Strum Guitar Go

I tried all last week to get Jack on video playing his "guitar." Every time I got the camera out he would get mad and stop playing. Tonight we were talking on Skype with my aunt and uncle and he was preforming for them so I got the camera out and secretly filmed him. He's saying "strum guitar go, strum guitar go..."

*Please ignore the disaster on my living room floor. Sometimes there is so much going on it all piles up!

Easter

Happy Easter! We've had a nice day today worshiping with our church family at the Gallery Church. Lillie and Elliott were dedicated this morning. Our church does a neat thing where we provide a 5x7 picture of the kids being dedicated and they put it in a frame with a large mat and the church members sign and write a prayer or a little note or scripture, what ever they want to the kids. I haven't even looked at the pictures yet.

Jack woke up this morning to his Easter basket waiting for him in the living room. He had to share this year with Lillie and Elliott. They all got bunnies and Jack got some M&M's and a fire truck. He gave Lillie her bunny when she was eating this morning and I found Elliott's in his bed beside him. I guess Jack threw it in there.
















I attempted after church to get a picture of the kids. I knew with our schedules that a family picture this year was out of the question, so I thought one of the kids was better than nothing. I tried! Lillie was the only one cooperating. Elliott was screaming and Jack was Jack. He is very uncooperative when it comes to pictures here lately. You decide which one is the best! I've wanted a good Easter picture for 3 years now. Still haven't gotten a good one. Jack's first Easter he was crying, last year we didn't get one at all, and you see what I got this year. Maybe in 5 years!

By the way. I tried to format this blog with smaller pictures in various places. I obviously don't know what I'm doing, but the kids are asleep and I need to take a nap more than try to figure this thing out!

What Puzzles A Two Year Old...

Here is the conversation Jack and I just had before I left his bedroom putting him to bed last night... I'm in bold...

Pretty soon you'll be sleeping in a big boy bed

I want to

And pretty soon you'll share a room with Lillie and Elliott... won't that be fun?

Yes... Lillie wear make up?

Some day she will

Elliott wear make up?

No boys don't wear make up

Babies wear make up?

No babies don't wear make up

Nay Nay wears make up?

Yes

Nay Nay wears eye shadow?

Yes Nay Nay wears eye shadow

Paw wears make up?

No Paw does not wear make up

Great Gran wears eye shadow?

Yes Great Gran wears eye shadow

Frank wears make up?

No Frank does not wear make up

Lee Ann wears make up?

Yes Lee Ann wears make up

JR (my aunts dog) wears make up?

No JR does not wear make up

Doggies wear make up?

No doggies don't wear make up

Doggies eat food

Yes doggies eat food

Oh OK

Passed Out

Jack wanted to play in his bed with all his animals about 30 minutes before nap time while I fed Lillie and Elliott. I finished with Elliott and went and checked on him. He wanted me to put the basketball, football, and baseball(small balls, not the real thing) in the bed with him. He was having a great time in there (which is helpful to me becuase usually he is hanging all over me when I'm trying to feed the twins.) I was in the middle of feeding Lillie and realized how quiet it was in his room. When I finished with Lillie this is what I found...

...passed out!

Spitting Lillie and Smiling Elliott

Here's my first stab at uploading a video. This is Lillie's trick.

Twins: 5 Months

We're in month 5! Lillie and Elliott are both doing well. At their 4 month check-up (they were actually in the middle of month 4 by the time we made it to the doctor) Elliott weighed 15 lbs 10 oz and Lillie weighed 14 lbs 7 oz. They are both in the 50-75 percentile for weight, they're doing great! Lillie seems to be going backwards in the sleeping through the night progress. She has started getting up two times during the night now instead of one. Elliott on the other hand gave me a present last night for his 5 month birthday... HE SLEPT ALL NIGHT LONG! From 8pm-7am. We were excited although it didn't mean a full nights sleep for me yet because of Lillie. So maybe she'll start making progress in the right direction soon. Elliott is smiling big and laughing some. Lillie is coming around. She's starting to smile a lot when she sees us. She can blow air out of her mouth and it makes a noise. We do it back to her and she does it back again. It's funny!

Ms. Doris

About 3 weeks ago I was in the lobby and our 87 year old neighbor, Ms. Doris, asked if we had been out of town. "It's been so quiet, I thought you had gone out of town." I smiled and told her we'd been here the whole time and it hit me. God gave us a neighbor who's hearing isn't great!!! I can't believe it! I never thought to even pray for such a thing but in God's goodness he gave us a neighbor that can't even hear the chaos going on on the other side of her wall! What a blessing!