At the park

Here are the kids swinging at the park. This is the video that I couldn't get to load before. I still couldn't upload it to blogger, so I used a different site. But I got it uploaded finally. YAY! I know you all were witing for it! :-)

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Videos of Gretchyn-from Marcia

Here she is doing her crawling thing.

Here she is shaking her head...looks like she is head banging! :-)

Thank you Marcia!!

We went to see Marcia on Tuesday to have her take pictures for us. I just wanted to share a few of them. There is one at the top of the page and one at the bottom of the page.

There are so many other good ones too. It was so hard to decide which ones to post. I'm sure I will be posting more another time.

These aren't in the right order as to when they were taken, but...oh, well! :-)

Oh, by the way Marcia, I posted some of them on TwinStuff and got a lot of compliments on them. One person said you should become a photographer. :-)

G1


G2 and G3

Daddy and G3

Daddy and G2

Daddy and G1

G3 and Daddy

Mommy and the girls

G2

Daddy blowing kisses to Mommy


G1 and Mommy

G1-not sure what to think about sitting on the post

G1 and Daddy

G1

Daddy and the girls

The 5 of us

G3

G2

G1

G1-picking 'flowers' for Mommy

G3

G3

G1

G1

G2

Pictures

G2 on a 'ride' at the Galesburg Mall.
G1 on a 'ride' at the Galesburg Mall.
G3 on a 'ride' at the Galesburg Mall.
Matt doing what he does best....playing the X-Box 360.

Matt wasn't really asleep, he just doesn't like me to take pictures of him while he is awake.
G2's the one with her foot on G3's head.

Getting sooo big!!

G2

G3 says "Quit taking stinkin' pictures and get me out of this bed already!!"

G1 helping Grammy clean. Now, Gavyn why don't you do that for Mommy at home??
G2 at the Rich Family Reunion yesterday.

G3 at the Rich Family Reunion yesterday.

Enjoying the outdoors.

"Man, that sun is bright!"

G1 'fishing' with my cousin Jeremy.


G3....so pretty! :-)


G2-my little ham.

G1-checking out the pond.

Hey, it's Uncle Ricky!

It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to.....

It is now officially my birthday. :-P I don't like birthdays. So, today is just like any other day. Instead of celebrating me, celebrate my mom. She is the one that went through 23 hours of labor to end up with an 8-pound whiny kid. :-) She deserves all the credit. I didn't want to come out. I was nice and cozy.

I will probably post again later....maybe not, we will see.

Hooray for Gretchyn!!!

Tonight G3 started crawling with her belly up off the floor!! YAY!!! She was working her way to me and she just got up on all fours and did it. Of course she just went a couple feet before she started doing her army crawl. But she can do it now too!!

I must admit though, I do love how she does her little army crawl. It is nothing like how G1use to or how G2 does. G3 actually kind of pushes up off her chest and then hops forward. It is just too cute! I will have to break out the camera and get a video of her doing it before she stops completely.

G1 is sick today. :-( His "asthma" is acting up. I put asthma in " " because he hasn't actually been diagnosed with it, therefore he isn't getting treated for it. Matt said at one point, "I like him when he's sick, let's just not give him any more medicine." G1 has been extra cuddly and it's been real nice. Except for me when Matt left for work. Every time G1 wanted to cuddle so did the girls. ;) G3 is getting into the habit where I have to hold her to get her to sleep. It's made for a very challenging day.

Which reminds me, G3 was making a really weird noise while falling asleep tonight. It soundly a little like a laugh but not really. It's hard to explain but it was cute. Everything they all do is cute. :-)

Pictures, Pictures, & More Pictures

I have been saving up my Gift-to-Grow rewards points from Pampers and I finally cashed most of them in. I got 200-4x6 prints for just the cost of shipping. It worked out to be just about 5 cents a print. I just got them in the mail yesterday. I was so excited for them to come. I felt like a dweeb, I think I shrieked ; ) , but I didn't care. I just had to share my great......news or....whatever it is!!! :-)

2 year olds

They are so helpful.
They are big buttheads.
They give me a headache.
But they are so cute.

G1 has learned how to open the refrigerator door. So, I have decided that the gate needs to go back up in the doorway (well, that and the girls keep escaping into the kitchen). But I can't have just one gate up, I have to have 2 stacked on top of each other. We had been doing just fine with that FOR ONE DAY. Now G1 is in the kitchen. Yup, he climbed up over both gates and is in the kitchen talking to G3 through the gate. ERRRRRRR! Now what am I suppose to do??? How am I suppose to keep him out of the kitchen and fridge???? This kid is just too smart and too much of a monkey.

