Picnic and Fountains

On Wednesday we met Tia Andria and Primos Dominic and Donovan at Sealy. Tia Andria beat us there, she had the blanket already set up when we got there. We ate some lunch and then Dominic and Bianca were off to splash in the fountains. Donovan, Sydney and Peyton played on the blanket. Check out the feet.

Bianca and Dominic went between the water and the park quite a few times. It was nice to sit in the park and watch the kids play and have a little bit of grown up talk. I was surprised at all the people, guess they have lots of mom groups that meet at Sealy. There were quite a few big kids too. When I was a kid Sealy had a pool, we spent most of our summers between Sealy, Howe, Cottage pools and Waterworld.



Bianca took Donovan to play in the water, looks like they were having fun. I'm thinking I need to get wet next time too.

Rage Team Picture

The Rage

Coach Ben, Annie, Cydney, Monesa, Tamiko, Alex, Blanca, Natalie, Coach Phil
Cathy, Tiara, Renee, Jade, Bianca, Christine, Catalina

Sonoma Classic

Game 1
Saturday we drove up to Fairfield for the Rage's first tournament. Our team happened to be the youngest team out there with the least experience but that didn't stop them. They were ready. The first game they won 1-nil, Blanca got the goal. Our girls had some good shots, some going off the posts, others the goalie - who was as big as me... was saving. We played most of the game shooting. We were happy with the shut out. The rage got 8 points for that game. The next game was like 6 hours later... it sucked... we went to the mall and ate, walked around til we were bored stupid... went back to the park and napped a lil - me and the babies that is. It was sooooooo WINDY, ugly wind - tents were flying around, umbrella's were snapping... but the babies and I managed to stay in the shade or outta the sun as much as possible.

Courntey helps out with the babies a lot, very glad to have her out there and holding one baby switching off with me... it's hard work. Her daughter is Cydney, she's the sweeper - Ben likes to refer to her as the one who cleans up the mess - like when someone blows by one of our midfielder or defenders.. Cydney jams over and knocks the ball out or back up the field. She saved us quite a few times.

Game 2
The Rage lost the next game 2-0. The girls were taking shots, we were getting unlucky, our girls had some shots... but we couldn't get them by the amazon lady in the box. The girls seemed tired and out of sync, bunching up and playing kick ball. I think it had something to do with playing early and being bored the rest of the day and not eating healthy lunches... Everyone was eating at that Chick Filet place....The other team were big girls, it seemed like all the teams were bigger than us. They were almost all 2nd year under 12's.... but our girls held their heads up.

Game 3
Sunday we drove up again... first game at 10, next game at 3 if we win - or had the second highest number of points. Game started... the girls looked good, we were playing like ourselves again or themselves. Again we had some shots but nothing fell in..... Tied 0-0, but we managed to have enough points to move on to play at 3 for third and fourth place.

Game 4
We were playing Annadale Strikers... Before the game I overhead the Strikers saying is that Purple team the Rage the team we're gonna beat to death... the coach was laughing... I was appauled.... We had to switch to the other side of the field cuz they were home team... they had switched to white shirts... When our team was on our side talking strategy their team came over and started shouting out while stretching... it was rude... oh well our team decided to switch to our white shirts before the game since we were visitors we could choose, that made the other team mad and they were shouting CHANGE BACK, but they had to change not us...

Bianca scored about 5 minutes into the game... everyone was going wild, cuz we scored first, that set the other team into a fiery, they started pushing and elbowing lots... the refs let it all go.... Bianca took an elbow in the eye, was crying and had to come out.. NO CALL at all on the elbow to the eye - what was the ref watching... the other team kept it up... next Jade came out after getting tripped and a cleat to the head.... Then Christine was taken out from behind and sprained her wrist... then Renee came out after having the wind knocked out of her, and then Blanca was taken out - kicked in the knee... it was brutal... RUGBY style - but Coach wouldn't let our girls sink to the Strikers level... The strikers scored a goal about 15 minutes into the game. Then half time.... The Strikers came right out and scored 20 seconds into the second half... we were down.... (all the injuries didn't happen in the first half... I just wanted to get them out there, not doing a play by play on the injuries). Right before Blanca got hurt she scored.. so we were tied up... GO RAGE.... The Strikers were pushing us off the ball, and acting like fools.. but getting away with it.. they got all the calls for them... amazing how it happened. The Ref called a handball against us in the box (there were lots of hand balls they didn't call) it wasn't really a handball, the girl covered her chest to keep from being hurt and turned away, it hit her elbow... they got the penalty kick and scored.... so we lost 3-2... but we were proud of our girls, they played well even after being hurt, pushed and bruised... we hung in there.... The Rage took 4th place - here they are sportin medals...

