a bunch of April

Max is a lover of cuties. LOVES loves loves them. One day he sat at the window looking out while peeled and ate 3 if not 4 just so contently and happy. That sweet boy of mine.

It's about once a month that Max asks to hold the babies. When he does it makes my heart really happy It lasts for literally 4 seconds before she says "all done!" and starts wiggling himself away from them making them fall in all directions. Quinn was especially enamored by him here.

That jean blanket my mother helped me finish years ago is getting CONSTANT use these days. Oh man how we love that thing.

Gotta figure out shade for the babies!

FHE.

The patriarch to be included in out FHE picture.

Enamored by the neighbor mowing the lawn.

Obsessed with climbing on bikes.

a. these glasses crack me up

b. Max insists on "climbing" trees these days ever since Casey showed him it was possible… Julie joined him this day apparently.

Had a garage sale with neighbors a couple weeks ago with friends. I don't know what it is but it's just fun to do/have/be apart of a garage sale. I can't believe how much stuff we all got rid of and how many people came through on a chilly borderline rainy day. The month of April had an overall theme of getting rid of STUFF from us and we feel a little bit skinnier because of it! For lunch at the garage sale we pizza'd it up with our friends. As you can tell Max was very enthusiastic, jk he truly loves pizza. But his face in this picture makes me laugh a lot.

After Max got his fix of being outside running a muck during the garage sale he ventured into our neighbors house to watch Dora (for a very long time) on this super cool blow up airplane with his favorite frenemy, Grace. Then he ran a muck of my neighbors house...

a. Scavenging cookies from unknown places.

b. The story of Casey and that blasted headset getting lost in the mail will forever be remembered in our family. A month long journey of endless phone calls to XBox, USPS, and FedEx, ugh. So annoying just because it made Casey so upset!

A new favorite hang out spot for Max.

a. I pretty much NEVER get the chance to hold sleeping babies so this rare occasion of a snuggle with Quinners was extra special!

b. The tulips this spring were beautiful!

a. Max making messes

b. Casey cleaning up messes.

The babies 6 months check up! And Max yet again, just ran a muck.

Our favorite doctor/nurse practitioner, Jamie! Oh man how I love that woman! She takes such great care of these kiddos and shows so much interest in our lives. And she always guesses the twins correctly amazingly enough!

QB

Max and these glasses were hilarious to me

Quinners!

Bryson!

Book Club with a really great group of girls. In April we read Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. I didn't get a chnce to read it although I did listen to her Ted Talk which was great and we had a really great discussion overall abut being vulnerable and motherhood and beyond!

I've been trying to go on walks as much as I can lately with such great not-humid weather. Babies were champs and fell asleep while Max played on the tractors at the tractor museum.

I'm not an ice cream fan usually but THIS stuff! Now this is a different story!!!!!! Hello yumminess!

This picture is upside-down but how adorable are these shirts! My SIL sent them to me because her and I are both Harry Potter fans and the Marauder's map leads back to the twins Fred and George!

My great friends took Max on a walk one day with them while the twins slept and I FINALLY got my dishes done! How great are these girls!

A rare occasion of docile Maxson during a particularly active day.

a. Kids got styyyyyyle

b. Our kitchen gets pretty cramped with the babies forcing their way in these days with the walker.

Bryson found his toes! Thus far Quinn has been the first to do most things (roll, balance better, etc) so I was very excited for Bryson to have  first first too!

a. A particularly cranky day of twinsies! Max was sleeping and they just wanted t be held! I really needed to get food made for a gathering that evening so carriers it was! Worked out pretty well! Bryson even began falling asleep in the back

b. Max is usually so happy to come downstairs in the morning to find the babies on the ground and greet them with hugs and kisses. They love watching his every move (and are beginning to grab his toys and face and other things he takes away haha).

a. Funny for him until he couldn't get out. Funny for me the whole time

b. Future gymnast (no I really have contemplated putting him in gymnastics in the future to harness that energy of his for good!)

a. Our (extremely rare!) Friday night date to the crepe place and then a bunch of errands afterward, ha.

b. If there's one to thwart the plans of family nap time it's usually Bryson, that baby...

I love when i find twins sleeping like twins :)

Whew! The end!

Congrats to you if you made it through it all!!!!

picturas de iFono

Before we start into this plethora of pictures from my phone, let me just make it clear to you dearest readers 

3 KIDS UNDER 2 IS HARD. ( I wrote a chunk of this on Saturday when all my kids were under 2;)

HAVING TWINS IS HARD.

HAVING TWINS AND AN ALMOST 2 YEAR OLD IS HARD.

BEING A MOM IS HARD.

