The boys are 2 today!

I can't believe my precious little angels are 2 today! How fast time goes by!! We had a party for them today! It was a success! We got to see everyone and spend time with them. They are fast asleep now. WHich is where I'm going to be soon:) Thanks so much to everyone!

What a year it has been! And we are only 22 days into it!

The start of the year has been non-stop craziness for me. First I would like to start off with congratulating Keith and Lexi on the New Years Eve marriage! It was a great time all around. They were married at Trinity Cathedral downtown and the reception was at the Terrece Club at "Progressive (Jacob's) Field" We bought in the new year.. and staying up till 2am made me realize how old I was. But earlier that day I woke up a bit dizzy and not feeling well. The next day, New Years (no I wasn't drinking either) I wasn't the only one feeling it. Poor lil' Caden looked miserable. He was stuffed up and later that night he was having a terrible time breathing. I knew something wasn't right earlier in the week. We had taken him to the ER because he vomited his bottle up like the exercist! He also had a fever and light rash. They said he had a cold and right ear infection. Gave him antibiotics. On New Years day he had a terrible rash all over his body. I was going to take him back to the ER but Brian made me wait. We got a first appointment into the doctors. By this time Caden's breathing was worse, he was wheezing and had a double ear infection. The doctor gave him a breathing treatment to see if it helped. If it didn't Caden was going to be admitted to the hospital. Luckily, he got better and I guess I can say, lucky I have asthma. I have a breathing machine at my house already. So the doctor ordered him every 4 hour breathing treatments. That night, Cole's breathing got worse as well. I started breathing treatments on him and took him in the next day. Same thing as Caden... ear infection and bronchiolitis. Which is caused by RSV. Something I tried to keep away them from in the last year. Thank God I had equipment at home to deal with this here. It saved us a trip to the hospital for both boys. I was pretty anal about their breathing treatments being every 4 hours. After a few days, they were both on the mend and breathing 100 times better. I, on the other hand, got very ill myself with the same illness. It lasted about 4 days. I missed a whole weekend of work, which I didn't want to do with my upcoming trip to Arizona.
Which leads me there. We took the boys on their first plane trip to Arizona. They took their first bus trip to the rental car place. They saw the Grand Canyon, went to Pinnacle Peak restaurant, the biggest steak house in the world. (It can hold 3000 people) They stayed in the first hotel and watched daddy coach in a marathon. We had a lot of fun with Chad and Tracy as well. We were there when the Cardinals beat the Eagels to get into the superbowl. THe warm weather felt so good. We left Cleveland and it was 1 degree. It was a bit freaky landing and taking off. I kept thinking that the plane was going to skid. But we are all good!

Then Tuesday after we got back, the 20th, Barak Obama became president. It was just the best. I kept the boys awake (from their nap time) to watch it even though they won't remember it at all. Chad and Tracy stayed over to watch it since they didn't have to be anywhere the next day. It was so inspiring to see. It made me want to cry. I did feel bad for President Bush. I may not like him, but I feel most the time that he was a scapegoat for men behind the scene pulling the strings. Almost like he was the dummy and they were the puppet masters. Poor guy.
I'll add pics of our trip and the wedding soon.

The boys are growing so fast!!!

Boys are moving!

Walking

Caden has been walking this week. My mom worked with him on Friday and now he is walking about 15 feet. He is wobbly, but it is so cute. Everytime he walked across the room, I would clap and say, "Yeaaaa!!!" And then Cole would mock me, do and say the same thing. It was too cute!! Caden was so proud. He would smile, turn himself around using the table and then make his way back to me. I can't believe how big they are getting. I'm trying to get them to talk, but still realize they are about 2 months behind. So it's already. I'm not stressing as much as I was before when I was a straight up loon. I can still be a little looney when it comes to them.

My votes for Obama

I can't wait to vote later! I'll be voting for Barak Obama. I can't wati to see history unfold today.. I'm feeling kind of sad though. I wish that Obama's grandmother lived through the week to see what happened. I have good feelings for today and I feel that he will have a speical angel looking down on him.:)
Our thoughts and prayers are with them today for more than one reason!

The Twinfants are 1!

