Major big time catch up

TUESDAY morning we all got up in the morning and went berry picking with a couple families from church. David did not have to leave for work until noon so he got to come along.  I was really glad he did because otherwise we would not have gotten to bring hardly any berries home.  Between Haley using their porta-potty THREE times and Emily wanting to be held, I was pretty busy not picking berries.  Haley was infatuated with the port-a-potty, she always asked to see the boo boo, gross Haley.  David was also especially good at berry picking because I suspect he is a bit taller than their usual pickers, he got all of the ones up high.

After berry picking we came home and said goodbye to David and then headed to Chick-fil-A to meet a couple moms for lunch.  Some girls I know through MOPS were there and then Amanda and Suiledy came, they had been berry picking with us.  Haley ate a bunch of chicken nuggets, I was so impressed.  I think it helped that she was sitting next to Evelyn and across from Lucy and witnessing children eating normally.  I guess she realized that food isn't poisonous after all!  Haley went and played in the playground for awhile after eating and I held Emily and talked with the other moms, it was really nice.  We ended up staying until one and then headed home for naps.

While the girls napped I worked on posting some of our storage unit stuff online.  This will definitely be our most profitable unit, everybody needs a 40" tv apparently.  Also, I already mentioned the spiderman toddler thing, I had people messaging me and trying to have me secretly sell it to them even though they didn't see it first, oh my.  In the end, twelve people wanted that!  Haley took a three hour nap, that was kind of a nice surprise.  Emily only slept an hour, kind of a mean thing to do I thought.

At four I took the girls to Masons so I could tutor Caroline.  The girls played with Bonnie and the boys while I met with Caroline and then we stayed and visited for a little bit before heading home.  When we got home I started on dinner because we had invited Suiledy and her 4 month old Thiago to eat with us.  Suiledy's husband Gustavo is in Kenya on a missions trip with EMI and David was overnight in Washington D.C. so I had invited her over.  I decided to do breakfast for dinner since we had just picked all of those blueberries and I had a bunch of eggs that were going to go old soon.  Suiledy brought some orange juice and some blueberry jam that she had already made with some of the blueberries.  Um, impressive!  After dinner she stayed and talked for a while and then headed out.  I let the girls stay up a little longer and then they went to bed.  Emy gave me a bit of a hard time because she kept pulling up on the crib and then I had to go in and put her back down.

WEDNESDAY we went to the gym in the morning.  I ran and then took a shower.  Emily started making a sad face when I first dropped them off but I ran out of there as quickly as I could and I don't think she ever actually cried.  I think she's pretty easily distracted.  After the gym we came home and I cleaned while the girls played.  Then we had lunch and I put the girls down for naps.  Emily was awake after hardly an hour but I put her in the swing and she went back to sleep while I finished cleaning.  Once both girls were awake we vacuumed and made our dish for the church potluck.

Through the summer we are meeting in people's homes for the potluck instead of the building we rent because it is cheaper and so many people are gone anyways.  This week's potluck was at the Caldwell's house and Haley was pretty excited about it.  She played really nicely for most of the time, we had to break up a few fights here and there though.  David came straight from the airport and met us there, Haley and Emily were excited to see him.  After the potluck we came home and went to bed.  David put the girls to sleep and they both went down super easy.

David wrote for Thursday on Thursday, so that's why he is writing as if everything happened today:

Today we woke up around 7:30.  Katelyn was already awake and doing her devo's.  I heard Haley open her door and then shut it again.  I got up and saw her bunny in the hallway as I walked up to their door.  When I opened the door, Haley was trying to climb in to Emily's crib and Emily was standing up in there watching her.  Both babies were still sucking on paci's.  I got them out and made them waffles which they ate rather quickly.  Then mommy took a shower while I watched them eat.  I jumped in later with Emily who was extra sticky.  I used to think that Haley was messy till I met Emily.  After my shower I went to meet a guy at starbucks while Katelyn had the ladies over for womens' Bible Study.  Actually, it was woman Bible study because only Meg came.  I got home after a while and they were just finishing up.  Haley was playing really silly with Sarah Kate.  They were pretending to nap and I think Haley was supposed to be the teddy bear or something because SK was holding her, both of them laughing their heads off.  After they left, Katelyn went with Emily to visit a friend who had come back from out of town for a few days.  I stayed home with Haley.  I tricked her into eating some applesauce while she watched Elmo on the iPad.  Then I put her to bed.  Katelyn came home not long after that and put Emily right to sleep.  Then we got to work folding laundry and organizing stuff to sell.  Katelyn had to put together some christmas trees to verify they were easy to set up and all the pieces were there.  Christmas in July to the limit with the mercury rising to 102F.  She put them together outside... Then I left to run an errand and when I got home, the girls were awake.  We played a little while and then put the trees and one other item into the car and went to Hobby Lobby where Katelyn proceeded to meet a woman to sell her the Christmas trees at 4:30, followed by shopping for paint and some picture frames for her youth group tonight, followed by another meeting at 5:30 to sell the other item which was some storage bins for toys.  I have never felt more like a drug dealer in my life, in fact, I'm pretty sure we were being followed by some undercover cops.  We ditched the fuzz by running inconspicuously to Kohl's to buy some baby clothes.  When we were leaving a family was walking in and subsequently walked out within 15 seconds.  I overheard the son say to the mom "This isn't Target idiots!"  Haha, they totally walked into the wrong store before noticing.  By the way, Target is 1/4 mile away in the same parking lot...  That's what you get when you trust your GPS.  Then we came home and I made some spaghetti while talking to Sarah on the phone about her new friend and Katelyn played with the girls.  Then we ate dinner.  Katelyn went to pick up her youth group girls while me and the babies ate popsicles on the front porch.  Popsicles are baby perfume, at least they think so.  They rub the juice all over their bodies.  We then went straight to the tub with Haley saying "No toque nada!" all along the way. (don't touch anything)  I got them in jammies, well actually haley is currently in a diaper, and we watched some dorah while Emily ate a couple mouthfuls of spaghetti.  Then I put them to bed.

Haleyism:
Haley's favorite question is now:  what are you doing?  Great question, unless it is the tenth time she's asked it and you're still doing the same thing!

Emilyism:
Emily loves to crawl up into this little car, I took a picture below.  Our only one of the day, sorry!

She thinks she's sixteen or something

Emily was acting crazy tonight!