Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

So sorry you have been neglected lately. Life is getting in the way of blogging! I only seem to have enough energy to post about the boys and if I happen to plop in a photo from my iphone then well we call it good!

This driving back and forth to South Austin is taking a toll of me and my boys! Waking up at 4:30 is only made possible thanks to a few cups of strong coffee! Poor Corbin is getting in trouble a lot at school for not listening, being too hyper, etc and I truly believe that this is in part because we wake them up at 5:30-5:45 daily. Also he is trying HARD to give up his nap! I can't tell you how many times he falls asleep on our hour ride home. My child does NOT do well without a nap! Thats when all his "interesting" misbehaviors come out, i.e. not listening, the hyperness etc. I cannot even being to tell you how stressed I am all the time as well. I have to make sure I leave work by 3:30 to make sure that we aren't sitting in traffic for more than an hour. Also work has been difficult lately, with behavior stuff that makes me even more stressed, but I won't get into that on here.

Sorry, blog, for this huge "bitchfest!" I am truly trying to stay positive but I feel like our day to day life is suffering sometimes because I am so tried all the time from this commute. I am just looking forward to spending the next week and a half with my husband, who is off these next two weeks!, and my family! So excited my sister, Merritt, is coming in town today!

BTW the Taylor Swift song called "Never Grow Up" has had me in tears thinking of our boys! I have said numerous times, as impractical it is that I would love if they stayed this little forever. I am seriously going to miss Corbin and Mommy "snuggle times' before bed! I am going to miss Grayson saying "water too"(he adds the word too to almost everything he wants)." and asking for 'apple juice' aka orange juice a million times a day or "where we going?' whenever we get in the car! We love listening to "without you" by David Guetta its his favorite song! He sings the "without you" part all the time! He loves music and loves to sing!

sweetest inbox message

Yesterday my Dad sent me the sweetest email about 2 twin girls who were the smallest to survive and one was 1/2 lb in 1989! He told me I was his biggest miracle! Totally made my day! ( If you don't know I am a surviving twin and weighted 1 1/2 lbs in 1981!) We had less than a 5% chance of survival. I am so blessed to have parents who have supported me since a physically, emotionally trying birth with my sister Morgan and I. I cannot imagine having twins, my mom was my age, 30, and then go through all that trama and then be told you may lose both of them. I have an amazing husband, parents, and family!

Kids say the darndest things!

The boys are at it again, saying silly things all the time! The joys of being parents! They definitely make my day brighter if I've had a bad day at school!

*Grayson loves to spot "icky Mouse" aka Mickey Mouse, when we are out at places like Target!
*One day when the boys were sick on the way home from the doctor I stopped at Terra Burger and got them a kids burger and skim milk. Now, we drink exclusively almond milk at our house for the past year and a half. So when Corbin took a big drink he asked me why there was water in his milk!
*One day when we were at Jason's dads house we had them watch the boys while we ran errands. We came back for dinner and Tori showed me a dry erase board where Corbin had written Tori's name all by himself with only her telling him the letters of her name. Apparently Corbin can write his name on his own too! This was news to me! Oh, the life of a working Momma!

*Corbin's class was learning all about families and one week while they were learning about "how families help each other." We discussed it at home and ways we can all help out at home. Helping Mommy bake, emptying the dishwasher etc. Well one day I ran to get the mail from the car I had already told Corbin he couldn't help because he had taken his shoes and socks off on the trek home. I hear him start screaming and crying "Families aren't MEAN to each other, they HELP each other!"

* Grayson has a few cute words his mispronounces "goss" for Gross, got him on video saying "elebator" (elevator) while playing with a bulldozer. He asks "Where are we?" "Where we going" if we are going somewhere. He asks like 20 times all the way to school everyday!

* Grayson loves looking for the "landmarks" to show we are almost home. He loves looking at the boat and jet skis and screams "jet skis" every time we pass on the way off Anderson Mill Rd. Then once we get by Cedar Park High school we are really almost home and there is the Cedar Park Tower and he screams "Tower ommm!"(home)

*This morning Corbin was so excited because we got to go together just Mommy and Corbin because poor Grayson was sick! (Wouldn't you know he has his two year doctor appointment today and cannot get his vaccines because hes sick!) Corbin kept saying "Just Mommy and Corbin today!" We even got to get a special treat at Starbucks! :)

* Grayson and Corbin love the Power Rangers thanks to these toys that Grayson got for his birthday! We have watched a few grueling episodes with horrid acting! Grayson loves it and says "GO RANGERS!" when he's watching it! :)
* UPDATE: On the way to school this morning Feliz Navidad came on the radio and Corbin asked me "Mommy why are they signing that the Mommy is hot?!"