workin' out

pretend I posted this last night. that's when I started writing it.

If I had written this post at 2 pm it would have begun like this: "O. M. G. I am SO amazing. I am an all star." etc. I was pretty impressed with myself.

If I had written this post at 3 pm it would have gone like this: "O. M. G. I am SO sore. It hurts to move, I will never move again." etc.

And if I were to not write this post until, say, Valentine's Day, it would go like this: "Blake is the most incredibly amazing husband ever."

So what did I do today (yesterday)?

Well, it starts with Blake being awesome, because it starts with sleep. Blake took the babies all night last night. Why? Because at 5:30 am I woke up to pump and get ready so that by 6:30 I was meeting Brianne and buying myself a nice little punch card at the Redmond Pool (which has reopened under new ownership). Ah but wait, I skipped a part of my day - while pumping I signed Blake and I up for the RainMan Triathlon. Yep, for Christmas Jackie got me a USAT (T for triathlon) membership and my goal is to get back into it. Progress prior to yesterday: none. But, I have multiple awesome supportive friends, and Brianne has been motivating me to start swimming with her again, so yesterday I finally did it.

As if that was not enough to impress you (and really, I was impressed with myself the night before when I shaved my legs) I also took the babies on a walk yesterday all by myself (sorta). Where did you walk, Dana, and why sorta? Well, I'll tell you.

Earlier this week somebody posted on EMOMs that they wanted to walk with someone around Redmond Ridge. And somebody else said, "Join me for a walk around Kirkland on Thursday at noon." So I joined them! Packed up the babies, packed up our new fancy Bob stroller into the trunk (which includes taking off all three wheels), and drove to Kirkland. We met near the intersection of Park St & Lake St and we walked along Lake all the way down to Carillon Point and back. It was like 4 miles (according to the mom leading the walk, I can't estimate distances myself). 4 miles, 4 moms, 8 babies. we were pretty funny looking.

if you're still waiting for the impressive part, that was it. insert applause here. blake gets applause too because he knew I would be tired so he came home from work half an hour early and watched the babies while I napped before tutoring (he then got his own turn napping while I tutored). pretty awesome and supportive husband I have.

things 1 & 2

happy birthday ev-dogg. :)

in honor of Evan's birthday I will share some pics of the kiddos in outfits that Evan and Alyssa purchased. I do eventually plan to make a photobook of the babies' first year - here are two pages of that book with pictures I took last week.

5 month photoshoot

ta da! the 5 month photoshoot.

there's music on this one, fyi. it's from the barenaked ladies kids CD "Snacktime" which darren recently gave me. the first track is one of my favs, the second is just the one that was the right length to fit the video!

as usual, thanks to danielle for taking and editing these photo!

enjoy!

kaylee rolls too!

yesterday kaylee rolled over. it was pretty funny, she just had this look that was like, what's the big deal? I could always do this, I just didn't feel like it. I got a video, and will post that later, as we're headed to portland in a few minutes here.
also yesterday I broke out in a crazy rash which makes disease 5 since christmas around here. ridiculous. but I went to urgent care (I know, for a rash? but I was dying with rapid onset of itchyness and welts and hives and whatnot and it was 9pm so nobody was open and, like I said, we're leaving for portland here in a few, so I didn't want to delay that and yada yada.... anyways...) so now I'm drugged and all better. well, getting better. diseases 1-4 included an infection in my lips which took 3 doc visits, 3 different drugs, and 3 different cultures to diagnose and cure (worst part was the drug that made me have to pump and dump - frustrating!!!), a common cold for blake, a common cold for me, and a nice rash and fever for ethan.

what a crazy life!

9 years ago

today is 9 years since blake and my first date. (man, we're old.)

I told blake to find a pic of us from 2002 and this is what he chose. we're at an As vs Ms game in Oakland. :)

evidence of ethan rolling :)

a little ethan roll for your enjoyment (it brings me great enjoyment). he's so cute (and so is kaylee). this parenting thing is sorta fun. :) (read: they are only waking up once during the night now. okay, kaylee is only waking up once. but ethan is almost there, he wakes up 1-3 times, but that's better than 3-6 times).

ethan rolled over!

Ethan rolled over twice today! tummy to back. they're both a little behind on this milestone, so hurray - way to go ethan!