The boys birthday was Friday Oct 17th. We had a party with the entire family on Saturday. We cooked and cleaned and got our house ready! We were busy and stressed. But the day turned out great! The boys got dressed in their costumes. The other kids came in theirs and they were so incredibly cute!!! The boys got nice gifts and there is no way we can thank everyone enough for the great gifts. The boys are using them as I write.
It has been a crazy year. It seems like a whirlwind. I mean last year I was so worried hoping they would survive. They were intubated at this time last year needing the help to breath. This year when people see them they tell me, "Wow, they are big for 1 year olds!" They are tall I think, but a little on the skinny side. Their 12 month old pants still slide down of them. When they crawl, it is sooo funny seeing their pants end up around their ankles and their little diaper butt in the air. I remember how tiny they were in my arms. I could hold them both with no problems. Now it is so difficult when they are both whining and trying to climb on me to be held. (which I'll admit, as difficult as it is, I like it. It warms my heart!) I feel so blessed. Thanks everyone!
Here are so picture.

An old friend

This Myspace and Facebook is an amazing thing. A few years ago when I got on Myspace, I thought it was great. I still do think it is a good thing. I got a message on Myspace from a girl that I was friends with in 6th grade. Her name is Susie. After 6th grade she moved to Bristol, CT. I lost touch with her. She found me on Myspace. She works for ESPN. She is in town tonight for the Monday night Browns game. I got to see her for the first time since 6th grade. We caught up a bit. The 3 hours we were together last night went too fast and didn't seem long enough. I hope that maybe when we are in Boston we could get to see her. We will be going there quite often in our life so I'm sure there will be a time we can visit with her.
It was great catching up and reconnecting with someone who meant a lot fo me in my youth.

SCARED TO DEATH!

So last night around 3:30 in the AM, I'm sound asleep. All of the sudden I hear very loudly, music playing from the Juno soundtrack. It is coming from the boys room. They have a radio and cd player in their room. We haven't played that CD in over a week. So I thought that maybe Brian heard them fussing and I didn't and turned on the CD. ( a little too loudly) He had fallen asleep watching a movie downstairs. So I go and see that he is sleeping and find that he never turned the radio on. The boys of course didn't because it is way too high even for me to reach. ANd they are too little to know how. I asked Brian if there was a remote that maybe the boys got a hold of in their crib and rolled on it. (They were sound asleep through all of it) . There isn't a remote. SO HOW THE HELL DID THE CD PLAYER COME ON BY ITSELF? My only theory is is that the last time we had it on, we may have pushed pause instead of turning it off. I'm thinking if it was on pause and not stopped that it might have finally come off of pause. Our DVR does that after maybe a half hour on pause. I was freaking out. Then I wondered if it was my friend Marcus who passed away. I was talking to Brian about how ithas already been 4 years now since he passed. He died shortly after we were engaged. I was telling him that in the boys room last night while we were getting the boys ready for bed. And we discussed the fact that the boys due date was Marcus's actual birthday. I think his spirit could've done it. He is someone that would think it is funny to scare me! And then I wondered if it was my sister. She would also think it is funny to scare me and maybe she wanted to peak in on her nephews and play them some soothing music. If it was any of them, I wish I could know. It freaks me out. Like I wonder, what if it was something evil? I don't think it would be. But maybe we need to get our house blessed. If anyone has any other options let me know.

Anyway, today is my birthday. My dad stopped by and bought me a cool present. Well, he didn't buy it, he made it. It is a wine rack. And an amazing one. I'll have to get a pic of it to show everyone. I think he should make and sell these. It is now hanging in my kitchen! It has 3 bottles of wine in it now! I think a lot of people are going to want one when they see it at the boys party next weekend. I can't wait for the party! It will be fun! Brian, of course got me the best present! The photo shoot of the boys!

Don't hate us because we're beautiful!

The boys will be 1 year old in 6 days! I'm so excited! I think about what I went through last year and where I was at this time. In the hospital, trying to keep our sons in my belly longer! They were like a medium rare at the time they were born. I was trying to get them to medium well at least, if not well done!:) They first tried to arrive to the world "rare", but I was able to "cook" them longer. (I think this is a good way to help describe it.)
I can't believe a year has gone by already. We went through so much and they have changed so much in one year. It's almost so easy to forget the beginning because they've changed so much. (Though I won't because the beginning was a rough one!)
They are little men now. So cute! They are getting their personalities. They know what they want.
For my birthday, Brian surprised me. He took the boys to get professional pics taken. He took me to go choose the ones I liked the best!
They were taken at Portraits Innovations.

