24 Hours of Peace

This past weekend Adam took the boys up to TN to see his parents for a night.  I stayed home and had some much needed "me" time.  It was so nice not being on a time schedule for once.  I was able to get my hair done, run some errands, and rest a little.  It was wonderful coming home and sitting my butt down on the couch and vegging for as long as I wanted!  This was probably the last time I will have alone time for a long time, so I tried to cherish every minute.  

I always feel so good after I get my hair done!
Sunday morning I had my coffee in bed and lounged as long as I wanted.  It was fabulous!

 The boys were ready to go to TN!

While I was enjoying my freedom and down time, the boys were keeping Grammy and Poppy busy in TN...

The boys love going up to TN to visit their grandparents.  I am so lucky that Adam was willing to take them alone.  Thanks hunny!  

3rd Trimester and Pregnancy Thoughts

This is getting real y'all!  I am 2 months out and feel totally pregnant!!  

I have said it before and I will say it again I just do not enjoy being pregnant.  I wish I did but I have really struggled the past couple of months.  Being sick for a month didn't help while having to keep up with the boys' shenanigans, a household, etc.  

As I entered my 3rd Trimester I have slowed down a bit.  At the gym I'm completely frustrated.  It hit me last week that I can no longer do some of the classes and activities that I normally do.  My body literally won't let me or to the extent that I want to.  I am still teaching Pump but dropped a little weight off the past week and I have to modify a bit.  I have taken to walking when I get the chance.  I tried taking a Combat class last week and it was horrible.  Not the class...me!  I just didn't have it and decided I may need to take it easy from here on out.  Not that I haven't been.  I really haven't been working out as much as I would like but average 3-4 times of some sort of activity a week.  I plan to continue teaching Pump and Low Impact for the next month, walk as much as I can, and  get as much rest as possible.  As far as diet, well what diet basically?  It's pretty much whatever I can grab and eat.  I don't have the time or energy to worry about eating healthy right now.  Terrible I know!  I try to eat healthy when I can but these days we are doing good if we get a chance to eat an actual meal.  Plus this is my last pregnancy so I have the excuse to enjoy and eat what I want, right?!  I am tired a lot and as most of you with little ones know, rest is not happening very often.  Especially when they aren't napping like they should.  : (

I know I am totally complaining but I just need to vent for a minute.  Bottom line I just want to feel like myself again and enjoy the things that make me "me"...like a good heart pounding workout, energy, sleeping good at night, a couple of glasses of wine (or a whole bottle ; )), foods that I enjoy that I can't have right now, being able to fit into my skinny jeans, not having a constant back ache, etc.  I also need to be rid of these wonderful hormones.  My poor family takes the brunt of my mood swings.  Right now my boys wear me out and I am totally exhausted most days.  The past couple of months have been the hardest since they've been born.  I thought it's supposed to be getting easier, right?  We digressed somewhere along the way.  If we can just make it through the potty training and terrible 2's phase.  Please Lord!  

30 Weeks with my hump my hump my lovely enormous lumps ; )

Y'all I know this wasn't the most uplifting post, but I am being totally real and honest with my feelings.  Maybe some of y'all feel or felt the same way during pregnancy.  Also any advice with twin 2 year old boys would be welcomed!  I do know how precious this little life growing inside of me is and I am very grateful God entrusted another little one to me.  I am truly blessed for all that I have in my wonderful family.  I am super excited to meet this little guy and start the next chapter in our crazy lives.

Family Update and The Potty Training Fiasco

Gosh y'all!  It's been too long.  I clearly haven't been the best of keeping up with my blog lately.  It has honestly been a rough past couple of months, so the blog got put on the back burner.  After the boys each got sick, I was sick for about a month.  Let me tell you being sick while pregnant is for the birds!  Terrible!  It took me awhile to shake my horrible cold.  Plus we've been dealing with potty training issues with the boys.   
*Disclaimer:  If you're not a mom and poop grosses you out (it does me and I'm living this), skip this section!
I may have mentioned that the boys started taking their poopy diapers off at naptime and/or bedtime and playing with it and spreading it everywhere!  What a complete nightmare!  So we have been trying everything to keep them from taking them off...duct taping their clothes and diapers (didn't work), putting on footless zip-up jammies backwards (didn't work), putting footless jammies on backwards and duct taping them (didn't work), and finally we found a solution (until they figure out how to maneuver out of these).  My mom found a company that makes "inescapable" zippered back sleepers that are supposed to be impossible to take off.  Now whenever the boys go down for naps or bed we put them in these jammies and use a diaper pin over the snaps at the top.

  All of this sound crazy?!  Yes it is!  I would have never in my wildest dreams imagined any child would ever or could ever do anything like this.  Let me tell you, the first time you have to clean up poop off the wall, ceiling, bed linens, floors, toys, etc and find it all over your children, you will wish someone would just kill you (or them) right then and there.  Talk about disgusting!!! 
I realize this is a clear indication the boys are ready for potty training.  We have been trying but they absolutely do not want to go poop in the potty.  They like to stand in a corner in their diapers as much as I plead with them to go poop in the potty, they do not want to sit on the potty to poop.  Now don't get me wrong. They love to go sit on the potty and play around and make a mess, ha.  They will even go pee pee every now and then, but I really don't think they are totally ready to take the plunge.  We have tried putting them in big boy pants around the house to get a feel for it and they just pee all over the place and laugh.  (They think spreading poop everywhere is hilarious too.)  Needless to say we are having a time and are so ready for them to be fully potty trained!  Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!  Please!  Please comment below!
Side note:  Y'all never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that I would be doing a blog post on poop and pee and the wonderful trials and tribulations that apparently go along with potty training twin boys.  It's so crazy the things you go through as a parent.  If you would have told me this a few years ago, I would have said you're insane!  That would never happen!
Now on to more pleasant things...
The boys took their first field trip to a farm that had a pumpkin patch, corn maze and lots of fun things to do.  They had a blast! Eli with his pumpkin of choice. Van with his

Halloween week was a good week for the boys.  They had not one but TWO Halloween parties at school.  Talk about sugar overload! 
Of course the boys were super excited to go trick or treating.  They thought they were going to sit down and eat the whole bucket of candy that night.  We had to hide their buckets so total meltdowns didn't ensue the next morning. My lil monsters Enough picture taking Mom, let us go already! My boys
A long day of sugar and partying ended with what?  More sugar and Monsters, Inc.  How appropriate!
In other news...
We finally got the boys transitioned into their big beds last weekend.  We decided we really didn't want to buy a third crib, so it was time to put the boys in "big beds".  So far so good.  They seem to love them but they still wreck havoc in their room.  I guess it's going to happen regardless of what bed they're in.

And yes they still use paci's.  They will be 3 in a month so it is way past time to send them away.  You have to pick your battles.  This is one I have been scared to fight until now.

The beds aren't totally put together in this pic.  So no, we aren't making Eli sleep on just a mattress.  Although after the poop fiasco's I'm tempted to take everything away and make them sleep on the hard floor with nothing! ; )

Last week Grandma came for a visit.  We love it when Grandma comes!  We got to go down to the playground a couple of times since the weather has been so nice.

The past month has been pretty busy.  I can't believe I am 2 months away from adding another little guy to our craziness.  Even through all the sickness I am truly blessed with such a wonderful little (big) family.