We made it through the week!

Wow, what a week. Oliver picked up Hand, Foot and Mouth but luckily didn't pass it on to anyone. Lauren is cutting two teeth on the bottom which has left her pretty cranky and wanting to be held a lot. Thank goodness for Grandma Carolyn who came over two days in a row and did lots of holding babies and playing with Enzo! Enzo developed an ear and eye infection and we discovered his ear tubes have fallen out. Now we are scrambling to get new tubes put in soon so he doesn't get another infection.

Alas, not all was bad this week. Enzo began to show a softer side. When I explained what best friends were he said Oliver and Lauren were his best friends. I'm not sure he really meant it by how he treated Oliver during the week but at least his heart was in the right place at the time.

Lauren is crawling all over and working on pulling herself up to standing. All those physical therapy appointments are really starting to work! She enjoys carrying around "puppy" that Grandpa Danny gave her and gnawing on his appendages




We decided to throw doubt into the wind and place Oliver & Lauren in the big tub together for their bath. Lauren thought Oliver was hysterical and in turn he thought it hysterical to splash her!



Enzo has been role-playing fire safety a lot and will grab your hand and announce the smoke alarms are going off and we need to stay low and go. It did make me pause during one of these practice sessions when he informed me that when you stay low and go sometimes poop come out. He even said that his bedroom smoke alarm beeps when he poops so Grandma Carolyn told him he should let Mommy & Daddy know about that!

Enzo is very clever and when I head him pulling his cooking tower through the house I knew it couldn't be good but I was trying to finish washing dishes. When I asked what he was doing he said he said he was standing on the tower so he would not touch the tv. Keep in mind he had been asked no less than 20 times that morning to please not touch the tv. At least he was following the rules :-)




At school, Enzo's teacher Miss Jenny was talking to the kids about healthy foods when one of the kids said that cookies were good. Imagine her surprise when Enzo told the class that cookies were a treat but beta carotene makes you healthy! We're still not sure where he got that one from.

Saturday came and we decided we have to get out of the house after being cooped up sick all week. On a whim, Enzo and I went to Bellevue Square to watch the Caspar Babypants concert. The first 15 minutes were great before Enzo's mood shifted and as if I could smell the storm ahead we packed up and left to go find food. I'll sum up the rest of our adventure by saying I had to throw away our meal, carry him sideways kicking and screaming "don't take me" and use all my strength to get him in the car. That was our first and hopefully last temper tantrum Sure my nose was red and swollen the next day from the kick to the face I sustained but we got out of the house right?

I ended the day productive and finished one of my Pinterest projects. I was going to do this with wood until I realized how many holes I'd have to make in the wall to hang it. Instead, I cut vinyl with my Cricut. No too bad for my first project!




Sunday was the best day of the week, it finally snowed!! The kids had fun as did Jim and I.

















Enjoy your week!

Freedom to Roam

Another busy week in the Tegeler house! Oliver & Lauren are in the process of switching to whole milk, which is apparently not up to their liking. Even more distasteful to them are the sippy cups we are trying to encourage. My legs are going to be strong from all the squatting down to pick them up!

Enzo has learned the art of negotiation and tries to draw us in at every turn. At bedtime after stories he gets really serious and asks to talk about the weather at which point he’ll try to predict what its going to be like the next day. One morning he even convinced me to go to the car wash before preschool. He loved it but I think the twins might be having nightmares about that for awhile.

Friday was really fun for the twins and me. We went to Paula’s house for a playdate with 4 other sets of twins! Talk about craziness! I learned a lot that day and even got the courage to take down the baby gates at home and let the twins explore a bit more. Now I just have to get used to having toys in the living room and fight the urge to follow everyone around picking up toys!

The weekend started off fun with a visit to the local fire station for Enzo. He loved seeing the trucks, where they dry the hoses and all the equipment. We even got quizzed on fire safety and Enzo learned “stay low and go” and “stop, drop, and roll”. You’ll notice he insisted he wear his fire engine jammies and rubber fire boots. He even wore his fire hat, which would have been fine except we had to go to Target afterwards and you can imagine the looks I got there!

Jim’s brother Steve upgraded my computer so now I have tons of room for my pictures and music! He even helped Enzo setup his new gears toy from Christmas, which I think ended up being more work than the computer. Enzo loves the toy though, so hopefully Steve thinks it was worth all the work!

Sunday came and Oliver woke up with a 103 fever and super fussy. I took him in to the doctor and she said he has red sores in his throat  . Poor guy isn’t sleeping well and seems uncomfortable most of the day. Hopefully this will pass soon and we can finally all be healthy at the same time!

Happy New Year!

Wow, we made it!  2011 was a challenging year at best for us.  The twins were born (well at the end of 2010), came home in January and our life has been crazy ever since.  I keep telling myself I’m going to write in baby books, organize pictures and keep our family and friends updated on our lives.  What actually happened is somewhere in between that and I’ve yet to write a thing in baby books!  So imagine my surprise when I found out you can create a blog and then print it out at the end of the year in a book format!  What a great way to document our family life, keep everyone updated and have a memory book at the end of the year!

Enzo is now 2 1/2 and the terrible twos are kicking in.  Not to say that he’s not the cutest little guy.  He’s so imaginative and creative; everything in our house is an adventure for him.  Yesterday he hung a metal slinky off his kitchen tower and said it was a vacuum truck!  He loves the Richard Scary books and thanks to those he can explain how seeds grow, how we get cotton and how to build a road (from planning to final construction)!  He’s doing preschool 2 1/2 hours a day, three days a week and loves it.  The teachers say he’s loved by everyone and keeps them entertained during the day with his singing and dancing!

Oliver is 1 and crawling and climbing everything in site.  You have to be careful what’s in the playroom because he will scale it in the time it takes you to sneeze.  He’s always laughing and his doctor claimed at his one year checkup that he’s going to be a well-liked kid the way he communicates with his eyes and is so social.  We’ve always called him ‘monkey’ and that sure seems to fit his personality!

Lauren is 1 and our little princess peanut.  She’s quiet and takes in everything around her yet insists everything must be on her terms (eating, what to play with, books, etc.).  She’s quickly learning that with two brothers she has to be clever and she’s already figured out to get Daddy wrapped around her little finger.  Okay, truth be told, she’s got me wrapped around it too.  She’s only 1 inch shorter than Oliver but 3 pounds lighter.  She’s in the 10th percentile for weight, but the doctor says she’s just going to be a petite little girl.  Guess she has the Clouse weight gene!