Birthday!

I had a great birthday today. It was pretty low key, but still pretty great. I have always loved my birthday and this year was no different even though I turned the big 3-0. Ted and I are going to celebrate this weekend. We are going to go out to dinner and out for drinks afterwards and stay out all night. I am so excited! My parents are going to come over and watch the kiddies for us. Whenever they watched Brody for us, we always took him over their since they had his room all set up. But now with two, we have decided that it will be much easier for them to stay here since all of their stuff is here and since they are both in cribs (we have not started the transition with Brody to a toddler bed yet and I don't think it is necessary right now....). So I am pretty excited to continue my birthday celebration on Saturday!

I started work yesterday and it was okay. It was hard to leave Molly, but I think today was tougher than yesterday. I think I was so focused on going back to work and checking my 500+ e-mails that it didn't really hit me yet until this morning. It was pretty tiring and I never felt like I had enough time with her, but it will be nice to be home on the weekends and I will be able to be with her all day on Mondays since I will be working from home on Mondays starting next week. I only dropped her off yesterday rather than both kids because I wanted to be able to stay with her for a few minutes before I had to leave and drop Brody off. Whew....this morning was a little more crazy! I told Ted that he is going to have to help me get the kids ready in the morning and his day of sleeping in are limited! He got Molly ready while I got Brody ready and then it was strapping both in the car, heading to my Mom's to drop Molly off, and then daycare to drop Brody off. All of this before I had to be at work at 8:00! I made it with 10 minutes to spare, but that was with me getting up at 5:15! I know that this first week will be challenging but hopefully, we will all get in a nice routine and it won't be so bad. While I do enjoy my job (for the most part), sometimes this working Mom situation is really tough and I get emotional thinking about how I feel like I am missing out on so much. But, if I or Ted couldn't be there for those special moments the first year, the next best thing is my parents and I am grateful for that. I couldn't ask for a better situation.

Anyway, enough of my ranting...here are some pics from the past few days......

I bought Molly a bumbo because I somehow lost the one Brody had. Even though she is still a little small for it, she did pretty good sitting up in it.

My girlfriend at work bought Molly and outfit that came with a head band. It was too big for Molly's little head so I put it on Brody thinking he would immediately take it off. He thought it was so funny and did not want to take it off. He even cried when I asked for it before we went up to take his bath. This will be a picture I am sure he will regret later on in life!! As Tab would say...."Preeeeetttttyyyyy!"

Tab came down this past weekend and I got these cute pictures of the kids....

We then went to my nephews birthday part at Chuck E. Cheese on Sunday. Oh how I hate Chuck E. Cheese, but this year was pretty cool because Brody is at the age where he got excited and enjoyed playing in the toddler area. He kept riding the rides over and over and went down the slide more times than I can count. It was near my sister's house, which is about 1 1/2 hours away and he was out within 5 minutes once we got in the car to leave. I know he enjoyed himself and we had a great time.