Instant Sickness

Tuesday started out as an ordinary day, got the kids off to my mother in law's house and me off to my cushy part time job. That is what my jealous friends like to call my job "cushy" because it is part time, I can come and go as I please and best part is it is only 2 blocks from home. So after work I picked up the kids and went home and started preparing dinner. Sophia was whinning more so than usual but we know she is a bit spoiled so paid it no mind. I had a Township meeting in Saddle Brook that night at 6:30 and left a bit early so I can get out of my noisy house. Carlos texts me at 7:00pm to tell me that Sophia threw up and is running a fever and he will put her down to sleep. I get home at 10:00pm and see the comforter and sheets and her pj's in the corner of my room and I could smell the vomit. I lay down and only say to myself well thank god she is sleeping because I was so tired, that was short lived because she woke up at 11:00pm with a fever and throwing up. She had a fever of 101 all night and still this morning. I felt bad leaving her today but I went to work and left her at my mother in law's house. Today just happens to be all 3 of the kids well visit. So I guess later today we will determine what is wrong with her. I would say ear infection.

The Party's Over

So the birthday parties are officially over. The night before Nicholas' birthday I decorated the house with ballons. I put ballons in the living room as well as a cluster of ballons over his bed. I prepared the cupcakes for his birthday party in school. On the morning of February 5th Nicholas was so excited that it was now officially his birthday. We gave him his present in the morning. It was a electronic hockey table that we have been watching in Target, just waiting for the price to drop. He was very excited about the table and ran around and hugged us so much. He wanted it so bad.

His birthday party went well in school. I made cupcakes with colored sprinkles and gave each kid a coloring book with pirates or princess' along with crayons. He came home with a birthay crown that hsi teacher Ms. Bernaducci made for him.

Later that evening when everyone came home from work we had cake for Nicholas at our home. My mom, Nicole, Antonia, my inlaws and Bobby came over for cake. We had a Friendly's ice cream cake. We sang Happy 5th Birthday to him. He was so excited to turn a whole hand. He has been asking for the past month and counting down the days when his birthday would come.

On Friday Feb 6th I took the day off of work to prepare the food for Saturday's party. I was expecting atleast 30 people to celebrate the kids birthday's. I made chicken cutlet parmagina, sausage with peppers, pasta vodka, rice and peas and steamed vegetables. My mother in law made chicken crochets, empanadas and tortilla. My mom made sweedish meatballs and eggplant parmagina. Claudine was in charge of the bread from Brooklyn of course. So preparing all the food went off without a hitch. I then made 2 doll cakes for the girls. They came out so cute.

Later that afteroon at 4:00pm the kids started coming over for Nicholas' party with some friends from school. We invited, Andrew, Aaron, Matthew, Danny, Colin, Pasqual, Marecello, Antonio, Eric and Joe. Antonia helped me out along with Nicole but she was too sick. It was a pirate themed party and the kids all enjoyed themseleves. We did color your own pirate bandana, make your own pirate map and each kid smacked the Pirate ship pinata that was filled with lots of chocolate, pirate coins, tattoes and some other novelty toys. The party was over at 6pm and since it was in the basement the mess was not too bad. It took about 1/2 hour to clean it up. I would say it went well and if you have the space for it I would recommened it.

So Saturday morning we started preparing the food and placing them on the sterno's. Guest were scheduled to arrive at 1pm. I made 36 cupcakes out of 1 box of cake mix, I know I was a bit surprised myself that I got that many out of 1 box! Took awhile to make but I place the cupcakes on a cupcake tower and decorated them black and some white. I think Carlos and I were done preparing things around 12:30 giving us enough time to shower and get dressed. I had John Stern and his family, Aunt Evelyn, Cousisn Lynda and Joseph, Claudine, Joey, Alyssa, Daniel, In laws, mom, Nicole, Antonia, Tony Terranova and his family. my Godmother Susan and Viggo and Marta and her kids.

The day went well, lots of good food and drinks. Carlos played bartendar in the kitchen, I was in the dinning room with family and the kids were playing downstairs. It was a great day and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.

Now to Sunday February 8th - the girls 2nd birthday. We had some leftover food so I invited my family to come and help us finish off the food. It was a very lazy day coming off the last 3 days and parties. My in laws came about 4pm and we had some more cake to sing happy birthday to Sophia & Isabella. They enjoyed the singing but the did not know it was their birthday. They just knew it was time for more cake.

Everyone left and went home and I got the house back in order for the start of a fresh week come Monday morning. The parties are over and everything is back to where it should be. The gifts are unwrapped and still in bags. Lots of clothes were received for the spring/summer months.

I am so glad that all 4 parties went off without a hitch and my husband and I were able to give our kids parties the way we did.

Happy Birthday Nicholas, Sophia & Isabella

How The Kids Came Along

My name is Danielle and I am a mother of 3 very precious children. My son Nicholas who is 5 today was born on February 5th at 10:50 am weighing an astounding 9lbs 10 oz 21.5 inches long. He was delivered by c-section due to breeched position. It took my husband and I 3 years to conceive him. We had 2 failed IUI's and the 3rd one took. It was a long battle with infertility but we finally got pregnant.

When Nicholas was 2.5 we decided we would try to have another baby on our own. We said we would try for 6 months before seeking treatments again. Well it must of been a full moon that night because we conceived the twins the first night trying with no assistance at all and twins dont even run in our family from what we know. Who cares how they were conceived but so glad they were.

The twins Sophia & Isabella were born 6 weeks early at 34 weeks 1 day due to lack of fluid on baby "A" which was Sophia. Prior to them being born I was hospitalized off and on during my pregnacy for pre-eclampsia. I had a lot of protein in my urine and blood pressure was high. Considering being born prematurely Sophia was born weighing 5.6 lbs and Isabella was 5.2 lbs. They were on oxygen for the first 2 days and feeding tubes. On day 3 these tubes were removed and they stood in the Nicu for a little over a week. Sophia came home first on day 8 and Isabella stood an extra night due to not maintaing her oxygen levels in her car seat test.

Halloween October 2008

Happy Halloween. The girls really enjoyed their halloween this year. Carlos, Nicole, Bobby, Nicholas, Antonia and some of her friends went trick or treating. We all dressed in costumes and went on our way. The girls were in their carriage and holding their treat bags and starting saying "trick or treat" and thank you. It was very cute, Nicholas as usual was running around from door to door and ringing the bells for Antonia and her friends. We were out for about 4 hours before we retired. There was so much candy that we brought home. Some did get tossed because they either did not look too good or were small hard candies which are not allowed in my house. Can't wait to see what next year brings.