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Family/Travel Travel

Babies First Easter

Last Easter was my last time travelling while pregnant/without babies in hand. It seems like a lifetime & just weeks ago at the same time.

My parents, Lucy, Zach & I packed up & headed down to my grandparents’ on OIB Thursday night. Lucy & Zach slept & did great until about 15 minutes left & then I was finding Baby Eisten videos on youtube as quick as they would load!

Friday, we brought Lucy & Zach along for Mom, Nana & I to make Walmart & grocery store runs. They fell asleep in the van so we ended up shopping in shifts leaving one adult & both babies in the car at all stores. My Nana has agreed to make Lucy & Zach baptism outfits using the fabric from my mom’s wedding dress. We found patterns at Walmart & I’m so excited!

Friday night, my mom made this awesome shrimp & wild rice casserole. The recipe will soon be it’s own post & to be remade soon at my house.

Saturday morning, I took a mommy break with my Nana & went to Happy Nails for a pedicure & my first shallac manicure. So far, my nails are holding up to all that two babies can throw at them. I returned in time to feed both & for Lucy to take a nap while Zach accompanied Jason, Nana, my mom & me to the local neighborhood Easter egg hunt & raw egg toss. We just watched from the sidelines this year. But it’ll be so fun for Lucy & Zach to participate next year in something that’s been going on since before I was born!

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Saturday afternoon, Mom & I took the babies for a long stroll {yay for stroller naps!}. We took over the floor in my grandparents’ den with baby toys. Their dog Bocce was unsure what to think of mobile babies at first. He quickly learned to like them after we let him clean up the floor around their high chairs! And he learned quick to follow behind to pick up dropped Cherrios from the stuffed plastic eggs we gave them to play with.

We dyed Easter eggs that evening. The babies thought they were pretty cool.

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Sunday we started off at the beach church service. Both babies were interested at first then got warm & snuggly on us & took a nap. I found their super cute, casual & coordinating without being too matchy/matchy bunny onesies at The Children’s Place on clearance btw.

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We arrived home by late afternoon {the babies napped most of the car ride while I read a book in the back seat!}, enjoyed Easter lunch KFC leftovers for dinner & went to bed early. Happy {late} Easter all!

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Babies

happy St Patrick’s day!

Lucy & Zach wore coordinating Mom’s lucky charm outfits to daycare Fri. Just had to share!

Happy first St Patty's day Lucy & Zach!
Happy first St Patty’s day Lucy & Zach!

We’ll all be wearing green today as we lounge around the house & run a few errands.

Hope the luck of the Irish was with you this weekend! (& since my wolfpack lost Sat, I’m all for my brother’s alum. Go VCU Rams!)

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Everything Else

Babies’ First Christmas

I admired everyone else’s Christmas posts & swore I’d have ours done before a month went by. Oops! This is fairly pathetic but typical to my life now that I just this week downloaded the 300+ Christmas photos off the DSLR. So yeah, more than two months later, here’s Zach & Lucy’s first Christmas in photos.

Christmas Eve some friends stopped by & one of them took this great photo of our extended family {on my Dad’s side}. Zach & I opening one gift of his Christmas Eve {Lucy was already asleep}. Zach also woke up first early Christmas morning so we played with his Great Nana by the tree until Sister woke up then they played together on the den floor until everyone else in the house joined us.

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We open stockings in the basement in pjs & the babies fell asleep on us. Clearly they were impressed. 😛 Zach & Lucy enjoyed round after round of gifts included an owl hoodie for Zach & his first set of Nerf balls. We attempted pea purees Christmas night aka bath time!

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We stayed up at my parents’ for a few days after Christmas. These are a few of my favorites from the 26th & 27th {Lucy under the tree, Kisses from Daddy & Pops, my attempt at a Lucy & Zach in coordinating jammies shot was a fail for Zach.

Christmas 2012 3

 We enjoyed an awesome first Christmas having Lucy & Zach around. We were all spoiled especially them!

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Food

White Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake Cookies

I’d have sworn I’d pinned the recipe for these that I saw on pinterest just before Christmas. But of course, when I opened my boards with cake mix box & white chocolate chips in hand, it wasn’t there.

Instead of really winging it {impossible for me as a baker to do}, I searched pinterest. And though I was unable to find what I’d originally seen, I did discover pinch of yum’s version.  I wasn’t interested in all her add-ons, so I scaled our cookies back to the basics & they were a deliciously huge hit.

bad cell phone photo of really good cookies.

Ingredients

1 box devil’s food cake mix
1 egg
1 stick of butter
tsp vanilla
cup of white chocolate chips

Cream butter in stand mixer. Add in the egg & vanilla. Slowly mix in the box cake mix. Stir in the chips.

Place rounded spoonfuls on greased baking sheets. Bake on 350 for 10-12 mins or until beginning to crack.

Enjoy!

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Family/Travel

Sick, party of four

We made it through the Christmas holiday {relatively} sickness free. After their colds & hand foot mouth & Lucy’s bout with pink eye 10 days before, we were feeling lucky to experience a fabulous first Christmas with just little baby colds & Lucy having chapped cheeks. {Christmas post with pics to come}

Then, on the 26th, Zach woke up with his left eye super goopy & stuck shut. His beautiful eye lashes were all matted. I scooped him up in the ergo & carried him close
as we shopped that afternoon. He seemed okay & tolerated eye compresses in the Loft & Crate & Barrel bathrooms. By Wednesday night, though, his eye was still bad & we felt like his little cold wasn’t great either.

Jason got up with me Thurs around 3a for Lucy’s night feeding feeling like he’d been hit by a truck. He’d caught the babies’ cold bad.

Lucy woke up Thurs morning with yellow gunk in her eyes & we realized it’d be a trip to urgent care for both. luckily, we heard about KidMed which was super close by my parents’ house. They opened at 3p & we were waiting at 245. We were impressed by the nurses, doctor & staff. We got in & seen & on our way within an hour. They checked & thankfully both were negative for RSV & the flu. They were diagnosed with viral colds/upper respatory infections & pink eye. A couple days of drops three times a day, & the babies are doing much better.

They got much TLC Thurs & Fri from their Pops & me while Jason rested. We decided to delay going home til they were better.

Of course, Sat, my dad & I woke up stuffy & with sore throats. After a couple doses of dayquil, he felt better, but they didn’t have anything I could take but cough drops . I’ve been struggling through & thankful that my Mom stayed well & Jason was on the mend enough for me to rest Sat evening.

As I write this Sunday afternoon traveling back home, lil crusty noses are all that remains of the babies’ sickness, Jason has the colds-almost-over cough, & I have tissues stuck up my nose. Good times!