My birthday girls!

Yesterday we celebrated Lilly's 5th birthday and Heidi's 2nd birthday. I thought I would share the story for those who don't know of how the girls almost had the same birthday. First of all I had the same due date with both girls. It was Oct 29th 2006 for Lilly and Oct 29th 2009 for Heidi. With Lilly I went into labor at 1:30am on Oct 17th (38 weeks and two days pregnant) and had her at 3:39pm that afternoon. With Heidi I went into labor on Oct 16th (also 38 weeks and one day pregnant) at 4pm. We headed to Hoag about 6:30pm and were joking the whole time about how the girls were going to have the same birthday 3 years apart to the day. I have a history of marathon labors so we just assumed this one would be the normal 13 to 20 hours. Even the nurses were joking with us about my long labors and how I would never deliver before midnight. I was actually pretty bummed because it was the one thing I didn't want for my girls. Well by about 10:30pm the nurses knew there was no way Heidi was going to stay in until midnight because I was dilating at lightning speed. And low and behold Heidi flew out (I'm not kidding I barely pushed once) at 11:30pm just 30 mins shy of being born on Lilly's birthday. My doctor barely had her gloves on before she was catching Heidi. So now everyone knows how close Heidi was to being born Oct 17th.

This year we decided to have a joint birthday party and will continue doing so until one of them decides they don't want to anymore. I'm sure they will hate me as teenagers for having their birthdays a day apart but that's the way it goes. Not much I can do about it now! We had a fabulous Barbie party for them yesterday and we all had the best time. Pink castle bounce house, separate Barbie cakes, and pinatas included!

Birthday girls before the party!

Lilly's birthday Barbie cake (my mom made both girls cakes! Amazing!)

Heidi's Barbie cake

Castle bounce house

Lilly, her friend Sofia, and Bobby bouncing. Heidi actually didn't want anything to do with the bounce house lol.

So we got a pumpkin pinata for the kids to whack. Normally one of the teenagers at the party busts it open for us after all the little kids have hit it. But this time we must have picked a crappy pinata or overloaded it with candy because it cracked open when Heidi hit it the first time. This of course led to a meltdown from Lilly and the other kids were bummed they didn't get a hit. Thankfully Michael dug out a beer bottle pinata from his college days out of our garage and we quickly filled that one for the kids. Lilly was happy again and all the kids got a turn. Now I can't give Michael as hard a time about saving all this crap from his bachelor days because that freakin' beer bottle pinata came in handy!

Heidi hitting the pumpkin pinata

Lilly getting her turn at the beer bottle pinata

Candy everywhere!

Collected her candy

 Presents EVERYWHERE!

My parents got Heidi her first bike!

Lilly got a Barbie make-up kit. Of course she and Sofia had to try it all on before the party was over.

Loralee was happy to celebrate too!

Bobby had a blast as well

Partied out

They stayed in the bounce house until the company came to pick it up at about 7pm

We managed a quick pic at the end of the day

PS We went to the Irvine Park pumpkin patch on Sat. That was an entirely different adventure that I will post about later this week.

Fall is here!

Fall is here! We love this time of year. The kids are dying to get pumpkins and decorate our house for Halloween. Loralee turned 6 months old today and in two weeks Lilly will turn 5 and Heidi will turn 2. Crazy how fast the time is going. Bobby just had his favorite school day of all time. Mud day! So we have been keeping quite busy at the Lloyd house. Of course when are we not busy, right?

6 months old already!

Not quite crawling yet. Just rolling around all over the floor for now.

Almost have the whole sitting up thing down

Bobby LOVES Mud Day at pre-school

Gotta love the mud pool!

Bobby may be our only boy but he is ALL boy when it comes to playing in the dirt and mud. This was part of our garden in the backyard but he turned part of it into a dirt pit which he calls the sandbox.

And Heidi loves to join her brother getting dirty

Lilly too

You know you've had a good and busy day when you pass out in your bedroom doorway right in the middle of playing. Found Bobby like that this afternoon.

 

The end of summer pics

Summer's really gone for us now. Bobby is back at pre-school and loving his second year there. Lilly is really getting into the groove of Kindergarten. And I'm starting to get the whole school routine down for picking up and dropping off the kids at 2 different schools . It's been great to get a little break from the two older kids for a few hours and focus on my little two munchkins. Heidi seems to be enjoying the Mon, Wed, Fri mornings we get to spend together. There is still plenty of chaos when the kids get home from school but I love that Lilly and Bobby are nice and tired now at the end of the day. :)

Bobby's first day back at pre-school (Sept 12th)

 

Of course Heidi wants to be apart of school picture taking process

Heidi and Michael

The sunset the night before that crazy thunder and lightening storm we had

At Lilly's BFF Sofia's birthday party

I hope Lilly and Sofia remain friends for life. I hope that we can embarass them at their weddings with these pics from back in the day. :)

This kid is trying to sit up! She will be 6 months old soon. Gotta love Where's Waldo in the background

I think she will be sitting up on her own in the next few weeks

Almost 2!

What my living room looks like by 5pm each day. Each night we clean up and start the process all over the next day. See I am not really super mom.

Bobby and his BFF Jaksen playing at school together

The best part about pre-school for me

And of course my favorite game is to compare the babies! So here is Michael, Loralee, and Bobby all around 4 to 5 months in age. Triplets?

Michael

Loralee

Bobby



Lilly's first day of Kindergarten

Today was a big day in the Lloyd house. Lilly started Kindergarten! I can't believe I just took my firstborn to her first day of elementary school. So crazy and exciting! She was thrilled with her teacher and told me at pick up that there are 100 kids in her class. I thought that was pretty cute. I think it's more like 20 but it seems way more to her. The whole family went to drop her off this morning and then the 3 little kids and I picked her up this afternoon. And let me tell you, it's quite a work-out loading and unloading all 4 kids twice a day. I'm sure in the next few weeks we will get the routine down much faster. It will help too when Bobby returns to preschool on Monday. Here's all the pics of the beginning of our Kindergarten adventure this morning.

The start of school would not be complete without a Scooby Doo lunchbox. The school gives the K kids a special school bag (something we found out AFTER buying the Barbie backpack)

So glad Michael was able to go to work late and join us for this big event

And I even held it together this time!

Lilly's cubby

Circle time