Friday - visit w/ friends

We had lunch with Sherri, Soccer Jim and Jordie. Sherri picked up Sunflower... her and jordie had nutburgers.... soccerjim had a grilled cheese and Bianca and I had quesadilla's - bianca was a good sport but didn't eat much. We also had some banana shake and some yummie fruit juice. Soccerjim picked up a cheesecake (passion fruit) The berries were amazing. We played catch up and enjoyed the babies.

- here are some pictures

Yoga Babies

Grillz

Stood up

Today Sydney decided to stand up.... okay it's not like it's her first time standing, or standing up... but it was the first time that she pulled herself up using something besides someone's hands. Peyton was sitting in the bouncer and bianca had sydney on her lap talking to peyton - sydney grabbed onto the orange bar on the bouncer and pulled herself into a standing position, then proceeded to eat the toys on the bouncer... she stood for a good three minutes, until Bianca grabbed her off and sat her back down... she kept doing it...

what's been going on

Random shots

Whoa


Mohawk Mania


Sydney is out for the count


Peyton's hungry

Cereal

Peyton enjoyed her first bowl of cereal "Mama, keep spooning that into my chops, don't stop?"


Sydney went first. "icky, I don't like this, why do you keep spooning this into my mouth

Rage Tournament

Saturday was the first tournament.... we were all glad it wasn't super hot.... the cooler weather was a welcome surprise. The girls had one sub.... but they were awesome. The first game was 1-0, Bianca scored the only goal. Second game was a really good game... lots of goals. Blanca got two goals, Bianca got one goal and Tiara got one goal. The third and forth game were ties. The last game we won 2-0 and Tiara got two goals. Our girls played so good together. They looked amazing, I was really surprised at how well they played. Every single girl contributed to those wins, we were proud of them all. Everyone played hard. The other teams were pushing and fouling lots, no cards given.... because it was coaches who were calling the game instead of real refs... UGGHH... We got 33 points and first in our division... GO RAGE.

The babies and I sat under a big beach umbrella playing... I had some help from Courntey, Irene and my sister came for the last two games... During the breaks the soccer girls would crowd around our blanket and talk to the babies.. Sydney and Peyton's buddie Carter was at the last two games.. and I took some pictures of them all... Someone asked if we had triplets... Carter is four months old, but as big as the girls... I'll post pictures soon. Peyton got a lil sunburned.. I was totally bummed... Sydney got less burnt than Peyton - i put sunscreen on them both and we were under the shade the whole time.. cept when we walked to the car to leave....

Chaotic July 26th

I woke up early, Ben left for LA, I don't even remember him saying goodbye.... how sad is that? I got up and nursed babies around 6:30, jumped in the shower, played with babies, woke Bianca up, hung out with Bianca, Babies and Grandma, nursed babies. My sister showed up late... I told her 7:45, she came at 8:15... I had a dr appt at 8:50 - my milk was spraying the world.. okay my paper sweater was WET, milk was just shootin across the room, for no apparent reason. Headed home to grab a few things, hit Starbucks for a fix - had a mocha frappachino (it was good, but it wasn't an iced vanilla latte).

A random young woman chased me down in the parking lot. Wanting to know what I was doing (right) in order to be a stay at home mom... Actually she said when she's out and about she likes to find out what people are doing - she's a finanical planner or something from Primeamerica.... anyhow I told her i was not a stay at home mom... I was going back to work in November... Then she asked "are all these yours" (amy, bianca, sydney and peyton). I claimed them all, but informed her that Amy was my sister... finally she let us on our way, with the promise of calling me... ~rolls eyes~ "how exciting".

We went to grandma's to change the babies and nurse the babies.. Peyton had an accident, so we had to change babies.... change outfits, because grandma doesn't think sydney and peyton should not not be matching... put the babies down for a quick nap... they hadn't slept yet.... 1100 to 1130 they napped then we headed to my work to introduce the babies..... First we went to the cafeteria to see Vangie and Carrie. Frankie and Leann met us down there too.... We ran into David's wife - Janie who came over to see the babies. Janie thought the babies were gorgeous and she had the girls smiling and laughing while Vangie decided to scare Sydney and make her cry... Vangie later redeemed herself. although I thought she might drop Sydney...Sydney tried to jump out of Vangie's arms... Beware of jumpin babies.

finally we made it upstairs after signing in and stealing up the elevator. We met Alison, Shona and Darice in the hallway, they got a baby fix and then we moved into our work area... that's where we saw everyone... it was a huge party. Amy (my coworker, not my sister) pinched my cheeks.. she got a handful of my cheek... wow, it was like being a kid again... she used to say she wanted to grab the babies chubby cheeks.. glad she chose mine instead. Liz told me that security was after me for using my badge when I wasn't supposed to.... OPPS Dwayne escorted me to get a visitor badge. The babies enjoyed being passed around, they were smiling, laughing and havin a great time. Peyton hung out with Roberta for a lil bit while Sydney tried to break Brian's Raiders watch.

