Look What We Can Do

It's really becoming a reality for us that we will be having two babies getting around very soon. I can't believe my babies are growing so fast, they are getting so strong. Lately Reagan and Riley are really getting mobile. They look so tiny standing up like this. By the way they are barely being assisted. So hard to believe!

Build-A-Bear

We did it!! We sold over 1300 boxes of cookies. Pretty good for our first year. So a trip to Build-A-Bear was a definite. We chose them, loved them, and stuffed them. We even recorded our voices individually saying our girl scout promise so that our bears would be that much more special. Here are some of our pictures...enjoy

A little dinner before...

Our Troop

Chloe and her Mommy


Photo Op


Time to take our bears home.

A little ice cream for the road...thanks Danielle.

Happy 7 months Babies!!

Me and Rae are 7 months old today. My Mommy and Daddy can hardly believe it. We are growing and learning so much. Even when Mommy and Daddy don't know it. We watch our big sisters all of the time. I can hardly wait til me and Rae can play with them! They love us so much and even though we can't say it yet we love them too. Wanna know what we can do now... We scoot, mostly backward but we can get around we just haven't figured out forward yet, we're still practicing. We love to talk and see how loud our voices are, and we always hold hands. It's so nice to see your best friend playing right beside you! We chew on everything cuz pretty soon we are going to get teeth...that's what Mommy says. We eat lots of different foods. Rae doesn't like green beans but I do. I really like bananas yummy. My Daddy sure can make me giggle he knows all of our giggle spots. He does it so much sometimes me and Rae need a nap afterwards. We are getting so big. We went to the doctor last week and I weighed 13 lbs and was 24 3/4 inches long, I think that is pretty big but Rae was still bigger than me. She weighed 14 lbs and was 25 inches long. Rae is in the 7th percentile and I'm in the 3rd. I wonder what that makes Maylee and Jakobi? Mommy said maybe one day we will get to play with them. They were born at the hospital that we stayed in for a while. I think it would be fun to play with them. Me and Rae are pretty good at sharing. Oh yeah my mommy said to tell you that I have changed my mind about sleeping through the night. I decided if Rae was going to eat then maybe I should too. One day Mommy one day. You should see my moms hair in the middle of the night...scary. But we love her anyway. I am ready for bed I have to make sure I rest up 3:30am will be here before you know it.

Easter Egg Hunt

Chloe was having a blast!!

I took this picture and it just hit me Makenna didn't have her coat buttoned, kids!!

(These pictures are foggy becuz they were taken through a storm door ;0)

On the third day Jesus rose...Happy Easter!!

Reagan and Riley, still not going to give Mommy that smile!

Josie and Chloe

Mommy Chloe and Riley


Chloe and Rae at church in E. Liverpool

Kenna and Chloe were so excited to get their baskets
(they just got out of bed..can you tell ;0)

The Easter Bunny knew just what to get Rae and Ri

Chloe and Kenna LOVED their baskets!!


We had a wonderful Easter. We traveled an hour and a half to church in East Liverpool. It was a long drive but so worth it. Josh's sisters husband is a pastor there, his message was very moving we really enjoyed it as always. After that we had lunch/dinner at their home. We ate and ate and ate some more. It was delicious. After dinner the kids had an Easter egg hunt...outside. It was absolutely freezing but they were so excited. I took pictures from inside lol. It was so nice to spend time with our family and to make memories for the kids.

Hanging Out

Sean, Lauren, Makenna, Darian and Chlo

You chew and then it's my turn

Wet crackers anyone?

As I was snacking at Jen's today enjoying an afternoon with

my girlfriends Rae was eyeing mommy's food. So, I thought hmmm

what the heck she almost 7 months she could probably handle a

cracker. Oh yeah, Rae loved it. Wait til she gets older and can

try some of the cheese ball. Delicious!!! We had a great time, it went

way too fast. Next time I'll bring my scrapbooking stuff I need

to get back on that. ;0)

40 degrees is the difference a day makes...

It's so hard to believe Tuesday we were out

feeding the ducks, wearing shorts and enjoying our

77degree temperatures. And just two days later

the roads are icy and we have our winter coats

back on. Spring is playing tricks on us and

we're not liking it!! Warm weather please come back.

Funny...

Cute joke I received in an email. I love cats as many of you know. I miss my kitty very much she passed away the end of last year shortly after the twins were born. No, not because we had two more children to chase her around, she lived a long great life and I'll love her and miss her forever. Capri was 15 1/2 years old...wow!! I had her longer than I've had Josh...lol. Enjoy!


1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids. You may need to stand on the lid.

4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power-wash" and rinse".

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Sincerely, The Dog

Rough Night

Last night was a toughy. Riley woke up at 1:30am with a fever of 103.3 degrees. The babies had their 6 mo. immunizations and it hit Ri hard last night. She was fine after the intial pain of the injection they both cried their saddest cry (breaks my heart) but were absolutely fine until this. I called the nurse at 2am to see what she thought. Riley was coughing almost as if she was having trouble breathing. The nurse said that it is normal to have more labored breathing the higher your temp. rises. Still it was scary. Makenna had a seizure when she was just over a year old from a high temp. I didn't want this to happen to my little Ri. I gave her baby Tylenol and said a prayer. The nurse told me that the Tylenol should kick in and her temp should go down between 1-3 degrees. If this happens all would probably be fine, if not I should get her into her pediatrician first thing in the morning. Sure enough the temp subsided and we were back to bed around 4am.

And then morning came....

Makenna woke up apparently in the middle of the night when Josh was home on a lunch break complaining of a sore throat. He told me that he thought she probably had strep again. This would be her second case this season. Not fun. I set up an appt. and daddy took her this morning ... it was strep. Back on antibiotics for 5 days. The last time she had strep she had a reaction to the amoxicillin and is no longer able to take that. But God is good and we are on the mend. Riley did great all day today and Makenna was feeling better this evening.