Cup Towers

Who knew plastic cups could keep a little girl occupied for quite awhile?

Seriously, who needs toys when you have odds and ends to play with?

I love seeing little ones being creative and learning how things work.

Daddy even joined in and had fun building towers!

Midweek Randoms

• Sweet Lily has not been feeling well since Sunday - yucky cough and runny nose. Her favorite thing to do is have "quiet time" on our bed with her baby doll, dress up stuff, and books. She seemed some better today, so I'm hoping she's on the mend.
• It has been so warm the last couple days! We went to the park today and played outside in the yard this afternoon. So fun!

• I splurged tonight and had my favorite snack! Oh how good it was! I haven't been eating a lot of chocolate lately because it seems to give me indigestion when I'm pregnant. Thankfully it didn't cause a big flare up.
• I made these Mini Meatloaves for supper last night. They are delicious! Even my hubby who isn't a meatloaf lover thought they were amazing! I doubled the recipe to freeze and we enjoyed the leftovers tonight. 

• Levi is at the age where he loves pulling everything out - all the books off the shelves, all containers dumped out, etc. Although it makes a huge mess, there is an upside. He will sit on the "toy rug" for up to 45 minutes playing by himself. It is amazing! Mid-morning I will sit him on the rug and tell him that it's time for him to play. He will just sit there and look at books and dump out all the toys. Lily sometimes plays with him and other times she'll play with her babies in her room. I'm thankful for that time to get breakfast cleaned up, laundry started, etc. 

• My kids seem to play better when the area is cleaned up, so every night I try to clean/straighten it up so they wake up to a neat play area. Lily picks up her play kitchen stuff before she goes to bed each night, but it's nearly impossible to pick up when Levi's awake. He likes picking stuff up, but he thinks we're only picking up so he can immediately dump out again. Ha!
• Hope you all are having a wonderful week!

Lily and Levi's Party

This is a very picture-heavy post, so get ready! :-)

We decided to have a small combined birthday party for Lily and Levi this year. I would've loved to do a big party and invite tons of people, but we just felt it would be better this year to only have an immediate family party (our babysitter came too, which was super special!).

Can't believe this girl is 2!

And he is 1! Where has the time gone?

It's hard to get a good picture of them together - this is the best we managed. I got their shirts and the iron on thingys at Hobby Lobby. 

We sang to Lily first and she enjoyed her cupcake while we all had snacks and talked. She asked specifically for chocolate cupcakes...definitely takes after her chocolate-loving mama!

Then it was Levi's turn. Of course he wanted to grab the candle. ha!

He wasted no time digging in.

"what is this stuff?"

"mmm, tasty!"

After that first taste, he started shoving it in as fast as he could! His cupcakes were banana with cream cheese frosting.

"ok, i'm done. enough sweet stuff for me!"

"good ol' water to wash it down!"

Daddy helping Lily open presents. 

She got a Memory game, a baby doll, clothes, and some dress up stuff.

We got her a baby doll stroller, which she loves!

Mama and Levi opening gifts. He got books, clothes, and toys.

Yay for some boy toys! We really don't have a lot of boy toys, so he plays baby dolls and cooks in the play kitchen most of the time. Ha!

Happy Girl!

Precious little man!

Happy Birthday my sweet babies!

34 weeks

33 weeks (picture from last week)

I'm not begging for compliments by saying this, but y'all, I feel massive and I have 6 weeks to go! I think all my muscles are just shot from having 3 babies so close together, but seriously, I think I'm as big now as I was at 40 weeks with Lily and Levi. 

Everything is continuing to go well with me and the baby. I saw the midwife this week and his heartbeat was great, he's head down and way low already. My blood pressure was good and I'm measuring two weeks behind...as usual. 

I have had a ton of energy lately! It's been so nice to get a lot marked off my to-do-before-baby list. This past week I cleaned out all the kitchen cabinets, pantry, and freezer above the refrigerator, scrubbed the bath tub, got a couple meals in the freezer, and finished up organizing all the kids clothes.

I think I mentioned before about this baby moving a ton. I think he moves more than Lily and Levi did combined! Seriously, I don't know when he sleeps! If I sit for awhile he starts kicking/pushing way up under my ribs and I have to stand up and stretch to get him to stop. Lily and Levi never did that.

I'm so thankful for a healthy pregnancy this far!

Random Phone Pics

Miss Nosy peeking into "Santa's Daddy's Workshop." Her kitchen was hidden in there and Jacob was working on building the mirror he gave me for Christmas so neither of us were allowed in the shed. Lily was so funny running to the door and getting so excited that she was peeking. 

At one of Jacob's youth orchestra's Christmas concerts. She loves wearing Grammie's glasses!

Outside enjoying an unusually warm January afternoon.

 My buddy boy.

Daddy and his girl.

Snacking while watching Uncle Josh's basketball game.

Best picture I could get of these two goobers.

Uncle Josh is #15 right in the center. He plays on a junior varsity homeschool team. They played a great game and managed to pull out a close win!

Happy Friday!

Levi is walking!!!

Levi has been taking steps for probably a month or so, but just last night he actually started going farther than a couple steps at a time! Today he's been toddling all over the house. I just love watching him!

A Little Sweetness

Yesterday I found Lily having her "avotions" with her baby.