Here they are!:)

NKOTB

I just don't know what to say about the New Kids on the Block concert I attended last night. Basically it was amazing! I know all you haters are gonna talk crap because it is New Kids. For about 2 hours, I forgot about everything else in my life. Which would be the first time in almost 2 year. (while being pregnant and being a mom) I was with Destiny, Megan and Kerry. The minute they came out, I was instantly a 14 year old girl again. (I wish I still had that figure!) I wasn't a mom, I wasn't a wife, I wasn't a nurse. I was just a "girl" who was seeing her favorite band from her youth. (for the first time in 20 years I realized) They were so amazing and it felt like they hadn't been away for 15 years. It felt like it did the first time I seen them, but better. They were my first concert like many girls my age. I saw them at Blossom with my mom, my aunt, my sisters and cousin. It was wet. It rained the whole time. ANd we were so far in the back, we could barely make out the dots on stage. THis concert we were right next to the stage! We were probably 10-15 ft from anyone of them that came to our side of the stage. We were close enough to them to be able to tell that they all got better looking with age. I told my friends that the one thing I wish Brian would do better is dance. Seeing thesee 5 guys in their late 30's- early 40's dancing around like that made me wish that Brian would like to do that more. He hates dancing because he can't do it well. It was something that I loved to do and was pretty good at. I would go downtown a few nights a week just to go dancing. Not to drink or anything. I just wanted to dance. I would go for about 4 hours and just dance. That was basically my exersice. It's not really practical to do now the way I used to. I have to admit my feet are killing me. I haven't worn heels in a long time let alone dance in them. IT was more than worth it though. They started off with their new song "Single" which is my favorite song of the year. They ended it with Hangin Tough and sang a bunch of old favorites and new ones. I feel on a high right now. It was nice to be reminded of my youth.
Now I'm going to spend some time playing with my youths:) They are getting soo cute and starting to walk more this week with help.

Growing up

So it's 6am and I can't sleep. I've been up for about an hour now. I'm watching Behind the Music Live with New Kids on the Block that I DVR'd last night. It is showing them live from Boston, which is great because I will be seeing them this Friday. I'm looking to about where my seats are and I'm afraid I won't be able to see now.. We are 8 rows up from the side of the stage. I won't think they would pupt people where they can't see, but then again my sister and I paid the most for tickets ever to see Madonna in Detroit. We got there and found out we should've just got HBO for the year and it would've been cheaper than those shitty seats! We had to watch her from the screen because a black curtain blocked our view completely. We only saw about 1/10 of the stage. But then the Q is probably a bit different from the Garden and I think it will be fine.
In watching their history, it made me laugh. When I was a kid and in love with each one of them at a different time (Donnie and Jon were my favorites though, talk about totally different personalities) I remember having all these pre-teen romantic fantasies about them. Every girl has! Pre-teen girls have these crazy little idea in their head about what love is. And I know I can speak for me, but in my innocence, the most I dreamed of is being kissed by one of them. (especially Donnie or Jon) Now that I'm an adult (as many other fans are now) and with experience, you can look at them now and see things from a totally different view. I won't elaborate, but I know my married girlfriends can vouch for being able to fantasize about them in a whole different way, especially Donnie!:)(Not that I spend time doing that, but when I am watching them dance on stage I kind of can't help it) I just find it funny how in over 20 years as a fan, how my views have changed. I think as a pre-teen I spent all my time thinking of them. As an adult, I'm excited, but so many other things take up my time. Work, family. Now seeing them is a kind of vacation from my reality. (I love my life, but it is just a break from it) So then watching them makes me feel like a teenager again, but with adult views. How times change! I wonder who my kids are going to like. And I wonder if our next child is a little girl, who she is going to adore growing up.
I hear the babies stirring. I'm going to go!:)

1st hair cut for the buddies

our new look. Aren't we good lookin?


Caden

Cole


Caden getting his hair cut... both boys were soooo good



Aunt Christy cutting Coles hair

A GREAT DAY!!

Today was a great day.. It is our 3rd anniversary and also the 11th anniversary of when my sister passed away. We started our day out with a french toast breakfast. Then we went to the cemetery for a lunch and to spend time with "Missy". Perry Cemetery is really beautiful! Brian and I talked a bit about how someday we will be buried there next to my sister. Sad thought, but comforting knowing it will be a beautiful, peaceful place. Then we went over to Patterson where we met my sister Christy and my niece Nikya. We took pics in a pumpkin patch, went through a corn maze and picked apples. Afterward we went to Nikya's (and mine) favorite place, Olive Garden, for dinner. We returned home to take the boys for a walk in the cool cars that Grammy Dudich got for them. They love their cars and have such a blast!! It was a perfect day! And now I'm going to go to sleep next to my handsome husband of 3 years!:)