Weekend Recap: Another Baby Shower!

We had another busy weekend in the Alvarez household!  In fact, the next few weekends are going to be busy for us!  Which, for me, is great.  I love being busy and taking the girls places.  Ben, on the other hand, likes his downtime at home!  Hopefully we will be able to find some for him!


Friday marked two weeks left of maternity leave (boo hoo!) and my Aunt Sharon and cousin Heather stopped by to see the girls.  I have two cousin Heathers, one is my blood cousin, and the other is my cousin's wife.  So Heather and Heather are sister-in-laws.  This Heather lives in FL and came up for the other Heather's baby shower to surprise her (confused yet?) and since she had not met the babies yet, they stopped by on their way to surprise Heather.  They stayed for a few hours and then the rest of the day was spent doing our usual...eat, play, sleep!  We did run to Toys R Us for a few things and the girls got a new play mat with a piano!  Starting their music lessons early!

 

Noelle loves the baby in the mirror.

 

Their new playmat!  Once they're sitting, we can flip the piano up so they can sit and play.

 

Natalie and I practicing our selfies.

 

Smiles from Natalie!

 

Tummy time is hard work.

 

Another milestone we had was that Natalie rolled over from tummy to back on Friday!  She doesn't like tummy time so she got herself all mad, kicked her legs up and flipped herself over!  She hasn't done it since of course but I keep trying to get her to do it and get a video!

On Saturday, the girls and I went to my cousin Heather's baby shower.  It was a gorgeous day which was good because the shower was outside.  I didn't even think about sunscreen and got my first sunburn of the year.  The girls stayed in the shade the whole time so no sunburn for them.  Heather is due in May with a baby boy!  It will be a lot of fun having three babies within three months of each other! We had a lot of fun hanging out with family and passing the girls around!

 

My mom made my cousin a huge caterpillar blanket, much like she made the girls each a huge turtle blanket.

My brother and his girlfriend stopped by Saturday night so that Cara could meet the girls!

Sunday was pretty relaxing for us.  We went to church but instead of going to the service, we attended an orientation session for the kids program at our church.  Now the girls are in the system and we can just scan our little barcode and print off their labels instead of checking in at the desk each week!  After church, Ben needed a haircut so I hung out at my in-laws house with the girls while he did that.  Then we came home and welcomed my Aunt Sharon back to the house!  She came up for a few days to spend with us and to help out with the babies.  We are really blessed to have such amazing family and friends that come over, help out, everything!


That was pretty much our weekend.  We have a really busy one coming up!  Participating in a prayer walk, going to Maryland Day at UMD, and an open house for others to meet our beautiful babies!

Hope you had a great weekend too!

 

Weekend Recap-Firetrucks, Baby Shower, Church

It was a busy weekend in the Alvarez household!  Our weekend started off on Friday afternoon when I took the girls to school to drop off a few things, one of which was money for an upcoming Orioles game with school!  We will be taking the girls for their first game in May!  Anyways when we got there, we were swarmed by co-workers and as we were talking inside, all of a sudden the fire alarm went off!  We looked at each other and asked if it was a drill for the aftercare kids or the real deal and as we were deciding on what to do, the principal came out and told us all to get out.  So we went outside and hung out in the parking lot for about 30 minutes while we waited for the firetrucks to come and make sure the school wasn't on fire.  Turns out, one of the alarms was pulled in the cafeteria where the aftercare kids are...I don't know if they caught them or not.  So the girls had their first fire drill and saw their first fire truck!  By the time we got back inside, it was almost 5 and everyone was anxious to go home so we didn't get to visit as much as we would've liked to.  Thankfully it was in the 60s and not raining while we were outside!


On Saturday, the girls and I went to a baby shower for my friends from college, Chelsie and Ricky.  They will be welcoming their first, a baby boy, in a few weeks!  The nursery theme is jungle and the shower was adorably decked out in a jungle theme.  We played a few shower games, watched Chelsie open gifts, and ate yummy food!  The girls were great and slept most of the time.  They were passed around to everyone during the shower and got to meet many new people!  As I'm writing this, I realized that I didn't take any pictures at all, so sorry for that!  I promise, it was a really cute shower!



Also on Saturday, Natalie smiled for the first time!  My mom was on her way to an appointment and stopped by to see the girls and while we were playing, she smiled! They've yet to smile since but it's not for lack of trying on my part!

  On Sunday, the girls went to church for the first time!  We haven't been to church in forever because I got to a point where I couldn't sit in the comfy chairs for that long while I was pregnant and once they were born, we were waiting for it to warm up a bit and for them to be a little older.  So at two months yesterday, they went for the first time!  My mother-in-law does nursery and April was one of her months so she was excited that they were coming so she could show them off to everyone.  We also met a few parents of twins while there and even parents to a set of triplets!  No one got kicked out and I was told they were great during the service.  Supposedly they ate and slept...what a life!  After church, we had lunch with my in-laws and hung out with them for awhile before heading home to relax for the rest of our Sunday!

 

Sunday morning snuggles.

 

Practicing tummy time!  Not their favorite.

 

Ready for church!

 

Riley practicing tummy time with them!

 

As I was typing this, I was able to get Noelle to smile! So here is the first picture of my baby smiling!

Hope you had a great weekend!