We got to break up a meeting with the Portal Team... the babies brought the meeting to a halt... Marlene held Sydney for a few, while Diana held Peyton... we did some comparisons... it was so hot in the building.. holding a baby and being hot sucks.... i was surprised people wanted to hold hot, sweaty babies... of the girls... yes they are fraternal, Syd has light hair, Peyton has dark hair, Syd's got a lil more muscle while Peytons a bit taller (or so they say). Tina took Peyton off Diana's hands and that's when Vangie almost dropped Sydney... no...I'm not gonna forget that...

Darice took over the tour, guiding us to see Frankie... we hung out with Uncle Frankie for a lil while, waitin to see JW - my spinning friend and JR - another twin mom whom i worked with. We didn't see a Jennifer.

Fianlly we left, the babies went down for naps after they nursed.... I napped with Sydney...

it's gettin Hot in Here

Peyton's first tooth is pushing through... yep, we felt it today.... She's thrilled... she's been waiting for months now. She's tired of always being second, and she's determined to do something first, so we're wondering if it might be crawling first... She's gonna have competition cuz Sydney thinks she's number one - still always shaking her pointer finger at the world.

Oh yeah - the HOT POST.... 108 one day 105 the next, 110 if we're not careful. We spend the day swimming at my parents... the water is like a bathtub... not much fun swimming in warm water... we turned the slide and hose water on into the pool... it felt better...

Granite Arch

Peyton and Bianca the rock climbers

GoodDaySacramento - Wednesday 7/19

Yesterday Good Day Sacramento was at Sutter Pregna Gym - during our workout. Okay Mary asked me and the babies to come in early for the show.... we had quite a few people show up - we made the tickler at 850 am... Shows me standing over the babies and bianca while we were talking, didn't realize he was live until we got home and watched it. you won't see that on this actual video but I did TIVO it. STORY (you gotta find it.. 7/19 Lisa Gonzalez - sutter pregna gym). Yes STORY is a link....

After we worked out at the gym, we met Ben for lunch - blimpies.... then we went to my parents house to hang out. I watched Bianca and Patrick swim for awhile. Ben picks Bianca up around 4:15 and they head home and get ready for soccer training. So I stayed to hang out with my sister. Alex came to hang out too... and he was loving the babies and the babies were loving him. I think he busted Peyton's funny bone cuz she was laughing so much and so crazy... he was eating her toes, playing peek a boo, telling jokes - he had the girls going at Hello... they haven't seen him in at least a month or so... I think they enjoyed his visit. The babies got a lil fussy towards 7 o clock and I wish I had my camera, Alex was sitting on the coach rocking Peyton to sleep, it was very sweet. Oh yeah....We ate Taco Salad... yummie... my mom made the best taco salad ever...lots of cucumber and avacado.... now i'm craving it again....

Sick Kiddos

Yesterday Peyton got a runny nose.... she's never had a runny nose... so I was using the lovely bulb to get her yuckies out.... she didn't like it much.... then she started sneezing and more snot........ then came the cough. Poor girl. Okay so she's congested and has a runny nose... how does that work... I can't stand to see my baby sick. She's still laughing and happy for the most part, a lil moody... I can't blame her... and she's still nursing well.

Sydney had a fever last night.. 100.9 - gave her some tylenol, she started with the cough too... no sneezing or runny nose... her eating habits aren't great... she's not nursing as much.... I don't like when she's striking the buffet... makes for unhappy mommie. I of course was worried all night.. so i slept in the livingroom with them, waking up every lil while to check on them... "are they breathing, is the chest moving up and down, why do i have to keep rolling you over onto your back, why do you prefer your tummy now?"

Bianca's got a runny nose, sore throat.... no cough, no sneeze, no fever. She's not happy about the runny nose but she's tough and workinit out. She went to daddy's soccer game tonight.

