Whew! I have to take a big breath before I dive into recalling this day! :) There were some amazing parts and some amazingly challenging parts!
We'll start with some of the great stuff! :) Annabelle is so funny with all the new ways she finds to "help" each day! This morning I had just finished feeding Abigail the last part of a jar of banana baby food. I had left the spoon in the empty jar and had gone to retrieve something from Cade that he wasn't supposed to have. When I returned Annabelle was happily getting any last little bit of bananas out of the jar and sticking the spoon (pretty carefully, I might add) into Abigail's mouth! Abigail seemed grateful for my substitute! Annabelle always has that concerned look when she spots me as if she's not sure if I'm going to approve or not. It was so cute I grabbed the camera and let her do it a few more times. Yes, I can forsee that one day this will not be cute when I have a full jar of baby food that winds up all over the baby, but today it made a great picture!
This afternoon, after I had cleaned potting soil off of the twins from playing in a plant on the back deck, I enjoyed a wonderful gift! I was holding and bouncing little Abigail on my knees facing me, when she started laughing! I had never heard her do anything like it and it was absolutely precious! Oh how this little angel touches my heart! I just laughed along with her! When I was first pondering all that her having DS could mean, I was worried that my heart would miss hearing her talk until she was older and not hearing her say, "I love you" for some time. But her big smile and the laugh she gave me today speak so much to me! My heart is full! And, by the way, with all her acheivements, I am learning not to look at her DS label, but at her and I realize that she will follow her own development schedule and not necessarily the "ranges" for a baby having DS. I tried to call a few people to let them hear and grabbed the video recorder! I got part of it and I'm so glad! It was priceless! I love her happiness! Wow! Those are the moments!
Well, life being what it is, a day must contain balance and I should've known I was in for some groundbreaking experiences! It was about 4:30 and I was proud that I had managed to get the baby fed at 4 and the house back in order a little ahead of my daily time. I was getting ready to start cooking dinner so it would be ready by the time James got home! (whoo hoo, I'm good- maybe he'll never know the chaos that occurs here and how messy the house gets while he's at work), I had Abigail in the swing and the twins were playing in the foyer with their little kitchen. I lit a yummy smelling candle, started some jazz playing, and thought to myself, "this will be a nice, relaxing dinner and we can wind the day down peacefully through the evening! I'm sure we all need it! Well........... that didn't last long! Right then Darby happened to call, and I love chatting with her (adult conversation)! I have lost hearing in my left ear about 6 years ago and when I'm on the phone, I can't hear anything else!! It took me a minute to realize that the twins were being very quiet! ALWAYS a bad sign! I walked into the foyer and all I could say was, "OH MY GOODNESS"! Darby, being extremely keen, said immediately, "what did they do" I tried to give her a brief description followed by a hurried "I have to go" I'll call you back"! I grabbed the camera, because otherwise no one would believe me, and then started trying to figure out what to do! Apparently Annabelle had gotten her hands on a 25 oz can of comet cleanser with bleach! I hate that stuff. This can had been in the house from way before James and I were married! Probably at least 6 yrs! It must've been under his sink in the bathroom or mine. Sometimes we take the baby proof locks off so we can actually get in the cabinets! I guess it didn't get put back on! Anyway, Annabelle and Cade had emptied the entire can all over the hardwood floors and the rug! You couldn't see the floor anywhere in a huge square in the foyer by the front door! She and Cade were light green! It was on the walls, everywhere! I was wiping around their mouths to make sure it hadn't gotten in, but it was all over their cheeks, in their hair..agh! I have taught them how to use their stools and wash their hands in the bathroom sink, so I turned the water on really light and told them to go wash their hands. I knew playing in the water would occupy them so that I could come up with a disaster recovery plan. Poor little Annabelle has little clammy feet and everywhere she and Cade had stepped had pressed the comet down hard on the floor. It wasn't just lightly sitting on the floor. I grabbed the vacuum cleaner and used the brush attachment to try to get most of it up! Oh my goodness! There was no way I could be in two places at once! I had to get it off the babies skin, ( they can't even tolerate any laundry detergent except Dreft) so I left the mess and got them to my bath tub! I washed them head to toe and then they squealed because I wouldn't let them stay in and play very long! I was worried about getting that stuff off the hardwoods too! I tried to use whatever dry cloths I could to get it up without adding any water! I'm sure the bleach part of it will activate once its wet! I'm not sure how its going to all pan out, James says it has a white film all over it! I'll have to break down and mop it tomorrow during nap time! Sheez!
I did finally get back to cooking dinner and as a final afterthought, I threw a steamer bag of green beans in the microwave! It started squealing like a siren. The twins flipped! Cade started running around saying, Uh oh, uh oh!! ( hope thats not an occurance in his teenage years to come)! Annabelle was startled and clingy! Oh my, all that for an extra vegetable!
Meanwhile, that little pumpkin discovered her feet while sitting in her swing! ( I felt just terrible that she had been in it for so long, through that whole ordeal!) and she never cried once! She was just having fun playing with her toes! That wasn't supposed to happen for a while too! Yipee! She's so great! Got a pic of that too!
Before I knew it, Cade sat on the floor in front of Abigail's swing and Annabelle pushed really hard on the swing while she was standing behind it! As you can imagine Cade came up with the short end of the stick. She busted his little lip. It was bleeding and he was crying and squealing! oh my!
Whew! Dinner was great and we were able to laugh a bit about it all! I will say I was relieved when it was 7:30 and we tucked those precious little stinker twins in bed! I'm convinced God gives twins a wonderful bond and the ability to identify their unique strengths quickly and they use that so they can plot on their unsuspecting parents! Wow, what two can do! I love them so much......and it's a good thing!
I sat down to download all the funny pics from my camera and wouldn't you know, the computer told me there were no images on the card! WHAT? After all I went through, I don't even get funny pics? Don't worry, after trying a few times, it read them! I now have proof of what these monkeys do..and of course I'll be so happy to remind them and all their friends someday!
ha ha! Think I need sleep! I get to start this all over tomorrow! ( and of course, wouldn't trade it for the world) Love to all! Good night!
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