G1 answers all the telemarketer calls. If there is a (800) number calling then I don't answer, G1 took this to mean that he was suppose to answer. It's cute. He says a whole bunch of stuff to them and then tells them "Bye Bye" and hangs up. So, if you ever call my house and I don't get it by the 2nd or 3rd ring expect G1 to answer (unless we aren't home). It's not that I think you are a telemarketer or that I don't want to talk to you, G1 is just faster than I am sometimes.

G1 went pee on the potty again this evening. He told me he needed to go and then we went in and he went on the "Big Boy Potty". So, he got to use his 'special' soap. He has some foamy soap of his own that I only let him use if he actually goes on the potty, otherwise he has to use the regular soap like Mommy and Daddy. Of course him going on the potty isn't new news but him telling me he needed to go is new. :-) Yay!!! My baby boy is growing up. ;)

IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO KEEP HIM OUT OF THINGS, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!!!

Neighbors STINK!!!

I swear I need to live in the country FAR FAR AWAY from everyone. I don't think we have had a next-door neighbor that we have liked so far.

Last night (well, I should say this morning) around 1:30 AM I was woken up by our neighbors screaming at each other. I don't really know what they were fighting about but they sure were loud. At one point I heard her scream at him "You are NOT coming into my house!" Then he starts screaming at her calling her all sorts of things that I cannot repeat.

As this is going on a storm is working its way to us. So, I keep hearing the thunder in between them yelling. I'm not really afraid of storms, especially if Matt is home with me, but last night every time I heard the thunder I would jump. Maybe it is because I am terrified of the neighbors? Who knows?

So, he was standing outside screaming at the house for awhile. Then it starts to rain. She comes out and laughs at him and told him to "enjoy standing out in the rain". It was so annoying. Our bedroom window is maybe 10 feet from where they were at. ARRRGH! I just wanted to get to sleep!!

Let's see. More about our neighbors....

They have people in and out of their house all day and night everyday. They have at least 8 people living there. There is a 3 or 4 year old that runs around outside in just a pull up and yells at G1. The first day that G1 realized there little kids over there he just stood and watched them. After a minute or two the little boy starts yelling at G1, telling him to "go away" and "quit looking at us". He was just really rude. I feel bad for G1, he was just excited to see other little kids.

Hmmm....what else?

Oh, yeah. They are constantly leaving trash in our yard. They come over here and play in our yard and leave their toys. You know, it wouldn't bother me so much that they played in our yard, if they would be nicer and introduce themselves and ASK to play in our yard. They don't have much of a yard and we have a fairly good sized yard.

They like to turn music up really loud at 11 or 12 at night. They like to scream and fight at 11 or 12 at night. It's so frustrating. We have the same landlord as them and I have been tempted to call the landlord to say something but I know the neighbors would know it was me who called. They scare me enough as it is, I don't need to add fuel to the fire.

They have it mastered!!

So, today (or was it yesterday??) the girls have mastered pulling themselves up to standing. Now anytime they get near ANYTHING they are pulling themselves up.

That's all for today's post. Just wanted to update everyone on that. :-)

Sweet Dreams

The girls are now pulling themselves up. They can almost always pull up to standing. G3 still struggles quite a bit but that's okay. They aren't really expected to have it mastered for another month or so, their adjusted age is only 6.5 months.



Both girls, G3 especially, like to escape into the kitchen. We can put them clear across the room and within a matter of minutes they are in the kitchen. It's too funny.



We had the girls in with G1 at night. They all slept just fine. But it didn't work out, G1 kept unplugging the baby monitor (no matter where we hid it). So, now they are in Matt and I's room. Hopefully this arrangement will last longer than the last one.



We went and looked at another house today. I won't really give details right now, but hopefully I can say more next week.



I have gotten a few pictures of the kids sleeping and want to share them.

G3:

We also went swimming for the first time yesterday. The girls loved it. G1 preferred the kiddie pool. We had a lot of fun and none of us 5 got sunburnt. So, that's a plus. Hopefully we can go a couple more times this summer. Otherwise, we may end up needing to go to the Y every once in a while.

The girlies kept eating each others swimsuits and whoever was holding them's hands. They are just so cute. I love having twins!!!

Oh, and yes; my kids spend most days just in diapers. But only during the summertime. Since we don't go out much we stay as comfy and cool as possible. That just means that whenever we go out of the house they are always in nice clean clothes. : ) I just felt the need to say that.