The joy of teething times two...

John's mom came for a visit this past weekend. It was great to have an extra set of hands and eyes around and it gave John and I a chance to do some things around the house without the monkeys slowing us down. On Saturday night we took advantage of having a babysitter and John took me out for my birthday dinner and a movie. We went to Mexicali Rosa's which was my favourite restaurant in high school. I didn't think they had any locations in the Toronto area but there's one in Oakville (complete with Oakville pricing!). It was really good. Afterwards we went to see Wedding Crashers. It was pretty funny but don't go if you don't like vulgar humour! The girls have been a bit of a handful the last few days. Leah has been VERY whiny which is unlike her (thank god because I would have gone nuts by now). Her tenth tooth is coming in and it's one of the side ones on the bottom so we think it's causing her some pain. She was also really constipated but that's worked itself out thanks to lots of water and some prunes. Emma has been in a pretty good mood during the day but she's hard to get down at night and she also appears to be teething. Last night bedtime was a complete fiasco. They went to bed just after 8, Emma started whining at 8:30. We went in at 9 to get Emma because she was obviously not going to settle. Leah started crying because Emma got out. They both got settled. We tried to put them both back to bed. Crying. Both up again. Crying. We didn't get them to sleep until 10:30. There was talk of them getting their own rooms again last night. We'll see how they do tonight. The one positive is that once they get to sleep they don't get up in the night. I had a whole bunch of plans for them this week. I was going to start them on whole milk on their corrected 1st birthday (Sunday), cut out their afternoon bottle and maybe try to cut out their morning nap. I think we will wait until they settle down a bit. Here are some pictures. Nana took a ton so I'm sure I'll have more.

It rained all weekend - here's the view from the back of the house...jealous??! Want to come over and sit in the dirt?

Emma sitting in the hippo (that's her sweet "I didn't do anything" look)

Leah pushing Emma in the hippo.