a perfect storm

why is it that the first time you use your huge double stroller with your 2 children the following happen:
* it's raining
* you don't have all the components to hook the car seat on properly for your infant
* the baby wakes up
* the toddler throws a temper tantrum
* you can't get the stupid thing to unfold while you're standing in a mud puddle ankle deep and your pants are soaked and falling down and your hair is flat and in your eyes...
* and you can't get the seats to recline properly so your poor toddler is sitting up at a 90 degree angle....

so you power through and get inside and do what you have to do and then when you come back out to your car and get ready to load in all the children a man decides he needs your space b/c it's 2 spaces closer to the door than the other available spaces so you, being still unfamiliar with your stroller have to take care of the following in 5 minutes so as not to make said man wait:

* unhook impossibly latched infant car seat
* jostle infant into screaming fit
* latch infant into car in backseat (also note the lock on the back door that leads to the infant base doesn't work so you have to reach in from the front passenger to unlock it but you can't get a good grip b/c it was raining before so your hands are wet from touching the car...
* get baby in while toddler starts to scream and stroller starts strolling down the parking lot without you
* unload wet crying toddler who wants their juice which is buried inside your industrial diaper bag for mother's of two...
* come back to the stroller, put all the seats to their upright positions and try to remember the tricky combination of latches and levers to pull in order to fold stroller
* open your trunk and life 500 pound stroller to place inside only to remember that stroller doesn't fit in your trunk...
* haul it to the front seat which you must clear of huge diaperbag and smash your $200 stroller inside and kick the bottom wheels with your feet when they decide to stop budging
* run to the other side of the car and jump in (on the huge diaper bag that there is no longer room for inside of the car)
* get out and put diaper bag in the trunk
* get back in car with screaming babies
* back out slowly as you can't see out any window of the car as they are blocked by babies, stroller and car seats
* wave to the man with appropriate finger for making you rush through your first experience putting away "the beast" which is the new name for your slightly less fabulous stroller now that's it's been squished in the front seat after a rain storm.

the end!

haute couture

thanks to my fabulous friend sarah e. (who sent me THE most wonderful care package ever) maeve is wearing her first piece of designer gear! she commissioned her sister rachel, whose art you can see here (http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=127934) to make some wicked cute onesies--thanks so much!!

we went to the mall today for the first time with our buddies--it was nice and not too horrible thanks to my newborn's nocturnal preferences. we weren't successful at finding what we needed but we did have a very nice time! btw--driving a double stroller is like trying to get used to driving a limo when you've been driving a ford pinto..just sayin'!

phone home? not without my cell...

today was a blur--i think it has something to do with my late night rave with maeve--her chosen awake time of the day was from 9:30 p.m.--1:15 a.m....every minute that clicked by past 11 pm was killing me! what a longgggg night! thank goodness that the networks now provide all their shows online so i spent some time catching up on them and a little more time on facebook's neverending movie quiz--very entertaining. maeve is currently storing up energy for another late night date as i type...i probably should go take a nap!

here is a picture of my new phone which i am anxiously awaiting...i'm really not a phone person but i miss miss miss my little cell--R.I.P. i'm excited to meet my new pink phone which should arrive in a few days! woo!

the only other exciting tidbit is that today i sold all my maternity clothes on ebay. goodbye forgiving waistbands and extra long big belly covering shirts--it's time to downsize if you know what i mean...now i've got some incentive (i.e. no clothes!) to losing some of maeve's leftovers...

weber women

what's going on?

a list of the new things amelie and maeve can do:
amelie:
* currently obsessed with barbie (i have no idea how this happened). likes to wear any dress that looks like a "princess barbie dress" and wants to have a princess barbie castle.
* loves to "pet" her sister and talk to her
* has long conversations with us (the other day daddy was tuning her out a bit and she said, "talk to me daddy!"
* declares, "oh no!" whever she doesn't get her way.

maeve:
* started to coo a bit on thursday
* slept for 5 hours straight during the night (twice, but it's a start!)
* holding her head up and looking around--she's really strong!
* maeve is very content--never cries, sleeps well, eats well--Praise the Lord!
* had her first big girl bath today since her gross belly button now looks healed, albeit, still gross

yay for friday!

