Weekend Review

Friday night we stayed in and made chicken.  Very exciting.  Saturday Dave installed new canned lights in our bedroom and a new speaker in the kitchen.  Both are very nice to have.  Saturday night was the Cancer party and we had a great time, home by 11.  Sunday, I was SO TIRED, church, MCC lunch, home/hospital, nap, and then pizza.

It was a nice weekend and Dave and the girls celebrated Mom well!  Fay picked out my peanuts card that played music...she thought it was so funny and she would dance to it...so I LOVED it.  And Dave got me a really pretty ikat print dress.

My grandmother was hospitalized over the weekend.  She had been diagnosed with pneumonia but the Dr. cleared her of that and they found a mass on her lung.  We won't know the results until late this week but pray it is not cancer and just a fungus.

Kid update-

Willa-Sits up all by herself, and takes a big girl bath (no more infant tub), she is sleeping much better after her dumb mother decided to feed her the biggest bottle she could make at night and she has been going 12 hours no sweat, napping great (10 and 2), just about ready to crawl (rocks back and forth and lunges forward), still loves to snuggle, can put her paci back in (praise GOD), and has the cutest grin with 2 little bottom teeth.

Fay-Talks ALL THE TIME, is bruised all the time, fearless, loves her cozy coupe car, still loves Harper best, runs into her grandparents arms, giggles all the time, still sleeps with puppy, white dog, and lamb lamb, still sucks her two middle fingers, will not eat any meat or veggie-only fruit, peanut butter, cheese and carbs, goldfish are still her very favorite, loves being sung to at night, says "this" and points constantly.

Happy kids=Happy parents.

I Shall Not Judge

I have to admit I have been one of those mothers that has thought to themselves..."oh your baby doesn't sleep, she must be doing something wrong"  Fay was/is an amazing sleeper.  She found her two middle fingers at 8 weeks of age and has been sucking them into sweet sleep ever since.  I had know idea how good a sleeper she is until Willa came along.

Last night Dave fed her at 6:30 (bedtime) then put her down.  Now I would expect a 5.5 month old to sleep until at least 5 or maybe 6.  However our Willa bean was up at 1am ready to eat.  I told myself I WOULD NOT FEED her in the middle of the night any more.  I have judged other women for feeding their babies when I believed you should just let them cry it out.  That's what I did with Fay and at most she would cry for 30 mins if she ever even woke up.  Willa on the other hand cried for 2.5 hours last night, and we are not talking a small whine and whimper.  This was an all out, pissed as hell cry for 2.5 hours, so finally I gave in and fed her.  Then she promptly wanted to be fed at 7am.

I am at my wits end.  This child should be sleeping!  I did it with Fay and I know I am not treating Willa that differently.  What the hell is going on....

We have seen her go 13 hours but it is infrequent.  10 Hours is about her max...I realize this is not a terrible track record, but I want her to sleep from 7-7 without waking me up.  That is the goal.

So needless to say I am not so smug any more...I used to be so smug about how well Fay slept.  Now I realize it isn't me, she is just a good baby.  And for the record so is Willa but if it's possible she may actually be more strong willed than Fay.

I prayed that I would have ambitious, independent, and smart girls....be careful what you pray for :)

I will not judge any other mothers, I will not question why they do things, I will not wonder about their marriages, and I will be humbled by these little creatures.  The truth is every mother is just trying to do their best, not kill their kids, and make it through the day without too many tears (their own or the child's).  So this post is to all the wonderful mothers I know...you are incredible women with amazing resolve.  We are all stronger than we think.

Oh and Fay and Willa are the boss of me.  I accept it.  

Pics

A few pictures of late.  I realize that there aren't that many of Willa but when we are outside playing most of the time it is when she is napping.  Willa is just as gorgeous as ever and so is Fay.

Life Lately

Busy.  Busy.  Busy.  That should be the end of the post but I must say everyone around here is busy doing all sorts of new things!  Willa has finally mastered the art of rolling from her back to her tummy!  Something she has been working on for quite sometime.  Fay takes her babies for a stroll in her mini stroller every day and loves to wave bye bye to literally everything, her dinner, the outside, her crib...she sends very fond farewells!  I have been out of town without the kids the past two weekends and the break was nice but I am looking forward to warm weathered weekends at home in the weeks to come.

