just so everyone knows you’ll have to goto page two to see the 12th month folder & videos now (will ask James if that is changeable or not) or view by latest uploads to get into that folder. Or however else you figure out to get to them.
Whew, I did it though. I think it ended up being 224 photos and it took me just over an hour to upload them-and I spent an hour and a half editing them yesterday. Whew!
Enjoy!
Add comment May 30th, 2008
in the works.
I just sorted thru the last month of photos and have 220ish to upload, though a few of those are for my cake website, so maybe like 200ish. But I have to go thru the photos taken today and the ones from my smaller camera we took with us to pickup Grandma Susie.
So watch for those in the coming days, maybe even some yet today.
I’m also working on an update of the kids/us. So soon. I know I’ve been bad.
Kamie
Add comment May 30th, 2008
James is working at his walking skills, he’s still only taking about 5/6 sometimes a few more steps with each practice but that is where we start, right?
With that, we’ll be picking up James some shoes. We have some Robeez style from Target called Mini Stars. Both James & Evelyn haven’t been able to really wear any other shoes, as they haven’t fit. They had some cute sandals from Roxanne, Doug & Caitlin they wore last summer, but they aren’t yet into a size 1 infant shoe. So I degress. I think it’ll have to be more of these.
Which is OK-I think he’s meant to get some sort of hardsole shoe though, so I guess we’ll have to try with a few. We do have some from friends that their son used, so I’ll be grabbing those and trying them out today. Last time we checked though they didn’t yet fit.
I got some adorable photos of the kids today, and in the last few days so I’m going to try to get them uploaded this week yet. Hopefully, with some luck I will.
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I scored James (and Evelyn I suppose too) some awesome trucks at a rummage sale last week, they are too fun and an absolute steal at $1 a peice.
and I forget the other one and am too lazy to go and look now.
The kids are fruit-aholics! They had an entire can of pears for breakfast this morning along with their waffle and animal crackers and Cherrios. They are eating around a can a day, plus a banana and sometimes they get applesauce fed to them at their other meal too. Depends on if they are still hungry. Insane. While this is great really, and I craved fruit while pregnant it equates to being like $30 a month just in fruit for them. So we’re upgrading to the bigger can and I’m going to look at a few other stores to see if it’s cheaper there. We’d been just buying the 14oz cans, and I think I got a 30oz today for $0.40 cents less than buying two of the 14oz.
The weather was nice earlier in the week here but is COLD today. I had planned to try a few more rummage sales and do some yardwork for the upcoming birthday party for the kids-weather willing we’ll be outside I think for a very good share of the party. Hopefully it is nice.
I’m also trying to tie up some stuff in the house that’s been neglected. My oven needed cleaning as something dripped on it and everyone once in awhile the smoke detector goes off-though that happens when I cook on the stovetop too. I grew up using gas but I swear this thing has only two settings, high and barely on.
James is rocking his walking. Last night my friend Laura came over, shes’ been coming pretty much every two weeks for a few months now, with like one exception when the kids refused to nap that day and were SO crabby and went to bed by like 6:20. Anyhow, he took like 12 steps last night while she was here, so that was fun for someone other than us to see him do it. 
Next Friday Laura is going to come ‘house-sit’ while James & I go out. The kids will already be in bed when she comes. They are still pretty dependant on momma to goto bed, though James has been putting them down 2-3 times a month when I’m out for Multiples Club stuff and I guess they are getting better. Lately they’ve been nursing and then wanting to play after wards so their bedtime is mroe like 7:45 sometimes but then the night before they might goto bed at 7pm or something. Anyhow, Laura is coming and we’re going to try a new resturant in town just the two of us. We went out in February and friends watched the kids for the two hours we were gone, but they didn’t put them to bed and it was a Multiples club event, which was a LOT of fun, but we were conversing with other parents and then playing games, ect. So it’ll be nice to just sit and talk outside the home. We were going to see a movie, but James brough up that we wouldn’t be able to really spend time together. We can watch a movie at home on our own couch! 
I as usual have a ton of things I wanted to say, but am drawing a blank. Perhaps it’s that I’m tired and that I’ve been staying up too late, and the kids getting up too early then.
