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I'm never on here anymore because most of my friends and family also have Facebook accounts and I can leave pictures there.  But I thought I'd post a new one here just for fun.  The girls are 5 months now.  Lucy is everywhere.  Up on her hands and knees, scooting, rolling all over, chewing on toys, eating every food we'll let her try.  Daisy is...content.  She doesn't really do anything but lay there and be sweet and happy.  She can roll over one way-  IF she is incredibly desperate, but honestly, it just isn't worth it to her.  :)  She really doesn't want anything to do with food, but can't get enough of nursing or bottles.  She is really chunking up now.  They both coo and laugh and are generally delightful and delighted over.  If I was getting some sleep, it would be a glorious babymoon time.  As it is, between the lack of sleep, the five other kids, and Daniel's very demanding job, I'm feeling stretched a little thin.  (If only that were literally true.  Thin sounds good!) But it's still pretty fun have two baby girls at the same time.  Overall, I'm really loving it.

Daisy is on the left and Lucy on the right.

Picture Angst

The girls are three months old now and I still haven't gotten ONE single picture of them together where they both look cute.  Should I take them to a professional, or will I just pay a bunch of money to someone else who can also not get them to both look cute at the same time?

I also really need a new picture for the top, but I'm not sure when that will ever happen.

Is It Okay....

            ......to think my daughters look beautiful in this picture?  I am madly in love with it.  With them.

Feeling Antsy

We've been making an ant farm and doing an ant experiment.

Lucy Snoozing

Usually Daisy is the one to sleep with her hand folded up by her face, but here is a cute litte picture of Lucy doing it.

There Were Four in the Bed....

And the big one said, "No.  Please.  That's okay.  I'll just sleep down here at the bottom of the bed."

Queen Daisy

                                   Thanks to Gus, Daisy got to be the queen for a few minutes.

Friends

Brothers and Sisters

Waking up Bald

Did I mention that Daisy woke up about half bald one morning? It was quite a shock. This picture was right after that happened.

Remember, at first she looked like this, the one in the middle.

Photo Contest

We did a fun little activity the other day. We talked about photography being a form of art (not that I actually know what I'm talking about). And then the kids had two minutes to walk around the yard looking for the most interesting angle from which to shoot a picture of the diapers on the clothesline. Then they all went inside and came out one at a time and took a picture. Here are our results:

GUS- age 4

KYLIE- age 6

ELIJAH- age 9

And the WINNER is.......

GILLEN- age 8

At least, that's who I picked as the winner.  I thought Kylie's had potential, but since the tops of the diapers were cut off and the neighbors garage and grill is in the background, I didn't choose it.

Whose picture do you like best?

Baby Love

Pictures

Daisy practising for blowing raspberries and Daisy looking sweet.

Okay, so Lucy has been too grouchy lately to get pictures that I'd actually call "cute." But we don't want to leave her out, so here she is in her cherry dress.

Kylie holding a pensive-looking Daisy.

Jesse, being adorable.

Lucy in an outfit from Cousin Megan, that I have been looking forward to putting on them since my baby shower.  So, so cute!

Daisy in her coordinating outfit from Megan.  I love them both!  And then just a picture I think is cute of Daisy.  She is making up for all the less atractive pictures when she was really tiny.

Oh. My. Cuteness.

Elijah is nine and Gillen is eight.  VERY different guys, but I think both are pretty great.

Posers.

We watched a great documentary called Amazing Caves and the kids spent several days caving and "repelling" up and down the steps.  Jesse's all tricked out in his gear.

She's a Natural

A mom in the making.

Maybe we should get a girlier carrier.  :)

Kylie Grace and Lucy Arwen

This and That

Elijah reading with Daisy

Me trying to nurse two at once.  Doesn't happen very often.

Daniel

I don't know how I happened to NOT post this before.   It's so cute.

Daisy has HAIR!

I have never had a baby with HAIR before.  This is after a bath, when her fuzzy, little baby chick hair is sticking up. 

Look! I Figured Out the Moby Wrap!

Two Peas in a Pod

Just Because....

...I'm in love with them.  Yes, them AND their bracelets- which my mom made for them.

I wish I could take good pictures.  None of mine really show how sweet they are.

Because He Didn't Have Enough To Do......

taking care of me and seven children and some laundry and some meals and helping with nighttime feedings, Daniel took up a few projects for his "vacation."  He hung towels racks and other accessories in our new bathroom.  He spent much time finding and purchasing the right wood for the linen closet he is building in the bathroom.  He learned to make artisan-like bread from the amazingly easy book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day.  Delicious!!  He also decided that since we don't eat pork and he really wanted a good andouille sausage for gumbo, he'd learn to make it himself.  So he sort of half followed/half invented a way to make ground beef smoked sausage on our grill- that turned out beautifully.  Then he turned it all into gumbo in fresh bread bowls.  He is totally amazing!

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Welcome Home

Daisy Susannah and Lucy Arwen

Gus, Daisy, Kylie, Elijah, Lucy, Gillen, Jesse

Lucy and Daisy

Born March 23, 2010

Daisy Susannah  6 pounds, 6 ounces  18 1/2 inches

Lucy Arwen   6 pounds, 5 ounces  20 inches

Here They Come!!!

Well, tomorrow morning we finally get to meet the long-awaited, much-prayed-for, deeply-desired Daisy and Lucy.  My mom just gave me tiny, adorable beaded bracelets with their names on them (she made even made them) and that has made it more real than anything else.  Although, it is still not very real.  Not very real at all.  They will be arriving by cesearean and I hope I made the right decision to just schedule instead of going into labor and then having a c-section.   But they weren't turning and they really can't turn now, so it was going to be a c-section one way or the other, anyway.

Here are the last few belly shots.

I'm thinking tonight of the third verse that God gave me when we found out it was twins and we were trying to make all the decisions necessary to have the most natural and safe and healthy experience possible.

  "Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God."  Psalm 84:3