The Nelson Narrative

Yesterday the girls turned FOUR.  Four.  I can't believe it.  We had their party on Saturday.  Our camera battery died as I tried to snap the very first picture of the day, so I had to charge it for awhile and thus didn't get very many pics, but then again I never do anyway because I end up giving up after the umpteenth attempt to get them to either sit/stand still and/or look at the camera and/or smile normally. Kayley picked a Spongebob theme... and Olivia picked Tangled. I made this from scratch, and tried to do "hair" with yellow frosting. The kids' table Kayley posing with her BFF, Lindsay Playing Hungry Hungry Hippos, and driving the grown-ups nuts with the noise! Yesterday, Paul took the day off and we took them to lunch at a pizza buffet, then to their Dr. appointment, where they had 3 shots...on their birthday.  In hindsight, I shouldn't have scheduled their appointment on their actual birthday, but I guess...

A Birthday Express catolog came in the mail the other day.  The girls decided they needed a few more things for their birthday party.  Of course, they were being cuter and funnier before I started filming, but you get the gist.

Friday we baked cookies, which are already gone, so... Today we baked cupcakes! Fun with Play-doh Breakfast My flowers Goofy Girls

It's the first of the month and time to see how I'm doing on my resolutions. Grocery Spending I've been trying to cut spending/save on groceries through better meal planning/shopping sales/using more coupons, etc.  The first step was to track all of our grocery spending.  Every time one of us came home from the grocery store I wrote down what we spent.  The grand total for January was $756.34.  That includes things like paper towels and toilet paper, cleaning supplies and toiletries.  My goal for February is to come in under that, which on one hand might be easy because it's a shorter month (a whole two days shorter with it being leap year), but on the other hand we have the girls' birthday party so that will skew things a bit. Waking/Going to Bed Schedule I had made good progress on getting the girls on an earlier waking/going to bed schedule.  They were consistently getting up between 7:40 and 8:10, usually right around 8:00, and they were in b...