Gooooooooooo Blackhawks!

This picture is just to make our daddy happy.

Michael, Jaileigh, Jakob, and Anthony

Where's Your Belly?

When you ask the babies where their bellies are they look for their belly buttons. They are so silly. Here are pictures of them showing me their bellies. Please look beyond the different states of dress. Clothing is optional at our house and the fact that all of them have one piece on is a miracle, and all of their diapers are on.

Anthony
Michael

Jakob is thinking this is really funny.

And Jaileigh

Seeing Double

Our friends the Woodcock quads came over to visit today. The Woodcock Quads are 6 weeks old. We had 2 sets of quads in the house plus the older brother of the Woodcocks. That is 9 children under 4 and 8 of them were under 2. WOW! I was worried about how my babies would handle the other babies but they did great. Michael loved them and kept rubbing their heads and putting in their pacifiers. He and Jaileigh kept giving them kisses. Jaileigh really wanted to hold the babies. I really didn't think she would like them since she thinks she is the Princess. Anthony was a little put out that they were getting so much attention but quickly forgot about them when he was distracted. And Jakey really didn't care he just went on about his business.

Believe it or not it was a very fun day! It was great to be able to hang out with another quad mom and to see her beautiful babies. It was a sweet reminder of where we were not so long ago. Thank you Woodcocks for coming over. We all enjoyed it and look forward to seeing you again.

Michael is putting McKenzie's pacifier back in her mouth- whether she wants it or not.
The whole group with another wonderful friend Linda. Linda comes on Mondays to play with us. She has been coming to help us since our beginning so I am sure this brought back some memories for her too.

Jakob, Jaileigh, Anthony, Michael still working on the pacifier, Linda and Peyton. The babies are Carter, Presley, McKenzie and Kennedy.

Beautiful, Happy Babies

Anthony tasting and playing in the rocks and very proud of himself.
Jakob being shy

Michael in motion

Jaileigh with her "gross" stick. She made me throw it away.

Jaileigh

Shy Jakey

Jakey

Jaileigh and her bat

Anthony smiling for the camera

Michael cheesing it too

Anthony wanted more pictures

Michael

Jakob

Michael

Jaileigh and Jakob

Happy Sunday to everyone~

1.5 years, 18 months, 547.5 days, or 13140 hours

That is how long these precious babies have been on this earth. Whichever way you count it, these are the best little blessings that we ever prayed for.

Happy Birthday little Quaddies!!!

So, to celebrate the day I thought I would share some of the things that we are currently interested in and doing. As mentioned in the previous past the kids love vacuuming. They also love helping mom clean. I will give each of them a wipe or a rag and they will help me clean. The love to take stuff to the garbage can. I think part of that excitement is the garbage can is outside so they get to look outside for a minute. When we are cleaning up they love to help put things away. Part of that excitement is the praise they get. They love being praised! Now with all that being said you probably think these are little angel children. HA.

They also love to empty all containers filled with toys, they love to throw every toy as far and as hard as they can (this is their fathers fault he gives them LOTS of praise for good throws), did I mention empty things, they love to make messes with their sippy cups, Michael is an expert at emptying is whole water sippy in seconds. Climbing, we have had to remove many pieces of furniture and legs to toys because of the CRAZY climbing that goes on here. These kids have NO FEAR!

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  They love to play outside. We were outside for over 2 hours yesterday and I didn't see one tear the whole time. Wonders!
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  They like to protect their sister.
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  They like to play cars.
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  They love to play with balls.
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  They love to hold Jaileigh's baby doll and give it kisses and hugs. Michael will even bounce it up and down.
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  They love legos.
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  They love tools!
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  They love spoons and forks. They like to feed themselves now.
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  They love their shoes because it usually means they are going outside.
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  They love visitors. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE visitors!
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  Love to climb on, in, over, on top of, under, boxes. Who needs toys right?
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  They love phones, real or play.
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  They love to share
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  They like to push things around, like their crib, high chairs, boxes, tubs, etc
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  They love to play with each other.
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  They love to kiss and hug. SOoOOOOOOOOo Cute! One of these days I will post video of it.
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  They LOVE books!
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  They love animals.
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  They love dessert! Sadly! They don't get it often but oh my they sure do love it!
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  They love brushing their teeth or anybody elses teeth.
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  They love jumping ( or bounce, bounce, bounce) especially on mom and dads bed.
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  They love looking out the windows.

They love to be held, cuddled, rocked, loved, kissed

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  They love to be chased
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  They love to be tickled
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  They love to be naked
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  They love bath time
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  They love to be independent
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  If you ask if they are stinky, they will grab their diaper, and turn around so you can check. If they are poopy, they laugh and run away.
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  They love music and songs with hand motions

Words they use

Bonk bonk, thank you, bye, hi, ball, mike, daddy, shoe, num num, puppy (sign), mommy, cracker, baaaa, mooo, oink oink, meow, roar, uh oh, cars, zoom zoom, cluck cluck,neigh, apple, book, more (sign), all done (sign), sssshhhhh, yucky, meeeee, Jakey, Anthony, Michael, Jaileigh, tickle tickle, nose, they will point to various parts of their anatomy too.

Michael trying to escape

The boys all trying to escape
Jaileigh pulling a face
Jakey

Jaileigh

Michael and Anthony

Michael


Michael in his box- not a happy moment. He tipped over.

Anthony

Jaileigh

Jakey

Michael

Jakey with his 2 golf balls

Jakey

Anthony

Anthony

Michael- being somber

Michael tackling Jaileigh. Yes, he is sitting on her. What a stink! I quickly rescued her.

Jaileigh practicing her yoga

more yoga

Jaileigh and Michael have become the best of friends in the last few weeks. They love to kiss and hug. Whenever one of them is crying the other one tries to "fix" the problem. These two are so sweet. I love watching all of them interact now. They are so much fun! What a blessed family we are.

The formula boxes that are serving as toys and climbing gyms were donated to us by Abbott nutrition. We never used formula so we were able to donate it to another quad family. At 18 months old we are still getting this free formula. A very nice donation on Abbott's part. Now, where are the diapers? That would be awesome!

Fun Times At Our House

Little Rylee entertaining. Look at her! Two at a time! Jakob and Anthony

Can you tell they really like vacuuming? They like vacuuming and playing on the couch without the cushions.

Mikey, Jakey, Anthony, and Jaileigh

Rain, Rain Go Away

It has been raining for the past week and the babies have some pent up cabin fever. Today was actually a nice day so we let them out to play. They were so excited to be outside again.

Mr. Independent Anthony
Sweet Jakey
Mr. Shy-Guy Michael
and the Princess herself- Jaileigh Addison
Here is a picture of the rain. This wasn't the worst of the storms but you can see how wet it is.

Worry No More The Quads Are Here

My babies love to clean. Everytime I vacuuum the babies all have to take a turn at it. They love it! So . . . no more worrying about messy houses our quads are here and will take care of all your cleaning needs. haha I joked with Mike about us opening a cleaning business. He didn't think it was that funny. Jaileigh- this picture isn't the best quality but Jailiegh was during her "best" pose so I had to include it. Jakey Michael and Anthony gets a video