Lately I've started to worry about the twins. I know I'm not supposed to compare them to other people, but it's really hard not to. Everyone at Ricky's work keeps asking if they're walking yet. No, only one of them is barely crawling. They're not sitting up on their own yet, they're not pulling up yet, they're not talking yet, they're not walking yet, they're not using sippy cups yet, and they just recently started rolling over really good. All of this at nine months old. I just feel like they should be doing so much more.
Part of me wants to blame myself for not working with them as much as I should. I feel like I should be right there with them 24 hours a day right by their sides instead of letting them do some things on their own together.
Am I crazy? Am I paranoid? Am I not doing enough? I hate this feeling.
Britney Marie
Monday, April 7, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The Lady And The "Dee Dee Dee"
The transition into hated lady who lives in the apartment complex is well underway. Last night about 11pm I hear girlish giggling and screaming from the pool which is right next to the twins bedroom window. I look outside and see eight or ten people out there. This isn't the first time people have been out there after hours and lately they've been teenagers throwing lawn chairs, beer bottles and televisions in the pool. I look at the clock to double check that it is in fact 11pm (the pool closes at 10pm) and I go get my sneakers. I march myself outside in my pajamas, no socks and sneakers and proceed to tell those people what's what.
"Excuse me..."
They didn't hear me.
"EXCUSE ME..."
"Oh, Hi!" The dad, who was sitting on the edge of the pool says.
"Uh, my kids window is right there *points to the window 20 feet away* and my kids and husband are trying to sleep. Can you guys keep it down?"
"You heard the lady. Be quiet"
It's still really weird for me, who is only 22 years old, to be referred to as "the lady". I felt kind of bad because apparently the people who were doing all the screaming were little girls about 7 years old...and they were having a sleep over because it's Spring Break. I didn't feel bad for long though because their parents should know better than to have a sleep over on a Tuesday night...people have to go to work even if their kids are home from school.
Oh, and a funny story that I almost forgot.
I go to our apartments office to renew our lease. I get there and one of the ladies asks whether the twins are identical or fraternal. I say they're identical. The other lady who works there tells me she is an identical twin too. (This is important.) So, the twin lady then asks me if I had "boys, girls or one of each"! COME ON! How can I have a boy and a girl if they're identical!!! I can understand, maybe, hearing it from someone who knows nothing about twins, but coming from someone who IS a twin...DEE DEE DEE! (I've been watching a lot of "Mind of Mencia" lately, forgive me!)
Britney Marie
"Excuse me..."
They didn't hear me.
"EXCUSE ME..."
"Oh, Hi!" The dad, who was sitting on the edge of the pool says.
"Uh, my kids window is right there *points to the window 20 feet away* and my kids and husband are trying to sleep. Can you guys keep it down?"
"You heard the lady. Be quiet"
It's still really weird for me, who is only 22 years old, to be referred to as "the lady". I felt kind of bad because apparently the people who were doing all the screaming were little girls about 7 years old...and they were having a sleep over because it's Spring Break. I didn't feel bad for long though because their parents should know better than to have a sleep over on a Tuesday night...people have to go to work even if their kids are home from school.
Oh, and a funny story that I almost forgot.
I go to our apartments office to renew our lease. I get there and one of the ladies asks whether the twins are identical or fraternal. I say they're identical. The other lady who works there tells me she is an identical twin too. (This is important.) So, the twin lady then asks me if I had "boys, girls or one of each"! COME ON! How can I have a boy and a girl if they're identical!!! I can understand, maybe, hearing it from someone who knows nothing about twins, but coming from someone who IS a twin...DEE DEE DEE! (I've been watching a lot of "Mind of Mencia" lately, forgive me!)
Britney Marie
Monday, March 31, 2008
Can You Tell It's New?
Something is different, and none of you out there in blogland can tell. I am sitting here typing this entry on a brand spankin' new computer. Today I sent Ricky to Best Buy to purchase a new computer. The old one we had crapped out on us on more than one occasion. This time I ended up losing all the photographs I had taken between March 14th and yesterday. Yep, no Easter Sunday pictures of the twins for us. I was so mad about that!! So, Ricky went and got a new computer and monitor. Luckily we had gotten a new printer for Christmas. So far it seems to be working rather well. I'm not sure how much I like Window's Vista yet. It's a little different.
For the first time ever, SuperChunk was actively trying to crawl. She would get up on her hands and knees, but from there she didn't know what to do so she would fall back down. I kept trying to put things just out of her reach so she would crawl to them, but she just wasn't getting it. I expect her to start crawling very very soon. SubChunk on the other hand was quite content staring at the underside of the coffee table. To each his own, I guess!
