Tabby, yesterday I heard you in the shower playing with your toys. You were so sweet to the toys- singing and talking to all of them. You set themup in a very particular manner and today when we got to my house you insisted that Tilly take a bath, not a shower, so that she wouldn’t mess up your toys 💕😊
Monday, April 22, 2019
Play snuggles
Tilly, you have lately been asking if I can “play snuggles” which basically means we hug and tickle and snuggle on the floor together. What. A. Charmer. Tonight you kept pointing to me and you and saying “me and mommy snuggle! Mommy and me snuggle! You and me!”. My heart!!!
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Eating Bugs
Tabitha, today I cleaned your eye crusties. You said “hey don’t take those! Those are my eating bugs.” Because apparently you love eating eye crusties.🙄
Sunday, May 20, 2018
More Hug!
Yesterday Tabby and I went fishing in the Hillsborough River. Tab LOVED it. We caught nothing but we checked out different places to fish, we had snacks, we saw gators, bugs and lots of turtles. It was awesome!
Tonight when I put Tilly to sleep she said “more hug” asking for more time snuggling together. God. She is the best.
I love you ladies so much!!
Tonight when I put Tilly to sleep she said “more hug” asking for more time snuggling together. God. She is the best.
I love you ladies so much!!
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
We live in Florida now!
We live in Florida now! I spent the weekend with in Naples you girls and “Florida Grandma” as we call my Mom.
A few things about Tab:
- Your sweet little voice is adorable. Actual music to my ears
- You call your sister Little One or My Baby
- You have the slightest lisp so when you say Tilly it comes out as Tiuwee
- You love zombies and being scared
A few things about Tilly:
- You are a walking maniac. You started truly walking a few weeks ago and anything that isn’t you walking is irritating for you!
- You love to lean in and give a kiss!
- You say the words: Mickey, Mi (Milk), Yeah, Dada and Hi.
- I could snuggle with you all day
Love you girls!
A few things about Tab:
- Your sweet little voice is adorable. Actual music to my ears
- You call your sister Little One or My Baby
- You have the slightest lisp so when you say Tilly it comes out as Tiuwee
- You love zombies and being scared
A few things about Tilly:
- You are a walking maniac. You started truly walking a few weeks ago and anything that isn’t you walking is irritating for you!
- You love to lean in and give a kiss!
- You say the words: Mickey, Mi (Milk), Yeah, Dada and Hi.
- I could snuggle with you all day
Love you girls!
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Tab's Parent Teacher Conference
Tab,
As Dad needed a 5 day school option and Diamanté Montessori here in Glen Ellyn was stil not able to give us that after the fall semester, we moved you to Wheaton Montessori in the Spring Semester of 2017. The first few days at the school were easy, but when you realized this new place was your new every day school, there were about two weeks of a rough time for you - crying on the way to school and getting upset at times at school. You have since really started to love the new school.
For a while and still now you will tell us that your pink snake can't find his friends or that you can't find Mary, Riley and Jack who were your best friends at the old school. Hayley said to let you talk through it, help guide and give you answers and that you are probably trying to figure it out.
That said, you still talk about Riley, Mary and JACK constantly who were your close friends at Diamanté. We have done a few play dates with Jack who you both say are one another's best friends. Jack is one year older, rambunctious, fun and smart. You two are inseparable when in the same room. We found out from Mrs Rogers at your new school that you have a new best friend Cameron, a 4 year old rambunctious and loud boy - a similar personality to Jack. Although no one can replace Jack, we are so happy you have found another close friend.
We are happy that you are happy and making friends. ;-)
As Dad needed a 5 day school option and Diamanté Montessori here in Glen Ellyn was stil not able to give us that after the fall semester, we moved you to Wheaton Montessori in the Spring Semester of 2017. The first few days at the school were easy, but when you realized this new place was your new every day school, there were about two weeks of a rough time for you - crying on the way to school and getting upset at times at school. You have since really started to love the new school.
For a while and still now you will tell us that your pink snake can't find his friends or that you can't find Mary, Riley and Jack who were your best friends at the old school. Hayley said to let you talk through it, help guide and give you answers and that you are probably trying to figure it out.
That said, you still talk about Riley, Mary and JACK constantly who were your close friends at Diamanté. We have done a few play dates with Jack who you both say are one another's best friends. Jack is one year older, rambunctious, fun and smart. You two are inseparable when in the same room. We found out from Mrs Rogers at your new school that you have a new best friend Cameron, a 4 year old rambunctious and loud boy - a similar personality to Jack. Although no one can replace Jack, we are so happy you have found another close friend.
