I have not fallen off the face of the earth

I promise I did not fall off the face of the earth. We have just been busy settling in and living life. Nicholas started school last Wednesday and he LOVES it. The teachers were laughing at us today when I dropped him off. He was so excited to get into class that when I asked him for a kiss he kissed the air instead of me and RAN into class. LOL Nicholas on his first day.

As for the little ones, all is well. We officially have a walker!!! JACKSON takes first prize as in everything else so far. LOL It is so weird to see him walking. Ella and Cooper are not far behind. Cooper had been taking 3-4 steps so I give it another week or so. Miss Ella is just cautious, I think she can secretly walk she just doesn't want to. The kids LOVE the bounce and spin zebra and fight over who gets to ride. Now that Jack can get on by himself he wins if we are not right there.

Don't let the face fool you, he LOVES it!!!


He will draw blood to get a ride.

Little miss happy.

I will try really hard to update more often. It's amazing how busy life gets. We will have a lot of outings between now and the end of the year so lot's to blog about.

Catch up

So the last few weeks have been a whirl wind of stress around here but things are finally calming down and we are settling into our new place. Let's see, I think Jackson will be the first to walk since every day this week he has taken 3 or 4 steps all by himself!!! I think he can do it, he just gets so excited and lunges forward before he has his balance. Ella and Cooper are doing good also but nothing new to report.

We are on the search for a new preschool for Nicholas, so if you are in the Plymouth area and have a recommendation please let me know. We are going to look at one on Tuesday, but I think they are out of our price range. Unless I want to help out every day in school, but that is neither a break for Nick or me and with three little ones at home it's nearly impossible.

I am still looking for my camera cord to upload pictures, check back this week.

MIA

Sorry it has been so long since the last post but we have had a lot going on with us. We have moved to Plymouth and we are working on getting settled. I hate moving period, but it is so much worse with 4 kids!! My mom kept the babies from Friday till mid day on Monday and Clyde's parent's kept Nicholas so we could get finished packing and move. Thanks for all the help without that it would have taken us a year. The highlight of the new place so far is that Nicholas slept in his own bed THE WHOLE NIGHT!!!!! He loves his new room and played up there most of the day yesterday. I will try to post some pics of the kids on the next week or so, everyone is getting so big.

Grandma

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!

Why we love Grandma.

She buys us LOT'S of stuff...

Diapers,

Clothes,

Toy's,

Birthday Parties,

Etc...

We have free reign to crawl around her house,

She gives us lot's of hugs and kisses,

And most of all she is just the BEST Grandma in the world!!!

We Love you!!!

Love, Nicholas, Ell, Jackson & Cooper

Where is summer?!?!?!?!

Don't get me wrong, I really LOVE the cooler weather, but for the kids we need warm pool weather. The babies have been sleeping in onesies this summer, but the last few mornings they wake up cool. I'm loving the cool weather but can wait a few more months for fall. Summer please come back.

Just swinging

We went to the park on Monday with my friend Carly and her kids. They had a fountain and Nicholas had a blast in that, the baby boy's not so much. But Ella loved splashing in the water. After we went over to the playscape and the babies went for their first real swing.

Cooper on his first real swing

Ella swinging with Cooper

Jack enjoying the breeze

All the kids swinging

Nick



Nick & Owen on the caboose

1 year stats

Yesterday they had their 1 year well baby visit and all is good.

Ella

19lb 9oz (28%)

28 inches (25%)

Jackson

19lb 5oz (7%)

28 1/2 inches (18%)

Cooper

17lb 4oz

27 1/2 inches

He is not on the growth chart yet. We have to take him back in a month and a half to have his weight checked. He is going to stay on formula but she changed him to the next step formula, just till we get his weight checked. Then she said he will go to whole milk with carnaton instant breakfast added. But we will wait and see.

We made the switch to milk for the other two yesterday and the first bottle was not so good but the night bottle was better and this morning I think they were already used to it.