let's try this again

ok, here's a real link to my tumblr account.  sorry if you tried to look at it before and got nowhere.  set up your account and let's follow each other.  just click on the link, then click on "join tumblr."  i think that should be it.

it's like baby, baby, baby, ohhhh

Life with 2 babies:

• We have not had to buy wipes at all for Hank and George, thanks to very generous friends who gifted me wipes and diapers before the boys were born.  I may NEVER have to buy wipes.  Seriously.  Amazing.
• The diapers lasted until the boys were 7 months.  [Except for 3 packs of newborns when we ran out of that size and they were still too little for the bigger diapers we were given.]  Do you know how many diapers that is?  We feel so grateful to all who stocked us up.  How wonderful is it to use the last diaper in the pack, and not have to worry if we have any more.  'Cause we did - stacked high in the closet.  Blessing.
• H and G love to read books.  Thankfully, we have lots of readers to assist.
• We do not own 2 highchairs.
• We do not even own 1 highchair. [Except for a strap-on-an-existing-chair type.  And I'm not pulling it out because we don't have an extra chair.  And that wouldn't do me much good to have only one chair to feed in.]
• I'm getting very tired of feeding babies in their exersaucers or just on my lap.
• Buying highchairs is like buying vacuums:  some have their favorite, some don't care, and I can't decide.  [This is where my mom and Emily roll their eyes.]  But if you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.  I want to buy 2 nice looking chairs.  Yes, looks matter in this department.  If I have to have 2 of them in my kitchen and trip over them everyday, I want something that looks good! - I don't want any cartoon characters and the like.  I've found some seemingly functional ones, but some reviews say the tray is too far from the child, causing messy baby-lap, or other problems.
• I'm stressing about Halloween costumes for these two.  Lots of ideas, but do I have the time/desire to make them?  I don't think so.
• I have 3 quilt tops waiting to be quilted, but no time/desire to get them done.  That's because when the boys are sleeping, I am on the internet blogging or something unproductive like that.
• The babies at church and cousins the same age are much more advanced in the eating department than H and G.  They still struggle with cheerios.
• I always know the condition of my floors because the boys' knees and tops of feet tell the dirty story.  Sigh.
• I am so so thankful for friends at church who are willing to hold a baby - for 2 hours or more!  What would I do without Deb?
• I have never taken the boys to the store by myself.  Even with Mark, it has only been a handful of times.
• We still have just one crib.  In our room.  We have big plans to move the boys to the play room or to Jonah and Owen's room, but it just hasn't happened due to a need to get rid of an existing bed and, oh yeah, TIME.  And we will be getting a 2nd crib.  They are seriously all over each other.  Well, George is the guilty party there.
• I finally put up our 2008 family photo.  It's very big and I didn't have a frame for the longest time.  Owen wanted to know why Hank and George aren't in the picture.  
• Hank and George are seriously so easy going and happy, I just can't get enough.  Except when I need to sleep and they are both up at 5:30 am.