Happy Halloween!

Would you like to hear a halloween story? Ethan would.

Go Giants

Yesterday when my mom came over she had a project. Armed with some felt, elastic, thread, and a needle, she was determined to make the beards for the babies. Beards? you say. Yes... for those of you who are not cool (like me - although, as I consider my blogging audience I think most of you are cool and may already know this...) the SF Giants are in the World Series. Okay, you prob knew that, and I actually did too. But, I didn't know that they have a pitcher with, apparently, a crazy beard, and that people like to say, "Fear the Beard." So while the babies napped, my mom worked on her little craft project, and when they woke up, we had a very mini photoshoot. Thanks to Uncle Evan we already owned a Giants jacket and pants outfit which Ethan got to wear due to sizing, and Kaylee went for the generic orange onesie (and her jeggings).

So, all that's to say:
Go Giants!

Happy Birthday GG!

This past weekend both of my grandmas came up to meet the babies. They got to spend lots of time with the babies including Saturday when we took LOTS of pictures. and by "we" I really mean Dave and Danielle. Jackie and Brianne came over and helped out too, holding bottles and blankets and telling us where to stand etc. I've only looked through Danielle's photos so far, but I tagged over 100 of them that I really liked. Here's just one:

In case you don't know all my family members, we have:
Nana (my mom), Nonni (my dad's mom), Gramps (my dad), GG (my mom's mom), and of course me, blake, ethan, and kaylee.

Thanks again Grandmas for coming up to visit! and also thanks to all photographers and helpers!

and...

Happy 75th Birthday GG!!!

(it's today)

2 month photoshoot

What's that you say? You want to see the pics from Danielle's 2 month photoshoot? Well, if you insist.

:)

at nana's

here's a cute little video we took at my parents' house a week or two ago.

Also - the kiddos got to meet two of their great grandmas for the first time on Friday. Both of my parents' parents are up from CA for a visit. On Saturday we took lots of pictures, so stay tuned for those in a few days (they need sorting and maybe some photoshopping first). Also their two month photos are coming soon! I'm not going to lie, my kids are cute! ;)

wordless wednesday

numbers (nerd post)

• 7.5 - the number of hours I'm tutoring this week. perhaps why I'm feeling so number-y.
• 127 - the number of pages I have to read before book club on thursday... middle of the night pumping sessions = reading
• 2.5 - the number of hours I spend purely pumping per day.
• 4+ - the number of hours I spend doing pump-related things per day - getting set up, finding bottles, handwashing or loading bottles in the dishwasher... this is over 15% of my life right now, about 1/3 of my awake time...
• 10 - the number of days I've been exclusively pumping and recording how much milk I get in an effort to increase my supply
• 24.75 - the minimum amount of oz I've pumped in the last 10 days (on day 2)
• 29 - the max oz (days 5 and 8)
• 50ish - the number of oz I would need to exclusively feed the babies breastmilk. a long way to go...
• 0.425 - the slope of the linear best fit line of my pumping output. wait, what? translation: I'm increasing my pumping output by almost half an ounce per day.
• $99.25 - the amount I spent at the EMOMs consigment sale last Saturday.
• $2 - the amount I almost stole from EMOMs (accidentally - I was caught by the door-checkers and went back and paid - it was for a set of thing-1 thing-2 stuffed dolls to accompany their halloween outfits of dressing as thing one and thing two - thank you evan and alyssa)
• $25 - the most expensive item I bought at the sale - a bumbo seat - ethan enjoys it, but kaylee's not ready for it yet. mimi - if they have them in NZ riley might like it a lot if she's trying to sit up
• $5 - the second most expensive item I bought at the sale - a santa suit for ethan!
• 49 - the number of outfits I bought at the sale - all btwn 25 cents and $2 each. I also got a baby monitor ($3 - we didn't have one yet and for $3 I thought we'd see if we liked having one!), bottle drying rack ($1.50), and 6 more dr browns bottles ($2 or $3 I forget).
• 3 - number of days until the babies get to meet two of their great-grandmas!
• 4 - the number of nights blake is babysitting after work this week (I'm going to tutor, tutor, tutor, book club)
• a zillion - things I should be doing instead of blogging before nana gets here. oh look, nana's here.
• 2 - number of baby shout-outs:
• 1 - number of babies born this week - welcome halcyone marie!
• 1 - number of babies turning 1 today - happy birthday madeleine!