDonald's, it was so easy breezy and we're already planning the next trip.


They are still sleeping in those nap nannies.....BEST BABY PARAPHANALIA...BEST! They are not, however, sleeping through the night. We're getting close though and I plan on reporting that night long sleeping has begun in the third month report!

Other than a few more pics...that's all for now!

Time...time...time!

Ooooooook....before I get into baby talk and how I can't believe that a month has already come and gone, I need to discuss my breakfast. It's like Oatmeal Deluxe! Kashi instant honey and cinnamon with a whole banana, a scoop of ground flax seed, and a scoop of this trail mix I got called "women's vitality" ha! It has lots of nuts, craisens, some other dried thing, sunflower seeds, and dark choc chips. I mean really...I think about this oatmeal from the second I wake up. Whoaaaa, that was a tangent...I can't help it. It's what I do!!!!!

Now the babiessssss!! Ohhhh, they just keep getting cuter everyday. They are especially cute today, because they are wearing new outfits from cousin Sarah. Like the first, non-onesies that actually fit my tiny children. Like, I think they are getting big until I have to tell someone their weights out loud. Yesterday was my real due date, and they are about the size of regular newborns, soooooo all the world makes sense again. Other than the fact that both have stuffy noses and Miss Olivia has a diaper rash like you wouldn't believe, they are sticking to the same ole routine...eat, diaper change, sleep like champs in the nap nannies...repeat!

I can't wait until tomorrow morning to go back to the Farmer's Market on Eastside and Richmond. I mean...it was so great last weekend. Everything was overpriced, but the music/adorable consumers/coffee bar/real good breakfast to go/perfect weather all made me feel like I was on the best post-baby field trip of my life. So like I was saying...I can't wait til tomorrow. If it rains, I'll be so sad.

I FINALLY got some inspiration for my new awkwardly sized living room when my new issue of House Beautiful arrived in the mail this week. I mean I can't wait for the moderly comfortable not modernly stiff chaise lounge, revamped ratan chairs, cozy blankets, magazine rack, books to read....ohhh I need to find a way to get this together ASAP!

And now this post has gone on too long, so here are just a couple of pics!

First Week - The Day we left the hospital


One month later...

Hmmm....I can't think of a title!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh where do I begin?????

2 weeks and 2 days ago was when this twin party got started! I can't decide if that sounds like a lot of time or a little bit of time...ha! Yesterday we saw a bunch people who like we don't know, but knew we had two new babies and asked how old they were and when Josh said 2 weeks out loud, I thought to myself..."that's it????" Not because it feels like eternity, but just because it feels like they have always been here. Little Miss Laine and Olivia....precious, precious, precious, PRECIOUS little peanut babies!

Thank you Sarah for keeping everyone in the loop and posting pics...I'm still in the "what do I do with my free time in between feeding?" phase. Like....do I take a nap or do I call a few people or do I check my email??

We went to the pediatrician today! Everyone is great and the little itty bitty Olivia is now over 5 lbs....woooooooooohoooo!!! The little thing can really suck down a bottle and it is paying off!! She still isn't on the growth chart but Laine is leading the way in the 5th percentile! I want to whisper in her ear to enjoy being tiny now, because it's not going to last...ha! I'll remind her of this one day when we are shopping for prom dresses or something and size 0 and 2 aren't even on our radar!

The moving truck came to our new house today...thank you JESUS! It has been really nice being here at the Samet's. Lots of help! Lots, lots, lots of help! But lots of help=lots of people around and I will be happy to have some lonely quiet time just to balance things out a little bit!

I mean, I think I could go on and on about all of the details but instead I'm just going to give a few shout outs to my fav baby items.

Nap Nannies-seriously, thank you Shala for telling us all we needed this.
Itzbeen timers- again, Shala you get the mother of the year award for being in the know!
Anais & Aden Swaddle blankets - like-stretchy, gauzy, perfection. They can be found at Right Start Stores and landofnod.com. I have two packs of 4...i think i may need one more!
Happiest Baby on the Block DVD- if I couldn't swaddle like this baby whisperer taught me to,I just don't I would survive!
Super Speed Hospital Grade Breast Pump - the name says it all!

And finally....a few of my fav pics...






There are more, I just need to upload the new ones! Also...I've spent my entire 2 hr break quickly scarfing down dinner and then the rest of the time I've been on facebook and reading blogs...ha! I sent Joshy to the back for a nap...hopefully he'll wake up raring to go!

My new favorite place in the house.....

MY BED!!!! I newly love coming straight upstairs when I get home from school and immediately putting on pj/pretend exercise clothes, getting out the ole pregnancy pillow, wedging it behind by back, and stalking different baby nursery things online until Joshy gets home.

Fingers crossed, 99% sure we'll be staying on Stanford for now, so it's safe to start talking nursery set up. In fact, this weekend, I consulted with one of the many nursery inspiration boards I've made for myself over the past few months, and purchased some of the items!! Really...just fabric and a couple of crib sheets, but when I say that Sarah Peirce should go in business....I MEAN IT! We(she was the captain) whipped up some curtain panels for my new(as described by marla) modern meets sweet meets feminine nursery.





Then I got home and Neecole sent me this little treat from a window on Magazine!


If we pull this off, using the paper made by the same designer as our curtain fabric....I don't know....I just don't know. I'll quit my day job.

Tomorrow I'm 30 weeks which is INSANE and next Friday is my last day of school! Can't wait to get into full swing decor mode! Can't wait!

A New Year!

I've been beyond sidetracked by school and double impending babies and completely neglecting the blog! But, on the eve of the end of my last true Winter Vacation, I am feeling revitalized and ready to go! Inspired by Sarah's blog finding skills, I stumbled upon a great place for nursery ideas! Now, we still don't know where we will be, so it's hard to specifically picture what the girls' room will look like, but I found some great inspiration today!