New skills

Chase has been practicing his new found past time....pulling himself up. Time to lower the crib. 

little performer

Carter had a performance with his preschool class and it was the the cutest  thing ever, I cried I was so proud of him.   He was actually really into it & knew the entire performance. He has grown up so much this year.  Hard to beleive he will be finishing up his first year of school here in the next few weeks. Did I mention we are proud of him? 

Chloe came  along to cheer her brother on

there is our little STAR,  letter M 

 

He was feeling so proud of himself I could tell! 

Chase slept through the whole thing :) 

7 months

Little Brother you are 1/2 of the way through your 7th month. I am not sure how this happened so quickly. You are still one of the happiest babies I have ever met and just go with the flow of our crazy, loud and busy life. I wish I could bottle up your babyness and keep it forever,  I am absolutely cherishing you. You have been such a blessing for your Momma (Daddy to) but I am just so thankful I have gotten to experience what it's like with just one baby. You are my little side kick.  I know I have said this before but it's just so true for me.  I love to cuddle you during the night (yes, you still wake up sometimes multiple times a night). You are the snuggliest at night. You don't like vegetables but will gobble up fruit. You love your food.   You are practicing crawling up on your hands & knees but still mostly resort to the army crawl because you can get places pretty quickly that way. Time for us to get out the baby gate I think. Your brother & sister love to come in & see you when you 1st wake up. They get in your crib with you and make you laugh...I love when I hear the 3 of you belly-laughing through the monitor together. They love you so much (except when you mess with the toys they are playing with). They both can't wait until you can actually  play with them. Sleep is still our biggest challenge...you still have never slept an entire night through. I know what I need to do to fix it to but for some reason it's just so hard for me with you. You say momma,  dadda  and will give big open mouth kisses when we ask "kiss kiss". It's such a joy seeing you grow, become stronger and more interactive everyday. We love you so much little Chasey.

 Your biggest fan,

Momma

on the move

somehow all my babies have been movers they crawl early & the twins walked before they were one. Chase can't sit up on his own yet but he can army crawl his way all over the house.  He had dirt underneath all his fingernails last night ...I guess a little dirt will build his immune system?! 

bunnies

She got to hold baby bunnies at a birthday party this weekend. Big girl was in heaven. She was even a little Momma to the bunnies.

iphone photo dump

good morning baby boy

we went to the Sleeping Lady Resort in Leavenworth a few weekends back. Loved it! 

along for the ride, as always 

SL Resort 

rain rain go away it's May already! 

crawling everywhere

Chase & his buddy Leo born 2 wks apart

We got hit again with the stomach flu. All of us.  Carter got really dehydrated though and we ended up at the ER with him to try to get his fever down & hydrated. He was one sick little guy. 

but still managed to smile for a picture for me 

me laying on the couch dying with the stomach flu & trying to entertain the baby as best I could. It is so hard to be sick when you have little ones. 

Chloe drew this picture of 'daddy' because she missed him while he was out of town.  Priceless. 

2nd haircut for the little miss 

and a cupcake after haircut

Chasey all ready for his 6 month shots 

she loves him so much

big sister wagon ride 

happiest little dude

Easter 2012

Easter was so fun this year, the twinnies finally understood the point of the egg hunt. Although Carter picked up a few eggs and then once he realized what was inside them he brought his basket to me and said "no thanks, I am all done". This kid continues to not like sweets.  The weather was beautiful on Easter so we had a fun picnic & egg hunt  at the park with Jerame's family.  Then we had dinner  & another egg hunt with my family at my Mom & Jerry's house. We actually received the offer on our house that evening so it  made for a very exciting holiday for us. The excitement has since lost it's luster as the deal unfortunately fell through. We are trying to believe it was a blessing in disguise as we haven't yet found a house we want to buy so we would have had to end up moving into temporary housing somewhere. It is still all very frusterating.  It's all going to work out somehow so we are just trying to keep everything in perspective. Trying to keep a house up to show at anytime with 3 kids all 3 & under is no joke though. I am exhausted.