Our trip to Lake Tahoe

Hello my wonderful readers. A few weeks ago we ended our summer with a trip to Lake Tahoe. The kids had lots of fun and it was a really nice day. No one got sunburned and we didn't bring too much sand home, win win! I thought I would share some of the pictures from our trip. 

 Penelope didn't want to even go in the water but had a blast just digging in the sand for a couple of hours. 

 Little brother wanted to play too but we stayed out of the sand due to them putting everything in their mouths right now haha. 

 So cute!!

 My sexy hubby! 

 The bumbo chairs were perfect for this outing! They sat in them out of the sun and watched sister play while they played with the bag of toys I brought for them. Every so often I pulled them out. 

 We took a picnic lunch because Penelope loves picnics!

 Daddy did put each of the baby's feet in the water and they liked it. 

Overall we had a wonderful time. Our little set up was great and kept us out of the sun for the most part. Lots of Love to you and yours. 

What we take to the Beach

Hello my wonderful readers! I hope your summers are wrapping up wonderfully. We kind of ended our summer with a trip the lake. I thought I would share what we brought with us with 3 kids under 3. I tried to pack as minimal as I could because it's hard to take 3 kids and a whole bunch of stuff from a car to the beach. I used 2 of my Ju-Ju-Be Super Be bags. 

 What I packed in the first Super Be was: 2 burp cloths, hats for all, formula for babies and bottles were thrown in later in a fuel cell, sunscreen, cover up for P and swim diaper for P, sandals for P, 2 receiving blankets, large wet bag, plenty of wipes, toys for all in a quick, diapers for all in a quick, baby powder, tissues, chap stick, glasses wipes, first aid kit, comb, insurance cards in a coin purse and the Kindle for P to watch a movie on the way there. 

 This first bag is in Cobalt blossoms. The second one below is the Admiral print, one of my favorites. 

 In the second Super Be I packed my water bottle, the tent, 5 towels, and Penelope's puddle jumper. 

I got a $1 mesh laundry bag at the dollar store with some beach toys. We put the two bumbo chairs and the sand toys in the mesh bag so they could be shook out easy after we were done. We also took our picnic basket with lunch and snacks and lots and lots of water for everyone. 

I thought I did really well not over packing we only had to make two trips to get everything and everyone to the beach. Lots of love. 

Month 8 with Twins

Hello my wonderful readers. The twins are 8 months old if you can believe that! We spent their 8 month birthday a the lake having so much fun. 

Diaper size: both are in their cloth diapers 95% of the time still on the first rise setting, both are still fitting in size 2 disposables but size 3 overnight diapers. 

Clothing size: Andrew is in size 6 month and 6-9 month clothes, Juliet is in a few 3-6 month clothes but mostly 6 month clothes.

Sleeping: They are both sleeping through the night in their cribs in the other room. We have NO kids in our room!!

Feeding: Andrew is eating 5oz every 2 hours, Juliet is eating 4 oz of formula every 2 hours, both eat 7oz before bed, both are eating purees for breakfast and dinner now. We did try puffs for the first time and Juliet wasn't too keen on it but Andrew liked them. 

Routine: We are on the same routine, getting better at it each day.

Firsts: First State Fair and First trip to the Lake (future post)

Movements: Both can sit for a good amount of time if put in the sitting position, Juliet can pull herself up into the sitting position just about, both are pulling up on things to their knees and sometimes to standing very wobbly. 

I cannot believe how fast these 8 months went by! Four more months until we hit a year, I better get going on a birthday party! Lots of Love to you and yours. 

What's Been Happening With Us

Hello my wonderful readers. I want to say sorry for not being as consistent as I would like to be in blogging but life has just been busy happening. We have just been getting by day by day with 3 kids 2 and under. Aaron has been working hard and a lot at his new job, I am so thankful for such a wonderful husband. 

 We scored this jumper (one on the left) on Amazon prime day (one of the many things we were able to score) so now we have two and they love it. Also me drinking my coffee which is a must every morning in my LuLaRoe leggings that are also a must chasing these three. 

 Penelope just loves her dresses, she is telling me to take a picture and send it to her daddy of her pretty dress after we got dressed in the morning. 

