It's been a rough few days here. Fridays and Saturdays...well, they suck. MAJORLY. Jay works 9am-9pm and I'm stuck alone with the kids. Not so bad, cause I love my kids. But by 7---REALLY ready for some me time, and by 8--oh hell...if they aren't asleep by then I'm going crazy cause it means they are overtired and cranky.

But Sunday wasn't bad... we took Brody (ALONE!) to see his very first movie theater movie!!! We saw Wall-E. Not too bad. Brody had a tough time sitting still and not talking. But he was very well behaved and cute cute cute! He's getting so old! He ate popcorn and "little sour people" (sour patch kids) and drank a little bit of soda. FUN FUN FUN! Future reference: MOVIES ARE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN I REMEMBER!
The girls stayed with my dad, Kim, and Kim's girls for a few hours. It's kinda weird... I really enjoyed spending time alone with Brody, but about 10 minutes into the movie I was really wishing it was over so we could get back.
Anyway, Kim took some beautiful pictures of the girls while we were gone. That would be the ones way up there (pointing).

We went to our awesome pediatrician yesterday for Brody's 4 year check up and Bella's 15 month checkup. I feel bad because I always have to drag Jay out of work to help me with appointments...but once he's there, he realizes how needed he is! (AND APPRECIATED!!!!!)

Anyway, Brody is 33 pounds and is 3 feet 1.5 inches tall. And Bella is 20.5 pounds and 2 feet 8 inches tall. She's so tall! :) Anyway, we talked to the doctor about Brody's...issues... and she gave us some tips. 1) Time outs in a stroller. Since they don't work with him and I'm NOT about to start spanking, this is going to be the only way, I suppose. He's allowed to cry during time out, and after 5 minutes, we take him out and tell him we're sorry he's unhappy but that he did something wrong and needed to sit in a timeout for it, and that if he does something he knows is wrong again, he goes back to timeout. Here's for hoping! We also discussed our sleep issues. Brody refuses to sleep in his room. He screams for hours and ends up on the couch in the living room. We leave lights on, we give him books and even toys. He won't even try to lay down. And I read somewhere when he was a year and a half old that you can't let them cry it out for more than an hour, so we've been giving in after a while. My dad says he sleeps on the couch because we let him. I guess he's right about that. So the doctor gave us permission to let the crying go until he's asleep. And she said he's going to be less nuts for us once he goes to Prek! yay!

Miss Bella is having a little issue with her tummy, so I think we're going to limit her dairy products again. Hopefully that helps her. Otherwise, she's doing great! I had been confused about her play habits, since she doesn't do structered playing. We were reassured she'd start that around 18 months.
Anyway, the visit lasted over an hour!! The doctor is awesome! We never feel rushed or anything... Oh, and the kids both got shots! Brody feel asleep in the car afterwards.

We did the crying thing last night with Brody. It took an hour and a half. Hopefully it gets easier.

We're going up to Bennington today for Jay to apply to a job. *crosses fingers* Hopefully he gets it, and soon! We're ready to have a little more money!