Dave and I went to The Gage hotel this past weekend with some couple friends and it was a blast, however the west Texas wildfires were a little too close for comfort and we lost power Saturday night, which made for a hot night without any air conditioning.

And I have been producing a movie...a movie you say?  Yes a movie.

Shane Carruth won the Grand Jury Prize for his movie PRIMER at the Sundance Film Festival back in 04.   Just so happens he is a good friend of Dave's and we are beginning fundraising efforts for his sophomore film A TOPIARY.  Steven Soderberg and David Fincher are attached as executive producers and the film is going to be incredible.  So besides being a mother of two almost all of my spare time is dedicated to the financing of this film.  It's exciting...life takes you places you never thought you would go but I love the adventure.  Shane will be here next week taking initial pitch meetings and things will probably just get more busy, but that's just the way I like it.

Fashionista and 4 Months

Willa turned 4 months old on St. Patty's day!  She went for her well baby check today and she is in the 60% for weight, 13 lbs!  However the most surprising development is that she has cut her first tooth!  You can just feel the top of it and the Dr said we could start solids.  All in all it was a great visit and fun to have miss Willa bean all to myself.

Fay has now started voicing her opinion on clothes...I am actually very proud of her.  We haven't bought many spring outfits yet and I only had one that was her size and not long sleeved, which was given to us.  I wasn't wild about the outfit either but it was clean, fit, and was the right season so I didn't really care.  When I started to dress her she just started shaking her head and saying no, I asked her "do you not like this outfit?" and she answered definitively NO!  I love that she has an opinion (I am sure this will change with time), but I let her pick out her dress that day, she chose a UT cheerleading dress that her Gran Nan gave her, with a tutu panty.  She looked great!

Dave keeps stealing my memory card so I have no new pictures to post :(

SURPRISE!

Dave surprised me last week by joining the Racquet Club!  We are officially members and just in time for summer, so we have somewhere to take the girls swimming.  I had NO idea this was coming and he took me out last Tuesday to a fancy dinner just the two of us.  It was really good food and it was exciting to be eating there not as a guest, not on my parents tab, but on the Joyner tab.  It feels like we are real adults.

Thank you sweet Dave for making life so unpredictable...I love all of your surprises!  

Vegas and Church (What a post)

Dave and I took a very romantic trip to Vegas last weekend.  IT WAS NEEDED AND AMAZING.  We stayed at the Trump....it was SO nice and non-gaming and non-smoking.  So when you wanted to gamble we got to pick a place go for a few hours and then when the dinging and smoke started to get to us or we had lost all our money we could go "home" to our nice relaxing hotel across from Fashion show mall :).  The first night was really fun, steaks at Smith and Wollensky's, then downtown gambling at the Nugget.  We broke even that night and had a really good time.  The next day we had breakfast at the hotel and it was good too, I had a crab omelet and Dave had the American breakfast.  Then we sat by the pool until it was time for me to go to the spa.  I had a hot stone massage and a facial.  It was literally glorious...what a blessing this time of relaxation was.  Dave gambled at the Wynn and had a great time losing all his money.  Then we met up and went shopping.  Dave didn't even complain.  Afterwards we had a margarita by the pool and then headed back up to the room to get ready.  That night we ate at Shibuya (sushi) at the MGM and it was awesome, great food and a fun atmosphere.  Then we caught the late show of KA which was also fantastic, however I was very tired at this point and we cabbed it back to the hotel and hit the rack.

The Joyners had flown in from Dallas to the keep the girls and it didn't go flawlessly but everyone survived.  Most importantly Dave and I had a wonderful 48 hours just getting to be Dave and Katie...not Mom and Dad.  But it was great to get home and cuddle with the babies.  Time away helps make it so much sweeter...especially when you have a day like today.

I had to take both sick kids to the Dr by myself which was hell and I will never do it again.  Willa basically cried all day while Fay whined and coughed.  Turns out Fay has an ear infection and Willa is just cranky because she doesn't feel well...which translates to her not napping well, which means she is a ball of fuss and mommy cried today too.

But my parents watched the girls tonight so we could go to Ash Wednesday services and boy did I need me some church.  I was exhausted and got to be in prayer for a whole hour.  Lord, thank you for the blessing of tonights service.