kittytoo

eric put a temporary tattoo on seamus's arm. he told her it was a tattoo, but she seems to think he is saying cattoo because she keeps pointing to it calling it a kittytoo.

goopy eye and leather chair

this morning when seamus woke up her eyes were totally gooped up. once the goop was washed off though it looked as though the goop was coming from her left eye only. sirus was shooting out snot and coughing, so eric made a doctor appointment for the two of them this morning.
since i am addicted to the internet and to saving money i went to costplus.com and checked on the leather chair that we bought at the beginning of the month. i was just casually looking, not expecting it to be 38% less then what we paid for it. but it was so i said wholey shiat we need to do something about that. so i called them up asking for a price adjustment, but they told me it was longer then the standard two weeks after purchase, so i told them that what i really wanted was to get the price adjustment on the one we already bought and then buy another one. they were fine with that so we went and took care of it and then that was that and it made me happy. i love cost plus and think we will wind up getting our bedroom furniture there someday, too.
after that we took the bebes to the doctor and he basically said it looked like we all had colds but that seamus has a super infection, yes he said super. anyway its because she got a bacterial infection - the eye goop, on top of the viral thing everyone else has. she got some ointment for her eye ball and will eagerly tell you about her eye goop. i hope sirus sleeps well tonight and doesn't get any sicker. same for seamus, that would not be fun.

sleep, glorious sleep

so, last night was a night that we hope repeats itself - often. well, at least some of it. i have been feeling like arse the past few days. so has everyone else in the house, excpet for sirus, who has been feeling fine, so that is good. anyway, i started back at work on tuesday and combined with feeling like arse and waking up during the night i have been very tired. last night i was done. sirus went to bed 15 minutes early and even before seamus was tucked into bed at 8, i was in my room, lights off and ready to pass out. now here comes the glorious part that i hope repeats itself - sirus didn't wake up until a little after 1:30!! That means I got 5 1/2 hours of uninteruppted sleep!! it was beautiful!! I was back in bed by 2 and slet until seamus started crying at around 5. she woke up sirus, so i went in to him and eric took care of seamus. poor seamus has been sick with a cough and sneezy runny nose for quite some time now, i hope she gets better soon. when i went to check sirus, though, i was suprised to see that he had turned himself about 120 degrees counter clockwise. either that or he had turned himself 240 degrees clockwise.

so they all rolled over and one fell out

ok, so know one fell out sirus rolled over gain yesterday - a few times in a row. he and seamus were both laying on the tummys on the floor and then his giant noggin started to lean to one side and once it got far enough over the rest of him just kep going. seamus thought it was pretty funny so i rolled him back to his tummy and we both started cheering for him to do it again and he did. each time seamus laughed and then we would try it some more. finally we called eric in to see it since he doesn't quite beleive it, and we sat there telling sirus again, again, again - seamu even reaising her voice yelling it a few times and alas, it was too much pressure and the poor kid just put his face down on the blankent instead.
he has been sleeping very well the past two nights, which is making me very happy in anticipation of going back to work in just a few days. he got up a 12:45 and 5 last night and 1:45 and 4:45 the night before. things are looking pretty good on that front. i sure am going to miss these kids when i go back to work. i had the hardest time falling asleep last night and then a hard time each time i woke up after....

here are some photos

of the bebes:

ok ok ok

so, the hair i think may be getting better. it hasn't shown the extra pair of ears that it was originally doing and the color is good. i have an appointment for wednesday to get it fixed but maybe i will leave it.
when i opened my email this morning it said there were 87 new emails and not one was anything other then spam.
sirus slept well last night. i think he knew it was because we are going to try and help him sleep through the night this week so i can get some decent rest before going to work. anyway, he went to bed at his usual 730 and woke up again at 1am. thats a good stretch. i got up with him because i am ok with getting up once. then he woke up again at 418am. i got up again because that is close enough to 530 i decided. then we all slept until after 7 when eric got up with seamus and i stayed in bed until after 8. tonight we will try to push the 418 close to 530, and lets hope the 1am thing sticks.
i have been feeling quite inadequate and depressed the past few days. i am not sure why but its not a good feeling. i have also been having some pretty hefty allergy attacks, especially last night.
so today i start a new diet as i do almost every day. but it is the last week before i head to work again and i need to see some progress. i wore my super skinny jeans that eric got me for xmas last year but as i told him, sure, i was able to get them on, but i runneth over... i have to work on that runneth over part.

