Why would I post two empty bottles?

April was right when she saw my shelf full of shampoo, baby wash, and lotion. She said it would last forever. Here are our first two empty bottles. The girls are 8 and 1/2 months old and we have finally emptied a shampoo and bottle wash bottle. We give the girls a bath every other night and we have been working on these bottles since we started doing a bath at home. I think they will still be using baby wash and shampoo when they are teenagers because we have a shelf full of this stuff in their closet.

Happy Thanksgiving

Here the girls are on Thanksgiving day in their Little Turkey onesies. We have so many things to be thankful this year!

Christmas Photos

Monday the 24th we went to Wal-Mart and had photos taken to give away as Christmas gifts. These are their Christmas dresses that mom got on clearance last Christmas for 7 bucks. What a great deal! Now I just need to get them dressed up again and work on getting a photo for our Christmas card. I don't think it is going to be as easy as I thought.

Christmas TIme

Last Friday night the girls went to bed to fall decorations throughout the house and woke up the next morning to Christmas time. We put up the tree and inside decorations Friday night (11/21/08) and put up the outside lights Saturday while they took their nap.

Thank You

Last night as the computer was shutting down I remembered that I didn't say thank you. A special thanks to our great next door neighbors. Sometime between 8:30 and 9 Billy and I were busy around the house putting things back in their place and getting ready for the next day when we thought we heard a knock on the door. It was Tracey from next door with 4 warm double chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven. She didn't stay, just came over to share the goodies with us. I love having such great neighbors!

Leaves!

I can't wait until the girls are old enough to help with the leaves. Our yard is full of them. Saturday Billy used the leaf blower and blew all the leaves (or most of) into a huge pile in the back yard. Now we just have to work on moving that pile to the front yard so that the town can come suck them up. Until we get them out to the road I'm sure the yard will be covered again. We can't win this war. The neighborhood kids love when we get all the leaves to the front ditch......small children could be lost playing in the massive mountain of leaves. Maybe we need to put a warning sign out there this year. And just think we had 15 trees cut down......our first year here it was crazy.

Emma

Reading books with little sis......or should I say eating books with little sis?

Watch out!!! She's on the move now.

Emma has been a very busy girl this past week. Not only did she catch a lovely cold, have a runny nose, start wheezing, need breathing treatments, start to crawl, and now start to pull herself up on things. It amazes me with being sick this past week how much she has done. Last week she started off with a runny nose and the cold going around Ms. Tina's house. Friday when I picked her up in the afternoon Tina mentioned how bad Emma had been. I knew that I had to go pick up Ali's spit up medicine so while I was that close why not have them check her out. The pharmacy that I use for the girls is right beside the doctor's office. She was wheezing and I had to start breathing treatments and a steroid. Today we went back to be told that she is doing better and to start and decrease the breathing treatments each day.......I think they just wanted my 25 dollar co-pay again.

Pulling herself up.....she's trying her best to catch up with Ali.

Ignore the crying face and you will see the two shining stars coming through. Once again she is trying her best to catch up with Ali.

If Ali can sit under the exersaucer so can Emma!

Emma!

I know that I have been slow about putting things on my blog, but after the girls go to bed there is so much to do and never enough energy. Emma has been crawling for a week now, and I still haven't gotten any pictures of her crawling yet. She is also getting a tooth..........maybe two I can't tell yet. My goal this weekend will be to get some pictures and do a fun blog entry.