Natural Stimulants

What we NEED is sedatives.........NOT stimulants!!!  These charming, loving, doting, living jungle gyms tend to show up.........at bedtime.......therefore making settling in for sleep......a thing to be longed for:( by mom at least.  The girls LOVE these big brothers, and their rough housing! But.......chasing each other through the house like this at bedtime does NOT induce sleep!!!

New  dresses from Grma D.

 They had to stand up to add a little danger to the boring photo session.

 Eating at Dairy Queen before Sherman's Spring Concert.

 Checking out the hole in the table.

 Our neice, Grace's Kindergarten Graduation.  She was SO fun to watch:)  She was very into everything and very animated, and sang loudly:)  it was great! She's in the front row in the flowered jumper with a white shirt. 

 Evie was in the program too.  She's the one with glasses, between two boys on the top row.

 Sherman's class was the oldest in the program and had to recite a verse of a poem.  The theme was animal safari, so the poems were about different animals.  He told me he had to recite a poem, and I told him I was so proud of him for doing that!.......then he says.......well I really didn't have a choice or I wouldn't be! .....sigh.....I was still proud of him:) 

After the program Thatch and Kyndahl came down to talk to the girls.  We wondered before we went how the girls would do, and worried that we should be sitting in an isle row so we could get out if we needed to.  But no worries.... Iley especially loved it, and watched everything.  Wren liked most of it, but would get bored if they weren't moving much, and only singing, or reciting poetry.  It breaks my heart that she can't hear any of it.  Lord willing she will some day!

The girls eating cereal together:) What a bunch of beauties.

Mother's Day

What a memorable Mothers Day!  Our girls just home for a week, and My oldest boy, Ash and our future daughter in-law, Kyndahl....and daughter in heart:) were both baptized!  What a day of rejoicing.  Two souls saved from lonliness, Home with their forever family,  and two souls saved for the Kingdom!  It is such an amazing thing each time I witness a baptism where the applicants are so excited to be giving their lives to Christ, and wanting to live for him!  How blessed we are!   My dear sister in-law fixed lunch for the whole crew so I didn't have to think about that:)  The girls had fun playing with their cousins again too.  It was a hectic day, and I didn't get many pictures.  I snapped these of the girls playing on the Ipad while I got dressed.

Dumpling Delight

A dear friend from Ohio brought Dumplings for the girls from their favorite Chinese restaurant.  Thanks Denise:)  The look of delight, and joyful anticipation while they waited for the dumplings to warm up was so fun to watch.  Sometimes the girls can't be in the same room with out fussing....pinching (Iley pinches), or annoying on purpose.....and other times they get along so well.  They definitely bonded with each other over their dumplings and noodles!  They scooted their chairs as close as possible, and placed their drinks touching, shared the dipping sauce......made this mama heart GLAD!  She also brought lots of Asian dishes from Jungle Jims....thanks for shopping for us Lynette, and Steve!  They also LOVED the little strawberry Koala cookies you sent:)  We all tried them......they are TASTY!  Good pick!

 Eating Bacon and eggs for breakfast.....my boys are like NO FAIR!!  You never fixed bacon and eggs for us!.......yeah well....they won't eat cold cereal......yet:)  We are working on that.  yesterday they had ramen noodles for breakfast:( 

New aprons for everyone from Aunt Morya!  Thanks!

Just one of Cricket's quirky expressions.

  The entertainment crew!  I LOVE these people:) they give me a break:)

 Darling Bird cages from Ella:)  They had pictures for the girls of all their family, their names and meanings in Chinese, lip gloss, Hello kitty band aids, glowstick bracelets, stickers, candy, hair accessories.....and more!  They love carrying them around by the hook too. Thanks El

I have no idea what they were doing here, they were walking around under this blanket chortling away.  It LOOKS like those Chinese Dragon things!LOL.  I Love it when they play together like this!

 

When I got out of the shower I found them like this...both eating what is left of Iley's noodles.  Wren is in Iley's chair and Ilely is on another chair?? They were happy as clams.  So cute:)

 

New sand!

 This picture is blurry, but I love the sheer joy on her face.

 Thatcher and Kyndahl are great help, and much loved:)

When Thatcher's phone went off and said DROID.....Iley repeated it in exactly the same tone!  It was FUNNY!  She will try and repeat everything we say.  They are both picking up more signs each day.  We make them sign to us before they get what they are asking for.  We sign it to them, asking is this what you want? and then wait for them to sign it back.  Hopefully they will realize we can understand them when they sign, and quit just fussing for what they want.