so excited today is friday--can't wait to have my husband back for the weekend! thank goodness for my mother in law who has wrangled my little amelie while i'm glued to the couch with maeve! bravo!
some things i've learned this week
1. i will never be able to get enough of that newborn smell....maeve is absolutely delicious, i am so thankful for her!
2. i have gone through a disturbing amount of wipes these past two weeks--two in diapers = many trips to target for supplies!
3. keep sippy cups away from your cell phone
4. the mailman/ups man will always come during nap time and ring the doorbell
5. amelie is obsessed with barbie...i don't understand it
6. yes, you can be too tired to blog...i'm done
yawn
stretch
narcolepsy

a dime a dozen

12 things
1* after a rash of horrible haircuts/hair experiences that involved a salon and too much money i decided to cut and color my own hair last night. how did i do? i don't see styling in my future, ha!

2* maeve slept well last night in her new bed--we got one of those little co sleeper beds because the pack and play just doesn't seem close enough for those 3 am wake up calls (not to mention the wake up calls at 11, 12, 1, 2 and so on...) the irony of this is that she slept so well in it--3 hour stretches at a turn that i didn't even need to be close for wake up calls--best $40 ever spent.

3* amelie loved this little bed and tried to "sleep" in it last night. she kept saying, "baby sister's bed is cute mommy!" and then she folded herself inside of it and screamed again and again, "i'm too big! i'm too big!" it was pretty cute so we let her pretend to sleep in it for a little while before bed.

4* oh crap, maeve just barfed on me...

5* ok, maeve is asleep now b2b (back to blogging..)

6* oops, that's amelie's door opening...


7* here is a smushy face picture of me and maeve since i haven't taken any yet. btw, it's super hard to take a smushy face picture with a newborn....yikes

8* ok, i guess maeve wasn't really asleep

9* i'm going to TRY to do some scrapbooking with a good friend from my working days (it's a wonder i can even remember being a productive professional!). we'll see how scrapbooking with 2 children goes =-)

10* i know what you're thinking, YES i can blog and breastfeed at the same time, i am just that talented...ha!

11* my cell phone had a run in with a sippy cup yesterday and is now completely stone cold dead and i am disconnected from the world (and by world i mean the only 2 people who call me--my mother and husband).

12* i think my sarah and her family are going to visit me today (yay!)...i wish i could tell them that my cell is broken but since every number i need is programmed into my cell phone and written nowhere therefore, i'm going to have to learn to do one of the following:
a. smoke signals
b. telegraph machine
c. telegram
d. skywrite


bonus blog tidbit
**13 bumbo seats have been recalled--this really just involves getting a new label because the seats shouldn't be used on an elevated surface....well duh!

i can do it myself!!

at one time or another (or every day) a mother of a toddler has heard the words--"i can do it myself!" from the lips of their little ones. amelie loves to help take care of the baby but wants to do everything herself--that means hold the baby without mama's help (even though at any given moment she may get distracted by a toy or the wind or something and jump off the couch without giving a care to where the baby may land).
my dear sweet amelie is fairly certain that she can also feed the baby herself. now, this wouldn't be a problem if i were bottle feeding but as i am breastfeeding there are some decided problems with her plan to help. yesterday, i was on the couch feeding the baby and amelie became very indignant and said, "mama, i can do it myself!" and proceeded to lift her shirt and pointed to the "feeding equipment." oh man, that was the best laugh i have had in a long time! i needed that! i lovingly explained that only mommy's can feed the baby this way and she said, "mommy, i have boobies, i can do it myself!" the mind of toddlers, it's the best!
meanwhile, in baby land, maeve has rebelled against all forms of sleeping. we've had 2 long nights (that's what i get for congratulating her on her really good night!) and are in for 2 more long nights since daddy is m.i.a. it's a good thing she's delicious because i'm starting to lose my appetite for all night soirees.

cupcake queen

you can tell that daddy picked out this cupcake for amelie--mama would never pick out something with frosting THAT RED! yikes! luckily she is an expert cupcake eater and the mess stayed on her tray...

it's going to be a long day! steven has dress rehearsal for his broadway show tonight...this is the longest week of the year in the weber household--we miss him!

shelly got some sleep!

it's some kind of miracle that kiddos can sense when you've been pushed to the edge of how much you can tolerate and then they surprise you by being fabulous...or in this case, by sleeping peacefully for 4 hours straight. you're the best maevey baby, now let's keep up the this trend!! even amelie got in on the action and went to bed by 9--this sounds late but is worlds better then 10:30! yay for my girls and one peaceful night!!

