Poor Baby--

As you can see, I wasn't kidding about these kids being sick! Here is Kate having her breathing treatment before bed. Not her favorite thing to do, I might add.

And We Lotion Them Up!!!!

Part of the nightly routine since Luke was a baby is for Daddy to Lotion Them Up!! He has a little song that he sings as he puts lotion on "their legs, their legs, their arms, their arms, their belly, their belly, and their back, their back" after their bath. Since we've added Kate, Matt has invented the double lotion where he lotions them both at the same time and then they jump on Luke's bed.






Tonight in the hub bub of cleaning and straightening up, I suddenly realized Kate was very busy saying something over and over again. I finally looked over and she was playing with her doll and saying "Low-she Up" as she pretended to put baby lotion on her doll before bed. It was hilarious!




P.S. Ignore the dirty floor...I'll clean that tomorrow!!

3rd Haircut!

I finally clicked a few pictures tonight of the kids before they went to bed. Kate had her third haircut tonight. As always, I think she's pretty darn cute!!

Here is our tall, thin young man reading books before bed!

Bad, Bad Blogger

I guess I got my answer for how I'd keep up with blogging once school started! I haven't done very well at all with it!! We've been busy with illnesses at our house. Luke and Kate both went to the doctor last week. Luke had pneumonia and Kate had croop. In other words, there's lots of coughing going on at our house. Luke is quite the man to take his Augmentin without flavoring...he has been awesome! Of course, he gets m&ms whenever he takes it...bribery always works. We've been spending out time really enjoying being together as a family. Kate is more independent everyday and such a little lady. She loves clothes, shoes, and purses. It cracks me up. Right now, Luke loves all things baseball and Star Wars related. You'd think he'd be all about Luke Skywalker since they share the same name...but he is all about the dark side for Halloween. We already have his Darth Vader costume hanging in his closet. I've hidden the new lightsaber that goes with it because I know it would be worn out or broken by Oct. 31. Since Kate doesn't have much of an opinion yet on costumes, she will be decked out as Princess Leia...buns and all! Her costume came in the mail today. I will definitely have Halloween pictures to post!

The Oasis

We also had some pool time at the Oasis Hotel. Luke swam all over the pool in his floatie suit and enjoyed running around "the jungle" with the girls.

The Zoo and the Fountains...again!

We had so much fun at the fountains that we took everyone to check them out. We had a great time!

Labor Day Weekend 2008-Couchful of Cousins!

This Labor Day Weekend we had great fun with Mimi and Papa and the Pack clan in town. We managed to get all seven cousins on our couch for a picture...of course, not everyone was happy about it. They are Caleb, Camryn, Sam, Lauren,Kate, Luke, and Makenna. You can probably look and tell which child belongs to which family.