bad hair day

so, i went to get my hair done yesterday. i told the lady i wanted something dramatic and different, and my main thing was that i no longer wanted to look like a 30 something mother of 2. so i walked out looking like a 40 something tv sitcom lady. bad bad bad. but then it got worse. i washed it last night and it looked ok until i woke up this morning. i am so depressed. i have never been so depressed over a hair cut. i remember once when i was younger being so excited to go to get my hair cut and then they totally did some weird stuff to it with the curling iron and all and breaking down in tears on the way to the car. that was ok because as soon as i washed it out it looked fine. this is not the case this time its just bad and i feel frumpy, old and depressed, not young, pretty and happy. not one bit. they guarantee their hair cuts so i can go in and see if they can fix it, maybe i will do that if i can't get it under control today. ugh.

xmas tree

we went to get our mas tree on friday! it was an adventure! most of my photos of seamus are of her running away from me. this is pretty much the only one where you can see her face.

we have moved into the basement and now have a dining room table on which to have dinner as a family. here is sirus sitting on dad's lap at the table and then the kids giving a tour of the basement remodel.

seamus and sirus play nicely together
and sirus just is too darn cute on his 2 month birthday.

i go back to work very soon and i am sad about that. i have had so much fun the past 11 weeks that i am going to miss seeing my 3 favorite people all day every day.

and here is seamus napping. she is so cute when she is asleep, i can hardly beleive it!

huge!

sirus accomplished a huge milestone today!! he rolled over! 3 times!! this is huge since he is pretty young to be doing that!!

also, tonight is his first night sleeping in his crib in his own room! i hope he does ok! seamus has adjusted very well to her new room and seems to like it!

eric and i have asjusted quite nicely to our new room and i totally love it!

slappin that arse

so i had just rememberd something that i had to put down so i wo'nt ever forget how darn cute it was - the other day seamus was running around nekkid. i can't remember if it was after a bath or one of the times she had wanted to sit on the potty and then just be nekkid after or what, but she was nekkid none the less. while nekkid and running around, she was running the funny way that she does sometimes where she keeps her legs strait and kind of kicks them out in front of herself as she runs. she was moving all over the place very quickly like this and all the while she was slapping her little rear end with her hand. it was so funny and just so strange.
i was also thinking the other day that i need to make a list of words she knows. i was going to do it when she turns two - along with getting her a real haircut, but i think now would be a good time, too. maybe its because this past week is seems has she started calling me mommy which makes my heart melt. she will stand outside my bedroom door and call out mommy to me!
so these are the words she says through out the day. She will repeat many more and if you ask her to point to many more she knows what they are, but these are the ones she uses on her own regularly:
mommy, daddy, kitty, cat, puppy, doggy, cow, moo, pig, chicken, chick, duck, quack, birdie, elephant, eat, cup, green, yellow, blue, purple, red, tractor, truck, airplane, baby, bath, color, high chair, tv, teletubbies, bed, blankie, towel, potty, fork, pears, fishies, broccoli, bottle, help, farmer, lion, one, two, three, bye bye, car, seat, sit, jump, hand, head, teeth, cheek, chin, elbow, knee, feet, toes, boot, sock, pant, shirt, bike, swing, slide, park, out, no, whee, pillow, cracker, toast, grandma, back pack, hello kitty, pretty, bracelet, glasses, ring, whoa, elmo, happy
there are likely more, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

big baby

so, its been a while and while not a lot has happened, a lot has happened. sirus turned 8 weeks on monday. he went in for his appointment on tuesday and weighed 13pounds 15onces! huge! 95th percentile! seamus was 95th percentile at her 8 week appointment too, but as a girl she was a little smaller. sirus is doing great, cute as can be and he will smile for us, too. his blonde hair is in an adorable fau-hawk, especially after i put pertolium jelly in it to try to help with the cradle cap.
(as i sit here, i hear that eric has just changed a sirus poppy diaper only to walk back in the living room to a seamus poopy diaper. i am safely hidden in the bedroom for a little longer - whew! )
seamus is growing her vocabulary in leaps and bounds. as eric was just commenting on it being his lucky day because of all of the poopy, she was spouting "lucky day" as he carried her into her room. when eating, she no longer just asks for more, but instead will ask for more of the particular item she wants - more pears, more chicken, etc. instead of askin "where'd it go?" she will now ask "where'd daddy go? where'd mommy go? where'd farmer go? where'd kitty go?" she is a cutie that is for sure.
eric is working hard on the basement. it is almost done! our tile is in and the carpet will be installed on monday! we should be getting our interior doors today, too. it looks so amazing! he has done a phenomenal job! once the carpet is in we will be moving our bed downstairs and seamus into our room and then sirus into seamus's old room. hopefully everyone transitions well. we have also started looking at furniture options for the upstairs - mainly a dining table. oh the drama and the stress of it all.
i go back to work in just a few weeks which i am sad about. i have had so much fun home with seamus and sirus and eric when he isn't holed up in the basement. we are planning on taking seamus sledding before i head back. i am totally looking forward to it and to getting our christmas tree.
that is all for now.