crazy days of summer...construction day 8

there isnt really any picture updates of the house for the week, without a before and after shot, the things that have been done wouldnt look very significant. but there is now a new roof over the foyer and front half of the living room...so no more water in our living room!! yeah! they have also framed in the new ceiling in the livingroom.
frank and i went yesterday to buy our tile and an outside light and a light for the foyer, we were very excited to be making such important long term purchases for our house, which is becoming more and more our home everyday!!

yesterday was our 4 year anniversary and i can honestly say, it was a perfect day. i worked in the morning and did a little running around, grocery shopping, etc.. but then we spent our day together with the kids, we ran to lowes to get the stuff for the house and then came home and had an amazing dinner together! frank cooked of course, not me!! but we had steak, that was cooked to total perfection, stuffed hot peppers which were just hot enough and loaded with a homemade cheese mixture, fresh beets and mashed potatoes! it was very comparable to eating in a resturant, only it cost us about a third of the price!! once dinner was over we bathed all the kids and packed everyone up for a sunset walk along the river and some ice cream at cousin vinny's doghouse! we all shared a bowl of perry's canolli ice cream and it was to die for!! tuscan of course loved all of the miniture chocolate chips, but just to see him walking along the river path was so awesome. the river walk and ice cream was something i remember doing with my parents when i was a little girl, so to now be instilling that summer tradition on my son, it just solidified one of the many reasons why i am so happy with where my life is at right now. it was a simple, yet very amazing way to spend such a special day in our life! we truly are more blessed than i would have ever imagined...

today was also a pretty good day...everyone was very well behaved all day - the atmosphere in the house was pretty calm and relaxed, dispite the banging and hammering happening out on the roof. well, that was until bed time - the babies are currently approaching an hour of screaming, i have been up there multiple times to rock them, burp them, hold them, sing to them...they are so beyond tired right now, they just cant seem to figure out how to calm down and go to sleep, they are screaming with their eyes closed!! and now my nerves are shot. i hate when there isnt anything i can do to make my babies feel better...and with two of them its even harder. sure i could go up there and rock one of them until he falls asleep but then the other one lays there screaming even harder because he can see me! its a horrible vicious cycle that no mother should ever have to endure...its the kind of anxiety that makes me wonder why God chose me to become the mother of twins, sometimes i feel like i just wasnt cut out for this job because there are just days when i cant seem to figure it out....
on a happy note today though, tuscan woke up from his nap today and peed on the potty right away, and then he put a pull up on for the first time!! he wore it all through dinner and kept dry, peed on his potty before his shower...but then wet the pull up when Nonna got here with new pez for his pez dispenser. apparently the excitement made him pee!! i say all the time that kids and puppies are one in the same! that was my justification!!
with the weekend approaching, the to do list is getting longer. my cousins wedding is a week from today, we have a wedding the weekend after that and then the following weekend we are heading to the beach for a week!! yeah!!!!!!!!!! i cant wait...its the one week this year that i have been counting down until. and its finally almost here!