Different personalities

Amazing how different children can be. It is so fun watching the kids grow and see how the respond differently in the same situation. For instance...

If we are walking out of school and an ambulance goes by (or a loud motorcycle), Ella is looking and trying to find out where that loud noise is coming from. Mary Catherine will run and jump in my arms.

If we want to praise Ella on something, we can say "High five" and she responds to that and lights up. The other day, I tried to do the same thing with Mary Catherine. As I sat there with my hand up in the air, she ran up to me and just glossed over my hand and threw her arms around me to give me a hug.

Ella talks and talks and talks and talks. Non-stop going to and from school. The other day I just didn't feel like talking back to her, so I let her just keep going and going. I finally started trying to count the seconds of quite time in the car - only made it to 6 seconds. Mary Catherine on the other hand, doesn't talk a lot in the car. When Ella was sick last week, it was just MC, Wesley and myself in the car going to and from school for 3 days. The car was sooo quiet those three days!

Gotta love 'em. Still think Mary Catherine is the one to watch out for...never know what she is up to!

First day back to work

My first day back to work was Feb 9 - and of course, it was HARD! It's always hard going back to work when you spend so much time with your baby. Seemed the worst this time than it did in the past, but I think it was because the kids stayed home with me more and we just got into more of a routine this time around. Plus, it didn't help that for at least 4 to 5 weeks prior to my return to work, at least one of the kids was sick every week. Mary Catherine had off and on fever, Wesley had RSV, then Mary Catherine had fever again. I thought they were all well until the night before I went back to work - Ella started running fever. Thank goodness Mimi was able to come over Wed morning to stay with her. She stayed with Ella for the rest of the week so that we could go back to work.


I took Wesley Monday for the first time and I couldn't even talk to any of the teachers. I cried and cried when I got in the car and then headed to the gym to release all of the emotional stress I was feeling. He did really well though. He didn't want to take his first bottle, but he chugged his second one down. He even took four 30-minute naps - and he was only there for 5 hours! He had another good day on Tuesday and I just cried a little :) I guess he is napping better at daycare than Mary Catherine did because he is already use to a lot of noise around the house :)

Here are some pictures of my first day back. Mary Catherine didn't want to get her picture made that morning :(