It Began with a BBFT

Baths aren't as frequent as they should be in our house (for the babies mostly) but when they do happen it's a lot of fun. Here's how we have to do it with two potential drownees:
1. Struggle to undress twin 1 and put in dry tub with toys
2. Struggle to undress twin 2 and add to dry tub with twin 1 and toys
3. Rinse pee out of tub from twin 1 while she was waiting for twin 2
4. Turn on water
5. Watch twin 1 and twin 2 climb over eachother to get to the faucet
6. Enjoy the surprised-blink-gasp-blink face that comes from putting their face under the faucet
7. Make twin 1 sit back down.
8. Pull twin 2 off of twin 1
9. lather, dump water over twin 1 and twin 2 to rinse. enjoy surprised-blink-gasp-blink face again
10. Drain tub
11. Remove twin 1, towel dry and diaper/dress
12. Go back for twin 2 (from dry tub), towel dry and diaper/dress
13. Put twin 1 and 2 down for a nap
14. Pour cup of coffee and blog about it.

I was off of work today which was glorious because last night was rather busy and I needed time to recover. Since the humidity was better we took advantage of it and just wandered around westerville with our double stroller. We ate dinner at a local place and sipped coffee afterwards while the girls sipped their bottles. We stopped at the swings on the way home which is the twins ultimate favorite thing to do and then a quick library stop. Now I know that a rundown of my evening is boring to most outsiders, but one of the reasons I have my blog is to be able to look back and remember things, especially simple every day things.

Now, the blog title does relate to something funny. Today as I was changing Grace's dirty diaper I found a very intact blue sticker with white writing in classic gap style that said 3 for $5 mixed in with her poop! Of course I showed Ryan and we almost took a picture, but then thought better of it. I guess Grace has a taste for gap stickers. We'll have to keep a better eye on her.

I say new jobs plural because I feel like a stay at home mom in the mornings and an urgent care physician at night. I finished residency about 1 month ago and now I am working at several pediatric urgent care locations in Columbus that are owned by Nationwide Children's Hospital (where I did my residency). The upside of the job is that I am only working about 3-4 8 hours (in theory) shifts a week. I get to spend my mornings and early afternoons with the girls even ondays that I work because my shifts don't start until 3pm. The downside is that it's urgent care which goes a little like this: you're fine, you're fine, really you brought him in for this?, now where exactly is this rash. . . um can you point to it?, you're fine, you're fine, virus, virus, virus, oooh really bad break--and stay off those trampolines, so the fever just started 2 hours ago?, so this pain has been going on for 6 months and you're here tonight why?, rash. . . uh. .not sure what that is but it won't kill you!, etc, etc, etc. It's still very much a learning process. I don't think I've been paying attention at all the last 3 years during residency :). So far I like it, but we'll see. The winter is coming and I may just want to poke my eye out daily when it rolls around.

Here's a fun bath pic from Ryan's mom's sink to make the post more interesting.


p.s. lydia fell down the stairs the other day . . . but we didn't even take her to urgent care!!! Wish others would do the same.

We completed our mini-vacation a couple of days ago and we are settling back into our own little place again. We traversed Indiana back to the great state of Ohio and spent some time with our college friends in Canton, made a brief stop at the Dreniks beautiful home and then last but not least enjoyed a couple of days in Chagrin Falls with my family. It was wonderful to just hang out with friends and family without any real agenda. I'm glad we did it because if we stayed in Westerville for my time off I would've cleaned and organized something for sure and not really enjoyed it. Thanks to everyone who hosted us! See pics below.

I had my first urgent care shift last night so I am officially employed therefore we all officially have health insurance so we can be crazy as we want to be. More on my urgent care job in the next post. I gotta space out my tidbits of info :)


Photos Top to Bottom:

Ryan and Hudson on their matching laptops

Dad and Grace reading/eating the paper

Hudson helping to feed the twins

Lunch at our favorite . . . Costco!!!

Relaxing on the Drenik's porch with their kids