10/29/2012: Back to work....

Yep.  I'm back.  After five weeks off.  I am happy to be back.  But I am super sad to be gone from my boys.  We were well into a routine and it was nice.  Very very nice.  One year olds are hard - they are non-stop and need constant stimulation.  But they are also SOOOO SOOOO SOOOO much fun.  Especially when a good routine is in place.  My guys are talkers and movers and so ridiculously lively it's just FUN.  The daycare was VERY happy to have them back.  They say "it's boring without them".  They just brighten whatever room they are in - they are those kind of kids.  Both of them.  Not just one.  People always expect one to be the lively, outgoing, gregarious one and the other to be the shy, reserved one - but no, they are both lively, outgoing, gregarious types.  In different ways.  Which just makes it more fun.  Anywho, so this morning, there we were dropping them off.  There is another little girl in that same room that is one day younger than them.  Oh how her face lit up this morning when she saw my guys.  It was amazing.  I've never seen her face light up.  I thought she didn't much care - about anything.  But this morning, she happened to be in one of the "teacher's" arms as we walked in and she was about to jump out of those arms.  She was in an all-out-extension to reach out to my guys.  Her face lit up.  She kept looking back and forth from the one I had in my arms to the one Husby had in his arms.  We put our boys down and took their cute little leather jackets off and she had to be on the floor to show them around, too.  Green ran around to all the cribs holding sleeping babies and stood up at each one to see who was in there.  Blue went straight to playing.  And that little girl was right beside Blue yet watching Green to see what was up there, too.  The teachers throughout the building all ran in at various points, one by one, so they could thank us for bringing "their" twins back.

I know how they feel.  I love my guys.  I want them with me, too.  They do brighten the room.  No doubt about it.

Here's something impressive.  Blue did not take a nap yesterday.  We went to the zoo and he simply would not fall asleep.  Green did.  Blue wouldn't - not in the hour long car trip each way, not in the stroller wandering around, just not at all.  Too intent on people watching.  And yet, here's this one year old boy, with no nap - and who even went later than normal for dinner - and he never got cranky.  He just kept on smiling.

I guess I am starting to see why people are always befuddled that I'm constantly in pain.  Cause outwardly - I'm still pretty happy.  Husby is fighting cancer.  Yet outwardly, he's still pretty happy.  We just take our kicks and kick right back.  I always worry that people see my anguish.  But people tell me they don't.  And here are my two beautifuls...always shining.  I love it.  People tell us All.  The.  Time..."they're just like their mommy and daddy".  I want them to only have our positive personality traits and never our negatives.  Can we make that work?

Anywho.  Moving on.  Rest'll be bullets.  We'll see if I can keep 'em more conciselier than normal.  (Like my word?)

• I'm back at work today.  Turns out - work is slow now.  So I'ma have lots of time to work on my project that is the only thing standing between me and a promotion and a VERY sizable raise.  I like sizable raises.  I want one.
• Blue and Green had their one year check-ups on Fri 10/20.  They do not show any notion of having been preemies at this point.  Head size, height and weight all well above 50th percentile.  Our ped wasn't worried at their 9 month check-up because they were well into normal territory then.  But now, they are "ahead".  I'd expect that "aheadness" to pick up even more steam.  I am 5'7".  I have been 5'7" since I was 11.  I was always super tall growing up, towered over my class mates.  Always got in trouble because people thought I was older because I was so tall.  I have a cousin who is 15 right now.  He is 6'4".  He played rugby up until about two years ago and always had to be in the older age group because he was so much bigger than anyone else his age.  Husby hopes our guys get my height gene but his muscularity.  While my family is known for height - and growing fast, they are also usually pretty lanky.  Except me.  I got my mom's side's height but my dad's side's muscularity, too.  So I'm hoping that between me and Husby both having that muscularity, hopefully that'll work out well for our boys.  
• Endo news...the week following the beautifuls birthday party I was in horrible pain.  Enough so that my doc wanted me off work an additional week.  At the start of last week (i.e. one week ago today) I was in horrible pain.  By Friday, however, the pain was subsiding.  So much so, I didn't even notice.  All I noticed, really, was that instead of taking 4 pain pills each day, I was taking 1, maybe 2.  Over the weekend - one day, none.  Another day, only one.  Today...haven't needed any.  I know the beautifuls' birthday party took a lot out of me between all the prep and then the party and then the clean-up on top of guests and running like a cheetah all over heck and gone.  I also now know that additional week off really seems to have made a difference. I suspect that my doc was right, going back to work last week, as originally planned, woulda set me up for never getting control back.  I have so much control now - it's like I'm not in pain.  

WOOOHOOOO!!!!!

• We took Blue and Green to the zoo yesterday.  It was absolutely gorgeous in Houston all weekend and I wanted to be outside.  They didn't pay much attention to anything animal related, of course.  But they definitely had fun.  As we were leaving we wanted to go by the elephant exhibit.  If there was anything I'd want Blue and Green to pay attention to, it would have been the ephalants.  And they did.  Boy did they.  They ephalants were already inside their huge "barn" for the night so we saw them through huge windows.  And we saw close-up a mommy and baby combo.  Blue and Green's eyes were fixated on the ginormity.  Blue, who loves to reach out for everyone right now, was reaching out to that momma ephalant like she'd turn around and scoop him up.  It was so awesome!  I love me some ephalants.  I didn't always, either.  It wasn't until I went on my world cruise and realized how cherished they are throughout the world and started to really learn of their amazingness that I started to change my mind.  
• The leather jackets I bought the boys?  Part of three piece ensembles with jeans and long sleeved t-shirts...yeah...made completely of polyester.  They are so awesome!!  I shoulda taken pics this morning.  They are so adorable!  Especially on the boys.
• Speaking of pics, I absolutely CAN NOT wait to get them in their Halloween costumes and get pics of that.  I think y'all will love them.  I think it's funny what I am dressing them as.  I can't wait to share the "surprise".
• Ok...time to get back to work.  Get things moving.  Do stuff.  Now that I'm back here...I'll probably be blogging more.  I've found that it's really hard to blog and play with beautifuls at the same time.  :)

Have a great week, y'all!!