 Andrew is just so happy to be here always. He loves his big sister, any attention from her is his favorite. 

 Juliet is our baby with the most personality I think. 

We also just went to the state fair with some family and had some fun, Penelope loved the petting zoo. It was so hot we had to leave before we saw everything. Other than that we are just going day by day chasing babies around since all three are mobile now. Hopefully I can sit down and do some brainstorming on what to blog about soon and get some posts up. Lots of love to you all. 

Month 7 With Twins

Hello my wonderful readers. I cannot believe these twinnies are 7 months old! The time is going by so fast its crazy! I'm starting to think of what to do for their first birthday, its all so exciting! You know I will try to do posts about getting ready for that.

Diaper Size:

Andrew - in size 2 disposables but wearing cloth all the time except occasionally at night a disposable

Juliet - just went up to size 2 disposables, wears cloth all day and wears a disposable with a cloth diaper cover over it at night (this is what works for us that we already had on hand so we have stuck with it for about 5 months now)

Both are still on the first rise snap on their cloth diapers, I might have to split the diapers soon because Andrew may need to move to the next snap soon.

Clothing Size: always depends on the brand and how it fits over a cloth diaper

Andrew -  6 and 6-9 month clothes

Juliet - 3-6 and 6 month clothes

Sleeping:

Andrew - Sleeping through the night in his crib in the kids room with his big sister

Juliet - Sleeping through the night (most nights) in the pack n play in our room still. We tried one night in her crib in the kids room and she was up all night crying, we are going to try again soon. She will not sleep on the pack n play mattress which is flat as a board, thankfully since we have mini cribs for them her crib mattress fits perfect in the pack n play so she does sleep on that so hopefully it will be a little easier to transition soon.

Both take their morning nap in their crib in the kids room together, their afternoon nap is in our room or in the swing at the moment because of big sister being in there it's crazy.

Feeding:

Andrew- Eating 5oz of formula every 2 hours and 7oz in a night time bottle. Eating purees at dinner time from a spoon.

Juliet - Eating 4oz of formula every 2 hours and 7oz in a night time bottle. Eating purees at dinner time from a spoon very good.

Routine: We are still on the same schedule as before.

Firsts: First Overnight Trip & First Father's Day, First 4th of July & First Picnic (see other posts about all of these)

Movements: They are both crawling. They both roll really well to get to where they want to go also.

 Big sister loves her little siblings so much, she cuddles them and covers them up all the time and reads to them while they eat.

 I have to say they are so much more happy than Penelope was when she was a baby, they are pretty smiley majority of the time.

 This bouncer that used to be Penelope has been a lifesaver and they love it. Andrew has also turned into quite the thumb sucker when he is sleepy.

 This is Juliet's very serious look, we laugh every time she does it haha.

Here I am reading them a story before bed because they didn't fall asleep for once while eating their bottle.

Hope you enjoyed this update on them. Lots of Love to you and yours! 

Fourth of July 2017

Hello my wonderful readers. Sorry for the crazy posting schedule, I have just been doing life as a mom. We had an eventful and wonderful 4th of July as a family. We started the day figuring out what we had to wear that was red, white and blue and we all came up with something, below is little Miss Penelope in her cute flag dress with tutu she loved wearing. Right before we left for our picnic at Apple Hill, Penelope decided to climb up on the dining room chair when I turned my back and fell down and hit the high chair arm and blacked her eye. She is just fine just looks really bad but we put ice on it and made sure she was ok before we decided to go to the picnic.

 Here is daddy with Juliet and my view of our picnic. It was wonderful weather in the shade.

 Here are the twins in their red, white and blue. Below is the best picture I could get of the 3 of them haha 2 out of 3 looking is pretty good I guess.

 Boa Vista Orchards is one of our favorite places at Apple Hill they have this neat Instagram thing hanging up to take pictures.

 Me and my baby boy. Daddy with Penelope and apple donuts are our favorite thing to get there.

 When it got to dusk we lit off the one firework we bought and a couple sparklers just with Penelope after we put the babies down for bed, baby monitors are amazing! 

Hope you had a wonderful and safe 4th of July.