Short update

Okay, so I know it has been like 4 months since I have updated my blog. I will save the novel and just start where we are now. Obviously things have been crazy the last 4 months, but we are survivng. Now if we can just get through the flu season!!!!

Hannah Grace

Let's start with my Hannah Grace....she will be 2 1/2 this month! She has been a great big sister (this week) helping me change diapers and telling them stories and reading to them. She loves to dance and make the girls laugh. She loves to whisper secrets to you and is getting so independent....she loves to dress herself, go to the potty by herself, wash her hands, brush her teeth, etc. We have succeded with no paci at all since July and she is in her big girl bed with her big girl decor. We are almost completely potty trained. Even though I feel like I have been working with her for centuries on this....Oh she poops in the potty just fine, it is the peeing she often forgets about! And I do mean often! Oh how I do love that girl! We got her hair CUT a couple a weeks ago. 3 inches!

Hannah and mommy last year at the pumpkin patch

Hannah cheesing for the camera before her haircut

Madison
Madison is doing much better these days. She sleeps like a rock! She likes to lay on her belly, loves to eat baby food...doesn't matter what....she gobbles it up! I can't seem to get it in her mouth fast enough. She sits up great. Her new thing this past week is sitting up from the lying position. I went into her room yesterday and found her sitting up and her paci was on the floor....and so it begins! She is trying so hard to crawl. She gets up on all fours and then lunges forward, only to fall flat on her belly again. She has the most adorable laugh and the biggest dimples when she smiles. She is really coming into her personality. Oh and did I mention....she is a mommy's girl!

McKinley
McKinley is still just as sweet as ever. She still loves to kick those legs. She is sitting up well also, but she is not ready to crawl yet. She just swims when she is on her belly....absolutely no interest at all in getting up on those hands and legs. She is a very laid back kind of kiddo. She plays well by herself, she stays pretty content unless she is hungry or tired. She doesn't really enjoy baby food like Madi, she would rather have her bottle, a mum-mum, or cereal. She too has an adorable laugh and a smile that is just too sweet. Kinley is pretty much anybody's gal, she doesn't really seem to have a preference to me or Chad. She will play shy sometimes and bury her face into my chest...which I will always love and find so precious.

We had our friend from Corsicana come down for a visit recently. Her little girls name is Hannah and she is 3 years old. Her and Hannah Grace had a blast together and it was good getting to catch up with my old friend (I totally wasn't referring to your age Linda :]) As I say with all my friends and family that come for a visit at this crazy house with twins and a two year old.....I hope they come back!


Anyway, that is about all that is going on.....just living by the moment. We are in the middle of tennis season and I have been roughing it on my own with the girls. Family comes in from time to time and we now have some friends that take the girls on Monday for a few hours so I can go run errands or sit and just listen to the silence.....so nice.....! Thank you AJ and Laura! I have recently made a dress and I know Bankhead will laugh at me, but I am so proud of myself. My friend Shannon is one of the craftiest gals I know and I just wanna be like her. She too has girls and starting making pillowcase dresses that I think are adorable! So, with all my free time :] I thought I might try to make one also. After wasting a few yards of material, I have a finished product and I have to say...not bad. So now I can officially make bows and a simple dress for my girls....which is good...because I have sooo many girls. I am also doing a bible study on Thursday mornings which has been awesome. Not only because I get to drop my girls off at 8:30 am and have some adult conversations (I really do love my babies), but we are doing an awesome study on the book of Colossians. I just love the in depth study and a chance to get back into the Word. I have to say it has been a struggle of getting in the Word since the twins...when I did have time...honestly I would have rathered sleep or stared at the wall or take a shower. Crazy, but thank you Kim for the long, endless questions.

Didn't I say I was going to make this post short......