Rough Recovery

Well I apologize I've not blogged in quite sometime. Today really is my first time on the computer in a week. I think I under-estimated how difficult this would be. I spend my days doing Physical Therapy, sleeping, watching TV, and enjoying my Percocet. My favorite thing about recovery though is snuggling with my babies. I can't really care for them but I do love holding and snuggling them. I appreciate all the little things they do. Chris is amazing. I make jokes about it but he really is SUPER HUSBAND!!!! He took last week off of work and cared for me and the babies so well. We have grown so much closer through all of this. They say recovery will take 6-8 wks but hopefully I am through the worse at this point.

Updates...

Well this post is updating all those other posts I've recently made about all of the changes going on in our lives.

Mom Car we got a Honda Pilot and it is ubber cute. I don't feel like I am driving a mom car... WOHOO!

Moving is still on the horizon but we will stay in Las Cruces (sorry wonderful SLC area friends). We will likely put the house up for sale around February and go from there. We recently met our neighbors and they are so awesome. Makes me want to stay in our house. We will see what happens.

Surgery on my hip is scheduled for Friday. I won't lie, I am very scared and sad. Mainly sad about leaving all my chickens all over again. I've never been separated but a few hours from the cupcakes. Harmon is really still recovering after his ordeal of this Summer. This is going to be hard and the recovery will be really hard. It is just about having faith that this is what is needed and is right. Hopefully in the long run we will be grateful we did it.

So those are our updates: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

A Sweet Pea and a Sweet Swine...

I always am asked what raising twins is like and I can proudly say it isn't that bad at all. Granted I might eat my words when they start crawling but they are really good babies. Rachel's nickname is Sweet Pea and she is just so full of personality. Sometimes we can spend 10 or 15 minutes just smiling and cooing at one another. I love Callum's nick name is Pig and I mean that with all affection. He has a healthy appetite! Seriously though he has just the sweetest spirit ever. He is a gentle soul whom has stolen my heart!



I might be going into surgery soon and what worries me the most is how I can be separated from these two and the wonderfully amazing Harmon Hakes. I worry Harmon will miss me so much and I worry the twins won't even noticed I am gone :( I don't know what would be worse. I am doing this surgery for them but I still can't imagine 4 to 5 full days away from my angels =..(

The battlefront is changing!

So after what has been increasingly destructive horrid toddler behavior that has seemed unstoppable we are finally starting to win the war!!!! I don't know why as a mom I couldn't come up with it earlier but the early intervention counselor told us to increase our positive reinforcement and TA-DA like magic Harmon is really trying to please us. Don't get me wrong he still isn't ready for crowded events but if he is in a calm environment he really responds great to directions. Heck even church wasn't our normal battle of will that it usually ends up being. Ahh, it is so nice to have a little peace in the home :)

I really love Harmon so much. I hope he knows that. This little boy has a smile that could light up the darkest of hearts. He just has hit the Terrible Twos (a little early) and I need to have more patience I am realizing!

Bah Humbug!

So Harmon has decided Christmas is not going to come easily in this home. I knew he would be a monster to start with so I didn't get our usual beautiful live tree and take out the glass ornaments. He loves plugging in and unplugging the tree and than unraveling the beads. I miss my pretty tree but sure am glad I didn't go out all out this year!

The boy is out of control!

Whoever thought kabobs was a good idea never had a toddler who likes to play with sticks!

I think I need to confess something: I have THAT kid! You know that out of control one screaming, running around, and throwing tantrums. It is funny b/c the odds of keeping him controlled in a nice quiet restaurant are about a 100x better than getting him to behave in a Peter Piper. As I've mentioned he has something called Sensory Integration which means if he is in a situation where the senses are overly simulated than he goes NUTS.

So tonight we had a very frustrating night going to our church's Christmas Party. He was chasing kids with sticks, stealing little kids cookies, grabbing the head dresses off the Wise-man, and basically TORTURING his parents. We had to take him out into the hall for the entire nativity presentation. I'm exhausted. I am wondering what I will do if all 3 of these kids has the same condition. We have multiple Early Intervention specialists helping us but I just don't know when this is going to get better.

Harmon with his own cookie right before he attempted to steal another one from a little girl :p

Overwhelming Changes...

I think I could have been fine if we had skipped this week.

If there is one sure thing about life, that is that there is always change. If there is one sure thing about my life, there is always CONSTANT OVERWHELMING change.

This past Wednesday I went to the doctors and they he was very honest. My hip is irreparably damaged and needs to be replaced. I can either do it now or wait until finally I can't handle the pain any more. I look at my 3 kids and I know I owe it to them to get this done soon. I already miss out on so much with Harmon b/c I can't keep up with him. I can't imagine not being able to be there for the twins too. I am sick of being the one to sit at home while everyone takes a fun nature walk. So I'm working up the courage to do this. It looks like we will either do it at Christmas week or perhaps a little later. But it is coming.

In other news it looks as if we are selling our house. I can't explain why but both Chris and I had an overwhelming feeling that this is something we should do. It was weird b/c he called me earlier this morning asking me if we should. I brushed it off but than later some people came by and said they were building on the lot next to us (which will obstruct our view of the mountains) and I just had that feeling that this is something we need to do. So it looks like we might be selling our home (I still think we haven't decided). I'm excited in a way but sentimental about leaving.

First baths...

So when we brought the cupcakes home they were so tiny we just gave them little sponge baths. It hit us though that these little guys are not that little any more and they are starting to smell a little b/c we are not bathing them fully. Think spoiled parmesean cheese caused by milk spilling into the gaps of skin under the cheeks. So today they took their first baths.

Callum happily chilling in the water!

Rachel was not amused

So the baths went okay. Rachel wasn't amused at all by the bath and in revenge peed on us when we took her out. Callum on the other hand was happily in heaven. So now we have two sweet smelling cupcakes. Wohoo!

Christmas in Cruces...

Tonight was such a special night. We took the car and we drove to our old neighborhood where there is a special house that has 65,000 choreographed to their own radio station that you can pick up in your car (check out the website: http://www.christmasincruces.com/ it is really cool).

The Christmas House

So we watched the house, drank hot chocolate, and than it began to snow. The twins were napping and Harmon was enamored by the lights. Could life be any more perfect than that?

Our house in the snow