bad blogger.

okay so i know i haven't updated since the 16th .. and that's just unacceptable. BUT i have good reasons ;)

i am now officially back at work! i am LOVING being back .. i've missed talking on the phone and scheduling appointments and seeing my co-workers. ohh and of course my morning starbucks venti mocha frapp :D i get home around 12:30pm and then jarrod heads off to the office. it works well.

i got paid for three days and spent the whole check on the babies hah. i got some cute stuff for their photography session with miss nichole coming up in september. i am SUPER excited!!! we've got to pick one for the announcement .. i know .. they've been here for 5 months .. but we wanted them to have some baby fat first before sending them out. did i mention that i am SUPER excited about this?! she's got some great ideas and it gives me butterflies thinking about the twins nekked hineys being photographed!

we had our appointment at the special infant care clinic last week and got to see dr. kicklighter. we haven't seen him since the 3rd week the twins were in the ICN .. so i got lots of hugs and he couldn't believe how great the babies look. it made me happy :D sawyer's umbilical hernia is getting much smaller and payton had a huge growth spurt. i couldn't ask for more!

last friday liz from the CDSA was suppose to come by the house to evaluate the twins to see if they need any therapy but she called me at like 11:30 [she was coming at 1:30] and said she had a cold and asked if we could re-schedule. a little more notice would've been greatly appreciated but i'm just glad she didn't come over under the weather. we made it for next wednesday at 1:30. dr kicklighter said that payton might need a little physical therapy since she is sill a little stiff in her legs .. but he said it wasn't anything to be worried over. the best part about friday was seeing grandma susan!!!!!! YAY!!!! i always enjoy when she visits .. it's amazing how much we miss seeing her every week ''/ i hate that we live so far away .. but she might be glad considering if we lived close i would be over at her house every other day hah.

jarrod, paylou, sawyerbug and i went to dinner at olive garden with the prices' the other night. we had a wonderful time and the babies did great. they sat us in the corner kinda away from everyone .. not that we asked .. but just got lucky. it was ahhh-mazing seeing them.

last week i got home from work and jarrod was feeding payton. well .. she started getting very splotchy and it scared me. we loaded up the car and headed back to JMA and dr jeffers took a look at her. he wanted us to go to wake med ER so we called grandma susan and i paged dr. tackman [GOT TO STOP] and both said it should be fine .. it can happen with babies born with low birth weight. as i was talking to dr. tackman i almost passed out because i was seeing payton's soft spot on her head going in and out. i had no idea that you could sometimes see a baby's heartbeat like that!! i thought i was going to die. of course she was just looking around and smiling .. so i came back to reality and figured that it wasn't bad because she was happy as can be .. but dr. tackman took a look at her. i don't know what we would do with him. i'm sure he'd be okay without me and my paranoia all the time though hehe.

we did take the twins for their 4 month shots. it was not fun. sawyer did pretty well .. he cried for a second until i picked him up and held him. payton .. well .. i'm surprised all of north carolina didn't hear her. she definitely wanted us to be aware that she was very disappointed in us and unhappy. they have been fussy for the past two days. ''/ but no fevers or redness .. so i'm happy about that.

i'm finding out a lot of people are pregnant lately. it makes me want to be pregnant. SIKE. no more babies for us penlands for a few years. i'm thinking maybe 5 years from now. that would be when the twins were in kindergarten and i could go back to work full time. we'll both need to be working full time because i want to send the twins to grace christian school .. [i've heard a lot of wonderful things about this school] and it would be close to JMA. i need something close so i can drop and pick them up before/after work. so we'll just have to see about more babies. i love it so much .. just a little worried about preterm labor. maybe my 'incompetent cervix' will be competent next time.

this upcoming week is going to be a busy one! monday is just regular work and routine .. tuesday is payton's eye exam [ poor girl ], wednesday is the CDSA appointment at home, thursday is my BIRTHDAY!! wahhhh-hooooo and then the weekend! good stuff.

jarrod has gotten me 6 things for my birthday for my birthday week. i mentioned to him that a week consisted of 7 days .. but he just gave me that look ;) i got a AWESOME pink razor for my first gift .. which i'm super happy over because i always steal his and .. well .. it's manly. today i got a gift certificate to planet beach so i can get my tan on! i look like i either haven't seen daylight in 4 years or i'm trying to audition for the new season of 'true blood'. [which comes on sunday night .. yayyy] so i'm really excited about that :D i wonder what i'll get tomorrow ..

so i promise i will start back writing every night before i go to bed at 9pm. there has been so much funny stuff that has happened over the past week that i would be writing all night long.

i will be better at this blogging situation.

love love love.