Playing

Playing trains in the living room always starts out sweet and nice with lots of choo-choo sounds and frequently ends with Seth "king kong" destroying the track and Joel "the controller" having a breakdown because king kong just destroyed his track. But usually no matter what happens in about 10 minutes they want to play together again.
Abbey on the other hand definately plays well with others......even if the "others" are strange looking lions and giraffes that hang from the little baby gym.

I am soooo cute.....don't you think so too!!

Game Night

How do 6 adults with a total of 8 kids get together and play games??

Put the kids in front of the TV so they can watch talking vegetables.

We had a fun game night with our friends the Tates and the Towlers. Woo Hoo!
There's actually two more kids, but both baby girls can't sit up yet so.....they missed out on the picture.

Soccer 101

Today was Joel's first day of soccer practice. Watching 4, 5, and 6 year olds practice soccer is a pretty fun pastime! He did great and coach Jeremy is patient and amazing with little kids. His daughter Alia is on the team too.
Joel said he really enjoyed it and Seth was really sad that he couldn't play.
Abbey went to Soccer practice too! She's 7 weeks old now.

Ahoy Matey

Sooooo.....Joel said he wanted to play pirates with Seth. He gets out the swords and asks me to tie the bandanas on their heads.....what a fun time with brothers playing together, right? Actually two year olds and four year olds don't sword fight well, Seth ends up hitting Joel instead of Joel's sword, Joel Yells, Joel gets in trouble for yelling, pretty soon dad is a referee and everyone is crying and voila......early naptime!

I'm A Big Boy Now

Well Joel had been asking to sleep on his "Top" bed for awhile, but since the beds are really two "stackable" twin beds there was no railing on the top bunk. Well we have a few extra days off this week so Josh made a beautiful rail for the top bunk on Wednesday and Joel got to sleep on the top bunk! Also for the last several days when we mention "pajamas, or bedtime" Seth has been running into their room and jumping into the bottom bunk and pretending to go to sleep so we decided he was old enough to be free from the Pack-n-play that he's been sleeping in since we kicked him out of the crib because Abbey was coming. So Seth is officially in a big boy bed. After two nights we're doing great. No one has fallen out of bed. Everyone is still excited to go to bed in their "new bed" and as far as we know Seth is not wandering around when he wakes up, he's been staying in bed until Josh comes to their room in the morning. Joel has also stopped saying that he is scared at night since he's been sharing a room with Seth. It's great. And Josh's "Honey-Do" list is a little bit shorter!

Aunties Come Visit

Auntie Dawn, Auntie Steen (Justine), and Auntie Beth (who isn't technically an aunt at all but we love her anyway) came to visit this weekend just for fun (and because we are so cool) Thanks for coming y'all brightened our weekend! (unfortunately you never actually see Beth...she just takes all the pictures)
Isn't Auntie Dawn's new haircut sooo cute!
Yum, shaved ice! Thanks Justine and Beth, take them for a treat at nap time them bring them back to mom and dad.......awesome! (On the left is cousin Lily, Justine's neice)

Ok....two posts, with pictures in one day, I'm a blog master!!!

Bath Time

So....In the kids bathroom we have this really cute picture frame that holds three photos. And until yesterday there were three really cute pictures of Joel in the bath when he's about 2. Well we decided we should probably update the pictures now that we have 3 kids and Joel is now almost 5. So let the bath time pictures commence.....



Look at Abbey....isn't she so cute! She's already 6 weeks old! Time flies when you don't get much sleep.

I would like all of you to know that if somehow this post actually publishes....the pictures are in fact on it.....and it all looks fairly normal.....it's a miracle and my friend Sarah Tate (and my husband of course) will be very proud of me. Uploading, downloading, all that is pretty much foreign to me, but I guess I shouldn't let the world pass me by!