Enjoyable? Indeed. Definitely trying my hardest but oh my gosh, it's so hard to keep everyone happy. It feels like there is literally never a free moment. If the stars align and there IS a free moment? SLEEP! MUST GET SLEEP. Holy cow. I keep thinking "this too shall pass" from both a happy and sad attitude. My babies won't be needy like this forever, one day they will sleep longer increments and go longer in between feedings. One day Maxson will listen to me just a little bit more (maybe?). But also these mostly always just cuddly babies will pass, their cute scrunched up faces, their helplessness that relies on you for everything. Snuggling both babies at the exact same time will pass, being able to hold them simultaneously so easily, the way they just mold asleep to your body when you hold them, it's just the best feeling in the world and this too shall pass. Soon Maxson will be bigger, and cooler, and have a  bigger vocabulary, and all of this cute grunting charades will pass. He's going to dance less when music comes on, his infatuation with the babies will pass, he won't always be this almost 2 year old boy and that makes me sad. There's a time and a season to all things. 

I'm stealing in this time blogging because miraculously the stars aligned and all the 3 children were down at the same time to nap, I got in a nap, the tiny babies awoke, I fed them, and they MAGICALLY went back to sleep without any coaxing. Glories. So here I am!!!!!

Also as I'm sitting here writing this I just heard Casey tell the guys he's playing video games with online "Yeah, I'll have to get off when my son wakes up because it gets CUH-RAZY in here when he wakes up. 3 kids under 2 is nutso." Well said lover, well said. 

From a few weeks ago when I went out of the house with Max by myself for the first time in forever (cue singing) and we went and saw the tractors. I was just beyond giddy that I could walk that far (it's not far at all, you guys) and I WASN'T TIRED! I seriously felt like I could run a marathon walking was so easy again! Ha! 

PS- do you realize how many red clothes Maxson has? I swear his whole wardrobe consists of so much red. We DOOO live in red country and I do shop garage sales a major it of the time so…makes sense.

Are you sick of me posting pictures of Maxson looking at tractors? Probably. But it's life. So it's gotta be documented...

It makes you feel pretty good when babies just throw themselves on you to cuddles. Sometimes I feel like I'm drenched in babies and it feels oh so good. Sadly the babies are old enough now where I can't just cuddle them for an hour and move them and they stay asleep. So now I can't cuddle them for as long in hopes that they'll actually sleep a long time, mmeh.

Saying goodbye to granny, oh man we're are sure missing the help (not to be confused with The Help…mother ;)

The FIRST time we ventured outside as a family of 5!!!!! It was finally warm enough, naps and feeding schedules aligned and we were able to walk to a friend's house real quick. It felt so wonderful to get out. Max spent about 10 minutes of our trip sitting or standing on his kick board and the other 40 minutes running away from us. The babies didn't make a peep the whole time. It was a great outing. 

Yay for grammie Cutler in town!!!!!

BQ

Maxson's new balance bike that he is obsessed with. "Biy! Biy!"

Wubanubs for the win this time around too.

Maxson decided to pour the milk for dinner when I wasn't watching. Cool, dude. Cool.

Bryson and Quinn were less entertained by the charade.

Maxson is obsessed with juice as of lately. Ugh. Do all other parents despise juice as much as I do? Why is it even in our house? Max spotted it in the grocery bags, promptly retrieved his sippie cup and walked around the house with the 2 items saying "Juuuu! Juuuuuuuuuuuu!"

Maxson is still super sweet with these babies and loves kissing their little heads whenever he sees them. When Casey puts him to bed he holds Max up like this to go around the house saying goodnight to all of us (there's actually not that much "going around the house" going on since the babies are usually an arms reach away from me, ha). Max is a pretty sweet boy. 

Also let it be known that whenever the babies are crying Maxson get RIGHT up in their face, like maybe 2 inches away saying "hi! hi! hi! hi!" trying to calm them down ha. He's also fantastic at retrieving burp rags and binkies. Way to go Maxson.

BQ

Max found a pen to destroy the house with. I told him "Max don't write on the dresser, write on your foot or something" he happily obliged and I didn't really car. Casey promptly followed with a "No, Max, find paper to write on!" Eh, pick your battles dude.

On a particularly rough day, I threw myself on the couch at nap time with a big sigh and devoured a container of muddy buddies a wonderful friend brought over (thanks, Jessie!). No shame, I deserved it.

He says babies put him to sleep and he just can't help but fall asleep when he holds them…well isn't that just lucky for Casey…sadly Kimber can't do that all day long although she DOES hold babies what seems like all day long...

Also baby wearing twins has proved to be helpful in the evenings It'll be sad the day when they're too big to do this :(

What Q thought of Thanksgiving.

Nightly ritual. Maxson has finally gotten cooperative at repeating words (more like trying to replicate sounds and flailing miserably each time) it's freakishly adorable and ACTUALLY we both agree it's improving his vocabulary of trying out new sounds, yay for righteous parenting!

THE END.

Tonight I looked at Casey and said, I'm so tired but I want to blog! Woes of a mother of a tiny child army.