Kids!

Hannah seems to have a thing for beads these days. I'll take them off her and then two seconds later she will have them on again.

I liked this picture because Hayden looks so cute with her big blue eyes, but also if you look in the back ground you will find Hannah wearing her beads again, and Jonathan under the laundry basket. And yes, he put it over himself. I think he was trying to hide with his rattle from the girls. That is something that I have found that he is always carrying.

Here is how it started. Jonathan is finishing his bottle (always the last one!), and the laundry basket was laying next to. He proceeds to pull it over himself and play for awhile before sitting up like in the picture above. You can see Hayden sitting on the fireplace ledge watching him. She thinks he's silly.

In this picture is Jonathan, Hayden, and Olivia. Jonathan is putting the little people in and out of the tipped over house, and Hayden is trying to crawl out of the stuffed animal basket onto the ledge. She got there from climbing into the toy box first!

These kids never slow down!

Oh, and have I mentioned, Jonathan is walking now!

Where is Big Boy?

I thought this was cute. Jonathan just finished his milky and found an Elmo phone in the vast mess of toys! Can you find him? And if you look closely you can also see that the toy box has only a lonely little block in it. I wonder where all those toys that were in it went?

It's amazing if you can see my carpet from time to time.

Naked Baby Buns!

Just a little air drying after bath time!

Easter

Liv painting Easter Eggs!


Easter morning. Daddy, Hannah, and Olivia snuggling on the couch watching Mickey Mouse. The kids LOVE Mickey. Jonathan especially does. It's so cute, and mommy loves Mickey too, because it makes them all very quite for a few minutes! :)


Our first Easter at Nana and Papa's new house.

Cousins!
Left to Right: Brady, Ian, Owen, Jonathan, Mabry, Hayden, Olivia, and Hannah!

Liv Gets A New Roommate

We decided to make a few changes in hopes of longer naps and later mornings so we decided to move Hannah into Olivia's room with her. It was a hard decision but together Adam and I decided to at least give it a try. Olivia's crib was set as a day bed before so we just put her crib rail back up and got her a new toddler bed. She seems to really like her new bed, but since she has never shared a room before every time Hannah makes a move she yells, "MOM, HANNAH IS MOVING!" So I'm not so sure if anyone is getting any more sleep then before.

Here's Liv ready for her 1st sleep over with Hannah.

Two days later, snuggling on the couch. So far they are doing good.

The BIG 1 x 3

On March 4th Jonathan, Hayden, and Hannah Turned One! Here they are getting ready for their 1st Birthday Pancake Breakfast! And they really loved their pancakes.

We didn't do their Birthday Cupcakes until supper time, and by then their birthday bibs were trashed so here they are enjoying their first ever cupcake with NO frosting! And even with out the frosting they still loved it!

Here Hayden is shoving her cupcake down her throat! I think she is looking over at Jonathan making sure that he wasn't going to try to steal it!

Hannah thinks hers is delicious too!

Olivia got to enjoy a chocolate cupcake. And here is a funny fact about Olivia. She prefers hers WITHOUT frosting! Mom doesn't mind that though, it just means more frosting for her!

But other than the birthday pancakes, cupcakes, and a few presents it was a pretty normal day around here. I was calling it a practice run for Saturday's BIG party!

12 Month Stats

From Left to Right: Jonathan, Hannah, and Hayden

Here are the kids 12 month stats from their 1 year doctors appointment. (The % is were they are at compared to other 12 month olds)

Hannah

• Height: 28 1/4 inches (20%)
• Weight: 17 lbs 14 oz (8%)
• Head: 44 cm (20%)

Hayden

• Height: 29 inches (40%)
• Weight: 18 lbs 11.5 oz (15%)
• Head: 44.5 cm (30%)

Jonathan

• Height: 30 inches (60%)
• Weight: 22 lbs 12.5 oz (50%)
• Head: 48.5 cm (95%)

While the girls are still a little on the small side they are still doing really great, and Jonathan, well you would never know that he was born 8 weeks early! And because I was curious below is Olivia's stats when she was 12 months old and a picture of her.

Olivia

• Height: 29 3/4 inches (70%)
• Weight: 18 lbs 9 oz (10%)
• Head: 45 cm (50%)

As you can see, she was no bigger then Hayden at that same age.

Jeepers Boys, Another Win!

Congratulations to my Uncle, Jim Eekhoff, and the boys basketball team at Hull Western Christian on another 2A State Championship Title!

My uncle Jim has been coaching basketball at Hull for 28 years and this is his 6th State Championship Title. In fact every time that they have made it to the final game at the State Tournament they have won. And something else I found to be quite impressive was his overall record, 545-124. I think that is pretty amazing!

It was a great game to watch and thankfully we were able to watch it on tv.

Way to go boys!