the twins came over!

we love babies in our house....Payton and Moriah came over to visit today! Here is jackson with Payton....he was sooo excited to hold her!

Lauren was out for a while when the babies were here. Christine watched her and this is what Lauren came back looking like, a little girl (who is now a toddler)!!!! I LOVE THE PIGTAILS!!! Lauren had so much fun over there and she also loved coming home and seeing the babies, although I think she was a little confused when both mommy and daddy were holding one. 

Holding two, 5 week old babies!!! first for me! :) 

Dave loved holding both of them so much...this has gotten us so excited for our little one to come!

time with Lauren and the farm animals!

In case you didn't know, Little People farm animals like cheerios and pretzels! 

she was so cute putting all this together!

what a sweet little girl we have been blessed with! 

Happy Birthday Suzanny!!!

Happy Birthday Suzanny!!!! 

here is the baby...24.5 weeks! i'm getting just a little bigger! :) 

I have curly hair today just for you!

here are the shirts for all your favorite kiddos! Number 3 wanted to be in it too!

Know that we are thinking about you today and miss you very much!!! you will be home in 3 weeks!!!! yea! :) we are having a countdown! hope you have a great day and we can't wait to celebrate when you get back!!  LOVE YOU SUZANNY!!!!

Anna and Jakin turn 3!!!

Lauren and Anna have some special baby play time!

Dinner! 

The theme was Dora and Diego and here Brian is giving instructions to find the treasure!

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Anna and Jakin...Happy Birthday to you!!!

You guys are so special to us and we are all so glad we got to be a part of your day!!! Happy 3rd Birthday!!!!

We also need to tell Hudson that Jackson and Lauren are so glad they got to go to your party this morning! Wish we had gotten some pics from it! Happy 1st birthday and we can't wait to see you grow even more in the next year!!!

Lauren is getting so big!

her hair up was short lived...i was so excited she let me put it up...15 min later it was over! 

more words from Lauren...

• leaves
  
• fishy
  
• ball
  
• cat
  
• dog
  
• bless you - after dave sneezed....we had NO IDEA she knew that! we all started fake sneezing including lauren, blessing each other it was great!
  
• bufly - butterfly
• candy ---loves candy!
• where he/it go? with her palms up. (when someone/something is not around)
  
• hide (we like to hide and scare each other!)
• k (intead of yes...although today she did say okay once)
• DIEGO!! her favorite show!
• elmo
• singing the diego theme song
• juice
• night night
• shoe
• i go, i go! when we are about to go somewhere
• cookie
• Paw Paw (only grandparent name she can say so far)
• Katy (our dog...she thinks both dogs are Katy though)
• mine (unfortunately)
• baby (she loves her baby doll!)
• esse (please and cheese)
• thik you (thank you)
• barney
• cick (click...the camera in diego)
• map
• backpack
• sorry
• pizza
• cake (a favorite)

Lauren will be 22 months next week...so hard to believe!  I am so thankful I have at least one more little one on the way, kids are so precious!

Jackson also said a big word the other day..."mom, I have an observation!" he thought it meant an idea :) it was cute to hear him say it and I have no idea where he got it. you NEVER know what that little boy will say!!

today and yesterday

today we are having a home day...both kids have a little cough...so we started the day with coloring!

Then I asked Jackson if he wanted to do his 'school' and he was really excited! after we finished the letter 'A' he wanted to do all of them! we are having a break now, with snacks and all. we might attempt the letter 'B' this morning too :) 

well we went on and did the letter 'B'! 

Yesterday Lauren went to her first playdate!!! This is Oliva, they are about 2 months apart. We really don't know many kids Lauren's age, Lauren was the first baby born in her group at the church, but most of them are 5-10 months after her! She is very used to playing with jackson and all his friends. We have really enjoyed getting to know Oliva's family...they are also expecting and we are both due March 4th! crazy!!!