Took the girls to the DR.... we got the old dr, she's like 100 years old or something.. she says they have colds, no fluid in the chest, nothing in the ears, just mucus running down the throat.... little colds med is what she said... 1/2 a dropper each..... so far.... nothing...... babies slept some, pooped some, nursed some... even laughed and played some... but they don't seem to be getting better... okay so they only had a 1/2 a dropper.....

gotta run and nurse me some babies

Rage Birthday, BBQ and more

Alex from the Rage - Soccer Team - had a birthday and we enjoyed a few hours of jumping (bouncetown), racing and eating. The babies met a new "boy" friend, his name is Carter, he's 3 months old (i think). He's very cute, he's got a reddish/brown colored mohawk and he enjoyed his toe touching with the girls. His big sister is Annie on the soccer team and he calls Jillian mom... er the all you can eat buffet - cuz he doesn't talk yet. She rocks, we got along great, I really enjoy hanging out with other moms of babies & tweens too...... it's nice to know that there are other buffets open 24/7 and it's fun to laugh about it. Hey Leah... Kristie got a new friend ~lmao~ the cake was yummie, the company was great, and I even got to run around and jump a little bit.

Next Day Rage BBQ - a fundraiser for our girls.... bbq'd burgers and dogs, chips, salad, watermelon and dessert - if you're thinking all you can eat - you're wrong, half price on the leftovers... "do i need a ticket for watermelon, cuz I only have one with a soda and hotdog?" 105 in the shade... "it's hot, can i have some ice... what.. i can't get a piece of ice... that's messed up." ..."hey do i need a ticket for a piece of your cake? two tickets? dang...." okay enough of that.... the bbq was fine. the girls played soccer against some of the parents.... I didn't get to play... I had the babies to play with... Jillian and Carter came late, but we did nurse the babies and talk some. Carter tried out the bumbo's... he didn't care for them much, he preferred his mama's arms.... it was all you could eat dessert.... not sure on the salad bar... i could have eaten some more salad but I didn't want the ticket lady to come after me...... the girls did sack races too.... they looked so cool hoppin in those bags...

9:02

Last week I bet Ben that Bianca would run the mile the fastest on her soccer team. I've only been to one practice so I don't know the rest of the girls that well. Ben (da coach) bet that Tiara would come in first. So.... Bianca came in first today... and she came in quite a bit faster than her teammates, Renee came in 2nd and her time was 10:31.... So to celebrate tomorrow... We'll be stopping off to pick up Shari's Berries... Go Bianca....You Rock.

Today was a slow day, Bianca and I woke up to the cooing of Sydney and Peyton around 830... Bianca stayed in bed til 900... When I went to check on them, I knew they were playing, but Peyton had rolled onto her tummy while Sydney had her feet up to her nose laying on her back.

This last week Peyton has been rolling over onto her side to fall sleep, I get nervous because I don't want her to roll onto her tummy and sleep. I left them for a few more minutes to play before nursing them and changing them. When big sister got up, she played with them while I cleaned up their bedroom some, and put some laundry away. I managed to clean the livingroom up too.... I hate cleaning....

after we all got some grub in our tummies, we hit the gym.... it was quiet at the gym today. We went to my parents house where Bianca did fashion shows sporting my sisters outfits...(hope you aren't reading this Amy). Finally I took the babies out near the pool (after I found some shade) and watched Bianca swim before she had soccer practice.

I stayed home with the cranky girls who wouldn't NAP... they both took thirty minute naps.. of course Peyton had a fifteen minute headstart so I only got fifteen minutes alone time... where I did some YOGA... boy could I use a lil break.

The girls are still awake...

Lemme see ya grill

bottom left - just popped out today... So Sydney was having a bad day, started when we got home from the gym, she took a lil nap while we ate lunch and woke up as soon as the phone rang and the boys from FTB called me... So I nursed her and then Peyton while I was talking on the phone... then Sydney started getting wild and yelling and fussing... so I tried to calm her down.. and finally we decided to take a ride in the car.. hit the drive thru at Starbucks... I've been craving a half caf...vanilla latte. Syd liked it, she took a nap again... slept great... about 430 I woke her up again and nursed her and then we headed to my parents house to swim.... that's when we found it.... Nana found it really.... a tooth... Yep Syd's got her first tooth. BRAVO

And we all got to swim.... Sweet deal, the babies enjoyed the evening swim. Now I have to get a picture of that grill

July Picture People 2

July Picture People

April Picture People

Thursday

145-245 - nursing babies and watching TV
500-600 - nusring babies and changing babies
730-830 - getting Bianca off to school, nursing babies
1000 - No more sleeping for anyone.... Nurse babies, dress babies, Yoga Time for mama and babies
1130 - lunchtime
1200 - Drive to pick up Bianca from school
1245 - Home again, nurse babies and try to get them to nap... Didn't work - play / nurse babies
245 - leave for the gym with Bianca, Sydney and Peyton
430 - Home from the gym - nurse babies - put them down for short naps - Daddy's making dinner - babies wake up, we play
600 - Target and Sams Club
700 - Home again - nurse babies, change babies, play with babies
800 - Babies take showers and get ready for bed, reading
930 - Babies asleep finally and I'm going to bed too

eat my feet

it started out slow - a fetish of sorts - but now I can't get enough of them



...SYDNEY "now my sister likes to eat my feet too, get in line"

Babies and Lovies

The babies love to nap with their lovies... They each have two lovies. Both have a baby (one brown haired, one blonde haired) and Sydney has a Polar Bear and Peyton has a Lion...

