It's so crazy to me just how little the babies really are.
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| Quinn |
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| L - Rylee / R - Quinn |
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| Quinn |
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| Quinn |
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| L - Rylee / R - Quinn |
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| Rylee |
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| Rylee in a newborn shirt. It looks like a dress on her. |
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| Rylee |
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| Quinn |
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| Maybe Quinn?? |
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| Rylee |
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| Rylee |
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| Rylee |
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| Pink - Rylee / White - Quinn |
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| Quinn |
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| Maybe Rylee?? |
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| Quinn |
Someone in our ward reached out who has a baby wrap business and wanted to know if she could take pictures of them modeling her wrap. We said yes and I volunteered Danny as the adult model because I didn't feel confident enough to do it. These are just a few pictures from my own phone but I can't wait to see the pictures she took.
For the next two months I'm going to be older than Danny and I'm sure I'm bound to hear the old lady jokes often. 😂We didn't make any big plans for my birthday because of our current stage in life. The twins are still so little, we still aren't getting much sleep, and Covid is still a growing concern. I did have a great day though. Danny took over the morning things and let me sleep in which felt amazing. My main gift wont arrive for another week or so but I'm so excited for it. We're finally getting ourselves a king size bed. I've wanted one ever since our honeymoon and after seven plus years we finally are making it happen. I can thank the twins for that. Now that we are getting up so often throughout the night our current bed size just seems so small. Anyway I love that it's coming and I did get some new bedding for the new bed that came today. Addie made me a scavenger hunt and we did part one of it this morning and saved the rest of it for after school today. She needed to head to school and we ran out of time. I love how much she loves birthdays though. It doesn't matter whose birthday it is she gets so excited and I love that about her. While I was sleeping in this morning she got her lego pieces out and made me a little lego dog and she was pretty cute when handing it to me. I love that girl. I also got pictures drawn from Addie and the boys that they made the night before and had been waiting to gift me.
I can't believe I'm now 32 years old and I have five awesome kids. Five kids! I still have to pinch myself because it still feels crazy that there's five of them. My parents made today even better when they drove up to my place and brought along Pollyanna and her newest baby Haivyn. Our baby girls are three days apart and this was the first time we were seeing each other since having our babies. Her baby is so sweet and surprisingly felt so heavy compared to Rylee and Quinn. There's probably only two pounds difference but it's amazing how much of a difference that feels like. Even though they are so close in age I have to remind myself that they are not close developmentally. Haivyn is so awake and alert and my girls use all their energy eating and then go right back to sleep. I'm sure in a couple of weeks we'll start seeing more of their eyes being opened. The three babies together was so cute and I'm really happy that we were able to make this visit happen today.
I also had two different friends stop by today who both brought dinners for my family. It's amazing to me that we'll almost at a full month with these twin girls and we're still getting dinners dropped off to us. I'm blessed with amazing friends and an even better family.
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| Quinn, Haivyn, Rylee |
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| Grandpa with Rylee |
As promised I told Addie we could finish the scavenger hunt she prepared for me. She thought of it all by herself and created little clue hint pieces for me to find. Each green paper had a room written on it of the next room to look in. I'll have to remind myself to throw her the coolest scavenger hunt when her own birthday comes around because she loves it so much.
The kids had a dentist appointment this morning so we ventured out of the house today for the first real time as a family of seven (we did leave for their photo shoot but this felt different). It was at 9am and of course we were late. Being up multiple times throughout the night has been a struggle and trying to get out of the house with all five kids ready to go looked like a mad dash to crazy town. We made it though and were able to get the kids seen. We suggested that Hudson go first because he's always been really good when it comes to the dentist and we thought we needed Grant to see one of his siblings be brave before he himself got up on the dentist chair. This was Grant's first time ever being seen by the dentist and we were completely not expecting for each kid to react the way that they did. Hudson who we thought would be brave ended up being really scared and nervous this go around. I'm not sure what that was about. Addie, who has always been nervous to be seen before, was the super brave one today. Maybe her aging has played a part but she did fantastic. Grant has never gone before so we assumed he would be nervous hence the reason we wanted Hudson to go first. We were wrong about that as well. He was so brave! When Hudson was struggling Grant just climbed right up and took matters into his own hands lol. Grant ended up going before Hudson and he did so exceptionally well. I think Grant was the reason Hudson was finally able to lay down on the dentist chair himself. I was happy with all three of them and how they handled the dentist because I know it's not every kid's favorite place to be. Addie and Hudson left the appointment with zero cavities which is always great news. Grant was also told that he had zero cavities until I questioned one little spot on his front tooth. After taking a second look the dentist determined that he did have one tiny cavity. I almost wish I hadn't said anything but I know it's good to take care of it while it's really small instead of waiting for it to possibly get bigger. The baby girls slept through the entire appointment which made things for Danny and I even better because it would have been harder to comfort them while also still having to attend to the other three.
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| Addie with Hudson in the background |
The dentist building is just two buildings down from Grandma Great's house so of course we had to stop by there. Grandma hasn't been feeling great the last couple of weeks so this was her first time seeing the babies. We completely made her day and it was nice to see her cheer up. It's been almost two years since Grandpa Paul passed away so I think March can be a hard month for her and this lonely pandemic is no help. Grandma was able to snuggle both babies and we were able to give them bottles while the kids played. She also ordered us lunch which was very generous and we were able to just have a nice visit. We then went outside because Grandma wanted to show us the baby goats in her barn. There was a little goat that was born yesterday and twin goats that were born this morning. Addie and Hudson really really loved that. Overall it's been a nice day and we discovered that it's possible to go somewhere with all five kids and have it not turn into a disaster haha. We'll just have to make sure we set multiple wake up alarms next time to assure we can get somewhere on time.
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| Tired out. |
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| Little Quinn |
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| Quinn |