We are happy that you are happy and making friends. ;-)
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Tilly's Birth Story
So that you guys have this for posterity:
On Thursday Aug 25th, the day before I was to be induced, I got a mani/pedi at 1pm in downtown Glen Ellyn and then walked around Lake Ellyn afterwards for a long while. I fully intended to be induced the next day and had started my leave of absence that day. I came home from my long walk and then Steve's parents arrived. We all went to dinner at Shannon's Pub at 5pm and I started to get contractions at dinner but at the time I thought "these maternity jorts aren't for the post due date phase" and figured it was just pants too tight. ;-) Afterwards we picked up our CSA veggies/fruit (and like every other week we ended up using 1/3 of them - just the super familiar ones - while the others ultimately went bad) and I continued to have contractions but thought it was again, just a too tight waist on the maternity jorts. We got home around 7pm and the pain started to get stronger, longer and more frequent. I thought maybe it was contractions at this point. Steve's parents were helping Tab take a bath. I downloaded a contraction timer app and timed three contractions - the app flashed "STOP AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL!" I went from realizing it was contractions to 20 minutes later the app telling me that I had to go to hospital. He was a little weirded out that I let him know last minute and kept this all a secret, he told his parents we had to go while I panicked. We grabbed our bags and we said goodbye to Tab. Drove into city and checked into hospital around 9pm. At 10pm they checked cervix and said I was far from ready at 5cm or so. We were considering getting a hotel downtown and walking around for a while but my blood pressure started to get too high so they admitted me to delivery. At 12am they brought me upstairs to the delivery room and I asked for an epidural. The midwife wanted to confirm that was what I wanted and said "Do you want me to talk you out of it?" I definitely didn't. After the epidural at 1am or so I felt better but could definitely still feel pain, no one believed me that I still felt pain but I felt better than before and definitely not as much pain from the first baby sans epidural so I just tried to relax and snooze between contractions. They dimmed the lights in our room assuming I would labor slowly for a while and let me and Steve relax. But alas, my water broke probably 20 minutes later. They cleaned me up and I jammed my hands in my vag to check my cervix and I could feel Tilly's hairy head. ;-) I told the nurse that I checked my own cervix and could feel the her head. Sure enough, I was 10cm and I got in trouble for checking my cervix. The midwife was awesome - she had "executive presence" and totally had the situation under control. Steve held one of my legs and the nurse held the other. I pushed once and Tilly's vitals were starting to go down and her heart rate dropped below 90BPM. Tilly's head pushed through a little more and she was face up (posterior) which the midwife said explained why the epidural didn't cut all the pain. She also said she would give me one or two more opportunities to push and then she would do an episiotomy and get Tilly out since the heart rate was too low and she was face up. I started to get worried so I pushed super hard a few times and she popped out at 3:35am! They weighed her with Steve in attendance in the room, yammered about her red hair, sewed me up. Tilly then nursed for TWO HOURS in the delivery room while we tried to stay awake. :-) It was a totally different experience but awesome in its own way.
On Thursday Aug 25th, the day before I was to be induced, I got a mani/pedi at 1pm in downtown Glen Ellyn and then walked around Lake Ellyn afterwards for a long while. I fully intended to be induced the next day and had started my leave of absence that day. I came home from my long walk and then Steve's parents arrived. We all went to dinner at Shannon's Pub at 5pm and I started to get contractions at dinner but at the time I thought "these maternity jorts aren't for the post due date phase" and figured it was just pants too tight. ;-) Afterwards we picked up our CSA veggies/fruit (and like every other week we ended up using 1/3 of them - just the super familiar ones - while the others ultimately went bad) and I continued to have contractions but thought it was again, just a too tight waist on the maternity jorts. We got home around 7pm and the pain started to get stronger, longer and more frequent. I thought maybe it was contractions at this point. Steve's parents were helping Tab take a bath. I downloaded a contraction timer app and timed three contractions - the app flashed "STOP AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL!" I went from realizing it was contractions to 20 minutes later the app telling me that I had to go to hospital. He was a little weirded out that I let him know last minute and kept this all a secret, he told his parents we had to go while I panicked. We grabbed our bags and we said goodbye to Tab. Drove into city and checked into hospital around 9pm. At 10pm they checked cervix and said I was far from ready at 5cm or so. We were considering getting a hotel downtown and walking around for a while but my blood pressure started to get too high so they admitted me to delivery. At 12am they brought me upstairs to the delivery room and I asked for an epidural. The midwife wanted to confirm that was what I wanted and said "Do you want me to talk you out of it?" I definitely didn't. After the epidural at 1am or so I felt better but could definitely still feel pain, no one believed me that I still felt pain but I felt better than before and definitely not as much pain from the first baby sans epidural so I just tried to relax and snooze between contractions. They dimmed the lights in our room assuming I would labor slowly for a while and let me and Steve relax. But alas, my water broke probably 20 minutes later. They cleaned me up and I jammed my hands in my vag to check my cervix and I could feel Tilly's hairy head. ;-) I told the nurse that I checked my own cervix and could feel the her head. Sure enough, I was 10cm and I got in trouble for checking my cervix. The midwife was awesome - she had "executive presence" and totally had the situation under control. Steve held one of my legs and the nurse held the other. I pushed once and Tilly's vitals were starting to go down and her heart rate dropped below 90BPM. Tilly's head pushed through a little more and she was face up (posterior) which the midwife said explained why the epidural didn't cut all the pain. She also said she would give me one or two more opportunities to push and then she would do an episiotomy and get Tilly out since the heart rate was too low and she was face up. I started to get worried so I pushed super hard a few times and she popped out at 3:35am! They weighed her with Steve in attendance in the room, yammered about her red hair, sewed me up. Tilly then nursed for TWO HOURS in the delivery room while we tried to stay awake. :-) It was a totally different experience but awesome in its own way.
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