They love to love the lovies

Monday Blues

midnight - wake up & nurse two babies
3 am - wake up - change wet crying babies, change sheets in cosleeper, nurse babies
730 am - I was missing Bianca and Ben today - wake up, nurse babies, play with babies, eat blueberry toast and milk,




830 am - change babies, get babies dressed for the gym, get myself ready for the day and the gym
10 am- get to the gym, work out, nurse babies, ride the bike, change babies
noon - get to my parents house to get my swim on (didn't happen) Nursed babies, sang to babies, changed babies, tried to get babies to nap, hung out with my mama, sister and Ruben, played more with babies, danced with babies
3 pm - left parents house to meet Ben at home
4 pm - left the house with Ben, Sydney and Peyton for inlaws and to pick Bianca up - she stayed the night with Dominic - ate, nursed, changed diapers, played
7 pm- headed to the grocery store with the FAMILY
830 pm- Home to relax.... nurse babies, change babies, get babies to bed
930 pm - I'm BEAT, lay down with Ben, Bianca to watch a movie - fall asleep about 30 minutes into the movie




Wake up at 3 am to nurse and change babies, get back to sleep about 5 am - wake up for good at 730 am... and the day starts again

pool monitors

Uncle Rudy and I were the pool monitors, but first we had to see who the captain was... so I gave him a lil push when we were standing near the pool, but I wasn't trying to force him in... he took that as the challenge and grabbed me trying to toss me in... I couldn't go down like that... so we were scrappin UFC style, he went for a leg lock and I took his leg too, if anyone was going, it would be together or no one at all. he kept pulling and i kept pulling right back, I had to keep myself low to the ground to have some leverage against him, after a few minutes - okay maybe not even that long Papa Rudy made Baby Rudy let go.... So it was a draw and the title is still on the line....

Back to the pool party - we did our best to keep those crazy kids in line. There were cannon balls galore. I did a lot of catching the bomb as Dominic would do his cannon ball right at me - making sure I was there to catch him. On the other side of the pool Uncle Rudy was teaching Kayln and Matthew how to do flips from the side of the pool. The closest Matthew got was a Superman style belly flop, and Kayln stuck to the mini cannonball.

Auntie Joan finally got in with Andrew, he did a lot of swimming on his own, he's a big boy for two... He's the more indepedent type, he didn't need mama, Tia or Uncle Rudy helping him. He enjoyed throwing the cars and boats into the pool and watching them go. He did some launching of the sailboat with Andres. It seemed like he was more interested in taking the jeep for a drive around the pool than swimming this time.

Dominic enjoyed riding the jetski around the pool, he didn't want anyone getting to close to him. I think his daddy's gonna have to take him out on the REAL JETSKI's soon. He's gonna be an adrenaline junkie.



Donovan, Peyton and Sydney all took dips in the pool too. Donovan had lots of fun splashing around while Peyton and Sydney preferred less waves and kickin back - I think they're gonna like the LazyRiver.

Sydney and Peyton did some kicking while we swam around the pool, they got the feet kicking down - just like laying on the floor - again the hands are just out. That style works best in the pool when a pool monitor is holding them ~lol~ Neither baby wanted to get outta the pool, but since daddy was sick (AGAIN) the girls took turns. Daddy snapped pictures and managed to get a whole 8 of Peyton in the pool and 32 of Sydney - SO UNFAIR

it's a party

Uncle Michael gets wild with Peyton



What are you looking at?


Silly grins - We can be twins


Finally a smile!




Papa, Donovan & Grandma, Sydney

making the band

In between swimming sessions Andres got his Trumpet out playing us all a tune - Bianca grabbed a stick and the kids lined up and started marching... Yes a marching band. Matthew found something to blow too... Hey Puffy - P Diddy - you want some of this??? You better watch out - Bianca is starting young and she might just take your place in Making The Band. As you can see we've only got one jazzy guy, go Andres, get the party started.

Cage Match

mischevious

Sydney on the trampoline





Dominic and Matthew get crazy