A Day in the Life...

Copper has a checklist of five things she's responsible for each evening.  We're sort of past the chart and sticker business and it's just part of the nightly routine now. This is what she said tonight, to herself, while counting off her fingers: "Brush teeth?  Not yet. Book?  Yep. Eat dinner?  Yep. Clean up?  Yep. Prayer?  Nope. Tim?  Time for prayer! Now!"

Micah: Loves to climb Loves to crawl into, on top of, under, or over everything Copper: Loves clothes and wears as many at a time as she can Loves books, playing games, coloring, picking veggies from the garden, and playing with the babes Dakota: Loves shoes that are not hers Loves stuffed animals and makes silly faces every day You don't have to tell us they're cute!

At 2 a.m. Micah woke up crying like the world was ending.  She went right back to sleep, in our bed, and I've been up since.  My mind won't stop racing!!  Just this evening I was telling Tim how hard of a time right now I'm having juggling everything.  Work is insanely busy right now with my normal work load and some cool but demanding opportunities.  I am soooo far behind.  Home is always busier than work is.  Put the two together and you have me: stressed and stretched pretty thin. You'd think when 8 p.m. hit and the babies went to bed (on good nights) that I'd try to catch up with the house or work.  Instead I work on stuff like this: Tim thinks it's a dollhouse but I keep telling him it's a bookcase in the shape of a dollhouse. Yes, that's really what it is. I'm in the middle of painting it to match M and K's room.  Tricky, since their room consists of their cribs.  That's it.  And mismatched bedding- nothing to go off of re...

I had extra craft blocks so we made a type of charades game.  One block had emotions and the other animals.  Good idea but the execution not so great.  Copper's first "roll" had the blocks thrown across the room and one of them hit Micah in the head.  Then she was more intrigued with the blocks themselves than what was written on them.  Tim acted out a mad lion, which made the babies laugh but startled Copper.  Less than five minutes after it started the game ended.  Maybe we'll try another day...

 You can't tell from the picture, but there's a 3rd shirt underneath these two, and two pairs of long pants.  You also can't tell from the picture, but her eyes and side of her nose are covered in silver eye shadow.  Stylin.  We also went to see a new niece Sabrinna, Tim's brother's.  Six girls on that side!  Copper wasn't so sure and kept reminding us that we had two babies.  Micah couldn't have cared less, and Kota was extremely jealous.  Then we went to Cameron's 2nd birthday party and relaxed the rest of the evening.  Kota wandered around and looked at cows and chickens.  Micah found this tiny chair and was pretty content just sitting.  Big twins with little twins.  Can't believe I never thought to do a picture like this with my brothers before!

Copper and I went on a date this afternoon.  Discovery Park and shopping at Target.  Copper picked out a new outfit, with shoes, to wear to her first day of preschool in a few weeks.  It was a great break for both of us!  Thanks to dad for watching Kota and Micah!

Julie posted this picture yesterday and said they were both giggling.  Love this!!

This is what the babies do when they find a box of coloring books and markers... make a mess and stare at you blankly like they don't know what's going on.  I realize they are naked in a lot of pictures.  They have a ton of clothes, nice, cute ones, but they are incredibly messy and fight getting dressed! Coloring is still Copper's favorite thing to do!

When the babies go to sleep, usually at 8, Copper stays up and we play games.  She looks forward to it every night.  We play the Wii, which she is surprisingly good at, or board games.  Her favorite is Candy Land.  She picks a card, counts how many she can move, and says, "how about this one," before deciding to move her man to any spot on the board (as long as the color matched).  The other night we played Zumba for the Wii, which isn't really playing I guess.  She has mastered flipping her head back while swinging her hips and shaking her behind.  Wish I had gotten a picture of it!

Love Wasatch Mental Health; I have great friends and developed an awesome working partnership with many there.  Sometimes I feel like it's my second work home.  Yesterday we were excited to go to the annual Wasatch Wellness Run.  I didn't get pictures of us running because 1) we signed up for the fun 1 mile walk, and 2) we had to take turns holding Copper because she got tired about 1/20th of the way done.  She sure perked right up at the finish line when she saw the bounce fun house, face painting, tractor train ride, and more.  I think we'll make this an annual tradition, though maybe next year I'll actually run!

Copper is such a good natured kid and generally happy.  The other day I told her no, can't remember to what, and then snapped the camera pictures as her face turned from happy to end-of-the-world.