Good Morning

This morning, Juliana came in the boys room to find me with both of the boys on the bed. She started patting Wyatt as he was sleeping and he passed gas at that moment.

Juliana: Mommy, I burped him

Me: No, that was a toot

Juliana: Mommy, I tooted him :)

Adjusting

Juliana is slowly adjusting to having baby brothers. She is still mad at me about the whole thing - mad that I can't pick her up, and mad that I haven't taken her to school since they were born and mad that I am so often holding and feeding one of her brothers instead of paying attention to her.


But when they cry and she is here, she often says, "don't cry, big sister is here". And then she will try to force a binky into the mouth of the crying baby whether or not that is what he wants.

Both of these pictures are of her and Ruslan.

The Big Sister

Juliana met her brothers Tuesday afternoon. She was very excited to see them and hold them. She climbed right up to get a good look and then sat down ready to hold them. As soon as Wyatt started to cry, she tried to push him away, saying "Daddy take Him!" Later she had a snuggle with Ruslan before going home for the night. She is very excited to be a big sister and loves her new brothers. She was not so excited that Mommy was staying in the hospital and that she was not allowed to climb on me and that I can't pick her up.

She came back to the hospital to visit again after school on Wednesday. She was excited that people had been to visit and left presents for her as well. One of the gifts was a tea set which she immediately set-up and then while she was holding Ruslan shared a cup of tea with him. 2 days old and already being included in tea parties.

Learning to Help

Juliana has suddenly started to be more helpful - great timing! As we are sorting out the boxes of kitchen stuff and finding a home for everything, we are taking advantage of that by storing all of her snacks, drinks, cups, etc. in drawers and shelves that she can reach. She noticed that the upstairs water dish for the cats was empty and filled it all by herself. Hopefully she will want to help out with the babies as well.

I made a no sew tutu this past week with 7 yards of pink, lavender and purple tulle (idea from Burgh Baby).

Yesterday I took her to the playground. Juliana would be happy to spend an hour there everyday. I get bored after 5 minutes, especially when I am just standing there pushing her on the swing. This was probably our last Mommy-Daughter solo outing for a little while as we adjust to life with the boys. I'm sure that she will talk G into lots of trips to the playground in the meantime.

Easter 2009

Apparently I can only blog once a month now, and that's ok. I am still working full time, dealing with kitchen construction, not sleeping, spring allergies... I am still keeping up with Project 365 (a picture for everyday) which is being printed and added to the album for the year - so the documentation exists, just not the blogging - and I'm fine with that.


Juliana was quite pleased with her Easter bucket (I refuse to buy baskets, when buckets are so useful and much cheaper). She received a book, craft projects, bubble machine and bubbles, littlest pet shop toys, glitter pencils, a little bit of chocolate, and chap stick. Upon finding the chap stick at the bottom of the bucket, she annouced - this is just what I wanted for Easter :)























She looked adorable in her dress and white sweater and we managed to survive Easter this year without a winter coat! She even left the bow in her hair for several hours - usually she is not a fan of hair accessories. And her dress came with a matching dress for her doll Missy Missy Rose (yes, that's 2 Missys). I dropped her off at church with Nonni for the morning.

10 Random Photos from the Past Month

1 - Eating birthday cake for Uncle Nick on SuperBowl Sunday

2 - Showing me the butterfly dance that they were doing in music class at school that day

3 - Eating Lik-N-Stik for the first time

4 - Looking at all of her valentines.

5 - Snuggling puppies for the babies while wearing new nightgown I had purchased that day and she insisted on wearing immediately.

6 - Post-nap games

7 - She put 2 of her babies in time-out and then took their picture.

8 - Playing iphone games while we were waiting for lunch at TGI Fridays.

9 - Taking a pretend nap in the babies' crib.

10 - Evening snack before bed.

Phone Conversation with Daddy

Juliana, my mom and I were on our way home from Target and Eat-n-Park. Scott called to tell Juliana goodnight since he wasn't going to be home before her bedtime. I handed the phone back to Juliana and this is what I heard on our side of the conversation.

Hi Daddy!

I love you! I love you all the way to the moon and the clouds.

Daddy, where are you?

Are you in South America? oh, are you at Cinderella's castle?

You need to talk louder, are you in the car? Are you driving in front of us? Are you close to us? Can you see me?

When will you be home?

ok, bye Daddy. WAIT...are you still there? Daddy can you still hear me? oh, ok bye.