Last night was super scary. I woke up around 11:30 to a bad storm outside. It was really loud and windy I guess. I woke ray up and he started checking the weather on his phone. We heard a really loud bang and that was enough to scare ray into going down stairs. He grabbed Evan and I took grace and we headed down the stairs. Halfway down the lights went out, there was another loud bang and I dropped my phone. It took us a minute to remember that ray had his. So he turned it on and we made our way to the guest room. I was scared to death and shaking. I really thought we were in the middle of a tornado. The kids were fast asleep. Grace started moving around so I put her in her car seat in the middle of the room and ray and ev and I crawled in bed. The storm died down pretty quick and ray's work called not too long after because they were having issues. The power came back on like twenty minutes after it went off and ray went and got his laptop from the car. Ev woke up after everything was over. Ray finished his work pretty quick and came back to bed but ev had woken up and continued to mess around for at least an hour. He finally went to bed and grace woke up around 5:40. So we moved back up stairs. It was a scary night I hope not to repeat. I'm so glad nothing serious happened and that our babies are safe.

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We got the windows tinted on the van last week. The sun always shines in the kids faces. It works really well. We also tinted our windows and put a big strip across the top of the front. One down side, it's a little hard to see when I back up at night.

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Grace's two month check up went good. She's 23 inches tall. She weighs 12.8 pounds. She still has a bit of thrush. So she's doing another round of medicine. The dr said she'll eventually grow out of it but she doesn't want it to flair up in the mean time. She got her first set of shots today. She cried really hard. Poor girl. She fell asleep as soon as we left. She woke up around 3:30 and was really cranky. She had screaming fits. I tried to feed her but she was too upset to eat much. I gave her Tylenol but it took like half an hour to calm her down. She slept until ray got home and had another screaming fit. She still didn't eat much. She was pretty gassy so we gave her gas drops. It took another twenty minutes probably but she finally started feeling better. She settled down and I finally got her to take six ounces. She's been sitting in my arms cooing and looking at me for awhile now. She just fell asleep. Very sweet happy baby. I hope her next set of shots don't have the same effect.

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Hey there!

Work bench

Kids after the zoo

Zoo part 2

Zoo part 1

Melting pot

Will and grace :)

Ev freaked out during his first auto car wash.

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Cuteness!

Cute kids

Ev was sitting under the tv. He turned around and said some that sounded like "puppy" and I said did you "poopy". When I checked his diaper he had. I also got him to sit on his potty once yesterday.

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Watching cartoons.

Grace is such a different baby lately. She's a lot happier and smiles all the time.

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The kids are doing so well. Ev slept until I went in to get him at 7:30 this morning. Grace usually gets up around 3 or 4 am but over the weekend she slept until around 5. Thus morning I woke up before she did at 6:45 am. This is the first full nights sleep ray and I have had in months! It feels really nice.

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Maxx uses Evan's chair after he goes to bed.

Valentines day!

Ray came home with flowers, candy, and a card for Grace and I from him and Evan. He also made reservations at the Melting Pot on Saturday! Will and Robin offered to babysit as a birthday present. How lucky we are to have each other and our two wonderful kids!

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Valentine

Valentines for me and grace from ray and ev.

Prodigy?

Trip to cape.

Evan has slept in his bed all night 3 nights this week. I think he would have made it the fourth night bit grace was really upset.

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My first outing with the kids all by myself. It went really good. I walked a little over two miles. Ev did good. Grace was a little cranky but settled down. Ev even got to play on the jungle gym a little bit.

Grace has been doing better the last couple of nights. She still has thrush though so she has to do another round of medicine. It looks a lot better but it's still there. Her feeding schedule is starting to be a little more routine but her awake times are still all over the place. Oh well it's still early days. Grace gets to meet her great grandmother this weekend. She'll be taking her first road trip to cape. My Mom's b-day is today. Happy birthday! And mine and Lindsay's is next week. So we're going down to celebrate.

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Playing together

Dancing with daddy

Grace's room is finally done.

I think I found a cure for grace's colic. Instead of waiting an hour to give her gas drops we gave it to her at the first sign of fussiness. I'm also sitting in the rocking chair with her back against my stomach rocking. She was a little fussy but currently she is calm and dozing off and on.

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Ev slept in his bed all night last night. He's done that a few times over the last couple of weeks. He also goes right back to bed when he wakes up in the middle of the night. I just walk him back put him bed and I go back to bed. He stays in there till morning. Now if only we can get grace straightened up. She sleep pretty good but she's colicy for an hour when ev goes to bed and she's been cranky for the last hour this morning. She finally passed out on the swing.

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Grace has out grown two of her newborn sleepers!

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Cutie pa tuttie