The" Little Sister" Pastime

As soon as we found out we were having girls, Ryan signed Adam up for T-ball-and signed himself up to be the coach. (and Gpa too) I guess he figured the boys needed to stick together. So now on Thursdays and Saturdays this is what they do:

catch and hit and fall down and get hurt and run and get really really dirty...

And this is what the girls do: 

Sit and watch and run around and wait for the ice cream truck and try not to be bored!

photo copyright: Rachel

I spent my whole life going to my brothers' baseball games. Let's hope these girls tolerate it better than I did!

Four Months

March 18--

Brooke: 

10 lbs 3 oz

wearing 3 mo clothes

size 1 diapers

still smiles a lot and laughs on occasion

sleeps well except when she needs her binki back in

 Erica- 

9lbs 5 oz

newborn diapers and clothes, but squeezing into them

loves to talk and coo at you (and Brooke)

cries when tired, but falls asleep easily

sleeps well through the night

still spits up a ton

 Both eat 5x a day between 4-5 oz
My friend made their shirts. If you don't know-twins are called Baby" A" or "B" while in the womb...A is always born first. So Adam and Brooke are baby "a's" and Rachel and Erica are baby "b's"

 

We now have 2 four year olds and 2 four month olds...And...we're still hanging in there! 

St. Patrick's Day

The kids were so excited for their St. Patrick's Day scavenger hunt at preschool. Their excitement made me realize that I needed to step up my game...However, don't be fooled--all of this prep happened in about 15 minutes at 11pm the night before...

Before preschool

Leprechaun footprints

morning treats (all leftover from Halloween--tricky leprechaun)

I would not have colored the toilet water, but they heard of this happening at other houses and they were totally expecting it

definitely the hit of the morning

lucky charms with green milk. I dyed it right under their noses...but they didn't notice. neither one of them would try it until I did. Rachel took the longest and waited until we all ignored her before she ate it. who knew?

 You can't tell from the pictures, but all the girls had matching ribbons. And why oh why do I not have a pic of the big kids in their green? And I was mad because I went to three different stores and only found one green onesie...so we had to be creative and make our own.

Some of us had really good afternoon naps

Some of us didn't

We went to the Fitz's house for corned beef and cabbage. I wanted to take more pictures, but a certain baby wouldn't let me. But it was a fun time. We would have enjoyed the holiday no matter what, but it definitely makes it more fun to be Irish!

And...Memory Lane Ep 5

From our trip to Ireland in 2006...

Better Than Mr. Roger's?

Probably not,but I do love our neighborhood...as soon as the weather turned nice, we headed to our favorite  walking destination- to feed the horses. The kids love tossing baby carrots over the fence.

Experiment

Have you heard of that psychology experiment with the kids and the marshmallows? You put them in a room with one and see if they can wait to eat it and if they do, then they get two. Well, we conducted a not very scientific version of it at our house....
I didn't even get a chance to finish explaining the rules before rachel exclaimed, "i wanna eat it now!" And sure enough, she only lasted seven minutes. Adam lasted the whole fifteen, but he kept saying,"this is taking forever!"

Really, I didn't need to do this to figure out what would happen:
Rach is just like her daddy...all about the instant gratification...
And Adam is like me...will follow the rules at all costs ...

Also in February

Ryan went skiing with his dad:

And he has been busy busy teaching and more teaching:

We started a reading program at the library: 1,000 books before kindergarten--too bad we only have 6 months to go...

We usually try to go to the library once a week and we have started going to Pottery Barn for their story time--it's actually very cute!

note Rachel's straight hair

Adam kept putting his hand on R's back to guide her...she kept swatting him away, but for me it was too cute!

The kids had a pajama party for preschool. I have never seen them more excited about anything. I wish the teachers hadn't told them about it a whole week in advance. Every day I had to tell them that no, it's not the pajama party today. But finally, it was time and for a short amount of time, all four kids were bathed and clean!

And...we have been doing a lot of hanging around...