Recent Pics - August 24th

They are getting so big and area always so happy!!

Cohen Cecilia and Christian

Cohen

Cecilia

Christian

Cohen and Cecilia napping - August 24th

Recent Pics - August 7th

From Left to right Cecilia, Christian and Cohen

From left to right, Christian, Cohen and Cecilia

Baptism - June

The babies were baptized in June and all did really well.

Uncle Pete and Aunt Kristie are Cecilia's Godparents
Uncle John and Aunt Trisha are Christian's God Parents

Uncle Jason and Aunt Sarah are Cohen's Godparents.

May cont.

Three things that happened in May were:

Here is a pic of all the pregos at Julie's shower.....wait!!! All prego but ME!!

Happy Birthday to Preston, he turned 3. I was so sad to miss his birthday party, but it was the same day as the baby shower for Julie. With getting little to no sleep at that point, by the time the shower was over, and with the babies feeding schedule we decided that it was best for me to stay back and feed/rest. Mark and Caleb of course had a great time at the party.

My friend Sam was in town from FL to have her babies here. She was pregnant with twin boys and one of them had a heart condition and and was necessary for her to be near the best hospitals/docs at the time of delivery. Because of this she relocated here in early May for a July due date along with Nolan her little guy. Since her husband Brian could not be here on her birthday he planned a little surprise party for her the Tuesday after Memorial day. I was so worn out but determined to be there. Here is a pic of the girls. I'm sure you can figure out which one is Sam :) I look at this picture and wonder if my belly was ever that big. Then Mark sweetly reminds me that I was much larger. I was amazed at how great she looked and she was so well behaved the doctors here actually took her off modified bed rest.

Baseball

Mark took Caleb to the AllStar Fanfest but unfortunately he thought he was going to the baseball game and was a little disappointed. We had been talking about needing to get him back to a game (the last time he went was when he was a baby) and decided that it was for sure time. Marks uncle was in town from IL and getting a group together so Mark and Caleb joined them. Caleb had a great time and was using his ticket to block the sun from his eyes.

Mark and Caleb -- Aren't they so cute!!

One of the guys that does work with Mark offered us tickets to the baseball game for a Friday night in one of the club areas that has all you can eat and drink. We were fortunate enough to be able to get the girls up the street to babysit (two of them) and we got out for a night. It was so much fun to be out and not have to worry to much about everyone back at home. The girls said the babies and Caleb were great and even that the babies were the best babies they had ever watched which was a nice compliment. Now we know that they will come back it is just a matter of affording them and a night out :)

Quilt

I know that during the time I was in the hospital I posted about my knitting and crocheting, but I also made some quilt blocks for my mom. (She brought me lots of projects to keep me busy) Well, when I was finished she picked out the backing material and took it to the ladies at my church and they hand quilted it. Below are the pics and I think that it turned out really good. I never thought I would be one to make a quilt (or at least sew the blocks) but I did. I'm pretty certain that I will not have time to do this again until I have grand kids either so that makes it a little more special. The quilt belongs to my mom and resides at her house, but she has assured me that she will let the people who are in charge know that it should come back to me if anything should happen to her :) It's almost too pretty to use, but I tell her to anyway.

Our baby Journey

It has been a couple of days of very long uploads and failed attempts, but the baby video is FINALLY on YouTube. It has been done for awhile, but Mark finally had the time to figure out the whole Youtube thing. It was such a large file that he had to split it in half and even then it took a better part of 7 hours to upload. I of course love the video and am sure you will as well. Most of the footage was taken the last couple of weeks I was in the hospital when we got our new video camera. We at one point sort of panicked and had it rushed to us thinking the babies would be here any day and fortunately they were not. I only wish we would have had it sooner however footage of me only laying in bed would not have been that great. You will get to see some of what I had blogged about when Caleb and Mark visited. Don't be scared, you will not see any awkward moments of babies being born. Enjoy!

Link for part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ccQO1HmzBA

Link for part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjWqATLEe2U

Cryin about his sister

Some mornings when Caleb does not wake up on his own he cries. This past Monday morning I asked him why he was crying and he said he was cryin about his sister. I of course asked why he was crying about Cecilia and he said "NO!! I'm crying because I want another sister!!' Yeah, well you can imagine my laughter. He said he needs two sisters because he has two brothers. Laughter again. Unfortunately he has not given up. He asks daily about his sister that he thinks he is going to get. Scares me a bit as he throws God into the equation. He has asked if God gave me his sister yet and if God made my car bigger so I could have his other sister. He even talked about making our house bigger today to make room for her. Very scary!! I keep asking him, don't you think we have enough babies and he says no. So if you wonder how he feels about the babies he obviously loves them.

Speaking of sisters, we played the Simon and Garfunkel song, Cecilia for Caleb on the way to Bonne Terre yesterday and he loved it. We all sang along since it is such a catchy tune, but once we got to the Makin love in the afternoon part, Mark kept making loud long beep noises as if to censor the song. We had to listen to it several times and Caleb said that it she loves her song and it made her happy and fall asleep. When we left we had to listen to it again for her.

Pets

Ok, so we are most likely in the process of trying to get rid of our cats as they have been misbehaving. In the meantime Caleb is trying his best to bring reptiles into the house. A couple of weeks ago there was a rather large lizard under our front porch, which he was actually afraid of and since then it has been the talk of the house. I agree, it was large, longer than my hand and we think that it may have been someones pet that got out. Since that day we have not seen it, but he still looks every time we go out the door.

Yesterday we took a trip to Kristie (Marks sister) and Pete's house to meet their new baby Noah that was born on Monday (so cute!). It was really eventful. We found a baby lizard in a spider web that was still alive and saved it...well sort of. Preston and Caleb took me for a walk out into the fields and they decided to go swimming in the pond (which was not really my idea). The cows yelled at us the entire time and when Preston was done swimming he scolded them. We lost a shoe in the field and found it and then Kristie rescued me and we went for a ride out into the woods and played in a creek. Picked up a turtle that was probably a snapper so sent it back to the fields. Ate awesome BBQ by uncle Pete and then headed home.

Back to the lizard....it was probably on its last leg since it had been in a spider web for awhile, but after Caleb gave him a bath (and was upset because I would not get him a towel), dropped him through the cracks of the deck, lost a small part of his tail (it was a blue one so I think sometime they fall off in distress), it was either playing dead or was really dead. Caleb decided to toss it off the deck and leave it there. Whew, we made it out without a huge fight to leave it there, but wish it would have been alive when we left. He decided that he wanted to get fish from the pet store instead, but Mark told him he had to keep his room clean for a week before he could get any animals

Well today was his lucky day. My dad called to see if he wanted to go catch butterflies with his new net they bought last weekend and so they were off to the river. He brought back all sorts of shells, a baseball and golf ball for Mark and.........two baby frogs. He really likes the frogs, but one of them did not survive. He had no problem taking it outside and throwing it off the deck. You always worry about the whole death and dying thing with kids and apparently he is pretty ruthless. I sure hope if something happens to me I don't get thrown off a deck somewhere. Anyway we had to go to the pet store and get a cage for the frog and Caleb is very proud of it. I sure hope the frog enjoyed his/her bedtime story and is still breathing in the morning. What a great weekend!!!