Colvins Visit!

This week my sister and her husband and my wonderful niece and nephew came to visit! We had so much fun this week! Here's the recap...

Playing at the park

Seeing sting rays at the aquarium

Driving the boat at the aquarium

Ricky's most common request... "I want yogurt!"

All the kids with Uncle James and Aunt Alison

It snowed!

A snowball!

"Can we come in now?"

We went to a fun play place with an arcade and carousel. Ricky was way too busy exploring to pose for a picture!

Mitchell built a tower of foam blocks around the girls! They were trapped! :)

Down the slide

Riding the carousel

Little brothers came along to join in the fun! (Reid left, Redick right)

Ricky: "This place is so much fun I can hardly contain myself!"

Cute little girls!

Cinderella

Princes Charming

Cinderella, Ninja, Prince Charming #1, Snow White, Prince Charming #2

The Colvins!

Thank you for spending the week with us Colvins! We LOVED having you here! It was so fun! We'll see you again in 23 days!

Politics

Reid it's studying up so he can make an informed vote. :)

Halloween is coming!

Score! $7 Cinderella costume! 

Exhibit A: Pretty ugly ceramic pumpkins from Ross. 

Exhibit B: Add a little metallic spray paint and voila!

Mine look a little like the Pottery Barn version, right?

Redick- 4 months

Redick- 4 months

  

Reid- 4 months

Redick                                              Reid

Now that the boys can roll both directions they wrestle together! It is so cute! They are really starting to interact with toys and with each other! Redick is on the left on his tummy and Reid is on the right on his side.

Welcome Fall!

On Saturday we went to a really cute pumpkin patch! Audrey had a blast and so did Mitchell and I! Redick and Reid seemed a little uninterested so they slept in the stroller the whole time. :)

This was like a sandbox but the "sand" was actually dried corn kernels. Audrey buried Daddy!

It seems like I am hardly ever in pictures and both Mitchell and I are almost never in pictures together!  Here we are trying to remedy that.

Reid decided to join us for this photo op. He's the cute little cow. 

Audrey was so cute on this pony ride! She got in the saddle and immediately started saying "ride horsey! FUN!" Every time she came around by the bench Mitchell and I were sitting on she would wave and say FUN!! That made it so worth the $1!

We brought a piece of the pumpkin patch home with us to our door step. It is our family represented in pumpkin form! Audrey even picked her own pumpkin, it has glitter and is a "princess" pumpkin.

A New Kind of Fun!

Today was the first time Audrey has experimented with painting! It took quite a lot of convincing on my part to get her to let me put paint on her hands. Haha! Once we did it she loved it though.

P.S. Before you assume that I am such a great mom, I'll let you know that she drove me crazy THE WHOLE TIME! 2 year olds just can not sit still or wait for even 10 seconds. Even still, it was fun!

Brotherly Love

It's so cute how they love to snuggle!

3 Months, So Big, and Mommy's Project Complete!

Redick                                                         Reid

Redick                                   Reid

Redick and Reid are 3 months today!! This feels like a big milestone! They are getting really predictable with their routine. Not necessarily a schedule yet as far as times of day but definitely predictable! They are (knock on wood) sleeping great at night too! In fact, last night they slept from 8:30 pm to 5:45 am! Most nights they wake up around 4:00 and go back to sleep until 7:30 or so. Love it.

They are really smiley and starting to laugh a little lately so it is really fun! It's been neat seeing their individual personalities come out too. Redick is pretty mello, even his cry is soft and gentle. He is almost always content and falls asleep easily. In fact, often if he seems to have nothing else to do he'll fall asleep. Reid on the other hand is more emotional on both ends of the spectrum! He smiles a lot more and loves to make eye contact and is really playful. Also, when he cries he screams!! They are both really sweet.

Lots of people ask how we can tell them apart. They actually look quite different when you see them next to each other. Redick is about a pound and a half bigger than Reid. Redick has a rounder face and bigger features and his skin is a bit darker. Reid has less hair (now that most of it has fallen out), is skinnier and has slightly bluer eyes. The most practical way I tell them apart, however, is that I normally dress them differently. 

Doesn't she look so big!?!?

Progress on my living room!

To the neglect of my laundry, dishes, dinner making and general household responsibilities, (yes, I did feed my children, but that's about it!) I sewed these curtains! I had a pretty specific vision in mind so I decided to just order fabric and make them myself. Now that I am feeling like the kids schedules are more manageable I am looking forward to doing more decorating!

We are doing great otherwise! I have more pictures to post from when my best friend Lindsey came to visit with her 2 little girls. We had so much fun but that will have to be for another day...