The Doggie Can Jump

I am always surprised at how high Sneezy can jump. He can get all the way up to Eric's shoulders when he wants to. Today he was in the cutest feisty mood so, of course, I got the camera out. The girls just giggled and giggled watching him play with their Daddy! He is playing tug of war with his "Blue Rhino" toy that we got him.

Look at that form :)

Then it was time to settle back down and enjoy chewing on the little buddy. :)

It's Gorgeous!!

The weather the last couple days has been absolutely gorgeous!! We have gone outside to play a lot. I want the girls to love nature like I do and from the way they scream and cry when we go back inside, I would say that they just might!

When we went out on Tuesday afternoon, the light was perfect for pictures. I got some really fun shots of my favorite little munchkins.

Lilly clapping for me...in this picture, she so reminds me of a little girl I used to babysit named Kate.

Lexi showing one of her sassy, sweet looks...
They were waving hi to our neighbor Tim in this picture. He had just pulled in on his Harley and they really like motorcycles...and Tim. :)
This is my absolute favorite of Lilly Anne.
Looking at tree bark...
AND then licking the tree bark...yummy!
Miss Lexi...


Blowing kisses at the moon and me!
Eric chasing the brood...
I think we need to live in a place where the weather is 60-70 degrees ALL the time!

Toddler Beds

I laid the girls down for a nap the other day and expected the same thing that always happens...The girls falls asleep after about 5-10 minutes of laughter and talking, and then sleep for 1.5-3 hours.

This is what I never expected to have happen....

Lexi continued talking and screaming loudly for ~45 minutes. Then, the Fed-Ex guy rings the doorbell and it wakes Lilly up when the dogs start barking. We decided to leave them in their cribs for a while longer to see if they would go back to sleep (or to sleep at all, in Lexi's case). Eric and I were putting together a powerpoint presentation for one of his classes on my laptop in our room, and after another 25 minutes or so, we were going to get them up. That is about the time everything went nuts.

We heard them laughing and talking but they still seemed okay. All of a sudden, with the same exact voice inflection and at the exact same time, we hear TWO little voices say, "UH-OH!!" Next thing you hear is a loud, full-body force, THUMP!!

Then those same two little voices started crying and screaming hysterically. It was the cry of "someone is hurt". I go tearing in there only to see Lexi sitting on her knees in the middle of the floor about 4 feet from her crib. Lilly is desperately trying to reach over her crib and help her sister. They both look terrified. I scoop Lexi up and am trying to see if there is any broken bones or cuts. Thankfully she was just scared out of her little mind.

Here's the extra sweet part....Eric gets Lilly up and the first thing she does is run across to lexi's crib and pull out "Sheepy" so she can give it to her sister for comfort. It was really precious. She couldn't quite get the sheep through the bars at first so Eric helped her. Lilly ran to Lexi and handed her sheepy. Then she bent down and gently patted Lexi's head and kissed her forehead. I was soooooo proud!!

Lexi did not get hurt this time...thank you, Jesus!!! But ready or not, we are getting up the toddler beds this weekend. My little babies are little girls now and it's going too fast. I had originally thought I might make them quilts for their toddler beds, but am short on extra time, plus wanted the most expensive material out there (Isn't that how it goes?) So we saw some very affordable bedding sets at Target that all 4 of us liked a lot. We nabbed them last weekend when they were on sale...good timing, huh? I had already put them in the closet to save for this summer.

We pulled out one of the quilts to let the girls check it out better. Here are my sweeties enjoying their new bedding. We'll post pics of the new room set-up after we get it done. :)

Peekaboo, Mommy!

I like this one...
They love naming all of the stuff on the quilts...owls, mushrooms, flowers, birds, hedgehogs, trees...
So serious...
I also had to include this one, b/c while it is not of the bedding, I love it and it has a sweet story with it. We had been to the park and the girls were not happy when we left. When I tried to go cook dinner, they fell apart on Eric. So he popped in the Praise Baby DVD and this was my view from the kitchen. He is a wonderful daddy!

Wordless Wednesday

College and Nose Blowing

An odd title for a blog? Well not so much when you hear that Eric said I should label it, "Oh, Pickles!" Yes, we are a bunch of weirdos. :) Anyways, Lilly sure wanted to cuddle with her Daddy the other day when he was reading up on a class in his student handbook. I grabbed the camera when I saw Lilly was reading along with him. Here she is telling him ALL about it. I think she already knows what she's gonna major in. :)

The girls have also decided they LOVE blowing their noses into baby wipes. Although Lexi actually blew her nose on my back the other day. So gross!

Lilly wanted a hand from Daddy...

Lexi always blows and then stares at the wipe to see if she got anything...that's gross too, sorry! It really is funny to see her do this though.

Also, if we are friends on Facebook, then you heard about Lexi climbing out of her crib and ending up 4 feet away on the floor. If not, I am going to post that whole story tomorrow. It has a very sweet part to the story too! Here is a sneak peek of their new toddler bed quilts.