They’ve changed up their schedule to be;
-Wake between 6 & 6:30 - an ocassional 7am
-yummies, and a half hour later breakfast, then playtime until around 9:30/10am when they nap again after some yummies
-they nap 2-2 1/2 hours, ocassionally James will not nap as long as Evelyn but she usually does a full 2+ hours
-after waking up we have lunch then we play again til around 2:30/3 when there are more yummies and a mini nap, sometimes with Momma which never goes longer than a half hour
-James is usually coming home from work then within a half hour, and so I start supper with the kids at my feet or playing somewhere in the kitchen or living room and then we usually eat soon after he gets home
-playtime until about 6:45 when we start the going to bed process, changing them, pjs on and toys all away, then more yummies and off to bed they go (though lately they’ve been sometimes going easily and others less easy… and wanting to play)
I’m off to bed, one day I’ll start writing things down again. I used to write all the time while feeding the kids but they like to help me if I try to do anything while feeding them these days-so that hasn’t been too sucessful.
I’ll leave you with a photo of James, mid walk which is why it’s blurry.
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and then one of each of them alone
Night!
Excuse all the dots in the page, it appears that the site isn’t happy and the text goes all loney if I don’t put them in to space out the page or something, because of the photos.
Add comment May 9th, 2008
Ok, so I’m not the one walking and it’s certainly not after midnight but… we do have a walker in our midsts… drumroll please…
Master James has taken his first real steps
He took 1 step here or there on his own over the weekend but last night he would walk from me to James on the couch. 3/4/5/6 steps at a time. Adorable!
Of course this morning he wouldn’t do it, though we only tried like 3 times quick before James left for work. Yey!!
Add comment May 6th, 2008
Last night we put away the kids exersaucer toys, swings and jumperoos. This week I went thru and put away most their 6 month clothes, and then also some of the younger clothes that were large yet.
I was looking thru photos from August of 06 onwards for some specific photos that I wasn’t sure of exact dates and ended up going thru till like September of 07. It was a trip down memory lane for me. I remember being pregnant, and I remember somethings about the pregnancy but I dont’ remember everything. It’s really wonderful to see the photos and actually remember. I was doing a challenge online at a scrapbook site I’ve become great friends with a bunch of ladies there-in fact I am *really* hoping to meetup with them in 2009. Anyhow, the challenge was to create a Layout about why you scrap.
It reads: when it comes down to it I scrapbook for James, Evelyn, James and myself. I want to preserve our everyday and good and our bad even. Our firsts and our lasts. And, I want to remember. Days go by far too fast and I’m already forgetting the little things that I feel I’ll forever wish I had remembered… I do this for me, for them, for the future. To preserve the daily grind that is me, them and us. Those simple moments of life that is our family.
I’m really relieved that I was able to recall things, because I haven’t scrapped much of James & Evelyn’s photos yet. I do a photo here or there that inspires me, but I haven’t even printed off many of their photos-I usually print just to send to family or hang around the house.
While looking thru the photos I thought about where I was a year ago. While I don’t have a photo for today, I did take one a year ago tomorrow, and a year ago Sunday was my last day of work-I was pulled and put on bedrest. It seems surreal that a whole year has passed since then.
A year ago tomorrow-
I get bittersweet about the kids growing up-yesterday I went to the party store to check out all the A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E party decor that are blue & pink for a 1st birthday. But was really proud of myself for feeling it only for a moment, and then rather excited-James is right when he says we have so much to look forward to. The kids are becoming so much fun! and while I do miss those quiet times of just snuggling with them, when they just held still forever if you wanted-those moments are still there…. just not as frequent or they have taken a new shape. James is really good about coming up to us and just laying his head down on our lap and hanging out for a few minutes, then off he goes and comes back to do the same. Evelyn likes to come over to give kisses-though sometimes I think her motives are to get ahold of the remote first.
I know James has a post saved- I hope he weighs in soon. I really love reading his prespective and honestly it’ll make for some nice scrapbook pages to have his viewpoints. I think it is different the way that he looks at this and the way I do. I know he’s more positive about all the things we have yet to share with the kids, where I was all about what we won’t get to redo or have again.
I have much more I started, but I’m tired it’s 20 to midnight and the kids will likely be up in another 7 hours so I better get some sleep. I will revisit this though with more on me and the kids, as I have much to share, just not now.. sleep…bed… calling…night!
Add comment May 2nd, 2008
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