A little work and a little play...

...made for a good day!

Mia had her first soccer game of the season.

Her very own cheering section.

We got lots of yard work done, with the help of the neighbor kids.

Dad, our magnolia tree should be about perfect by the time you get here. (the tulips, too!)

Milkshakes and movies to end the day!

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If you are looking for a baby gift or a birthday gift for your favorite toddler, there is a great new ABC book out and I must say the photos are great and the kids are adorable! It's a sturdy board book with bright colors. (these are just my favorite two pages!) :)

They should be available at Barnes and Noble eventually but can be found at http://www.ourkidspress.com/ (or I will gladly get you a copy!) This is a local author who called me a while ago to see if the boys could be used for her book. Here is the end result!

It Finally Happened...

...we headed off to the ER with Joey last night after he and his brothers were wrestling and his face found the corner of the wall. Speaking from personal experience, I know head wounds bleed...A LOT...but according to my husband I didn't handle this stressful situation very well! :) We were supposed to be leaving for dinner with Eric's family to celebrate his mom's birthday and Aunt Joan was going to babysit, so Aunt Joan to the rescue, I called her to come a little earlier and we headed out with Joey. When he was being checked in, the nurse asked him to point to what his pain level was by pointing to the face he most felt like. He looked at her and said "I'm happy!" Thanks, Joey, now we'll have to wait even longer! :)

So, 5 stitches and 2 hours later we finally left and even caught the tail end of dinner! So, I'm taking any suggestions on how to get blood out of the carpet. I think we've salvaged our clothes but the carpet needs some work!

Joey and Lucas

As you can see, the little red Hummers are still hummin' along!

As I was posting these pictures I thought I had a picture of each of the boys (and I don't have much of the girls, unfortunately), but after looking a little more closely, it is just Joey and Lucas. The bottom photo is Lucas playing cards and the only way to know is his blue card holder (thank goodness the game also came with a green and red one, the fourth person has no choice and has to be yellow) We're anxious for spring...the boys are wanting to be outside so bad they are riding their bikes in the rain right now. Life in WA...right?

Identification

When we found out we were going to have triplets a lot of thoughts entered our minds of how we were going to possibly do this but I have to say the following is not one I really, truly thought would ever be an issue! Since day one, our main way of identifying the boys was by color. It started with painting a toenail on Lucas and Tyler, one blue, one red. Also, a lot of our gifts were clothes and they sometimes happened to be blue, red and green (sometimes the third color was yellow or white so Joey had a little more variety) :) So, naturally, Lucas started wearing blue, Tyler wearing red and Joey was green. Who would have thought 3 years later this would be sticking and I'd have created a color coding monster (or maybe you've been thinking I was creating a monster all along). For example, they love (or insist) on drinking out of "their color" cup or eating out of "their color" bowl when it is available. We were at Target the other day and there was a group of Target employees standing together and Tyler announced "Those ladies all have my color." When driving around they pick out each others color cars. I guess it's true when "they say" not to label anyone, it can have very long term effects! So, I guess I better get off of Joey's color couch and head to my bed that is Lucas' color!

When it rains, it pours!

We've had a lot of rain lately....a lot! Several of the areas rivers are supposed to flood this week. My basement also flooded this past week! :) However, we are high enough that it was not the rain or the rivers that caused this, but human error. I hesitate to show you this lovely room of ours, it is a laundry/storage room filled with lots of junk waiting to be gone through. This entire room was pretty much covered with an inch of water. I had started to fill a sink to soak some things and got called upstairs by my dear children, before you know it we were baking muffins and I was waiting for my washing machine to stop running so I could switch the load. About an hour later I thought I'd check on it. Needless to say, I called Eric home to help me with my major problem. After lots of sucking up water with a shop vac and laughing at me we got a long ways. This room needed desperately to be cleaned but I was not planning on doing it last week. I'm normally just a "picture blogger", filling you in on our life with pictures of us but thought I'd share this story in case you were needing a little chuckle today at my expense


This picture is of Joey at naptime. He's supposed to be sleeping (like Tyler in the background) but instead he and Lucas were busy filling his bed with every thing they could get their hands on.

Family Time

We got together on Sunday with the whole gang to celebrate Marissa's birthday. We also decided we needed some new family pictures with Lily on it. You can sometimes take it for granted that you live near each other and have to remember to take a photo every now and then of the whole bunch.