the bigs with their babies

water works!

Who knew playing with water and a few plastic containers could be SO MUCH FUN?!


When I told/showed the Big Girls what they were going to do...they were ecstatic!


I spread two large bath towels down, then filled up two plastic containers and one large pot with dish-soapy water, gave them some measuring cups and spoons and said, "Have at it!"


They loved it!  Several minutes into the playing, I heard hysterical laughing so I went to investigate.  They were dipping their foreheads into the water and then laughing at each other!


That should've been my first clue that things were about to go awry.  About 10 minutes later they decided it would be a good idea to dump all the water out of the containers, onto the towels.  Too bad the towels weren't big enough to contain all that water!  *sigh*


The good news?  We now have VERY clean kitchen floors!  =)


Even though this fun activity didn't end the way Mom would've wanted, it was still a great activity, and we WILL do it again!

love them!

 Love my big girls!

Katey girl!  Notice the baby in the background!  Cute!

Julia nut!  She is such a cuddlebug!

Most of the time they just love each other so much!  They're best friends!

and we have a kindergartener!

Today we embarked on a brand new, completely exciting, journey!

Katey, precious girl, started Kindergarten today! And who's her teacher?

Mwa!!!

We put a lot of thought into how to educate our girls...and actually, this decision came really easy to us! We live in Las Vegas right now...and Las Vegas is not known for its exemplary schools! So.

Homeschooling! Something I never thought I'd do! But God has really changed my heart toward teaching our girls at home. I WANT to now!!

Today, Katey's first day of Kindergarten, went so well! She did great!


You like her half legging? Yeah. She fell yesterday and scraped her knee. She has an amazing memory and so this morning when she got dressed, the legging went up again!



Here she is coloring in her "Day 2" of Creation!


And let's not forget Julia! What did she do during school? She did Preschool! We have some fun color and shape block thingys that we'll be doing! Oh and please notice her wonderful pajamas and bed head. Getting dressed for school and getting your hair done doesn't happen until KINDERGARTEN! So, in two years baby girl, two years!

shadow

Kate has a shadow.

It's her little sister, Julia!

It never fails, whenever Katey goes somewhere, Julia follows. When I'm getting ready in the bathroom, Katey will usually come find me. And I know that within seconds Julia will come traipsing in too!

It makes my little heart so happy to see how much they love each other! Katey even says that Julia is her best friend!

My mama heart is so happy! It's a dream, a prayer come true!

their favorite is gum...

...especially giant green gum!

dressin' up!

Sometimes I like to be crafty! =)

I have four girls. =)

They like to play dress-up!

They needed a space.

A dress-up space.

So...for a few dollars, some pretty scrapbook paper and a few nails...TA DA!!

love!

the cuties

The babies are getting so big!




They smile ALL the time!


Katey is getting so big too. She can read. SHE CAN READ! It blows my mind!


Julia's a crazy girl! So full of fun and craziness!

big sisters!

Katey is so pretty! She's growing up fast!



Julia's growing up pretty fast too! Crazy girl!

snack time

the joker

No explanation necessary!

"Doctor, doctor give me the news!"

I like the show "The Doctors" and sometimes Katey is still up when it comes on...so she's learned the song!

sisterly love...and lots of diapers!

Katey and Julia really like each other...most of the time! Katey can be really sweet (and she is most of the time) and likes to help her little sister...sometimes too much! She likes to invite Julia to sit in her lap...she gets this really cute little voice and says, "Julia, you wanna sit in my lap?" To which Julia vigorously nods her head and then plops herself down in Kate's lap. Precious!


So you know how we're having twins?! Well, diapers are one of those things that are going to be, um, somewhat expensive! So when Jas and I found a good deal last weekend we sorta stocked up. We bought nine, yes NINE, huge boxes of diapers. One baby goes through a lot of diapers...but two, HOLY COW! When you start doing the math...man oh man!

Here are the girls playing on some of the boxes of diapers...our living room was overcome for a couple days until we found somewhere to put them.