Don’t Call it a Comeback
Friday, May 6th, 2005 at 10:35 am · 13 views
I really do miss blogging here… really I do. I am know so involved in a regular routine, that I often find it difficult to sit and write here. I can’t say that I don’t have time… it is just that sometimes I rather be doing something else you know? I imagine that a lot of people who have been blogging for years have gone through this at LEAST once, some way more than others. There is a life outside of the internet *gasp… yes I said it.
If my life were a pie chart, I would say that the twins take a nice size portion of my peach cobbler. LOL yeah I changed it from a pie to a cobbler… because peach cobbler would be oh so tasty right about now. Anyway, during the work week, when I come home I immediately kiss JT then go and love up my sugar plums, William and Keisha. Keisha does this (somewhat annoying) thing where if I don’t tend to her AS SOON AS I get in the door, she starts crying. Well she taught this lovely behavior to her brother. Now, when I come home, I dash to kiss you know who then I don’t come back to the twins right away, I’m guaranteed to hear one, if not BOTH OF THEM crying their lungs out because mama came home without playing with them.
I get home about a quarter to 7pm and the next thing I know it is about 7:30pm. Time for Keisha to eat. Now at this time, sometimes William is so sleepy that he has passed out for a short nap before the last meal of the day. But no… not Keisha. She hangs in there until the end. Around 7:30pm, she gets to doing her uhhh uhhh uhh whiny thing that she does. Sometimes, I can calm her down enough to go make the bottle, other times I may leave her screaming her head off while I go make the bottle. If she is not screaming her head off, I’ll make William’s and Keisha’s bottle. Around 7:30-8pm, Keisha drinks about 7 ounces. On a smooth day, Keisha drinks her bottle, falls into a peaceful princess sleep and I take her up to her crib. Or after the bottle, Keisha is so laid back that I check her diaper, strip her down to a onsie, take her upstairs, hand her some toys in the crib, turn on the ocean aquarium and walk out the room. I come back downstairs, gather William’s medicine, wake up my lil man… if I’m feeling lovey dovey like the emotional mother that I am, I’ll hold him in my arms while he drinks or if I need my hands free to do whatever, I’ll place William in the highchair while the prince eats.
On a smooth day, William is done drinking his bottle about 8:30pm-ish. I do all the same things as with Keisha and take him upstairs to the nursery. You’ll see me say ’smooth day’ a lot… These days I have three types of days that I experience; from best to worst: smooth day, semi-smooth day, bad day. On a smooth day, everything goes perfect; no arguments with my love, we were cooperative and listened to each other, no excessive crying from the twins, no annoying phone calls, no unwanted news and work went by without a tension headache. On a semi-smooth day, two or three of the above mentioned events, go wrong. And with a bad day, four or more things go wrong… basically everything goes wrong. Self-explanatory right? Now when I say smooth day, you will know what I mean.
I could go on and on but I won’t. Let me end with a quick developmental update on the twins and when I get home, I may upload some pictures *gasp. The twins will be eight months old on May 14. William is crawling and can know pull himself up on things, i.e. the couch, my legs, chairs, bouncers and his crib. Two days ago he destroyed his Looney Toon crib mobile by pulling it down. JT and I were laughing hysterically. I even took pictures of the Looney Toon characters as they appeared as victims laying helpless face down in William’s crib. Also, William is teething and he has two teeth coming in at the bottom. So cute!!
Keisha isn’t crawling yet, but we do remain optimistic about her development as well. She has fully mastered the rolloever technique. Instead of crawling like her brother, she rolls over to get where she wants to get. Keisha knows that she is THE princess of the house and she enjoys doing backflips… that’s a little thing that we do. Dominique Dawes ain’t got nothing on my Keisha Nicole. Keisha is also teething, but you can only see the whiteness in the gums at this time.
No matter what has happened to me… even on a bad day, at the end of the day I know that I have been blessed by God. God has blessed my family with two beautiful and healthy children. I can’t imagine my life without William and Keisha. They bring so much joy in our lives.
If I don’t make it here again before Sunday, I want to wish all of you mothers a Happy Mother’s Day. This is my first REAL Mother’s Day (last year, I received presents and beautiful Mother-to-be cards). So this year is even more special since I get to share it with the twins outside of the womb. LOL.
Happy Mother’s Day!!