the brave little toaster is making a mad little monster out of me

ever heard of the brave little toaster? well, i never had until steven brought it home from blockbuster and it's driving me maddddddddddd. amelie LOVES it--like LOVES it enough to watch it 4 times a day everyday for the last 4 days and counting....whew! it's actually kind of a disturbing/scary movie for kids but somehow she finds all the little talking appliances engaging. i can't wait till this phase has passed--i'd watch boobah or caillou or anything other than this! it mostly bothers me because it's super depressing until the end when it's happy but you have to wait a long time for the happiness! anywho, just thought i'd share....

maeve and i stayed home from church today--i think we'll make an appearance next week. i'm trying to keep her germ free for as long as possible...easier said than done! here are some pictures i took this morning of my family, they're precious!

i'm a little worried about holding baby sister--but i love her (when i'm not busy trying to "poke her eyes" out)!
don't get too close to my cuteness daddy!
now i'm pretending you're not there dad!

i'd rather have a picture of my backpack!

maeve's hit a growth spurt, i've hit the "wall" and i think amelie is a vampire

last night was a longggggggggggg night. i think maeve has hit some two week growth spurt and decided mama was an all night buffet. so tired.......those days of postpartum euphoria/adrenaline have worn off so now i'm just plain tired. amelie went to bed well last night (miracle!) but woke up at 4 so since i was on maeve duty-daddy was on amelie duty (he totally hit the jack pot on that one since she SLEEPS! usually...).

the children have officially taken over every second of our lives and i'm about ready to mutiny. ha!

it's funny how much changes in such a relatively short amount of time. yesterday at the birthday party we attended i couldn't help but think back to just 3 short years ago when all of us were child-less and working and had free time and slept in on saturdays...3 years later we all have 2 kids and are tired and older...

anyways, having a family is a good thing--just a tiring thing.

two items of note:
* maeve's nasty belly button thingy fell off and left a disgusting mass underneath that scared us so we called the doctor and asked what was considered worrisome. it seems as though we shouldn't be concerned but i don't foresee bikinis in maeve's future.

* amelie has tourettes (sp?) or something. she thinks it's hilarious now to scream out "POOP!" at the top of her lungs. screaming poop doesn't mean she has pooped or will poop...she just likes saying the word...

happy birthday hannah and aiden!

today amelie and maeve had their first big kid birthday party. our friend hannah turned 3 today while her brother aiden turned 2! their mama had two babies on the same day--just a year apart! i can't believe how time flies, it seems just like our yesterday our "little" 3 year olds were born!










amelie had a blast eating pizza, cupcakes, ice cream, playing pin the patch on diego's vest, and with all her little friends and just taking in the general splendor.

maeve slept.

we were lucky enough to have the help of the granny of the east who was on amelie duty while i was on maeve duty--fyi--i think i got the easier end of the bargain ;) amelie didn't want to leave (especially since i'm pretty sure she thought she'd be able to take home at least one of the presents) but had some outdoor fun with granny when we got home while mama attended to little sister's needs. it was a lovely day and i'm totally glad i didn't have to clean up after 10 toddlers, their parents and little baby siblings!

maeve's first park trip!

maeve's first trip to the park--see how excited she was!??!

don't worry little sister, i'll show you the ropes! it's SUPER CHEESE to the rescue!

see the sea saw? it's my favorite!

it'll be a while before you can climb up here!

i love the slide! especially the rolly bar one!

and the swing!
Check out this video: amelie on the swing



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someday you'll appreciate the park babysistermaeve!

halloween a day late (and a dollar short for that matter...)

well, yesterday was my first day on my own with my little chicks and it went pretty well--mostly due to the fact that maeve sleeps all day!

i took my little lady bug over to school to see steven and she "trick or treated" at the school and church office and a lot of people got to meet maeve--it was very nice. we even had a special surprise and were able to play with hannah and aiden (all dressed up of course!) and miss amy got to meet miss maeve!

later in the day we spent some time with granny and pop pop and even though amelie refused to wear her cute lady bug headgear she was still pretty precious!

maeve did a lot of late night partying in celebration of halloween so i am tiredddd. on the upside, i got to watch all of the shows i taped last night...it's not really much of an upside but i had to find something!

also, i'm attaching a picture of maeve that amelie took, isn't she just the little artist? ha! no plans for today, i'm tired just thinking about doing anything!