Our eventful Friday

So I get to wake up bright and early to these three beautiful children. Surprisingly it starts with Nick quietly venturing to the living room to watch some good ol cartoons. About 30 minutes later (7:30am) Ella lets out a loud "Mommmeeeee"from her crib and either Chris or I will go get her standing ready to go with her 5 pluggies, blanket and baby in hand. We have breakfast, play, and then Olivia usually joins us around 8:30. I love the mornings. It's so much more pleasant now that it's not a mad rush getting all 5 of us ready to go for the day. Ella usually wants to go with daddy when he leaves for the office, but quickly gets distracted with her babies or coloring, or whatever we may do. Today it was going to the zoo!



Olivia is teething so the zoo was not much fun for her today. She started slobbering like crazy about 2 weeks ago, but now it's hurting her. I HATE teething! Here she is though in the 30 minutes she was happy today. Look at that red hair!


Here is the before picture of the project I'm starting on. I envision this to be painted up cute, with curtains and furniture inside. I'll keep you posted on the progress.

This is the everyday "me". Thank goodness for the 'baby harness'. I don't think I could make it through my day without it.




Olivia found her hands a few weeks ago and is amused by this new discovery. She loves looking at her hands and grabbing everything in sight. I love this! You forger too quickly that they didn't always know how to use them.

I absolutely LOVE LOVE watching these two form their sweet little relationship. Ella is finally at an age where Nick is really enjoying her company. They play so well together and are so sweet to each other. We do not allow any fighting of any sort between these two, and require immediate apologizes if either does something not nice. Now we don't even have to make them say sorry to each other- they just do it on their own. I love how sweet they are to each other and we are super lucky Nick is such a loving older brother. He rarely seems annoyed with Ella and includes her in any type of play- even his army men that takes so long to set up! He's a super sweet brother.

Note: Nick gave up his shoes to Ella (even though she had some of her own) because she has a weird obsession with his shoes. He went barefoot so she could have them - isn't this sweet? Also, YES both of my kids have tattoos in this picture - thanks to their wonderful daddy. And no they don't come off in the bath!



I thought this was an awesome shot of her hair. Chris wondered what it would look like if she didn't have her piggies.