Grandma's Pics

I downloaded mom's pictures onto my computer and found some cute ones to post!

Love these 3!

Get me out of here!!!!!!!!!

Funniest thing I've seen in a long time.......Brady pushed Addie around!!

Addie loved sitting in this!

Grandma's attempt at a photo shoot.

Colin

The boys don't suck on the binky...just chew on it! They like to steal it out of Addie's mouth!

9 month pictures

9 months old and growing up too fast...
We had our 9 month pictures taken a few weeks ago. I was SOOOO excited to have them taken OUTSIDE........not the best idea I've ever had! The kids were good BUT wouldn't look at the camera! They wanted to pick up the rocks, eat the grass and touch anything they could get their hands on! Addie rarely even looked up. Apparently we don't let them go outside in the grass enough! Too much to see and touch! They also wouldn't give us very many smiles. Again, too much to look at to concentrate on us! They actually turned out pretty cute.

And the best part---When I went to order them, I had a few picked out. (It's expensive so I usually don't get tons and tons of pictures.) As I told him my order was complete, he looked at me with a smile and told me to get a bunch more because they were ALL FREE! Doesn't get much better than that! (The reason for being free--Our photographer at Reynold's Photography is hired by Ryan to take all the photos at The Y. He takes thousands of pictures of the kid for their sports pictures each year...and makes tons of money off of that. I think he wants to make Ryan happy so that Ryan will keep hiring him each year!) Works for me!

Our Family!

The best we could do with all 3!

Brady and Colin

Colin looks so grown up!

Love Brady's face!

Addie Girl

Love her!!!!!!!

Sweet baby boy

The only smile we had all day long!

Last to Crawl...First to Walk???

Colin was the last to crawl...but may be the first to walk? He still has a ways to go but his balance is a lot better than the other two kids. He's getting pretty good at standing without help...but doesn't act like he's ready to take a step on his own. Here is a video of him showing off his new skill!!

And a video of the kids doing their favorite thing...crawling up the stairs for bathtime!

The kids celebrated their 9 month birthday yesterday! Getting so big! Their 9 month pics should be in tomorrow. Will post them soon!

NO, NO ADDIE......

The title explains it all...

Standing on the chair.....and later fell on her head.

In the TV stand having a good time...

Playing on the laundry basket

Crawling into the basket to get up the stairs.....and was very successful. (I need a new plan.)

And just a picture to make you smile. Love coming home to this!!!!!!



RUB-A-DUB-DUB....

3 BABIES IN THE TUB!!

I love bath time...definitely my favorite part of the evening! We've retired their little blue tub and give them a bath in the big tub now. Lots of people ask how bath time goes....and they all wonder if it's chaos. Actually, it's wonderful. We have a good system going....


We start with 1 baby in the tub. Wash him/her. Throw in baby number 2. Wash him/her. Throw in the fnal baby and let them all play for as long as that will last. I actually sit on a small stool in the back of the tub. Makes it way easier to wash them. Soon all 4 of us won't fit in the tub! Daddy pulls them out 1 by 1 and diapers them and puts them in their crib to play while we deal with the other two or clean up. Believe it or not, it's not as much work as you'd think. They love it so that helps too........HOWEVER, it is a HUGE fight to get on their pj's at night! They won't sit still.......EVER.

Brady wants to join!

Addie found her binky in the tub and put it in her mouth. She is liking it more and more each day.....Not sure how I feel about it!



A boring Friday night!

Colin  (look at my teeth!)

Full of smiles (and full of shit!)

My little princess

Brady Ryan

Sibling Love

"Hey Brady...let's push her over when she's not looking!"

Our Friday night plan was to go to the football game but the rain ruined that idea. Nothing exciting going on here. We've had a VERY ROUGH 2 1/2 weeks but I'm thinking that's over. The kids haven't been sleeping through the night and wake up several times crying. My guess is that it was their teeth. They've made it the last 2 nights sleeping from 10ish to 7ish if not later. Hoping that continues because Ryan and I have been CRABBY!

We re-arranged the living room so they have more freedom to roam. The last few nights have been wonderful...they will play for an hour or even more without anyone needing anything from us! I can get a lot more done at night now! They are at such a fun age but growing up too fast! We'll be 9 months old in less than 2 weeks! (9 month pics to come soon!! Check back to see them!)

Labor Day Weekend

Had a nice LONG weekend! We spent Saturday-Monday in Marcus. Jake, Sarah and Samantha were all home so the house was full! We didn't do too much..just hung out and ate a lot! We did take the kids out to eat to a nice restaurant for the first time (other than Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen)! They were really good....we'll have to try that again soon!

On Saturday, the babies surprised Gma with a Donna Bird Birthday Cake for her 50th Birthday!

Daddy was excited for Saturday because it was the Hawkeyes first game! The boys were excited, too!

Daddy loved our outfits!

We took lots of walks while we were visiting Gma and Gpa. Look at our cute new zip-ups!