We're Back Outside!

Hooray! It's finally starting to get nice here. We've been spending as much time as we can outside soaking up the sunshine and vitamin D.

The twins were ecstatic to get the bubbles out again. They've also enjoyed climbing on the shrinking mountain of snow in front of the house. When my mom was here, the snow was almost all the way up to the lowest branches. As you can see in this photo, some melting has occured. Its been almost a week since I took the photo and the snow has melted even lower!

Hannah's enjoyed outside time too.

She gets to hang out in her stroller.

She'd get cold quickly despite all the blankets so we took this sleeper that Joy gave her and use it as a snowsuit. It keeps Hannah warm and then she can nap away in the stroller.

We are looking forward to more warm days outside to play.

We love to be outside!

Life is Good

Seriously, does it get much better than this?

Laying on the floor with your nukie.

If only the picture could show how she attacks that nuk!

She loves that thing!

Character Change

Carter has always enjoyed dressing up as Belle. However, he has recently made a switch and enjoys being Mulan now. Here he is dressed as Mulan when she is on her way to meet the matchmaker. I think this dress of Ellie's made him think of Mulan because her dress has a sash and this dress has strings for a bow in back.


Ava is a princess. She doesn't need a character as she likes to just be a general princess. My multiples group has its big spring sale this weekend. I will look for boy dress-up clothes but even if I find some, I make no guarantees that Carter will wear them!

Genuises

Recent examples of the IQ levels running our household:

Alissa
Yesterday I was driving home from dropping the twins off at their preschool and running errands with Hannah. As I turned onto our street, the oil light came on, the van did a lurch, and then refused to accelerate. I luckily was able to coast the entire way down our street, which is long, and into our driveway. After shutting the car off, I tried to restart it several times to no avail.

In a full-on panic mode since the twins needed to be picked up in a little over two hours, I tried to troubleshoot. The van had gone almost 5,000 miles since its last oil change and I figured that's what had to be the problem. However, I didn't want to pay a tow truck if it just needed a little oil. Rich was able to leave work and pick up the twins since Jake had taken the bus to work so when he dropped them off, we checked the oil level in the car. Nearly bone dry.

Figuring that to be the problem, Rich stopped back after work with some oil. We put it in the engine, waited a few minutes, and tried to start the van. Nothing.

Rich asked me to explain what the van had done again. Then he asked how much gas I had.

Ooops. Knew I should have filled up on my way home instead of waiting.

(the van does work now that it has gas in it. and i took it in for an oil change today just to get it all taken care of)

Jake
Tonight Jake asked why the house felt so cold. Then he remembered that he had shut the heat off today since it was a balmy 40-something out.

"I was trying to save energy" he said to me as he turned it back on.

I looked around the house. The lights were on upstairs along with the computer that was playing music. Downstairs nearly all the lights were all on. The tv was running, the portable dvd player was on, and he had just powered up the radio.

Yep, bet that saved a lot of energy!


Please pray for our children that they might have a chance to succeed in life!

One Month Old

It's hard to believe our little Hannah Jade is already one month old. That first month of life just flew right on by. I was actually a little sad on her one month birthday as I realized she is already 1/12th of a year old. How fast this year will fly by and with her being the last little baby I will go through all this with, I want to relish as much of it as I can.


Since I've been a bad blogger and not put up any photos due to the computer issues, here is a backlog of what was taken in February.


Poor girl's hair sticks straight up. Yet the long, stick-up part doesn't start until halfway to the back of her head. Hope it all figures itself out before she is a teenager and cares how it looks!

Grampy and Hannah enjoying a nap the day we went to visit some of the great-grandparents.

I think this is the first shot of all 4 together.

When Grampy and Grammy were here, we went down for a day to meet the maternal great-grandparents. Here are all 4 with my Grandma Jackie and Poppa (my dad's parents).

Here they are with Grandma Mary (my mom's mother).

Grammy's oldest and youngest grandchildren.

Grampy with two of his girls.

Me, my parents, and the troops. I'm not ashamed of how awful I look in this picture. This was the day my parents left and I had just spent my entire shower sobbing. No baby blues here but after 9 wonderful days with my other other half (yes you read that right. Jake is one other half, my mom is the other. Or would they be thirds?!), I was very sad to see her leave. And my dad. But I really didn't want my mom to go. So I look awful in the one picture I have with all of us. Great.

Otherwise, life is just cruising along here. Hannah got to meet most of the extended Wendorff family this past Saturday. Aside from Uncle Alex in TX and Aunt Holly, Uncle Joel, and cousin Olivia in AZ, the only people she has to meet yet are her paternal maternal great-grandparents. Does that make sense? Or is it easier to say Jake's mom's parents? Ahh, all that lineage business confuses me. Anyway, our children are fortunate enough to have 3 of the 4 sets of great-grandparents alive and we will try to get Miss H and Company down to see the last set in the near future.

Ellie has lost two more teeth. One on the bottom that Jake pulled out while my parents were here but on the night my dad stayed in Wells. I think he was bummed to miss pulling that out as there was nothing more my dad loved than yanking out teeth! The other fell out Tuesday evening as she was watching tv. It's one of the top ones next to the front two. Just fell right out. She's a gummy mess right now and looks pretty similar to Hannah with no teeth! She wanted an apple this morning and it had to be cut up as there is no easy way for Ellie to eat an apple whole.

The desktop is still not fixed but I finally decided that the blog needed updating and that it really is ok to put the same pictures on two different computers. I've much to randomly report on that I decided to just get over one of my neuroses and start posting. The husband of one of my fellow multiples board members is going to look at the desktop for me and get it up and running properly. Sadly, they live just down the same large county road as us with about a 7 minute drive. It's such a trek that I just can't seem to grab the dang hard drive and hop in the car and get it over there. Maybe that will be tomorrow's goal....