The twins still aren't sitting up by themselves. I'm starting to wonder if they ever will! Though I thought that about rolling over too and now they do it all the time. I guess I just need to be more patient. SuperChunk's two front teeth came through the other day. She looks so goofy! Now she has a total of six teeth, four up top and two on the bottom. SubChunk still has two and two.
I guess I should probably wrap this up and head to bed. G'night all!
Britney Marie
For the first time ever, SuperChunk was actively trying to crawl. She would get up on her hands and knees, but from there she didn't know what to do so she would fall back down. I kept trying to put things just out of her reach so she would crawl to them, but she just wasn't getting it. I expect her to start crawling very very soon. SubChunk on the other hand was quite content staring at the underside of the coffee table. To each his own, I guess!
The twins still aren't sitting up by themselves. I'm starting to wonder if they ever will! Though I thought that about rolling over too and now they do it all the time. I guess I just need to be more patient. SuperChunk's two front teeth came through the other day. She looks so goofy! Now she has a total of six teeth, four up top and two on the bottom. SubChunk still has two and two.
I guess I should probably wrap this up and head to bed. G'night all!
Britney Marie
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Don't You Hate It When...
- You have one day to go turn in your paperwork for college and when you ask them if that's everything you need they say yes and then call you the next day to tell you there was more you needed to fill out.
-You've been craving fettuccine alfredo all day and when you get home from house hunting for three hours you realize you don't have any alfredo sauce.
-You go to the grocery store specifically to get cat litter and you come home with $140 worth of groceries and no cat litter.
- You get through 97% on a song on Expert on Guitar Hero III and you get booed off the stage.
-You get vomited on by two different people in the span of one hour.
- You have all intentions of folding and putting away the laundry, but you never actually get to it.
'Cause I do.
Britney Marie
-You've been craving fettuccine alfredo all day and when you get home from house hunting for three hours you realize you don't have any alfredo sauce.
-You go to the grocery store specifically to get cat litter and you come home with $140 worth of groceries and no cat litter.
- You get through 97% on a song on Expert on Guitar Hero III and you get booed off the stage.
-You get vomited on by two different people in the span of one hour.
- You have all intentions of folding and putting away the laundry, but you never actually get to it.
'Cause I do.
Britney Marie
Don’t You Hate It When...
- You have one day to go turn in your paperwork for college and when you ask them if that’s everything you need they say yes and then call you the next day to tell you there was more you needed to fill out.
-You’ve been craving fettuccine alfredo all day and when you get home from house hunting for three hours you realize you don’t have any alfredo sauce.
-You go to the grocery store specifically to get cat litter and you come home with $140 worth of groceries and no cat litter.
- You get through 97% on a song on Expert on Guitar Hero III and you get booed off the stage.
-You get vomited on by two different people in the span of one hour.
- You have all intentions of folding and putting away the laundry, but you never actually get to it.
’Cause I do.
-You’ve been craving fettuccine alfredo all day and when you get home from house hunting for three hours you realize you don’t have any alfredo sauce.
-You go to the grocery store specifically to get cat litter and you come home with $140 worth of groceries and no cat litter.
- You get through 97% on a song on Expert on Guitar Hero III and you get booed off the stage.
-You get vomited on by two different people in the span of one hour.
- You have all intentions of folding and putting away the laundry, but you never actually get to it.
’Cause I do.
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Last Nail In My Coffin
Today I signed up for the last four classes I (presumably) will ever take in college. I say presumably, because technically I was supposed to graduate last year. Last Spring I took the last six classes that I needed, took my graduation photos, applied for graduation...and then got pregnant. So, those last six classes I intended to attend turned into mornings, afternoons and evenings of throwing up and trying to find a temperature between hot and cold that I liked. My teachers tried to work with me as best they could but none of them could give me what I needed. And I needed to be able to do the work online, not in a classroom. So, I managed to pass two of my classes, one being an online class and the other being a class with a very senile teacher that gave me a B on a paper I never wrote.
After I had the twins I decided that I wanted to get my degree because I was so close. I've still not decided whether or not I want to pursue my intended career...but that's a blog for another day. So, I had a meeting with my adviser, found out I needed four classes and signed up for them today. I will be attending FSU from May 12t through August 8th and then I will be an official FSU graduate.
This time I can guarantee that pregnancy will not stop me. :)
Britney Marie
After I had the twins I decided that I wanted to get my degree because I was so close. I've still not decided whether or not I want to pursue my intended career...but that's a blog for another day. So, I had a meeting with my adviser, found out I needed four classes and signed up for them today. I will be attending FSU from May 12t through August 8th and then I will be an official FSU graduate.
This time I can guarantee that pregnancy will not stop me. :)
Britney Marie
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