Daddy with two of his girlies!
Evie and Grampa Bruce! 
Playing at Aunt Judy's 4th of July gathering-rocks and sand are much more fun than fireworks!!!
What is summer without icecream?
Emersyn's face says it all 
Cousin Emersyn, and twins Kolton + Kallyn:
Here are 6 of the 8 cousins-can you see why it's a riot when we're all together???
My darling little girls. Oh, how I love you to pieces!!!!!!!
Thanks Mike and Jen for letting us run through your Orchard-what a very special place! I remember running through this very same vineyard as a little girl while my mother and grandmother picked concord grapes in which they canned the juice. What a wonderful memory.
ps-the sweet cherries are ripe-Yippee!
It's 1:00 p.m. and I have just re-dressed Eden for the 2nd time after putting her down for her nap. What is it about 2 year olds that they like to strip off all their clothes-of course-when THEY want to and not necessarily when YOU want them too??
Two year olds, gotta love them. Yesterday, my parents took the twins to McDonald's for breakfast. When they got home, I asked Eden what she had for breakfast and she got a big smile on her face and said, "Pancake Mix!"
Elle has this thing lately where she wants us to kiss her hand. She got it wedged between the back slats of a chair a while ago and I kissed her hand to make it better and now, I am constantly kissing her hand. Last night she even went over to her chair to try and get her hand caught so she could get more kisses. It's not like they don't get enough of those-I think I have the strongest lip muscles ever from all the kisses I give all day long.
I ran to the store last night to get milk and a few other items. As I was checking out I scratched the top of my head and felt 'gunk'. Lovely. This gunk matched the other gunk I had just found on the back of my pants. Mmmmmmmmm..................two year olds are the ultimate producers of gunk. And there seems to be gunk everywhere-walls, floors, couches, appliances, anything, you name it. And I have TWO gunkies (is that word?) and a soon to be 3rd spreading her gunk!
Nice Knees!
The strawberry pickers: Me, Lee and Judy
The reward: 5 flats of delicious, sweet, and tasty Michigan Stawberries--YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While summer took its time getting here-I am not so sure I am enjoying the 90 degree weather and high humidity. But we, or should I say my kiddos, are making the best of it:
Eden singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider
Please, someone explain to my children that we do NOT like snakes! Yikes!... and we do NOT shout "YEAH" when daddy brings them to us!
Can you touch your toes like this? 
Happy Father's Day-especially to my own Father-Love you DAD!!!!!! And Blaine, what lucky little girls I have-they have the best daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had a fun day at Blaine's parent's lakehouse this evening. The cousins-all of them-were there. There were kids everywhere..................and I LOVED it!
God has truly Blessed us with these children-and their dad's too!
So-we blew through $300.00 worth of diapers already from the last time I blogged about diapers. We used to use a Diaper Champ-one of those great devices to throw your diapers in and keeps the smell in too. Well, the Diaper Champ lost the match, and the big old garbage pail won out. With 3 little bottoms to change, we were filling up the champ in less than a day and the champ couldn't keep up. It's a good thing we live in the boonies and people from the road can't see a big garbage pail on the front porch with little white round lumps in it. What a sight!
So, there are good days and there are bad. Today was a bad one. It all started out fine-- breakfast, getting dressed, etc.--Then we got to church. My sweet little angelic 2 year olds (maybe I am pushing the angelic part) turned into stinker pots. There is a class called cradle roll for ages 0-3 with activities and songs (many of which we sing all week long) to keep them busy--and they do pretty well following directions and participating in class. Not today. Eden, Miss Sensitive lately, had several crying episodes and Elle, The Scientist, was busy exploring and doing her 'own' thing. And of all things, today there was a program in the main church and the little ones were supposed to go up front to sing "Ring-a-ling-a-ling" and ring their little hand bells. I should've known before we even went into the church sanctuary that is was a bad idea when Elle, whose hand I was holding, (I had the baby in the other arm) started flopping around, falling to the ground and throwing a tantrum. Eden wasn't behaving any better with Blaine. We got up to the front of the church and of course, we were last, so we ended up being in the FRONT of all these parent w/their babies and little ones. As soon as the teacher started the song, Eden started crying and threw her bells off the platform. Elle, who is Monkey See Monkey do, threw her bells and both started throwing temper tantrums. I could just feel the heat rise in my body. Of all places and with everyone watching--why?? UGH! This is a memorable Performance all right-one in which I'd love to forget.
I have added several new blogs on 'my blog list'. There are some very cool photography blogs and cooking blogs-I especially love The Pioneer Woman. She does it all! I am adding a disclaimer about the blog 'matt, liz, and madeline'. Yes, there is swearing on Matt's blog and I am not fond of the swearing part, but I am a follower. Matt's is a tragic story where his wife had a difficult pregnancy, was 5 weeks on bed rest, than 27 hours following her C-section, she died of a PE (pulmonary embolism) from a clot that traveled from her legs to her lungs. Liz never got to hold little Madeline. This blog has 40,000 daily readers and is about the life of a single dad---this particular blog was featured in People Magazine.
These snapshots of Eden were taken within about 2 minutes time. I am continually amazed at how fast my little twinnies move and how quickly their facial expressions change. No wonder two year olds still need naps!
I am happy to report that Friday evening we received a call from the Howell Wildlife Rehabilitation Program saying that the Heron was ready to be returned. 35 minutes later, 2 volunteers were at our home with a very feisty Heron-- very different from the weak and subdued Heron that was deteriorating nearly 11 days earlier when Blaine captured him. What a beautiful sight when the cage was opened and the bird flew out, over the pond, and landed right where we usually see him. The vet had said earlier that they like to return adult birds to their natural home habitat. She said it was up to the bird to decide if he wanted to stay. Well, he must like home because I have seen him twice since Friday evening. We can not be more grateful to the Howell Wildlife Conference and Nature Center. It is heartwarming to know there are people out there who go to extraordinary lengths to take care of wildlife.
Quads: just the thought is scary!
One observation I have made since becoming a mother of multiples.....................I meet so many women who enviously say to me, "I've ALWAYS wanted to have twins!"
I belong to a mother of multiples club and not one of the women who've gotten pregnant after having twins/triplets/quads have EVER said about their current pregnancy, "Oh, I wish I were having twins!"
(And yes, I ALWAYS wanted twins too-still am pinching myself that I have all these beautiful little girls)
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