Tummy Time and other pictures

G2 has a black eye right now (actually it's almost gone). What happened is--G1 knocked her down (not sure if it was on purpose or not) and she hit our bed frame. Poor girl--it looked so bad. She looked like she had dark purple eye shadow on.

This is G3's "CHHHEEEESSSEE" face.

The "big" G's love playing in G4's swing--I'm not sure how to convince G1 that he really is too big though (this is G2 by the way)

This is one of the few times that G4 did not throw fit about having tummy time. I've never had a child throw as big of a fit as she does about being on their tummy. Of course I think it helped that G3 was sitting/laying with her, playing with her.

G3

Yesterday we went down to Mom's (Grammy's). G1 has a new friend--it is the "Chief" that she has on her front porch. G2 (in blue) and G3 (in pink) were a little apprehensive about him though.

G4 yelling at me

G2

G4's favorite thing is her swing. If nothing else (including nursing) will make her happy we know we can put her in her swing and she'll be fine. It's so cute; sometimes she gets so excited, her little feet get kicking so much.

I can't believe how big all the Gs are getting. G1, 2 and 3 have all caught up (mostly) to the size of other kids their age. The are all talking so much. We are starting to understand a lot of what G2 and G3 are saying. When they are getting along they are so much fun. I love that they can all communicate their wants and needs to us so well. G4 is smiling and "talking" so much. She only laughs a little bit; me and the girls are the only ones she's laughed for so far (that I know of). She is wearing mostly 3-6 month clothes and she's not 2 months old yet!! They all love each other so much. It's wonderful.

Oh, a big milestone for me--yesterday before going to Mom's; I took the 4 Gs to the grocery store all by myself (Matt was with Poppy) and other than getting back in the Mountaineer, it went really smoothly. I was so excited to know that I can do it. (Not that I really doubted that I would be able to...)

New Glasses

Matt now wears glasses and I got new glasses. Here is Matt's before glasses and with glasses pictures. And pictures of me with my old glasses and my new glasses.

Belly pictures (done by Marcia)

How we spent our Easter...

I'm not feeling the best today--I'm having some strange pains and needing to take it easy (well as easy as I can with a 2-year old and 2 1-year olds). When we came downstairs the kids found their bags with goodies (we had some of their candy from yesterday and their presents from Grandma Fairlie in them). The kids of course started chowing away at the candy.

G1--he did not want to take time away from eating the candy to have his picture taken

G2

G3

G2 after Mommy said "No more candy!"

G2 being goofy

G1 also being goofy

G3 and Daddy

G3 and Daddy

G1 and G3

G2 and Daddy

G2 and Daddy

G1 and Daddy

G1 and Daddy (Matt was being such a good sport. He let G1 take a ride even though he was clearly too big for it and Matt was struggling--just a little though.)

G1 and G2

I never want to hear Matt tell me he can't cook again. Around lunch time I asked him if he had figured out what he was feeding the kids. He said "Yes, whatever you fix." I told him "Nope" not going to happen. I needed to be laying down because of being in pain. So he got to looking for something to cook. He did a pretty good job too. G1 told him that it tasted good. :-)

He even told me that he would take over cooking if I would give him recipes and help him figure out what he's doing. I said that's fine--I won't even mind doing the dishes (as much) if he is willing to help cook. Tomorrow I will *hopefully* be teaching him how to make lasagna or manicotti (whichever he decides he wants more).

Here is the proof that he did the cooking (just in case he tries to deny it!):

Here is a video of G2 being goofy and then Daddy swinging the kids in the toy bin. G3 is first and then G2, then of course G1 (but I know you could have figured that out on your own).

Easter morning 3/23/08

Playing in the yard

This morning we went out for breakfast. Afterwards we went to the store to get milk, eggs, buns, etc. When we got home the girls were asleep in their seats so we decided to let G1 play outside for awhile and let them continue to nap. Him and Daddy had a lot of fun playing soccer (after he rode his motorcycle of course), while Mommy took pictures and kept an eye on the girls. While taking pictures I got to thinking about how much fun this summer is going to be watching the 3 older ones play in the yard with Matt as the baby and I sit on the porch taking pictures. Our yard seems so huge too! I never really realized that (basically because it's been winter the entire time we've been here so I've had no reason to really be in the yard).

Matt and G1 playing 3/20/08 Click on this link to watch the video. (I have no idea why it won't let me just post the video on here like I normally do. It's starting to frustrate me a lot!!!! ARGH!! I wish blogger would work for me to upload videos so I didn't have to worry about using a different site!!)