Garage Sale

We are having a garage sale this weekend...today was day 1. Emma was her usual social self greeting everyone that came by. She even went shopping herself and found some treasures of her own.

Olivia was a big help all day. She helped bring things out, price things, put things away; such a busy girl. She also helped her Daddy's self esteem by admiring his big muscles (which I must say have gotten pretty nice since this whole lineman thing started :-))

Marcus did what he could to help out too. Mainly just smiled and laughed and made everyone happy as usual.

After the sale ended today, I took the kids on our usual walk. Look at the great backpack I got!

Marcus was getting much to big for the front pack. It was a lot of weight for my back...the back pack works much better. I am borrowing this from a friend of mine...it was just sitting in her attic waiting for her to have another baby...so she told me I could use it for now. What a saving grace! Thanks Lorie!

Poor Emma

Last night Emma got to hang out with Daddy. She got to ride the tractor to Jack's house (about 1.5 miles away) and hang out there for a while. So, tonight was Olivia's night with Daddy (they went to Costco).

It was a little rough on Emma to have to stay home, but she quickly got over it when the cupcakes came out...YUMMY!

Then we went for a walk...Marcus got to sit in the stroller since Olivia wasn't there. He enjoyed that.

Unfortunately Emma fell outside and landed right in one of those sticker weeds...she had stickers all over her hand...poor thing. Marc ended up getting them out with a lot of struggle...so she's ok now. It was a pretty rough night though.

BBQ

We went to our friends' (Kara, Rob, Avery & Brady) house today. They are friends of ours that we have not seen in a while. We have been trying to arrange a time to get together and we finally found it!

It took a little while for all the kids to get comfortable with each other. They were all a little shy and unsure. Avery is just a few weeks younger than the twins. Her little brother, Brady, is just 3 months old...I got my camara home and realized I didn't take any pictures of little Brady :-(

Rob & Kara just put this play gym together this weekend. Perfect timing for all the kids to test it out...it was a hit! Don't you just love that first picture of the girls chatting away...too cute!

They had this great swing that hung from a branch in their tree. Marcus LOVED it. He laughed the whole time! We are definatley buying a baby swing this week for our play gym.

This is little Kennedy. She is our friends', Melinda & Cam, daughter. She is 18 months old and such a little doll.

The kids really warmed up to each other once Avery brought the chips out. Funny how they are attracted to junk food at such an early age.

The party ended with cupcakes...YUMMY! We decided it was easier to take the clothes off rather than deal with the messes we knew they would make :-) We had such a great time. We will definatley not wait as long to get together again.

Works of Art

Well, here are the finished products...we picked them up this morning. I forgot to mention the girls painted their own little treasures too. They both picked out what they wanted to paint. Olivia painted the car and Emma painted the cow. I was wondering what colors they were going to be, they girls had the colors so mixed up, I thought they might come out black! They turned out pretty cute though. They were so proud of them...they both held them all the way home today. Guess we'll have to do this again soon.

Getting bigger...

Look how big Marcus is getting...he's almost as big as Emma! He actually crawled a few feet tonight too! I can't believe how fast he has picked it up. He is so determined, I give him less than a week and he'll be crawling...heck, at the rate he's going, he'll probably be crawling by the end of the weekend :-)

Here is what the girls worked on at DeeDee's house today...

All my babies are growing up! :-(

Almost

Marcus is getting so close to crawling...but not quite there yet. Give him a few more weeks...maybe even days...he'll be mobile soon...YIKES!

Footprints

My friend Amber and I took the kids to Polka Dot Pottery today. I made a plate of the girls' footprints when they were 6 months old and I wanted Marcus' footprints too. So I did a platter this time with all three of the kids footprints. It will be done next Saturday so I'll take a picture of the finished product for you to see...

Marcus was a good sport. I think he mainly wondered what we were doing to him...

Olivia did great too. She thought it was pretty cool...

Emma was a little more difficult. She was fine with her feet being painted, but she put up a fight when we tried to put them on the platter. It turned out cute anyway :-)

Here's Amber...I could not have done this without her help. Next time we come, we can do Amber's new baby's footprints too (she's due end of October)!!! :-)

Friday Night Fun

Looks like we need to get another one of these chairs for Marcus!

Belive it or not, Emma was actually laughing during this! She did get pretty cold though. Olivia was on a roll getting EVERYONE wet...hopefully this works and you can get a glimpse of the fun!

In case you are wondering...David is our house guest. He is going through lineman school with Marc. He is from the other side of the State so we offered him a place to stay while he is here. I'll be sure to post some pictures of him in future posts :-)

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Three Babies in a Tub...