Better late than never?

We did celebrate Christmas here, way back in December. Here are a few pics:
Ray's parents and brother came up. I didn't get very many pictures of them.

I am one of those mean parents who make their children eat breakfast and get dressed before diving into presents. Here the girls were finally getting to their stockings:
They got a tent from Grandpa and Grandma. They love it. They even slept in it one night (in their bedroom):

Most of their loot:

In case you didn't know...

I'm pregnant.

Since I had a c-section with the girls, I have to have one again. While discussing with the doctor when to schedule said c-section I opted for 38+ weeks rather than the 39+ weeks he was suggesting. As I tried to explain to him, my family history would indicate that labor may be early for me. I don't think he listened to anything I said, he was too busy trying to tell me that there is absolutely no good reason to schedule a c-section that early. Then he said, "Discomfort is not a good reason." I was confused. I had said nothing about discomfort. I responded with, "I don't really want to go through labor if you're going to cut me open anyway."

Later I was thinking about this and realized why discomfort had never even crossed my mind. Let me try to illustrate this:












The picture on the left is Meg at ~35 weeks pregnant with twins. The picture on the right is Meg at ~35 weeks pregnant with one. (I very intentionally wore the same outfit, as I think it shows the difference so well.) For some reason I don't feel like I am all that close to delivery, although I am. In fact, if this baby came as early as the girls, it would show up in less than a week. But I can still bend my legs, I don't have a double chin, I can walk up and down the stairs without pain, I can still tie my shoes, I can still see my shoes when they are on my feet, I haven't had to expand the waist on my maternity overalls, I can still wear my wedding band, etc. Discomfort? I don't love being pregnant by any means, but discomfort had not crossed my mind.

Cora's Haircut

She didn't choose to cut it close enough to the front to make bangs. At least with her hair all down it's not really noticeable:

Is it just me?

Am I really bad at potty training? Or is it my children? Are they just too obstinate to do things my way and on my time schedule? (I don't know where they could have gotten a trait like that.) Or is it everyone else? Do other people expect their "fully potty-trained" children to have accidents regularly for the next year after becoming "fully potty-trained"? Have I somewhere missed that this is the true definition? Just wondering.

And...

Cora had her first haircut today. Thanks to herself. No pictures yet. I think it's hide-able, so I'm probably not going to do much about it.

Three is old enough

to do the laundry:

Budding Musicians

The girls are very versatile with their instruments, they can switch:
Can you tell what instruments they are playing?

The girls found the curlers

So, of course, we had to curl their hair. There is a big difference from the last time I tried. I can put lots of curlers in now. However, the girls weren't especially patient and wanted the curlers out before their hair dried completely. As a result, the back of Cora's hair didn't curl at all. Ruby's hair is much thinner, dried faster, and had a lot more curl:


Just after I took the curlers out

The end results

Ruby's hair was very cute for a very short time. Alas, she has my hair and no curl lasts long.