New Siggy and Update.

Carinna from HotGraphix made me this beautiful new siggy! I love it.... the girls rarely smile for pictures so when they were didI knew I had to get a siggy made of the pics!

The girls are doing great and I just want to give a great big fat apology for not updating this more!

Madeleine is trying her very hardest to walk! She has pulled herself up now on a few occasions and is totally proud of herself. I am yet to get a picture of her standing but I'm working on it! I'm always so proud to watch her when she does I forget to run for the camera!

Corah is crawling now which I am also VERY proud of. There was a time when I thought she would struggle to sit up on her own before a year.. so she is doing great. She still goes to her physiotherapist, but its doing great. They're doing some things in water now as well as massaging and things and she says Corah shouldn't have to go anymore past 18 months, when she should be caught up with her sister.

The girls have started babbling. I love it when they talk to me.. they have the cutest babbles. Madeleines favorite is "abuu" and Corahs is "puuuf" followed by a ton of spit deposited in my direction!

I am just a very proud Mommy!

Mommy

..is terrible at updating this thing!

Corah and Madeleine want Mommys attention all the time and don't want to let her update all her lovely friends about their daily lives!

Mommy misses Daddy lots and lots.

Oh yeah Mommy is gonna go crazy soon!

Messy babies.

They love their food!

Grocery shopping.

It seems to me these days that grocery shopping takes at least twice as long as it did before the twins!

This is not just down to the fact we have to buy certain things for two new family members... although that does contribute!

By the time I get there it's longer than usual. Strapping two babies into their carseats who very often don't want to go or sit in their carseats. Trying to leave one sitting somewhere where they will not roll off and kill themselves while I strap the other one into their seat.

Then we leave. It's no longer than 5 minutes to our nearest Walmart but at times it can feel like a million miles when one (or worse, both) of the girls are not happy about this latest venture to the supermarket.

When we arrive, I start the searching around for carts. Double carts are few and far between around this place.. so finally when I get one flagged down, I get both girls strapped on. There should be one seat at the front and another at the back.. not beside each other. Having the girls so close to each other is a deadly combination, only leading to punches being thrown from one to the other!

So we get moving. I am starting to get pretty flustered at this time... these days there is of course no time to make out a list. Those days are long gone! I run round as fast as I can.. trying to keep one eye on both girls and the other on the lane infront, making sure I am not banging into any unsuspecting passers by. My third eye is of course there to look for the things we need and pick it up without knocking the whole row over!

We endure the usual question time while out, taking us a good 15mins each day. Yep they're twins, they're both mine. Two girls (they're not boys in drag I promise), No they don't have matching names, Yep they were a big surprise to us. No we didn't have to have IVF, there is not a history of twins in the family, I do have my hands full... and of course.. no they are not identical!

By this time I am getting severly fed up. I usually grab a few things and run for it.. looking for the desk with the shortest possible queue. By this time one of the girls may have fallen asleep on the other.. or one screaming with hunger, or screaming with tiredness as they cannot sleep in the uncomfortable carts!

After we arrive back in the car.. I endure the difficult task of getting the groceries and kids back in the car. Back to normality... for a while anyway!

Oh the difficulty of some seemingly "everyday" chores.

Mommy Day.

Happy Mothers Day to all my fellow Mommy bloggers :) If you're a lurker.. Mommy or not.. I'd love to get to know you better. Leave me a comment at the end.. I love meeting new people and getting the motivation to keep going and post more often about my munchkins!

We had a lovely day. My Mom and Dad now up from Texas again to stay with us for a week - she was here yesterday we had a lovely day. I felt super bad though because my little sisters are down in Texas staying with my elder sister and they weren't with Mommy yesterday! But hopefully she had a nice enough day with me and her grandbabies.

It was great. I got a lovely spa trip from the girls (gramee) and also a DOUBLE JOGGER STROLLER! I am so stoked about it. It hasn't arrived yet.. but Chase bought it and ordered it and is very annoyed it hasnt showed up! It is so sweet of him to think of me here while he is away!

It is an instep stroller.. like the one below. I think anyway!



Here are a few pictures of the day. C & M are teething LIKE CRAZY.. hence them chewing on everything in sight! But I love my little bald babies.




Mothers Day has been a time of immense reflection for me. Though last year I was heavily pregnant and felt like a mother.. I had no idea what I was in for! The surge of different emotions has been intense and at times so exhausting and difficult. I feel like I am "coming out the other side" now... a better, stronger person, a MOTHER. Of course I will face a lot more difficult times as I go along my journey with the girls, but hopefully now I am learning how to cope with those things, how to overcome any hurdles we may have.

The Lord has blessed me with two beautiful baby girls, and I realise that now... he didn't give me more than I could handle, like I thought at the start.. he has given me the two greatest gifts in the whole world, and I couldn't thank or praise him enough for it.

Best friends.

I feel the picture says it all.
I am so blessed!

Giggle gurts.

OK.. first off, sorry about the last post! I thought I had uploaded pictures but they didn't come out when it posted, so hopefully I'll have better luck this time round!

My girls LOVE to laugh. They giggle at everything these days! Usually me acting like a complete and utter nutter to get them to laugh for pictures. They even laugh at each other, it's so cute.

If Madeleine will start to laugh, Corah will hear her laughing and sometimes laugh along with her! Or vice versa except it's usually Madeleine that starts off the laughter! I love it, of course I end up laughing too, we are just a houseful of laughter at the moment!

Anyway, here is a lovely laughter picture for you all, of my little piggies. Thanks to Lorna and Ryan for sending over these outfits a while ago - it's taken me until now to put them on the girls but I LOVE them. They look so cute as little piggies!

Sorry it's so big, I had to use tinypic to post it as the uploader tool here seems no longer to be working for me and I'm scared to resize it manually here as most of the time I distort it terribly! Thanks for understand!

Chase - We have been in touch and he's doing fine. Thanks to everyone for your continued thoughts and prayers :)

Amy