opposites

Eden has been Miss Opposite lately. If I say up, she says down. If I turn right, she wants to go the other way. Recently, we were having a discussion about how to be polite and that we always say "please and thank you". Eden, said 'NO, we say Thank you and Please!!"

Leave it to her to turn THAT one around!

Gasp!

Gasp! Could it be that I didn't make any blog postings in May??? This blog is now 2 years old and I am amazed at how life in 2 years has changed. I now have 3 'babies' and have started a photography business--which blogging was a definite catalyst into become crazy about photography. It's a struggle to keep up a website for my photography and a personal blog-and now there is facebook, and ya da ya da ya da! Too many things, not enough time!!

So-what has this mother of multiples been doing lately???

I've been trying to find someone to re-upholster my arm chair after being experimented on by a utility knife and a 3 year old. Spending the day hovering around potty chairs and having a party every time someone makes a poppy. Loving spring/summer and so happy to have weeds in my front yard full of wild flowers....grass is so over rated anyway. Can't believe my 19 month old can say the alphabet and count to 20-----I honestly can't remember her being a baby---she just grew up too fast! Spent an hour last night with the twins shaping our bodies into the shape alphabet letters-and laughing hysterically. I am enjoying this new phase-they are such a hoot. Today they were taking a music box, winding it up and playing 'time-out'.

All together Now

This week was Grandma Senter and Uncle Dave's Birthday. Sunday morning we were driving to grandma's and the girls were singing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs. I commented on how beautiful they were singing (and actually they are very good singers and right on key). Eden says, "Lets sing it for Jesus, All together now!" and began singing Happy Birthday to Jesus!

Saturday night I took the twins with me to Target. As I was getting a cart a group to teenagers walked in behind us. Eden turned around and emphatically stated, "Welcome to the store!!"

I made a wrong turn while driving last week and when I got on the correct road I said, "Whew, we are on the right road now." Eden says, "Say it with me mommy, We are on the RIGHT Road!". Then we got to Linden Road and I said, here is Linden Road, can you say "Linden Road?"
Eden said, "No, I am not going to say that!"

You have to hear the tone of her voice, I have to keep from cracking up half the time.

Look whose is 1 1/2!!!!!

We are at the 1 1/2 year mark---I shudder to think she will be already 2 years old this fall. Alot....and I mean ALOT has changed in the last year. One year ago she was just barely sitting up, nursing, babbling and totally dependent. Now, she runs, climbs, feeds herself (which she has been very proficient at for a long time-ha), she can count to ten, repeats anything you say, has very strong opinions on what she does and doesn't like--and has personality oozing out of her pores. She makes us laugh all the time and is CRAZY about her big sisters and tries to be like them in every way.




You just can't help but smile when you see those chubby cheeks and gapped teeth!

Easter

My parents and Blaine's parents were out of town for Easter-so it was to Aunt Carmyn's house we went for an Easter Egg hunt with Grandma S and Aunt Shannon. It was a very bright and sunny morning-some of the best Easter weather I can think of in a long time. What a FUN time it was this year with the kids-they totally got into the egg hunt game. A special thanks to Aunt Carmyn for everyone's coordinating outfits




Grandma Senter-I love this picture of her


Eden


My twinnies


Evie-she was trying to keep right up with the bigger kids


Kallyn would stop to eat the treats in her egg before moving on




Elle-who is my sweet tooth-was in 7th heaven


Eden was the master egg hunter


And needed more than one basket


Em


Kolton-doing what boys do best!


I am thinking there is some candy in that little mouth somewhere


Stopping to watch the dogs here


the twins


Evie and Kallie

final results.

...I posted this on my photog website, but just wanted to share the cute little photos of the twins/baby after total chaos....I think they turned out pretty nice!!!

Eden


Elle


Evie

Batteries

The twins have picked up that when something is broken, than it must need batteries. Last Sunday I was cleaning out a closet as I am getting ready for a sale this spring. With the closet cleaned out, I threw some pillows in the back and we made a hide out. It was raining that morning and my girlies and I were in the hideout listening to the rain and singing about the raindrops falling with a pitter pitter pat......

On Monday, I was back up there cleaning and Elle wanted to go in the hideout. All of a sudden she was all upset and telling me, "The rain needs batteries, the rain needs batteries!". Well, it wasn't raining on Monday and she didn't hear the rain, so she figured that the rain was broken and to fix it, it needed batteries..................

I wish batteries could fix everything!

stay tuned to see more of what happened here:

Happy 92nd Birthday Grandma!!!!!

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyy!!!!

Gramma's Cupcakes---------------------------------The Best!

slacker

I have been a big blog slacker recently---and need to get back on track. Life is just plain busy and I want to remember it all!! Spring is in the air around here with the sand hill cranes back to nest, and woodchucks, muskrat, opossums, raccoons out and about day (and night). We've been awoken the past 2 nights from raccoons fighting (or mating) outside our windows. We are still deep in the throws of potty training. We had been using marbles as an incentive-the twins would get one marble to put in a cup every time they went wee wee and FIVE for #2. Well, scratch that and the dentist. Who knew bubble gum machines were FAR better than marbles in a cup. There has been more pee around here that ever before. I am secretly hoping the baby will not be far behind. While the girls have been wearing 'big girl panties' in the day (and wearing not much else but that-ugh)- we are still diaper dependent at night and poop is still a big issue.

Here is a typical snapshot in my day. Yesterday I had to work and when I got home, my mom, who I am daily indebted to for watching my children-was frying up noodles for their lunch...And what a mess noodles can make!!!! So there were noodles everywhere and smashed grapefruit pieces and someone decided that they were going to pee in their big girl panties and that was running down the chair. Oh and did I mention we have a major Asian ladybug crisis in our house as well as ants.....Blaine is calling the bug guy today....we are being overrun by insects. So, it was too early for a tub bath and to the sink it was. I think bathing in the sink must be much for fun than the tub or shower.





Here are my little skinnies with their Buddha Hair styles--and you can see who else wants IN!







definitely not happy about not getting in the sink-who knew I could really use 3 sinks



more piggy tail pics---they are just too funny and cute





This past weekend was Grandma Blanca's 100th Birthday. She had sewn these dresses for the twins when they were little and can still wear them as shirts. Happy Birthday Grandma!



And just playing around before naptime after church

pigtails

The day has finally arrived..............................................Evie has pigtails!!!!

winter fun

Blaine got the girls an 8 foot toboggan(not pictured)-and wow-it is pretty cool. The only bummer is that the girls were all pumped up to ride it and when it arrived in the mail, there was a big gash in it from shipping! So-he borrowed his folks and than the toboggan guy said to go ahead and use it till the replacement comes. Last Saturday night me and my girls got a pull with the 4-wheeler from Blaine over the river and through the fields to grandmas for hot chocolate and popcorn. Yum! Owen and Olivia came over to play too and so there has been some fun in the snow around here-snow angels included.




blaine pulling the kids through the woods behind our house

Jen and Livie





had to laugh at the fact that Owen finally cracked a happy little smile when the sled finally took off

I thought I'd throw this in too....My littlest one-she really is something else and her personality-the good and the not so good-is showing all of its colors. Boy-I think there is some of her momma's attitude in there somewhere. I think she wanted me to pick her up here and I wasn't re-acting to her fast enough and I was able to catch one of her classic looks. (not her best look if I do say so myself-ha)