Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Dogs & Cats

Today is my first baby's 7th birthday! Yes – my first baby, our dog Sable, was born on this day 7 years ago! While she still might be my most challenging, she is a very special and smart dog with lots of love and energy! I’m thankful she found her way to our home! I’m hoping we can have a birthday celebration tonight complete with cupcakes for everyone!

On another note, I wanted to have a record of this. Last night we were over at the Talberts house eating dinner and playing. After a while, Riley said “what’s that mom?” and she was pointing at something. When I saw what it was it was their cat! I don’t think she’s ever been that close to a real cat before. It’s remarkable to me that with all the things they’ve been exposed to that she has never seen one up close and personal. Once I told her it was a cat, she knew that cats say “meow”, but she had never seen one like that before (their cats are long hair so they look even a little different than what they’ve seen in books). To take this story one step further…we were looking for Eliza’s “purple cup”, so I asked Riley and Ryan to help us search for it. They thought I said “purple cat” (I’m thinking like the one in the book 'brown bear'), so they were running all over looking for the “purple cat”. I had to giggle when they kept saying it!

Spring Fever

So we’ve been as busy as ever and I just haven’t had the time to post as much lately, but I wanted to put up a few pictures from the last week… Have a great week!

Gran-daddy came home from his trip to the winter Olympics in Vancouver. The kiddos loved all of their “(sur)prises”!

Enjoying their new bubble gum machines from their friend Margaret’s 1st birthday party yesterday. Before the party Ryan fell at our house and bumped his head hard on a stacked stone pillar. He had an immediate knot on the back of his head the size of a golf ball. A bit scary for us… we headed to the doctor and got the all clear. You would never believe he was hurt in these pictures?!?! The knot has gone down, but it’s still there and bigger than I’d like it to be. Thank goodness he seems to be totally unaffected by it.

Riley sporting her new hat at the park today. I can’t decide if it’s cute or if it makes her look like a chemo patient?!?

They played hide and seek, threw the baseball and caught it with Paul’s glove and kicked the soccer ball. All firsts for us! A fun afternoon. I’ve so got spring fever in a big way!!!

Ryan sporting Riley’s other new hat. He was cracking up at himself. Of course, it’s on backwards!

Web Albums:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hutchinson.heidi/20100305GranDaddyBackFromOlympics#
http://picasaweb.google.com/hutchinson.heidi/20100307MemorialPark#

Dare Devils!

We went to our multiples club play date on Saturday at Sensations Therafun.  It’s a really cool place that is filled with all kinds of sensory and developmental “toys”.  It is a facility used for therapy, but it’s also used as a place to “play”.  The kiddos had a blast, but what I was most impressed with was the fact that both of my children went down the zipline!!!  I got up on the platform and it was even a little scary to me, but my kiddos were rock stars and jumped right on!  

Check out the videos below:

Web Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hutchinson.heidi/20100220SensationsTherafun#

I never posted about the weekend we hosted our super bowl party, so at this point it’s old news…  But – I thought I would include the pictures anyway!  It was total chaos…I think it was 11 children 5 and under and 9 adults!  We had a great time, but there were moments I asked myself - “what were we thinking”? 

Web Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/hutchinson.heidi/20100207SuperBowlWeekend#

Long Night

So – I missed my Sunday night blog post last night. Too much laundry hanging over my head, so the laundry won! It will happen (hopefully) tonight, but – I just had to post this now to recap our night (overnight) last night beofre I forget it. We were up 3 times – Kevin went in when Riley was crying and then I went in when Ryan was crying. I didn’t get the recap of Kevin’s visit because I was trying my hardest not to really wake up. But I made a point to remember my talk with Ryan. When I went in he was crying for Daddy and the conversation went like this...

Me: Ryan – honey what’s wrong? Why are you crying?
R: Where’s Daddy?
Me: Daddy is in our room sleeping…like you should be.
R: Go get him.
Me: I’m not going to get Daddy, so please tell me what is wrong?
R: Watch a movie? (as he began to sit up and try to get out of his bed)
Me: We can’t watch a movie – it’s 3:30am! It’s time to go to sleep.
R: I go with you mommy. (hugging my neck tightly)
Me: You can’t go with mommy. You need to stay in your own bed like Riley and Daddy. Do you want mommy to stay in here with you for a minute before you go back to sleep?
R: oh yes mommy.
A few minutes passed and he was settled so I kissed him on the forehead…
Me: I love you bug!
R: My name is Ryan.
Me: (trying my very hardest not to laugh out loud.) You are right – I love you Ryan!
R: Love you too mommy. Night night.

What a sweet time – even if it was 3:30am! The 3rd time we were awakened was at 5:00am when the thunder began to roll and rattle our whole house. That time it was Sable that was scared. When my alarm went off at 5:38 I really thought it was a joke, but sure enough it wasn’t. I’m now on my second cup of coffee and hoping for a good nights’ rest tonight!