We had some great drinks, food and conversations with lots of laughter. After a great meal, we headed over to 16 Handles to get some frozen yogurt and then headed home. Tim and I couldn't believe we were parents headed out for a date night..I just kept saying to him all night, "can you believe we have kids at home with a babysitter??" When I was giving updates to Tammy on everything with the girls before we left, I remember the many times my parents got a babysitter for my sister and I, and I would listen to all the instructions my parents gave and now I am the parent giving instructions on my kiddos...super weird moment, I still can't believe these beautiful little girls are ours!
Here we are on our first night out!
On Saturday, Tim had to work and so I stayed home with the girls while Tammy came back with her mom, sister and her sister's daughter who live in PA. It was so great to see everyone and have them meet the girls for the first time. Of course their Great Nana has already seen them, but their Great Aunt Terri and cousin Kaitlyn finally were able to make it down to meet the newest additions of the family. We had a fun time and the girls loved meeting new people! Such little flirts.
Saturday night we were going to stay home but then decided to head out to dinner with my parents and my sister. We went to a new restaurant not far from home and it was really good. Once again, the girls were the star of the show and everyone was complementing us on how cute they were. They were all so well behaved too, they slept through dinner and I think it helped that it was really noisy in the restaurant because it kept them sleeping. But of course everyone couldn't resist and so they managed to make it out of their car seasts to have a peak around.
Sunday, Tim, Nathan, Nathan's brother, Christian and Matt all went to play some softball to gear up for the new season getting ready to start. I CANNOT WAIT! I miss everyone when it's not softball season and I CANNOT wait for everyone to meet the girls!!! Matt's wife, Sara and I had a great time chatting and holding the girls. We were going to take them to the field but it was a little too cold and my dad was going to take the car down to get appraised since we are getting a new BIG SUV this week! I cannot tell you how excited I am about that! :)
So, Sunday afternoon, I took a nap with the ladies and we watched March Madness. It was a great weekend and even though I would have loved a great night sleep last night, I got far from it. Madelynn has a cold and was crying a lot in the beginning of the night. Claire was having fits all night because I thought **BIG MISTAKE** that I could let them out of their swaddle blankets to sleep since they keep pulling their hands out each night....but, I was totally wrong. Finally, around 1:45am, I couldn't take it anymore, so I swaddled them up and they were out like a light until 6:30am this morning. However, Natalee then decided she wanted to eat every 2.5 hours and well, we just don't do that here anymore, so I had to really work with her to get her to keep calm until her 4 hour mark. If I feed her earlier than 4 hours, she doesn't drink all her bottle and then gets hungry...the whole "snacking" thing, which is not ideal. During the day she does awesome, but at night, she just needs some reassurance. I also switched Natalee to the Dr. Browns bottles and she is loving them! I might switch them all to them once they get to the BIG/tall bottles. I barely had to burp Natty all night, she just sucked down 5 ounces in no time! It was awesome! I really think it made a difference in her happiness. The other bottles have too much air in them and I think it really affects her sucking and easiness to finish the bottle because I have to burp her every little bit, but with the Dr. Brown's bottles, she didn't make a peep. Leave it to my little ladies to like the most expensive bottles out there! Oh well, you can't put a price on happy babies!
Hope your weekend was great! Today we are off to look at our new SUV and go to the doctors for synigist shots and RSV shots for Madelynn and Claire. Blah, poor babies. And then tonight we are meeting some lovely ladies that are going to start helping me out during the week! Praise Jesus! I am so excited and blessed to have that possibility of help here and there...and to be able to take a nap!!!
Sounds like it was a great weekend, and that it will be a great week! Can't wait to see your new ride!
ReplyDeleteCan't believe how busy you are already! That's awesome! I don't think I even left the house until my triplets were at least 4 months, so I'm very impressed. Oh, and YAY for help! So glad to hear you have some ladies who want to come help you love one your sweet babies.
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