Cousins!

Well it's hunting season and for three days all of the men disappear. This year both of my sisters along with their kids spent the time at my house. The kids had so much fun and we made a true attempt to work on our creative memories albums. (not sure how that worked out) The kids played games, sang in rock bands and watched the Shrek movies until late at night. They can't wait until the daddy's go hunting again. Here are some pictures:

Nathaniel and Brittney wanted to sleep in Brittney's bed. They said it was a sleep over after all! They actually did fall asleep this way, not real surprising because they played hard all day and it was really late at night. But we carried him to his own bed because both of these little guys move all over the place in their sleep and they would've been beating each other up all night.

Another rock band with Alexcis and Logan!! It was hard to catch these two in action, every time i would come in with the camera they would get quiet and tell me to go away!
Playing the game of Life!

We also put up our Christmas tree and other decorations this week. Alexcis said we 'decked the hall'! Dylan and Candace were asleep while we put the tree up and when they woke up we were anxious to see what they would do. Dylan said "what's that" and crawled up to it and pulled ornaments off immediately, and Candace seemed a bit afraid of it. I mean why is there a tree in her play area?? So far they seem to be doing really great letting it alone. I had all these horrible visions of them falling into it or pulling the whole thing down on them! But so far, so good.



The completed tree. I didn't move a thing from where the girls put them. they did a great job this year!!! (well daddy put some of the really breakable things up high so good job daddy too)

Point of View

Alexcis has her own digital camera. she got it for Christmas last year and she has gotten pretty good at taking pictures. she loves to take pictures of her toys but she also takes some good ones that i actually keep! the other night she went around and took over a hundred pictures and I just had to share a couple of the funny ones (also a picture of her camera). Yes, she did her own hair for the picture of herself! ~~



























In other news: I am feeling much better, but it seems that i just couldn't keep my germs to myself and poor little Dylan seems to be sick again. It just seems like he is fighting a bad cold but with his reflux issues added in he has seemed like he has a stomach bug too; however I believe it is just mucus getting into his stomach and making him throw up! To much information I know!

Also, I pulled Candace's hair up in two piggy tails! yeah, I love playing with her hair.














Oh I have to add: Dylan has added another word to his vocab. He now says bottle too! I'm just really excited about this because Alexcis and Brittney didn't say a word until they were a bit older and Candace isn't saying anything yet either so it's so exciting to hear something coming out of the mouth of such a little one! He now says "mama, dada, ball ball, night night, and bottle!" I get so excited everytime i hear him say something I think i actually frighten him with my excitement sometimes! Well, that's all for now, have a great weekend!

A Big First

Alexcis lost her first tooth! She was so excited about it, she was running up and down the hallway yelling 'i lost a tooth, i lost a tooth!' Her tooth has been loose for a long time now but she wouldn't let anyone even think about pulling it. We told her that when the tooth came out she could put it under her pillow and she would get money so she wanted the tooth to come out but she was afraid it would hurt. So the other night she was brushing her teeth and it finally fell out. We told her that she would be getting money under her pillow during the night and she said 'uh, how about $10 ?'!! Wow, this girl knows how to shot for the moon!!! i told Steve that I was thinking more like 50 cents but of course he put a dollar under there! We asked Alexcis if she had a visit from the tooth fairy but of she didn't believe that for a second she said it was daddy!

She didn't have school on friday so she is very excited to be able to show her friends at school on monday! Such a big girl now! Have a good weekend!

Another busy week!

Last week was a very full week with appointments and such all week and this week seems like it is going to be the same way! I am slowly getting used to the craziness of having four small kids! One year ago there were two little ones running this house and now there are four! It still blows my mind at times! We feel truly blessed! Well, on top of it all I am sick right now! My head feels like it might blow my sinuses hurt so bad and now it has started in my ear too. I have been taking a combo of Tylenol and different sinus meds around the clock. I do not have time to find a sitter and go to the doctor so i'm hoping i can just get through this one. So far the kids are all well, that's a huge praise.
Anyway, the other night the girls were watching this show on TV. We have Comcast on demand so we can pull up any kids show they want whenever they want to watch it. Since we leave the house at 8am to take Alexcis to school each day the girls always miss this new show on PBS, SuperWhy. It is a cute show that is supposed to help them learn their letters, etc. So we let them watch it in the evening after their baths some times. Well the other night i walked into the bedroom (they lay on our bed to watch it) and this is what i found:It seems the babies like SuperWhy too! I thought this was so cute.
Also Candace has finally started walking. Not just from one person to another but really walking around the room. She can even pull herself up to a standing position in the middle of the room if she falls down. She is so proud of herself and she squeals with joy when she goes walking. She still crawls around too but i think very soon she will be walking all the time! Yeah, one down, one to go!

Look at her tongue in this second one, it is so cute how kids do that when they are concentrating. Well, I hope everyone is feeling a lot better than I am! Have a good week!