June 21st!!!

Now that I am 12 weeks I feel comfortable announcing, even though Abe has already told a lot of people, we are having another baby June 21st! Yay! I also had to blog because I seem to be getting bigger faster. I asked my doctor if he was sure there wasn't twins in there because usually people say they don't know I'm pregnant until hmmmm I deliver. Anyways his response was that I have had three babies right in a row, and this fourth one is right after a C section. I'm thinking ya, so? So he says, let's just say your stomach muscles aren't really muscles anymore, they are more like mushy tissue, so you'll be hanging out this whole pregnancy! Thanks for putting it lightly doc!!

Anyways I don't have the camera with me so no pics, which I know is lame because most everyone really just wants to see pictures. I'll post some soon because the girls seem to be growing like weeds, except for Paislee, she's our short stop. I feel like I am always digging in my boxes for longer pants for Piper. Paislee is still a big ball of energy and Phoebe is as lazy as ever. The doctor prefers the term relaxed, but she is 9 months and doesn't even try to roll, crawl, lift her body up, or lets just say move in anyway! haha, she is content just to sit and laugh at her sisters. When she is done sitting she will flop her self over and cry until someone pics her up.

Abe is studying for his test that he takes on the 14th. I am so excited because his applications for grad school are due in March, and he kinda needs a test score to go along with them. Other then that we are just getting ready for Christmas, you know baking a bunch of cookies we could never eat by ourselves, and making kid craft ornaments that really make the tree look nice (haha). We hope everyone is enjoying the season, and we will get pics up soon!!

Halloween

I'm a little late in posting, but we had a fun Halloween this year. Piper wanted to be a princess fairy ballerina so I made a tutu with the requested colors of pink, green and purple, bought a pair of wings, a wand and a crown. Of course I made and bought three sets of everything because she wanted her sisters to match. When it came down to Halloween she only wanted to wear the tutu, as usual, it is hard to get the kids to wear what they picked out to be. It was all fun anyways. We trick or treated at Abe's work, then we did the ward trunk or treat and then we went trick or treating in Ririe. We got loads of candy and got to spend a lot of time with the cousins, which was Piper's favorite part. Here are some pictures of the Halloween fun. It was really cold so the kids had their coats of most all of the time.

Paislee

 Piper and Paislee

 Phoebe

 Katelyn and Piper

 Katelyn, Piper, Paislee, Jenna

 Who needs a doll?

My bad!!

Just a small little post. I thought it would be a good idea to have the girls color pumpkins while I whipped up some cookies for us to decorate.......fyi NOT a good idea. I know, I should have checked on them when I heard hysterical laughing coming from the other room. My bad. Oh and these are just pictures of their faces, in reality it is over their whole ENTIRE bodies. KIDS!

At least the pumpkins got some color

At least they did not color all over Phoebe

Hope your pumpkin experience is better then mine!

I'm just no ready for this!

I just expected to wake up to rain, but instead I get snow. That's right people, snow!!! At least the kids have fun, that's all that matters right? The only problem is is that Piper thinks because it is snowing then it is Christmas. She said she can not wait to go to sleep and wake up so she can have her barbie guitar (the latest thing she wants). Geez Piper we still have to have Halloween!

Yes, I'm blogging again.

I don't really have an excuse for not blogging, I guess I was just busy trying to get a schedule down. Now that the girls are on a good schedule life is a lot more smoother. Anyways we had a great vacation in August to Nonna's house, and there are so many pictures from our trip that I will just have to dedicate a post only to that. Maybe I will have it up Wednesday.

This post is just a little update on our family. Abe is scheduled to take his test to get into grad school in November, and once he gets his scores back he will apply for grad schools, and hopefully get into one he wants for the fall. Until then he is still working at Melalueca and we are enjoying the house that Grandpa lets us rent from him. I don't know how I will be able to move back into an apartment after having so much space. The space has really helped there be less arguing among Piper and Paislee, or maybe they are finally acting like they love/like each other. I don't really know.

Piper has "preschool" during Paislee's nap time. Really it is just me teaching her out of work books that we got while in Kansas City. She loves it though, and is a great learner. She can write the Pip our of her name and is so proud of it. She is so smart and always catches me off guard with the things she knows and the questions she asks. She loves to talk, and talk and talk. Sometimes some of the things she says can be really embarrassing. For instance, one day the neighbor came to pick his kids up from our house and he always crouches down to talk to the girls and this is what happened:

Neighbor: hey Piper, how's it going?

Piper: What's that smell, it smells bad.

Neighbor: I don't know what it is.

Piper: It's that air.

Neighbor: what air?

Piper: that air coming from your mouth, it stinks....

I don't know what was more embarrassing, Piper, or the fact that I could not stop laughing... I had to explain to her that it is called breath and sometimes it doesn't smell good. Anyways you never know what is going to come out of her mouth, but I love her so much.

Paislee is still as crazy as ever. She is such a handful, and will be the source of all my gray hair whenever it should come. Sometimes I swear this child could be possessed, and at other times she is the most loving thing you could ever come across. I guess I'll keep her around, but only because I have too...just kidding of course. She definitely keeps us going and life with her will always be a surprise. We love her so much too.

Then of course there is angel baby Phoebe. She is mostly always happy. Cries when she is hungry, when Paislee has hit her or done some like thing, and when she is tired. Other then that she is perfect. Sometimes she is so quiet that we pack up the car and get ready to pull out when we realize that Phoebe is still in the car seat by the door....sounds horrible I know but she is just that good. She doesn't whine or fuss or put up a fight. It is really refreshing and rewarding to sit down and play with her after chasing the other two around all day long. I love going into her room every morning knowing that I am going to get greeted by a huge grin, and maybe a giggle or two. She is one easy baby to love.

Enough of the blabbing I know. There are lots of pictures of the kiddos below.

I am sure she wasn't trying to choke her....

 I hope one day I can get a good picture of all three

 Phoebe!!

 Phoebe and her cousin Benny...who is three months younger

Before they got sick

The weather turned really nice here and two days into it Paislee and Phoebe got sick. Paislee had two ear infections, one of which burst her ear drum. Phoebe has a real bad cough, but her breathing treatments have really been working. I can't wait until they both get a clean bill of health so that we can really start to enjoy the nice weather!

 

I can read a book and give meds at the same time!

Please Please Please let summer come!!!

I forget every year how long we have to wait for summer to arrive! While it seems like everyone else in the US is wearing shorts and T-shirts, we are here in lovely Idaho still wearing sweatshirts and pants. Ugh I want sunny skies and warm weather!! With that being said there were 3 days, not in a row, but three days that the sun did shine, and I am not sure exactly what degree it was out side, but it felt really hot to us (that means it was probably 60, maybe 70) and we took advantage of the days to go outside and to the zoo.

There are tons of pictures below. Piper has not really cared that she has not been able to go outside that much because her cousins have been coming over to play. I feel bad sometimes that she never has anyone her age to play with...Paislee is not the best play mate right now, I hope they will get along....someday. Anyways enjoy the pics and I hope the next post will be more exciting :)

      I wish her attitude were as cute as her.

 Does she look like me?

 A little leery of the goats

 Piper and her cousins will seriously do puzzles for hours!

 
 Phoebe....I know, I should really put a bow on her bald little head.

 

 More ZOO!

 

 

 

 

 

I was only gone for 15 minutes........

This is Piper

 

and this is Abe, yes Piper did the paint job!