Look what I did last night!

My favorite thing...rocking tired babies to sleep! Austin and Isabel needed a little extra help drifting off to sleep last night and I was more than happy help! It's moments like these than are more precious than words could say!



Yes..she sucks her thumb. And YES-I am in heaven!

The Family Dance

On Friday Ally's school had a "family dance". We all had so much fun!! Ally was so cute, she just wanted to dance the entire night with us-she didn't want to leave. It was so fun to watch her dance like nobody else was there! Poor Isaac didn't have quite as much fun because he was SOOO tired-but he still "got down" with the rest of us. And as for Austin....well, you'll just have to watch the video and see for yourself-we like to call it the "angry dance". It was such a great idea for a school and we all had a super fun night together!

Isabel eats rice cereal

We gave Isabel rice cereal for the first time yesterday...always a monument! She liked it better than I thought she would and kept it in her mouth pretty well! I love this video that Ally took while I was feeding her-what a sweet big sister! All the kids were very excited to give Isabel her first "food"!

Walking with the Dinosaurs!

Little boys and dinosaurs...can it get any better than that? Jonathan took our boys to go see, "Walking with the Dinosaurs" that came to Phoenix. All three of them thought it was awesome-life size dinosaurs walking around and doing whatever dinosaurs "did". It did make for a late night so when I heard the garage door when they got home, I was expecting Jonathan to walk in holding 2 sleeping boys. But that was not the case...both Isaac and Austin came running in just beaming and couldn't wait to tell me ALL about everything they saw! There is just nothing better than seeing your kids so happy-what a fun night with dad!

Pets at the pool!

Our kids are so funny! Whenever we are at the pool they find bugs (dead or alive-it matters not) to be their pets. They make houses for them and talk to them like babies. I die laughing when they make a "house" for some dead bug and make everyone be quiet because it is "sleeping". I'm not sure why we have a house full of toys when we already have a yard full of bugs!



And apparently we are raising our 4th little fish! Isabel LOVES the water and would stay out there all day if we would let her!

She did it, she really did it!!

Ally got her ears pierced!!! We can't believe she really did it! For about 2 years she has been wanting to get her ears pierced, but just couldn't stand the thought of being in pain. Every time we went to the mall I would ask her if she wanted to get it done-and the answer was always a definite "NO"! About a month ago she was in serious termoil about getting them done. She started sobbing about how much she wanted them pierced, but was so scared about how badly it would hurt. She kept asking me why I didn't just get them pierced when she was a baby. At that point I decided to tell her that I decided that she couldn't get them pierced until she was 8 years old so that she didn't have to worry about it any longer-all along knowing that that would make her just want to do it. I hadn't heard anything from her about getting them pierced until yesterday and she asked if we could go to the mall because she was ready to get it done. I told her that I thought she should wait (still knowing that I was fueling the fire) but that I would think about it. Then came the begging...ALL MORNING LONG!! We told her that we could go to the mall, but that we weren't necessarily going to get her ears pierced-of course we knew we were, we just had to play the game a little bit to make sure she would go through with it. She continued to ask, and ask, and ask-just fine with us! Finally I told her that I would let her do it if she promised not to change her mind once we were there...she agreed. So we got to the store and I could see it in her face that she really DID NOT want to go through with it anymore. But she knew that she couldn't chicken out and she tried to swallow her tears as much as possible. We were able to have them do both ears simultaneously-which was so nice..1-2-3 and she was all done! There were a few tears-but very quickly the excitement took over completely!! We were so proud of her that she went through with it even though she knew it would hurt. The magic of it all still has not worn off even today. Literally about every 5 minutes she tells us how excited she is to have her ears finally pierced and how cute she thinks they look! It is a pretty big deal around our house!!! Now we just have to wait for 6 weeks until we can get the cute little ladybug earrings that she can't wait to wear!