labs and pics....

So both babies had to get labs today....I hate blood work days. It is getting increasingly hard for me to wrangle them both while we are at the lab. Lily never wants to sit still and Kaiden always has to have 1 snack in each hand....ah! So we got out the door only a few minutes late...as usual...and the lab wasn't all that busy so they took us right back. They know us there so we started with stickers to try to entertain one while I was holding the other one while they drew the blood. Well as I was holding Kaiden Lily decided to run out of the room and go put her stickers in the toilet. Good thing the lady was quick getting blood from Kaiden or Lily would have had the entire contents of the bathroom in the toilet. Kaiden was perfectly well behaved while Lily was getting stuck. You know what breaks my heart every week when we get labs? They don't cry anymore. They are so used to it that they barely flinch. I swear I get tears in my eyes every time!

So after we finally made it out of there we were off to Cranberry because Kaiden's pictures were in at the Target Studio. Since he was in the hospital for his 1st birthday I decided to get 18 month portraits done. Anyway....we got to Cranberry a little early and the studio was open yet so we went to Denny's for some breakfast (they have free kid's meals on Tues and Thurs which I didn't even know until I got my bill...a welcome suprise). They were actually well behaved for this experience and I was a very proud mama. Lily has recently started drinking from a straw and she loves when she gets apple juice in a cup with a lid and a straw. She is actually really good with it and rarley spills. She even knows not to tip the cup like she would her sippy! I love that little genius! Kaiden was too busy eating everything in site to notice his sister drinking from the cup even though I kept telling him to look at sissy. People probably thought I was totally crazy talking to both of these 1 year olds like they are adults.....haha.

Once we finished eating we headed to Target. Kaiden's pictures are incredibly beautiful!! They really did a great job of capturing his "essense". His smile was just perfect in all of them. They even got pictures of him pulling himself up to standing...which he just started doing!! I would suggest getting your pictured done there if your Target has a portrait studio. They ROCK! They actually rock so much that I applied for a job there. It's probably crazy of me but I would really enjoy getting out of the house a couple nights a week and doing something fun like this. I think it would be awesome....but I don't want to get my hopes up about it.

I guess this day went better than I had expected....