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

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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

Rolling

Guess who's rollin now? Peyton... She went from back to tummy. Lately when the girls are laying on their backs they spin around lots, wearing the hair off the back of the head, and they are always trying to roll over but the elbow stops them. NO MORE. Peyton has managed to overcome the elbow. I got it on video after the sixth time of rolling... So exciting... She took a nap and when she woke up, she rolled right onto her tummy, I think it scared her.

Sydney went from her tummy to her back first and now Peyton has first dibs on going from her back to her tummy.

Watch out - The girls are on the move....

bikini babies

BIANCA, SYDNEY, PEYTON, PATRICK


PEYTON - "Come here and give me a kiss"


SYDNEY - "Look, she hooked me"

Swimmin

We've been going to Nana and Papa's to swim after picking Bianca up from school. Sometimes we all get to swim, other times just Bianca gets to swim. What I mean by all... I mean the big kids... not the babies... They do wear their bikini's but it's just for show. Not sure if they'll be swimming babies this year or not. We usually swim during the babies nap times... only it seems they prefer to take short cat naps when we visit my parents. At Ben's parents house... those babies can sleep for a couple hours... Whats up with that...

Yesterday we went swimming and we swam long enough that my feet got pruned.... how crazy is that? First time this year...

Gotta run Peyton just woke up and it's time to head to Nana and Papa's